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Flashcards by nina.evangelou, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by nina.evangelou
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| Question | Answer |
| anthropomorphism | The attribution of human personality to what is not human (in the case of this course, to software entities) |
| coordinating class | The class of the coordinating object. |
| coordinating message | A message from the user interface to the coordinating object to initiate the core system behaviour required for a use case, or part of a use case |
| coordinating method | The method invoked on receipt of a coordinating message. |
| core object | An object contained within the core system. |
| dynamic model | A model illustrating actions and interactions within the system when the system is in operation. In this course, a dynamic model consists of a walk-through and a sequence diagram, in the context of a particular scenario. |
| implementation model | A model specifying the actual classes that will be used to implement the system. It contains a structural model and dynamic models. Its structural model is the final result of the evolution of the initial structural model. |
| navigate | To access an object or objects from another object by using a link or links of an association. |
| one-way association | An association that is navigated in only one direction |
| one-way link | A link of a one-way association |
| scenario | An example (instance) of a use case involving particular example objects. |
| two-way association | An association that is navigated in both directions |
| two-way link | A link of a two-way association. |
| walk-through | A list of individual steps within the core system which carry out a use case in the context of particular scenario. |
| alternative scenario | A (valid) scenario for which the use case requirements specify an alternative course of action. |
| design principle | A guideline for which objects should be allocated which kinds of task, and how the objects should communicate. |
| cascading | A design where, to get an object r to perform a task, an object p sends a message to an object q asking it to ask r to perform its task, and sends a message to r asking it to perform its task |
| design principle | A guideline for which objects should be allocated which kinds of task, and how the objects should communicate. |
| forking | A design where, to get an object to perform a task, an object sends a message to an object asking it for returns , and then sends a message to asking it to perform the task. |
| information expert | An object which most readily has to hand the information needed to carry out a particular task. |
| invalid scenario | A scenario where a pre-condition is broken. |
| valid scenario | A scenario where no pre-condition is broken |
| working scenario | Code that sets up a typical set of objects and implements the design for a use case in a very basic way as a ‘proof of concept’. |
| buckets | Storage compartments used when storing elements in a collection, such as a set. |
| enumerated type (enum) | A user-defined Java type that can take on only one of a finite set of values specified by the programmer when the type is defined |
| forwarding method | A method in which the corresponding message is forwarded to an object being used by composition. |
| hashcode | A value returned by a hashCode() method, used by Java in hashing. |
| hashing | A technique that speeds up searching a collection |
| interface type | An interface declared as the type of a variable or method answer. |
| refactoring | The process of amending a system’s structure, while retaining its behaviour, in order to improve its quality. |
| user-defined type | A type defined by the user, augmenting those provided by the Java API. |
| utility class | A class which is not specific to the particular system under development, but which has potentially wider applicability |
| test method | A method which tests another method. |
| test suite | A grouping of test classes. |
| test-driven development | An approach to coding and testing in which tests are written based on the specification of the aspect of the system under test, before the code is written |
| unit testing | Testing individual units of software in the system: in an object-oriented approach, units may be considered to be methods, or classes. |
| use case-driven | An approach to implementation in which each use case is tackled one by one: having coded and tested the methods involved in one use case, another use case is tackled. |
| validation | Checking that all aspects of the system and its project documentation are consistent with the customer’s requirements. In other words, has the right system been built? |
| verification | Checking that all aspects of the system and its project documentation are consistent and complete with respect to each other. In other words, has the system been built right? |
| white box testing | Testing which involves examination of code. |
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