Past Exams

Archive of 12 old exams

Exam Survey Results

• pivoted data — tells which historical questions are in/out/NA according to survey results
• tallied data — input to the pivot
• you can see the scripts that compute these outputs in the directory that holds those analysis results
• freeform comments on old exams

Topics covered this term

• RE Reference Model
• Classes, Concepts, and Domain Modeling
• Use Cases and Scenarios
• Assumptions, Exceptions, Variations
• User Interfaces
• User Manuals
• Ambiguity in Requirements and Specifications
• SRSs
• Requirements Elicitation
• Non-functional Requirements (a.k.a. quality attributes)
• Alloy (reading comprehension)
  • questions of the form:
    • given an expression (i.e., a formula), and an
    • instance (i.e., a picture corresponding to the formula),
    • evaluate the expression (i.e., list the tuples)
  • Derek’s 1-pager on Alloy reading comprehension
  • Alloy documentation

Topics excluded this term

• Cost Estimation
• RE for AI and ML
• LTL (Linear Temporal Logic)