Department of Computer Science

College of Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno

 

CS 425/625 Software Engineering

 

Team Project Part 2: Design

 

November 3, 2003

 

Due:                             Friday, November 14, 12:00 pm (noon)

Points:                         100

Weight:                        9% of the course grade

 

 

A  Introduction                                                                                

 

Your team of software engineers has completed the Requirements Analysis and Specification part of the Xanadu Cup project. Now, you have two more parts to complete:

     

Part 2: Design                                                         [due 11/14/03, worth 9% of the course grade]

Part 3: Implementation, Integration, and Testing          [tentative due date 12/04/03 and worth 12%]

 

Please refer to section B of Project Part #1 handout for the text of the problem. Also, recall that <T3> denotes a team of three while <T4> a team of four students.

                                                                                                                                      

B  Deliverables of Part 2 of the Project                                     

 

For Part 2 of the project you should provide a Design Document with the following sections:

 

  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • High-level Design: Completed Class Diagram
  • Low-level Design: Flowcharts or Pseudo-code of Selected Methods
  • User Interface Design
  • Contributions of Team Members
  • References

 

The following should be included in the Design Document:

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B1      Completed class diagram. The class diagram (revised, if necessary) that you developed for Part 1 of the project should now include all the methods of the classes. Attributes (with their type and visibility) and relationships (with cardinalities) should also be shown in the class diagram. For each method you should indicate: name, return type, list of parameters (with parameter types), visibility, and a brief description explaining the role of the method.  

 

B2      Detailed design of selected methods: flowcharts or pseudo-code (not the actual, final code!). At least four for <T3>) or six (for <T4>) more complex methods included in the class diagram should be detailed using either flowcharts or pseudo-code descriptions. These methods may call other, lower-level methods, which you might want to detail as well, hence the specification “at least” in the previous sentence. Try to define and document these methods as well as possible, as it were to be implemented by someone else in the next phase of the project.

  

B3      User interface design. At least ten (for <T3>) or twelve (for <T4>) snapshots of the user interface, with accompanying descriptions, are required. You should either build a “mock-up” prototype for your software (the user-interface only) and capture snapshots of this prototype or provide “paper prototype” samples of the user interface. In these snapshots, details of the user interface (e.g., panels, toolbars, menus, menu items, buttons, textboxes, etc. for GUI or complete screenshots for text-based interface) should be presented,  the format used in reports and statistics (e.g., the format for showing Team Standings) should be shown, and samples of messages to the user should be provided.  

 

 

C  Grading of Part 2 of the Project

 

  1. Overall organization and presentation of the Design Document                         15 points
  2. Completed class diagram with description of methods (B1 above)                     30 points    
  3. Detailed design of selected methods (B2 above)                                              20 points      
  4. User interface design (B3 above)                                                                    35 points

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Total                                                                                                           100 points

 

Both the technical content and the presentation style (including quality of writing and document formatting) of your DD will be taken into consideration when grading the project.