KIT206 Software Design & Development

KIT506 Software Application Design & Implementation

Assignment 1: OO Design Document

The Brief
Your small development team of (ideally) three people has been asked to develop the software
design for the Human Resource Information System desktop application based on its requirements
document and trace matrix (RTM). Your design will incorporate structured text-based scenarios,
accompanying low-fi UI prototypes, a package diagram, class diagrams and sequence diagrams.

Submission
By 1500 (3pm) Wednesday 24 August your team should submit a PDF document containing the
deliverables to the Assignment 1 - OO Design Document assignment folder on the units MyLO site.
Separately, your team must complete (and all members must sign) a copy of the Group Assignment
cover sheet. You may scan this and submit it via the MyLO assignment folder if you wish.

Team formation
Your teammates should be selected from other students in your tutorial group. To register who is in
your team, go to the Groups page on the units MyLO site and select a group from the Assignment 1
list. Groups are named according to the tutorial group they are for. For example, if you are in the
Tuesday 9am tutorial then pick one of the teams named k206_a1_tue0900_#, where # is one of the
team numbers. Join a team of your choosing (but discuss it with any other members first). You can
see who else is currently in a team before you add yourself to it by clicking the #/3 link on the
Groups page. If it becomes necessary to form groups larger than three then you will need to contact
the unit coordinator.
Your team will have access to its own discussion forum and MyLO locker (for sharing files). You do
not have to use these. If you prefer another file sharing mechanism, such as Dropbox or a Google
Doc for the scenarios, then you may use it instead. Your team will also have a single submission
point in the Assignment 1 folder on MyLO.

Deliverables
There are five components of the deliverables in this assignment (items 26), which should be
submitted in a single PDF in the following order.
1. A title page showing the name and number of the assignment and your group name
2. A structured scenario for each use case (7 in total)
3. Low-fidelity (lo-fi) prototypes of the UI views (hand-drawn or simply-sketched on a
computer)
4. A package diagram
5. A class diagram for each package (about 35 in total, depending on the number of packages)
6. A sequence diagram for each scenario (7 sequence diagrams in total)
There are many tools for merging PDFs into a single document, such as this one (provided as an
example with no warranty expressed or implied). If it is not possible to submit a single PDF then
each component of the submission must still be in PDF; do not submit image files of your lo-fi
prototypes.

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Notes and comments

At this stage the client has not provided you with details of the database and its schema (structure
of the tables), so develop your class diagrams based on the data described in the requirements
document and RTM, and by considering what relationships and operations (methods) best suit the
use cases you need to implement.
Further, to promote a modular design, it is required that your packages include the following: a
Database package, the classes of which will be responsible for interfacing with the database and
possibly transforming the data into a form that can be used to create other application objects; and
a View package, into which the various GUI components (i.e., classes) will go. At this stage you do
not need to add as much detail to the classes in these two packages as the others you will define.
Many of their details will depend on specifics of the database, which you do not know, and
knowledge of the capabilities of the Windows Presentation Foundation classes you will ultimately
use to construct the GUI, which you are yet to learn.
A mock interview with the client will be provided shortly to answer common questions. It will be
expanded as common questions arise.

Assessment
The assessment criteria are available in an accompanying document, in Excel and PDF formats.

Peer assessment
Peer assessment will be completed as part of the tutorial in week 7. You will have the opportunity to
provide both qualitative and quantitative feedback on your teammates performance.

Revision history
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