IT6403 Windows Application Development - Group Project Proposal

Prof. Richard Halstead-Nussloch

Directions: In twelve or fewer pages, cover each of the following items about your final group project. If possible, complete as an html file for inclusion on the class web site.

Title

Give your project a meaningful title. Make sure it expresses the key elements of your group's project and product. For example,

Team

Describe your team, covering each member and his or her role. Discuss and decide in advance how the team will be led, how you will make decisions, and how you will resolve conflicts. For example:

Project Team

Team Member	Role
John Jones	Team Leader; Documentation
Patty Smith	System Analyst; Programmer
Phil Hill	Database Administrator; Object Designer; Component Programmer
Jack Rabbit	Requirements Collection; Usability Professional

We will make decisions by first identifying if we have a consensus. Failing a consensus, we all agree to go with a simple majority (2 of 3). If all three of us have different opinions, the will of the team leader will be accepted.

Introduction

Describe the objectives and product of your project. For example:

The objectives of this project are to:

• Develop an effective user interface for doing surveys on the web
• Prototype and test the user interface using html active server pages (asps) and VBscripts
• Learn the concepts, tools, and techniques of Windows application development using VBScript

In the project, we will produce an initial set of asps and VBscripts for performing surveys on the web. The scripts will support an effective user interface as tested in our usability evaluations.

Design and Development Approach

Describe the development process your team will use and your methodology. For example:

In this project, we plan to use the design and development approach as outlined by Venners. This includes work in four phases:

Phase 1: Specification of the Problem Domain for online surveys

• Bring together parties interested in online surveys
• Define the "vision" for online surveys
• Define the problem domain
• Document
• Objectives for online surveys
• Requirements for online surveys
• Benchmarks for online surveys
• Measures and completion (acceptance) criteria for online surveys

Phase 2: Designing the Solution Domain for online surveys

• Defining the system for online surveys
• 1. Partitioning the system into individual programs (and documenting)
• 2. Defining and documenting interfaces
• 3. Deciding on and documenting 3rd party libraries
• 4. Deciding on and documenting new libraries and components
• 5. Building user interface prototypes for appropriate components
• Doing object-oriented design for online surveys
• 6. Designing and documenting class hierarchies
• 7. Designing and documenting the individual classes and interfaces
• 1. User-interface classes
• 2. Problem domain classes
• 3. Data management classes

Phase 3: Implementation

• Code in VBScript and active server pages
• Unit test will be completed each week by the whole team
• If the code meets criteria, it will be passed to the integration phase.
• If the code does not meet criteria, we will fix and do another iteration

Phase 4: Integration and Test

• Bring it all together as an online survey
• Try it out in systematic test as an online survey
• Does it meet criteria?
• Yes--Ship and bill
• No--Fix and retest

Significance and Value

Describe the value of your project and product. Answer the "So what?" question. For example:

Upon completion of this project, the VBscripts and active server pages we produce should be generally usable, and serve as standard programming components to develop an online survey on the web.

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