Software Metrics

This MCQ-formatted quiz focuses on quality metrics, project metrics, metrics analysis, and metric engineering.

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Which of the following does not affect software quality or organizational performance?

Market

Product

Technology

People

The intent of project metrics is

Minimization of development schedule

For strategic purposes

Assessing project quality on ongoing basis

Minimization of development schedule and assessing project quality on ongoing basis

Which of the following is not a direct measure of SE process?

Efficiency

Cost

Effort Applied

All of the mentioned

Which of the following is an indirect measure of product?

Quality

Complexity

Reliability

All of the above

In size-oriented metrics, metrics are developed based on

The number of functions

The number of user inputs

The number of lines of code

The amount of memory usage

Which of the following is not an information domain required for determining function point in FPA ?

The number of user Input

The number of user Inquiries

The number of external Interfaces

The number of errors

Usability can be measured in terms of

The intellectual skill to learn the system

The time required to become moderately efficient in system usage

The net increase in productivity

All of the above

A graphical technique for finding if changes and variation in metrics data are meaningful is known as

DRE (Defect Removal Efficiency)

Function Points Analysis

Control Chart

All of the above

Which of the following is the task of project indicators?

Helping in assessment of status of ongoing project

Tracking potential risks

Helping in assessment of status of ongoing project & tracking potential risks

None of the above

Coding and testing can be done in

Top-down manner

Bottom-up manner

Adhoc manner

Gross-sectional manner

The main purpose of integration testing is to find

Analysis Errors

Procedure Errors

Design Errors

Interface Errors

Which of the following software process models can be represented schematically as a series of major technical activities and their associated states?

Incremental Model

Component assembly Model

Concurrent Development Model

All of the Above

The top-down approach is used for

Identification of Faults

Testing and Validation

Development

Reverse Engineering

If limited user participation is available, which model is to be selected?

Waterfall Model

Spiral Model

Iterative Model

Any of the above

Defects removal efficiency (DRE) depends on:

E – errors found before software delivery

D – defects found after delivery to user

Both E and D

Varies with project

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Software Metrics
Questions: 15
Contributed by:
Ivan