Monash University ample Examination Period Faculty of Information Technology EXAM CODES: FIT2099 TITLE OF PAPER: OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION (questions with complete solution)

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Monash University ample Examination Period Faculty of Information Technology EXAM CODES: FIT2099 TITLE OF PAPER: OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION (questions with complete solution)Question ... 1 – (6 + 6 = 12 marks) You have joined a team that is working on a fully-featured version of the game similar to the one you worked on in your assignments, complete with a graphical user interface. It is to be released commercially. The plan is to re-use the engine code for similar games in the future. The game runs reasonably well, but when you look at the engine code you discover that it contains a lot of “cut-and-paste reuse” – that is, repeated similar sequences of code, sometimes with a few very small changes. a) Why do software engineers consider repeated code to be a bad thing? Write a paragraph or two about the risks of cut-and-paste reuse. (6 marks) b) Describe how you would go about fixing the code to reduce these risks. (6 marks) [Show More]

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