CSSE 371 – Software Requirements and Specification

Sriram Mohan

Outline

Introductions The Class Process

Possible life cycle

General Themes

How do we interact with clients to obtain requirements? How do we use the requirements to design the software? How do we use the requirements to verify client needs? How do we use the requirements to design the interaction?

Project versus Lecture

General Info

Books Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second

Edition, by Dean Leffingwell and Don Widrig Interaction Design: beyond human-computer interaction, Second

Edition, by Jennifer Preece, Yvonne Rogers and Helen Sharp

Office Hours

Course Components

Project This is the most important part of the learning experience 50% of the grade

Exams 20% of the grade Three mid-terms(No Finals)

Assignments Close to 16 20% of the grade

Class Interaction 10%

Outline

Introductions The Class Process

Project

Real clients with real needs Simulate the real world Teams

Each team will have 3 students. Management assigned

Management Project Managers(Brittany, Michelle & Zach) Quality Assurance Monitors(Brittany, Michelle & Zach) Instructor(me)

Project Deliverables

Fall Winter

Vision Document Detailed Design Document

Preliminary Design Document Detailed Test Plan

Preliminary Test Plan Finished Product

Supplementary Specification Usability Report

Interface Design Programmers Manual

Quality Assurance Plan User Manual

Usability Report Client Comments

Client Comments Presentations

Presentations Poster

Fall MilestonesDeliverable Contents Due DateMilestone 1 Current System Analysis

Client Stakeholder Analysis

Feature ListingProject Plan

September 20

Milestone 2 Use casesData Flow Diagram

October 7

Milestone 3 Supplementary Specification

Initial Design/Paper prototype

October 17

Milestone 4 Pseudo codeCoding Standards

Test Cases

October 26

Milestone 5 Usability ReportRevised Design

November 7

Final Deliverable Vision DocumentTest Plan

Design PlanInterface Design

Quality Assurance PlanUsability ReportClient Comments

November 12

Client Presentation Week of 5th NovemberPost Partum Presentation

Experiences ... Final Exam date

Team Activities

Meet with client once a week Meet with project manager once a week Meet regularly Plan Use your project manager and instructors expertise.

Plan ahead

Team Roles

Secretary Contacts

Manager Instructor Client

Tasks Assigner Monitor

Librarian Guru

Team Log

Due weekly to the project manager A day before the meeting

Log records Teams weekly activities Tasks to be completed

Start and end dates Who is responsible for them? Progress

Project Manager

Assist the team with process Supervisory role Review teams artifacts Evaluate teams performance

Can recommend that a team member be fired

Writing

Professionally written No slang, chat lingo … Free of grammatical and spelling errors Well organized Thorough and complete

Must be submitted to supervisor before final submission Each team member must approve the submission. Use the learning center

I will be happy to review any portion of the document before final submission

Milestone Document Content

Signed Title Page Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Main content References Appendix Index Glossary

Submissions will be on paper – Use a 3 ring binder

Presentations

Client Presentation Post partum presentation

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