ICSG707 -- Programming Practices

Group Project -- Design Document

Last change date: April 24, 2pm

0. Problem description

For this part of the project you will be putting together a High and Low level design for you system. You may turn in this in as a single design document with 2 parts (the HLD and the LLD) or as 2 separate documents.

1. Design Documents

1.1. High Level Design (HLD) document

The HLD document is used to breakdown the project from one large problem into managable sub-problems. This will give you the framework that will make up the system. There are a few important things that need to be defined in the HLD:

• The breakdown of the project into sub-components that will be used to solve the problem

  This will generally be shown through a hierarchy diagram or with a DFD.

• A description of the actions that each sub-components will perform

  This is generally given in HIPO document (in conjunction with a hierarchy diagram) or through text description of processes (from the DFD).

• The interfaces between the components.

  fully defined in a Data Dictionary or as part of a HIPO document.

1.2. Low Level Design (LLD) document

The LLD will give the algorithms used to implement each of the sub-components identified in the HLD.

This is usually given as pseudocode or with flow charts.

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3. Final Due Date

The final version of the Design document is due in class on April 30th.

3.1 Deliverables

Make sure you include a cover page with your design document including

• the name of the project
• the name of the document
• the names of all the people on your team

Each group should turn in the following documents:

• Final Design document
• A separate document with a description of the work done by each person.

• Self evaluation
• One evaluations for each person on your team

4. Grading

Grading will be done using the following criteria:

    Component						Weight
    ---------------------------------			------
    Quality of your HLD document			60%
    Quality of your LLD document			30%
    Evaluation by your teammates			10%