COSC 70 Test and Flashcards

UI

It is the series of screens, pages, and visual elements—like buttons and icons—that you use to interact with a device.

User Experience

The process of enhancing customer satisfaction and loyalty by improving the usability, ease of use, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the customer and the product.

UI

This provides fundamental platform for human computer interaction.

Software Design

It is the step in an SDLC which moves the concentration from problem domain to solution domain.

Software Design

It is a process to transform user requirements into some suitable form, which helps the programmer in software coding and implementation.

Concurrency

It provides capability to the software to execute more than one part of code in parallel to each other.

Complexity

It stands for state of events or things, which have multiple interconnected links and highly complicated structures.

Checkbox

Functions similar to list-box. When an option is selected, the box is marked as checked. Multiple options represented by check boxes can be selected.

Icons

It is small picture representing an associated application.

Drop Down Menu

Similar to combo box, but the list is hidden and will show up once the user clicked on it.

Dialogue Box

It is a child window that contains message for the user and request for some action to be taken.

Menu

It is an array of standard commands, grouped together and placed at a visible place (usually top) inside the application window.

Tabs

This interface also helps in viewing preference panel in application. All modern web-browsers use this feature.

Pseudocode

By becoming sufficiently detailed in the DFD, developers and designers can use it to write a blank.

HIPO Diagram

It represents the hierarchy of modules in the software system.

Structured English

It is nothing but the description of what is required to code and how to code it.

Cohesion

It is a measure that defines the degree of intra-dependability within elements of a module.

Data Coupling

When two modules interact with each other by means of passing data (as parameter). If a module passes data structure as parameter, then the receiving module should use all its components.

Stamp Coupling

When multiple modules share common data structure and work on different part of it.

Common Coupling

When multiple modules have read and write access to some global data.

DFD

This is capable of depicting incoming data flow, outgoing data flow and stored data.

GUI

This can be combination of both hardware and software. Using this, user interprets the software.

Logical DFD

This concentrates on the system process and flow of data in the system. In a system, this shows how data is moved between different entities.

Level 3

Progression to Levels 3, 4 and beyond is possible, but going beyond this level is uncommon.

Layers

Structure Charts are derived from DFD, but with additional blank, instead of a normal chart.

CLI

This is the first choice of many technical users and programmers.

GUI

Blank designs that work with more efficiency, accuracy and speed.

Flow of Data

A directed arrow with empty circle at the end represents this.

Analysts

They may also use the same variable and data name, which can be helpful in making the program much easier to write and understand.

Programmers

Most of these people are unaware of the large picture of the software, so they only rely on what their managers tell them to do.

Flashcards: COSC 70