Technical Reviews
Test & Evaluation
Software Engineering
Stupid Answers Before & After
Risk Management
100
This review is held to support a dialogue between the end user and acquisition community and leads to a draft performance specification for the preferred materiel solution.
What is Alternative Systems Review?
100
This key document outlines how the test and evaluation will be embedded in the program and is critical to the tester and is due at Milestone A.
What is the Test & Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP)?
100
It describes the process for planning, creating, testing and deploying software and information systems.
What is System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)?
100
A unit at the lowest decomposition level of a software system goes through testing
What is Software Unit Testing (Software Unit & Unit Testing)?
100
An organized methodology for continuously identifying and measuring the unknowns; developing mitigation options; selecting, planning, and implementing appropriate risk mitigations; and tracking the implementation to ensure successful risk reduction.
What is Risk Management?
200
This review establishes the initial product baseline for the system and its constituent system elements. It also establishes requirements and system interfaces for enabling system elements such as support equipment, training system, maintenance, and data systems.
What is Critical Design Review (CDR)?
200
Fundamentally, the purpose of Test and Evaluation (T&E) in a defense system's development and acquisition program is to help ___________ in defining, developing, acquiring, fielding, using, and supporting a system.
What is to reduce or manage the risks?
200
The IEEE collection of generally accepted best practices for software engineering.
What is Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK)?
200
Requirements that pose a high risk to the system show their traceability back to higher level requirements
What is High Risk Requirements Traceability (High Risk Requirement & Requirements Traceability)?
200
A future risk root cause. A probability (likelihood) of the future risk occurring. The consequence of future occurrence.
What are the 3 components of Risk?
300
This review ensures the preliminary design and basic system architecture are complete, and that there is technical confidence the capability need can be satisfied within cost and schedule goals.
What is Preliminary Design Review (PDR)?
300
In a typical test sequence, the following tests are combined: Pre-Acquisition Test and Evaluation, Development Test and Evaluation, and ___________.
What is Operational Test and Evaluation?
300
The federally funded group that was established at Carnegie Mellon University as an R&D center for the study of software engineering process.
What is Software Engineering Institute (SEI)?
300
The structure of a program makes a statement detailing the work to be done by the contractor as it suffers a breakdown into the products, processes, and data of the system
What is a Statement of Work Breakdown Structure (Statement of Work & Work Breakdown Structure)?
300
Requirements, Proprietary Data/Designs, State of the Art Hardware, and Computer Resources.
What are Technical Risk Drivers?
400
At completion of this review, the system’s functional baseline is normally taken under configuration control.
What is System Functional Review (SFR)?
400
These performance criteria are specifically described within the Analysis of Alternatives as: Measures of Effectiveness, Measures of Suitability, Measures of Performance
What are mission tasks?
400
The name of the formal SEI authorized appraisal which identifies the strengths and weaknesses of software engineering processes.
What is Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI A)?
400
The iterative process in which the selection of a technical architecture that adopts open standards supports analysis of design considerations and enables reasoning about key system aspects and attributes
What is an Open Systems Architecture Design Process (Open Systems Architecture & Architecture Design Process)?
400
Assume, Control, Avoid, Transfer.
What are the 4 risk mitigation methods?
500
This review is a multi-disciplined technical review to ensure that the developer is ready to proceed with the initial system design.
What is System Requirements Review (SRR)?
500
Before you begin any test, you must establish this to have a common basis of comparison for all test results and to compare current test results with previous test results.
What is reference frame?
500
The IEEE standard that established a framework for software and systems engineering.
What is IEEE 12207?
500
A plan to help develop, communicate, and manage the engineering approach that guides the development of a system resulting when independent and useful systems are integrated into a larger system that delivers unique capabilities
What is a System of Systems Engineering Plan (System of Systems & Systems Engineering Plan)?
500
Risk Identification, Risk Analysis, Risk Mitigation Planning, Risk Mitigation Plan Implementation, Risk Tracking.
What are the 5 steps in the Risk Management Process Model?
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