Software Engineering PYQ 2025-26 AKTU Question Paper

AKTU · BTECH · Semester 6 · Software Engineering · Session 2025-26 · PYQ

AKTU Software Engineering previous year question paper 2025-26 for B.Tech Semester 6. Covers Introduction and SDLC Models, SRS and Software Quality…

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Software Engineering AKTU syllabus

  1. Unit 1: Introduction and SDLC Models
  2. Unit 2: SRS and Software Quality Assurance
  3. Unit 3: Software Design and Metrics
  4. Unit 4: Software Testing
  5. Unit 5: Maintenance and Project Management

Questions in Software Engineering AKTU PYQ 2025-26

  1. Q1a. Differentiate between software and program giving various components of software. (2 marks, 2025-26)
  2. Q1b. Discuss the Requirements Engineering Process. Write down the most generalized template used for describing Use Cases. (2 marks, 2025-26)
  3. Q1c. Define software quality. Give a comprehensive list of software quality attributes and discuss the procedure to assess the software quality. (2 marks, 2025-26)
  4. Q1d. Write a note on quality procedure/standards as prescribed by the ISO and Capability Maturity Model (CMM). (2 marks, 2025-26)
  5. Q1e. Define Pareto Principle. (2 marks, 2025-26)
  6. Q1f. Discuss following type of testing techniques (i) Mutation Testing (ii) Regression Testing. (2 marks, 2025-26)
  7. Q1g. What is Software Reverse Engineering and Re-engineering? (2 marks, 2025-26)
  8. Q2a. Discuss the selection process parameters for a life cycle model. (7 marks, 2025-26)
  9. Q2b. What is risk exposure? What techniques can be used to control each risk? (7 marks, 2025-26)
  10. Q2c. Discuss various software reliability metrics. Give a brief description of various software reliability models. (7 marks, 2025-26)
  11. Q2d. Define the following terms (i) Fault (ii) Failure (iii) Mistake (iv) Bug. (7 marks, 2025-26)
  12. Q2e. Discuss various problems during maintenance. Describe some solutions to these problems. (7 marks, 2025-26)
  13. Q3a. Write down various characteristics of a good software design. Discuss the procedure for determination of strength of design using concept of Coupling, Cohesion and Dependence Matrix. (7 marks, 2025-26)
  14. Q3b. Discuss the Spiral Model and justify that this model incorporates good features of almost every other model i.e. Water Fall Model, Prototype model, Iterative enhancement models etc. (7 marks, 2025-26)
  15. Q4a. Write down various methods of estimation. Discuss the COCOMO hierarchy of models for estimation of Effort and Cost. (7 marks, 2025-26)
  16. Q4b. Draw the Data Flow Diagram (DFD) up to 2nd level for the following software to be developed for the supermarket. The software needs customer to supply his residence address, telephone number, and the driving license number. The customer is then assigned a unique customer number (CN) by the… (7 marks, 2025-26)
  17. Q5a. What do you understand by the Program Verification and Validation? Discuss about Static and Dynamic Analyzers. (7 marks, 2025-26)
  18. Q5b. Give the schematic representation of CASE environment architecture. Give a brief description of its components. What are various benefits of using CASE tools? (7 marks, 2025-26)
  19. Q6a. Draw the Control Flow Graph (CFG) and calculate cyclomatic complexity of the following procedure. void sort (int a[], int n) int i=0, j; while (i<n-1) { j=i+1; while ( j<n) { if (a[i]>a[j]) { temp=a[i]; a[i]=a[j]; a[j]=temp; } j=j+1; } i=i+1; } } (7 marks, 2025-26)
  20. Q6b. Draw the Use Case diagram for Library Management System with its common functionalities. Discuss the Use Case for ‘Login’ as per Use Case template. (7 marks, 2025-26)
  21. Q7a. Give a list of various software quality attributes alongwith their brief description. Discuss the procedure for assessment of quality using these attributes. Justify the statement “Software Quality Assurance is an umbrella activity”. (7 marks, 2025-26)
  22. Q7b. Consider a program to classify a Triangle. Its input is triple of positive integers (X,Y,Z) and data type of input parameters ensures that these will be integers greater than 0 and less than or equal to 100. The program output may be one of the following: Scalene, Isosceles, Equilateral, Not a… (7 marks, 2025-26)

AKTU paper codes: BCS601, KCS601, KDS603, NCS602

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