Self Test Questions

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1. What is the purpose of the project approach strategy?

2. What is the purpose of the development cycle?

3. Describe how to apply the project approach strategy and development cycle in an iterative fashion.

4. Why is it a good idea to do just enough design to get started coding? Does this approach have practical application in the real programming world? What future problems regarding application design does using this approach help to avoid?

5. How is function stubbing used in the robot rat project?

6. Why is component testing important?

7. Why is frequent component integration important?

8. What is the purpose of pseudocode?

9. What is the purpose of a state transition diagram?

10. What C++ flow control structure can be used to implement the functionality described by a state transition diagram?

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