Terms to know for the Week 5 quiz, SWE 2710, Spring 2026 (Hasker)

Week 1

• Software Tools
• Software Process
• Requirements, Design, Implementation, Testing, Maintenance
• Waterfall
• Testability
• User Story: As a specific type of user, I want to action so that reason
• Use Case: collection of scenarios
  • Actor, Scenario
• Sunny day, rainy day scenario
• Precondition, postcondition
• Elements of a use case
• Use case diagram
• Nonfunctional, functional requirements
• Acceptance criteria
• Given/when/then
• Writing good stories: INVEST
• Independent, negotiable, valuable, can estimate, small/appropriately sized, testable
• Story vs epic vs task
• Knowledge acquisition stories

Week 2

• Noun/verb analysis
• Responsibilities
• Sequence diagram
  • Object timeline
• Design pattern
• Model/view/controller project structure
• Goal of testing: find errors
  • Limits of testing
• Validation vs verification
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Unit, integration, acceptance testing

Week 3

• UML class diagrams
  • Class, attribute, method
  • Directed, undirected associations
  • Multiplicities
  • Role names
  • Generalization, implements
  • Stereotype
  • Is-a vs. has-a vs. needs-a
  • Avoiding aggregation
• Domain vs problem space classes
• Scrum
• Agile (software development methods)
• scrum in rugby
• Product backlog
  • Product backlog item (PBI)
• Sprint
• Sprint backlog
• Daily scrum meeting
  • What did you do yesterday?
  • What will you do today?
  • Is anything in your way?
• Potentially shippable product increment
• Scrum Goals:
  • Iterative
  • Team-based
  • Responsive to change
  • Improve communication
  • protected sprints
• Scrum Roles - know tasks related to each
  • Product owner
  • ScrumMaster
  • Developer
• Scrum Ceremonies
  • Sprint planning
  • Sprint review
  • Sprint retrospective
  • Daily scrum meeting
• Scrum Artifacts
  • Product backlog
  • Sprint backlog
  • Burndown chart

Week 4

• Defect vs change PBIs
• DEEP product backlog: detailed appropriately, emergent, estimated, prioritized
• Grooming the backlog
• Estimation metrics
  • Ideal days
  • T-shirt sizes
  • Story points
  • modified Fibonacci sequence
• Accuracy vs precision in estimation
• Planning poker
• Large Language Models and Generative AI
• Building blocks for GenAI prompts:
  • Persona
  • Aim
  • Recipients
  • Theme
  • Structure
• Given/when/then

Week 5

• Version control
• Limits of sharing files (say, on a USB drive or a website)
• Elements of a versioning system
  • Changes tracked
  • Can revert
  • Changes have identifiers
• File locking; why not useful in practice
• Distributed version control
• Core git commands
  • Clone, status, add, commit, push, pull, checkout