[Year 12 SofDev] SD exam 2016 - A20 - FR and NFR

[Darren Scott]

I wonder how many kids will be caught with the "do" vs "be" rule that a lot of us use for FR and NFR, given that option C says "must be able to cope with 500 simultaneous users".

Darren



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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Lisa Kerekes
Sent: Tuesday, 15 November 2016 1:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] SD exam 2016 - A20 - FR and NFR

Sorry Mark, but are you saying that you think all of the wrong answers, should be the opposite of the right one?
Ie. That all the wrong answers should be FRs?

Because yes, I'd agree that some of the answers appear to be sys objectives. And yes, the answers could have been written without numeric values in them to be obviously incorrect. But it's not the biggest issue in the exam.

And agree with Andrew about the definitions - hopefully based on those, students would easily be able to select the NFR.

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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Shortell
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] SD exam 2016 - A20 - FR and NFR

the question a20 lists Non FR with a number

is it not irrelevant whether it has a number but more relevant if it is functional or NON functional?

are there many people who neglect to define functional as something the software actually does that one want s it to do?
and non functional as other things (such as it it could be blue text on a pink background)?

I am happy that you noticed

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On 14 Nov 2016, at 2:43 pm, Mark <mark at vceit.com<mailto:mark at vceit.com>> wrote:

Hi, functional requirers,

Since when did the definition of a functional requirement (FR) become, "It must have a number attached to it, such as 3%, 500 users or 5mbps?"

Is the definition of FR suddenly the same as a 'system objective' ?

Sadly, the study design never defines FR or NFR, but Q A20 in the exam seems to be trying to do it.

And I don't like it.

I don't like it its implied definition at all.

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Mark Kelly

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