ICSG707 -- Programming Practices

Group Project

Last change date: May 12, 1998
April 24, 1998
April 14, 1998

1. Overview

For the rest of the quarter you will be working in a group to produce a large software product. During this time, in addition to a completed running software product, you will be producing numerous documents,

Software Requirements Specification (SRS),
Design Documents
- High Level Design (HLD)
- Low Level Design (LLD)
The Test Plan is no longer part of the project.
Users Guide

and a final 1/2 hour class presentation/demonstration during finals week.

I will not be assigning a specific software project for you to implement. Instead, each group will have to come up with their own project. Some things to think about when deciding on a project:

This product must be large enough to justify the work of your team for the 6-7 weeks that you will be working on it.
At the same time you have to make sure that you don't attempt to implement a system that is way beyond your time and talents.
On top of this, you want to make sure that the project you select is understandable and at least semi-interesting to everyone in the group. You will be spending a lot of time working on this project, and so you want something that everyone will be interested in completing.

2. Deliverables and Dates

You will be turning in the following components:


    Deliverable				Due Date
    --------------------		--------
    SRS	draft				April 7
    SRS peer review			April 9
    SRS final				April 14
    Design documents (HLD, LLD)		April 30 	<--may change
    Test Plan(s)			XXXXXXX		<-- REMOVED
    Code 				May 19
    Users Guide				May 19
    In Class Demo			May 19

Note that the individual dates in this schedule may shift during the quarter. For your own sake, make sure you stay alert to changes.

3. Grading

The group project will make up 60% of your grade for the course. The grading of the individual parts will be:


    Deliverable				Course Grade
    --------------------		------------
    SRS final                           10%
    Design documents (HLD, LLD)         15%
    Test Plan(s)                        0%
    Code                                20%
    Users Guide                         5%
    In Class Demo                       10%

A part of every one of the component grade will be set aside for evaluation of individual work. To help me assign this grade, each assignment will require a couple of pieces of information:

Each person will provide an evaluation of their own work.
Each person will provide an evaluation of the work done by the other members of their team.
A submitted list describing the parts of the assignment that each person produced.

4. The Assignments

Here you will find links to the specific assignments. These will become available as the project progresses:

SRS document and peer review
Design documents Added link
Test Plan(s) No longer required
Link to final assignment
- In Class Demo