CSC 3700 - Software Analysis and Design

Project Proposal (Fall 2004)

SRS: https://www.angelfire.com/tn3/apr/aprSRS.ppt

SDS: https://www.angelfire.com/tn3/apr/aprSDS.ppt

 

 

Professor:	Dr. Srini Ramaswamy
Team:	Arlene Chisley-Wade Patricia Humble Richard Bushart
Team Name:	APR
Project:	APR Training Solutions
Languages:	HTML, SQL, Perl, JavaScript, and C++
Team Meetings:	Tuesdays & Thursdays at 3:00 p.m. EST via conference calls
Web Site:	https://www.angelfire.com/tn3/apr/home.html
E-mail:	achisleywade@att.net (Arlene) pat.humble@chattanoogastate.edu (Patricia) RBushart@midsouth.rr.com (Richard)
Date:	September 15, 2004

 

Member Responsibilities:
Design:
Richard:	Creation of databases.
Arlene:	Creation of web site and forms.
Pat:	Creation of data access pages to interact between web site and database that resides on a server.
Documentation:
Richard:	Flow Chart and other diagrams.
Arlene:	Web Site maintenance and updating.
Pat:	Design and development content.

 

 

Project Proposal:

 

Our project proposal is for APR to design an Online Training learning management system tied to a multi-user database. This system will be a web application with an SQL Server database. This system will be used by APR to keep track of students, companies, courses, instructors and billing information to successfully maintain an e-commerce web site. One of the major challenges will be getting the courses that businesses need to keep their employees technical skillful to compete in today’s market. A second challenge will be keeping the courses updated with the latest technology to help students enhance their skills. A third challenge will be keeping the courses updated and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

 

Software Design Proposal:

 

When entering our web site the user will originally be able to see a listing and brief description of the courses we offer, basic information about our company, a login link to the courses, any announcements we might share with students, companies or new clients and a link to pay fees online by credit card.

Once the student uses the login link from the home page they will be able to enroll and start the learning process. Our online courses will be available anytime day or night at our student’s convenience. Our courses will offer all of the available material to study and learn many of today’s well known computer software, take practice tests and quizzes, and communicate with an instructor for any questions or problems that might experience. In the enrolling process we will collect the basic information about our clients for example, first and last name, address, date of birth, phone number, city, state, e-mail address and the company they work for. When the student click on the submit button if the information is not all filled in they will receive an error message stating they must fill in the items they left blank. They will then be enrolled in the course they have selected and sent an e-mail with a username and password to access the system from the same login link.

There will be a table company that will keep the company name, address, phone number, fax, e-mail address to allow access for a company to be responsible for a client’s training. If companies are willing to reimburse clients their training fees we will provide information to the company via the student’s request that their progress can be sent to their company.

We will encourage our instructors to keep their courses up-to-date and use all of the new technology available. This technology could include e-mail, chat rooms, discussion postings, and video conferencing. We will keep a training software table in the database with these fields course ID, course title, description, and instructor to be maintained by database administrator. We will also keep a table on instructors’ which will include the following information name, address, city, state, e-mail address, phone, fax, and cell numbers along with courses they can teach.

We will also have available after courses are finished surveys and polls to find out what about the course could be improved. These surveys and polls will help us identify problems with courses or instructors. Also they will provide beneficial feedback to the APR Company on our web page, courses, and instructors.

 

Information Flow Diagram:

 

Company Organizational Diagram:

 

 

Data Flow Diagram:

 

 

Conclusion:

We hope this proposal from the APR team meets the qualifications that you have set forth for the Software Analysis class. We will gladly appreciate any comments or suggestions you might have. We do have a couple of questions concerning the web site and the development of our software. Are we to produce an actual live training web site and be able to deliver courses? According to the web site we can’t install several Perl scripts that we will need to make this a fully functional product and they do not have the space to accommodate our database. Can we package the full program as a zip file and send it to you to run.