Rapid Application Developemnt

2012-(1) past paper questions with answers

Questions 

1. Define what is an overly optimistic schedule. 
2. Explain why agile practice is suitable for RAD. 
3. Explain why affordance is important in Software applications. 
4. Define what is meant by pair programming. 
5. Describe briefly TWO Nelson's usability heuristics that can be used to evaluate Human Computer Interactions of software application. 
6. Differentiate Centralized Version Control system and Decentralized Version Control system using two valid points. 
7. Walk through , Code reading and Inspections are the common technical review methods. briefly explain TWO of these methods.
8. Point Application Development is useful for Rapid Application Development. Justify this statement using using TWO valid points. 
9. Explain why Software Internationalization is important in Free and Open Source Software development.
10. Describe what will you do make sure that a web application, which has a MySQL database, can show and store characters that are encoded using Unicode.

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