GATE CS 2009 Q19 — Software Engineering (Historical)

Consider the following C program segment. while (first <= last) { if (array[middle] < search) first = middle + 1; else if (array[middle] == search) found = TRUE; else last = middle - 1; middle = (first + last)/2; } if (first > last) notpresent = TRUE; The cyclomatic complexity of the program segment is_______________.

Match the following: (P) Condition Coverage (i) Black-box testing (Q) Equivalence class partitioning (ii) System testing (R) Volume testing (iii) White-box testing (S) Alpha testing (iv) Performance testing

Which one of the following assertions concerning code inspection and code walkthrough is true?

Consider the basic COCOMO model where $E$ is the effort applied in person-months, $D$ is the development time in chronological months, $KLOC$ is the estimated number of delivered lines of code (in thousands) and $a_b, b_b, c_b, d_b$ have their useful meanings. The basic COCOMO equations are of the form

A software requirements specification (SRS) document should avoid discussing which one of the following?

Consider the following software items: Program-$X$, Control Flow Diagram of Program-$Y$ and Control Flow Diagram of Program-$Z$ as shown below The values of McCabe's Cyclomatic complexity of program-$X$, program-$Y$, and program-$Z$ respectively are