Management of Software Systems
CST 309 · KTU S5 CSE · 2019 Scheme · Exam Preparation Dashboard
🧠 Must-Remember Concepts & Frameworks
Waterfall Model: Requirements → Design → Implementation → Verification → Maintenance | Linear, plan-driven | Best when requirements are well-understood & stable
Spiral Model (Boehm): 4 Phases → Objective Setting → Risk Assessment & Reduction → Development & Validation → Planning | Risk-driven, iterative
Agile Manifesto: 4 Values — Individuals > Processes | Working Software > Documentation | Customer Collaboration > Contract | Responding to Change > Following Plan
Requirements: Functional (what system does) vs Non-functional (constraints) — Product, Organizational, External | RE Process: Elicitation → Specification → Validation
Testing Hierarchy: Unit → Integration (Top-down/Bottom-up) → Validation (Alpha/Beta) → System (Recovery, Security, Stress, Performance)
SCRUM: Roles (PO, SM, Dev Team) | Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Review, Retrospective) | Artifacts (Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment)
CMMI 5 Levels: Initial → Managed → Defined → Quantitatively Managed → Optimizing | Process maturity improvement framework
SQA Elements: Standards, Reviews & Audits, Testing, Error Collection, Change Mgmt, Education, Vendor Mgmt, Security, Safety, Risk Management
CI/CD/CD Pipeline: Continuous Integration → Continuous Delivery → Continuous Deployment | DevOps = Dev + Ops collaboration culture
Cloud Service Models: IaaS (Infrastructure) → PaaS (Platform) → SaaS (Software) | Virtualization → Containers (Docker) → Microservices
📈 Topic Frequency Analysis
Analysis of 3 exam papers: Dec 2022 (CST309), Dec 2023 (CST309), Nov 2024 (CST309)
📝 Previous Year Questions
📐 Exam Pattern — CST 309
Part A (30 Marks)
10 questions × 3 marks each
Two questions from each module
All questions compulsory
Short answer / definition / comparison type
Part B (70 Marks)
5 modules × 14 marks each
Choice of 2 questions per module — answer 1
Each question has (a) + (b) sub-parts
Usually 7+7 marks or 8+6 marks split
🔁 Repeated Questions
Questions that appeared in 2+ exam papers — highest exam ROI topics. Analysis across 3 papers: Dec 2022, Dec 2023, Nov 2024
🔮 Predicted Questions
Part A — Short Questions (3 marks each)
Part B — Long Questions (14 marks each)
📋 Official Syllabus — CST 309
📘 Prescribed Textbooks & References
- Book 1: Ian Sommerville — Software Engineering, 10th Edition, Pearson Education. (Modules 1, 2, 4, 5)
- Book 2: Roger S. Pressman — Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, 9th Edition, McGraw Hill. (Modules 2, 3, 4, 5)
- Book 3: Sander Rossel — Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment, Packt Publishing. (Modules 2, 3, 5)
- Ref 9: Kanban methodology reference for Module 4
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