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What is activation record? Explain clearly the components of an activation record.

A data structure containing the important state information for a particular instance of a function call (or something that resembles a function call). May exist entirely in memory, or be partially stored in registers.

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Write short notes on:

  • Back patching
  • Thompson’s construction
  • Constant folding and copy propagation

The problem in generating three address codes in a single pass is that we may not know the labels that control must go to at the time jump statements are generated.

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What are the drawbacks of classical waterfall model? How are they rectified in other variants of the classical waterfall model?

In the classical waterfall model, each phase must be completed fully before the next phase can begin.

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What do you mean by software reliability?  Briefly describe one reliability model.

The reliability of a software product essentially denotes its trustworthiness or dependability.

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What are Halstead’s metrics?

Halstead metrices introduced by Maurice Howard Halstead in 1977 is an analytical technique to measure size, development efforts and development cost of software products.

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Briefly describe different user interface elements.

User interface is part of software and is designed such a way that it is expected to provide the user insight of the software. UI provides fundamental platform for human-computer interaction.

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What are the methodology for dialog design?

The dialog in modern user interfaces is frequently a combination of several dialog styles, such as command language, menu choice, answering of questions generated by the interface,

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What is feasibility study? Explain different types of feasibility study.

Feasibility study is an analysis and evaluation of a proposed project to determine if it (1) is technically feasible,

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What are the ‘baselines’ with respect to software configuration management? What is the necessity of software configuration management in developing a software?

Software Configuration Management is the task of tracking and controlling changes in the software, part of the larger cross-disciplinary field of configuration management.

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