CSCI 265 Software Engineering Quizzes and Exams

Quizzes

There will be five quizzes, each worth 5% of the final grade.

Quizzes are written (paper/pencil) closed notes and closed book, no electronics permitted, and conducted in the student's registered lab section. Students will be permitted one double-sided 8.5"x11" 'cheat sheet' for each quiz. (The cheat sheet does not have to be handwritten.

Each quiz is intended to take roughly 50 minutes to complete, and will be held in lab on the dates below.

Quiz dates, tentative topics, and links to preparation material are provided below:

Final exam replacing quizzes: the student's lowest quiz mark can be replaced by their final exam mark.

Individual work: as with all work in this course, quizzes and exams must be strictly individual efforts. The student is not permitted to seek or accept assistance from other individuals or sources (including AI-supported tools) in completing any portion of the quiz. Similarly, students are not permitted to provide assistance to other students in completing any portion of the quiz/exam. Note that VIU policies consider both parties to be committing academic misconduct in such situations, and both parties may incur the resuling penalties.

Final exam

The final exam will be worth 35% of your total grade and will be held as an in person written exam in the gym during the formal VIU exam period (date and time TBA).

The exam will be closed notes, closed book, no electronics permitted, but you are permitted one 8.5" by 11" 'cheat sheet' of notes. This can be of your own design, no restrictions on the content. (It does not have to be handwritten.)

The format will be ten questions, all equal weight, with a heavy emphasis on discussion and justify-your-answer styles of question.

A review session will be held in the final lecture prior to the final exam, and the material covered will consist of course all material up to and including the review session, including all lectures, quizzes, project components, etc.

While the exam can draw on any area of the course, some of the key focus areas for this year's exam will be software development life cycles, requirements/specifications and design, version control, code reviews and inspections, testing and automation, and the use of AI in software development.

Unlike some past years, I do not plan on having you write/analyze any substantial amount of bash, git, or C++ in this year's final exam.

OLD EXAMS

Note that the material covered and order of topics varies from year to year (perl in particular was covered extensively in earlier years), so don't be alarmed if some of the questions cover material we haven't touched on.

Below are some older 265 final exams.
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019