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Engineering Software Products: An Introduction to Modern Software Engineering
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Engineering Software Products: An Introduction to Modern Software Engineering

by Ian Sommerville
May 2019
Beginner
352 pages
12h 26m
English
Pearson
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Exercises

  1. 3.1. Using the input/action/output template that I introduced at the beginning of this chapter, describe two features of software that you commonly use, such as an editor or a presentation system.

  2. 3.2. Explain why it is helpful to develop a number of personas representing types of system user before you move on to write scenarios of how the system will be used.

  3. 3.3. Based on your own experience of school and teachers, write a persona for a high school science teacher who is interested in building simple electronic systems and using them in class teaching.

  4. 3.4. Extend Jack’s scenario, shown in Table 3.5, to include a section in which students record audio reminiscences from their older friends and relatives and include ...

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