Software reengineering in Software Engineering - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the sentence to define software reengineering.

Software Engineering

Software reengineering is the process of [1] and improving existing software systems.

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Adiscarding

Breplacing

Cignoring

Danalyzing

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Common Mistakes

Choosing 'discarding' because it sounds like removing software.

Choosing 'replacing' which is different from improving.

Software reengineering involves analyzing and improving existing software, not discarding or ignoring it.

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medium

Complete the sentence to identify a goal of software reengineering.

Software Engineering

One main goal of software reengineering is to [1] the software's maintainability.

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Aignore

Breduce

Cincrease

Ddelete

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Common Mistakes

Choosing 'reduce' which would make maintenance harder.

Choosing 'delete' which is unrelated to improving software.

The goal is to increase maintainability so the software is easier to update and fix.

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hard

Fix the error in the sentence about software reengineering.

Software Engineering

Software reengineering always involves [1] the software from scratch.

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Arewriting

Brefactoring

Cdocumenting

Dtesting

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Common Mistakes

Choosing 'rewriting' which implies starting over.

Choosing 'testing' which is part of development but not the main reengineering step.

Software reengineering does not mean rewriting from scratch but often involves refactoring existing code.

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hard

Fill both blanks to complete the description of software reengineering steps.

Software Engineering

The first step is [1] the existing system, followed by [2] the code to improve it.

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Aanalyzing

Bignoring

Crefactoring

Ddeleting

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Common Mistakes

Choosing 'ignoring' which skips understanding the system.

Choosing 'deleting' which removes code instead of improving it.

First, the system is analyzed to understand it, then the code is refactored to improve it.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to complete the software reengineering process example.

Software Engineering

During reengineering, developers [1] the code, [2] documentation, and [3] tests to ensure quality.

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Arefactor

Bupdate

Crun

Ddelete

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Common Mistakes

Choosing 'delete' which removes important parts.

Choosing 'run' for documentation which is incorrect.

Developers refactor code, update documentation, and run tests to maintain quality during reengineering.