BISM1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Meeting, Scalability, Unit Testing

• School: UQ
• Department: Business Information Systems
• Course: BISM1201
• Professor: Peter Clutterbuck

Document Summary

It rarely works smoothly, causing development team to go back and forth, raising costs and delaying project. Scheduling, planning and budgeting difficulties (time and cost estimates for large projects are usually way off) One technique based on the ideas of incremental and evolutionary methodologies is the agile approach (light-weight methodology, that includes scrum and xp). Emphasis on people and cooperation over processes and tools. Working software is more important than documentation. User involvement at the level of true collaboration. Possible exam questions: explain 4 fundamental tasks that must be completed within the requirements analysis stage of the traditional systems development life cycle (sdlc). What is the documentation that is delivered at the end of this phase of the traditional. 4 fundamental tasks: gather, confirm, prioritize and map building the current stage business requirement list: testing is a critical phase of the traditional sdlc. Explain the fundamental goal of all testing within the sdlc.