Question 9
An e-commerce website allows users to browse products and check prices without requiring them to log in. Which heuristic for action does this design decision support?
Freedom
Flexibility
Recognition over recall
Consistency
Question 9: An e-commerce website allows users to browse products and…
Show answer
Correct answer
Freedom
Question 9 of 25 in the IIT Madras BS Software Engineering (Software Engineering) Quiz 2 paper sat on 12 Apr 2026, in the January 2026 term (Software Engineering 07 Apr 26). It carries 4 marks.
More questions from this paper
- A software feature has already been released. Developers observe that users are struggling with the interface on a spec…
- Two developers are working on different modules of an e-commerce system. One developer modifies a function’s parameters…
- Before releasing a banking application, the development team tests individual functions such as “check balance” and “tr…
- A student team begins coding a project immediately after an informal discussion with users. After completion, they repe…
- A software team wants to collect answers to specific, well-defined questions from thousands of geographically distribut…
- Which of the following is a correct user story template as per BDD?
- An e-commerce website allows returning customers to purchase items quickly by saving delivery addresses and payment det…
- Multiple screens of a mobile application are drawn on paper, and switching between screens is simulated manually during…
- A project has an initial COCOMO effort estimate of 20 person-months. After considering cost drivers, the Effort Adjustm…
- A person ensures that the development team delivers maximum value to the client and prioritizes work considering busine…
- A team completes 4 story points in one sprint. This value is used to predict future progress. What is this value called?
- Several developers with critical expertise leave the organization midway through a project, causing delays. Which mitig…
- A module performs a sequence of operations where each step depends on the previous one, but all steps contribute to one…
- If class Book inherits from class Product, which statement is true?
- Which UML diagram is used to model message exchanges over time among objects?
- A developer designs a class with private data like and , and allows access only through methods such as and . This desc…
- A team of 20 developers is working on a large web application. One developer commits faulty code to the main branch tha…
- A banking application calculates interest. Due to a wrong formula in the code, the system produces an incorrect interes…
- A video-streaming application is functionally correct, but users complain that it is very slow when playing high-resolu…
- A photo-editing application applies a series of transformations to an image: first resizing, then filtering, then compr…
- An e-commerce system performs the following steps when a customer places an order: 1. Create an Order 2. Notify the Sel…
- A software company builds a system to process both physical books and e-books. The interface contains the following met…
- Which of the following are non-functional requirements? (Select all that apply)
- Which of the following are characteristics of heuristic (model-based) estimation techniques? (Select all that apply)