Software Engineering Unit 2 – SRS and Software Quality Assurance: AKTU previous year questions
30 AKTU questions from Unit 2 (SRS and Software Quality Assurance) asked in 2018–2025, tagged by marks, year and topic. In short: about 33 marks of every paper come from this unit; the most asked topic is Software Quality Assurance (12 times); 24 questions came back in a later year. The latest ones are listed below; on the page you can filter them by 2-mark or long questions, topic and repeats.
Unit 2 previous year questions
- Define Use Case and write most commonly accepted template for the Use Case giving description of its components. (2 marks, 2025, Requirement Engineering Process)
- List various software quality attributes and discuss the procedure for assessment of software quality. Obtain the expression for Error Index (which acts as Quality Indicator for software) through the Statistical Quality Assurance procedure where the defect/error data is collected and categorized for a defined period of time. (7 marks, 2025, Software Quality Assurance)
- Suppose you have to develop Library Management Software with common functionalities such as authentication of the user, issue and return of books by the user, report generation by the librarian, and database maintenance by the library administrator etc. Draw a complete (at least up to 2-levels) Data Flow Diagram (DFD) and State Transition Diagram for this software. (7 marks, 2025, Information and Data Modelling)
- Discuss the Requirements Engineering Process. Write down the most generalized template used for describing Use Cases. Give description of its various components taking a suitable example. (7 marks, 2025, Requirement Engineering Process)
- Discuss the SEI Capability Maturity Model and compare it with the ISO 9000 certification giving various distinctive features of each model. (7 marks, 2025, Software Quality Assurance)
- Explain the need of an SRS. (2 marks, 2024, SRS Document and IEEE Standards)
- Discuss the importance of Feasibility Study. Also discuss its various types. (10 marks, 2024, Requirement Engineering Process)
- Explain Requirement Elicitation techniques in detail. (10 marks, 2024, Requirement Engineering Process)
- Compare SEI CMM Model and ISO 9000 Model. Also discuss five levels of CMM. (10 marks, 2024, Software Quality Assurance)
- Mention any two non-functional requirements on software to be developed. (2 marks, 2023, Requirement Engineering Process)
- What are the non-functional requirements of software? (2 marks, 2023, Requirement Engineering Process)
- What is data dictionary? How is it used in software engineering? (2 marks, 2023, Information and Data Modelling)
Most asked Unit 2 topics
- Software Quality Assurance – asked 12 times
- Requirement Engineering Process – asked 8 times
- Information and Data Modelling – asked 7 times
Unit 2 question pattern
- 2-mark questions: 10 asked in 2018–2025
- 7-mark questions: 4 asked in 2018–2025
- 10-mark questions: 16 asked in 2018–2025
- About 33 marks from Unit 2 in every paper
- 24 questions were asked again in a later year
Unit 2 questions year by year
- 2025: 5 Unit 2 questions asked (30 marks across that year's papers)
- 2024: 4 Unit 2 questions asked (32 marks across that year's papers)
- 2023: 10 Unit 2 questions asked (68 marks across that year's papers)
- 2022: 5 Unit 2 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)
- 2018: 6 Unit 2 questions asked (44 marks across that year's papers)