The document provides an overview of the objectives and requirements for developing an online information portal for a college. The key points are:
- The objective is to develop a unified portal using open source tools to replace existing separate systems for managing notices, events and other college information.
- The proposed system aims to overcome limitations of the existing systems like lack of a unified interface and platform independence.
- Technical, operational, economic and timeline feasibility studies were conducted and the project was found to be feasible in all aspects.
- System requirements like hardware, software, functional, performance, security and maintainability requirements are specified to guide the development of the proposed online information portal.
Software evolution involves making ongoing changes to software systems to address new requirements, fix errors, and improve performance. There are several approaches to managing software evolution, including maintenance, reengineering, refactoring, and legacy system management. Key considerations for legacy systems include assessing their business value and quality to determine whether they should be replaced, transformed, or maintained.
This document discusses the key aspects of system implementation including coding, testing, installation strategies, documentation, training, support, and reasons for failure. It covers delivering code, testing plans and results, user guides and training plans. Documentation includes both system and user documentation. Training methods like courses and tutorials are discussed. Support is provided through help desks and information centers. Factors for successful implementation include management support and user involvement.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch2Mohammed Romi
This document summarizes key aspects of software processes and models. It discusses the basic activities involved in software development like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It describes process models like waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented processes. The waterfall model involves sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Validation includes testing stages from unit to system level. The document also covers designing for change and evolution.
This document provides an overview of topics covered in Chapter 7 on software design and implementation, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, implementation issues, and open source development. It discusses the design and implementation process, build vs buy approaches, object-oriented design processes involving system models, and key activities like defining system context, identifying objects and interfaces. Specific examples are provided for designing a wilderness weather station system.
The document discusses software processes and activities. It describes common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and configuration management. The key activities involved in most processes are specification, development, validation, and evolution. Specification defines system requirements while development includes design, implementation, and debugging. Validation ensures the system meets requirements through testing. Processes also evolve to adapt to changing needs.
This document discusses key topics in systems engineering, including:
1) Systems engineering involves procuring, designing, implementing, and maintaining sociotechnical systems that include both technical and human elements.
2) Software systems are part of broader sociotechnical systems and software engineers must consider human, social, and organizational factors.
3) Sociotechnical systems have emergent properties that depend on the interactions between system components and cannot be understood by examining the components individually.
This document provides an overview of software reuse techniques discussed in Chapter 16, including:
1) Application frameworks which provide reusable skeleton designs through abstract and concrete classes;
2) Software product lines which allow generic applications to be adapted through configuration, component selection, and specialization for different requirements;
3) COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) product reuse where pre-existing software systems can be customized through deployment configuration without changing source code.
This document summarizes key points from a lecture on aspect-oriented software development:
1. Aspect-oriented development supports separating concerns by representing cross-cutting concerns as aspects. This allows individual concerns to be understood, reused, and modified without changing other parts of the program.
2. Viewpoint-oriented requirements engineering focuses on stakeholder concerns and identifies cross-cutting concerns that affect all viewpoints.
3. Designing aspect-oriented systems involves identifying core functionality, aspects, and where aspects should be composed with the core. Testing aspect-oriented programs poses challenges around program inspection and deriving tests.
Software evolution involves making ongoing changes to software systems to address new requirements, fix errors, and improve performance. There are several approaches to managing software evolution, including maintenance, reengineering, refactoring, and legacy system management. Key considerations for legacy systems include assessing their business value and quality to determine whether they should be replaced, transformed, or maintained.
This document discusses the key aspects of system implementation including coding, testing, installation strategies, documentation, training, support, and reasons for failure. It covers delivering code, testing plans and results, user guides and training plans. Documentation includes both system and user documentation. Training methods like courses and tutorials are discussed. Support is provided through help desks and information centers. Factors for successful implementation include management support and user involvement.
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch2Mohammed Romi
This document summarizes key aspects of software processes and models. It discusses the basic activities involved in software development like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution. It describes process models like waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented processes. The waterfall model involves sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Validation includes testing stages from unit to system level. The document also covers designing for change and evolution.
This document provides an overview of topics covered in Chapter 7 on software design and implementation, including object-oriented design using UML, design patterns, implementation issues, and open source development. It discusses the design and implementation process, build vs buy approaches, object-oriented design processes involving system models, and key activities like defining system context, identifying objects and interfaces. Specific examples are provided for designing a wilderness weather station system.
The document discusses software processes and activities. It describes common process models like waterfall, incremental development, and configuration management. The key activities involved in most processes are specification, development, validation, and evolution. Specification defines system requirements while development includes design, implementation, and debugging. Validation ensures the system meets requirements through testing. Processes also evolve to adapt to changing needs.
This document discusses key topics in systems engineering, including:
1) Systems engineering involves procuring, designing, implementing, and maintaining sociotechnical systems that include both technical and human elements.
2) Software systems are part of broader sociotechnical systems and software engineers must consider human, social, and organizational factors.
3) Sociotechnical systems have emergent properties that depend on the interactions between system components and cannot be understood by examining the components individually.
This document provides an overview of software reuse techniques discussed in Chapter 16, including:
1) Application frameworks which provide reusable skeleton designs through abstract and concrete classes;
2) Software product lines which allow generic applications to be adapted through configuration, component selection, and specialization for different requirements;
3) COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) product reuse where pre-existing software systems can be customized through deployment configuration without changing source code.
This document summarizes key points from a lecture on aspect-oriented software development:
1. Aspect-oriented development supports separating concerns by representing cross-cutting concerns as aspects. This allows individual concerns to be understood, reused, and modified without changing other parts of the program.
2. Viewpoint-oriented requirements engineering focuses on stakeholder concerns and identifies cross-cutting concerns that affect all viewpoints.
3. Designing aspect-oriented systems involves identifying core functionality, aspects, and where aspects should be composed with the core. Testing aspect-oriented programs poses challenges around program inspection and deriving tests.
This lecture document provides an overview of comparative development methodologies. It discusses frameworks like Multiview, Strategic Options Development and Analysis (SODA), the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), and Euromethod. It also covers methodology issues such as the components of a methodology, the rationale for adopting a methodology, and considerations for adopting a methodology in practice. Additionally, it outlines the evolution of methodologies from the pre-methodology era to early methodologies to more modern approaches.
This document discusses software processes and models. It covers the following key points:
1. Software processes involve activities like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution to develop software systems. Common process models include waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented development.
2. Processes need to cope with inevitable changes. This can involve prototyping to avoid rework or using incremental development and delivery to more easily accommodate changes.
3. The Rational Unified Process is a modern process model with phases for inception, elaboration, construction and transition. It advocates iterative development and managing requirements and quality.
The document discusses the system development life cycle (SDLC), which includes various phases for developing and maintaining systems. The key phases are: system investigation, feasibility study, system analysis, system design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance. The feasibility study phase evaluates the technical, operational, economic, motivational, and schedule feasibility of a proposed system. The system analysis phase involves studying user requirements and the current system. System design then specifies how the new system will meet requirements through elements like data design, user interface design, and process design. This produces specifications for the system.
Software Change in Software Engineering SE27koolkampus
There are different strategies for managing software change, including software maintenance, architectural evolution, and software re-engineering. Lehman's Laws describe invariant relationships that affect how software systems evolve over time. Maintaining software is typically more expensive than the original development and costs are influenced by factors like staff stability and system structure. Architectural evolution involves transitioning legacy systems from centralized to distributed architectures, often starting with distributing just the user interface.
Chapter01 the systems development environmentDhani Ahmad
This document discusses information systems analysis and design. It covers the modern systems development approach, which includes both process-oriented and data-oriented methods. Four main types of information systems are described: transaction processing systems, management information systems, decision support systems, and expert systems. The systems development life cycle is outlined as having six phases: project identification and selection, project initiation and planning, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance. Alternatives to the traditional life cycle like prototyping, rapid application development, and joint application design are also discussed.
This document discusses configuration management (CM) and version control. It covers topics like version management, system building, change management, and release management. CM is important for software development as it allows tracking of changing software systems and components. Version control systems are key to CM, identifying and storing different versions. They support independent development through a shared repository and private workspaces. Developers check components in and out to make changes separately without interfering with each other.
The document provides an overview of a 7-step process for building an information system. The 7 steps are: 1) Identify and list stakeholders, 2) Identify and list actors, 3) Identify and list use cases, 4) Identify and list scenarios, 5) Identify and list steps, 6) Identify and list classes/objects, and 7) Manage work products. It describes each step in the process, including defining stakeholders, actors, use cases, scenarios, and mapping analysis to design. The process emphasizes discovery, iteration, and developing a shared understanding between stakeholders.
This document proposes a 3 layered filtering approach to help developers and managers efficiently implement changes to agile software projects based on new requirements. The first layer classifies requirement changes. The second layer identifies which architecture layers will be affected. The third layer selects the appropriate agile methodology based on the first two layers. Each layer iterates as new requirements emerge, with layers tightly related to each other. This provides a way to abstract and prioritize different issues related to new requirements, allowing changes to be made with less time and money spent.
Discusses the microservices architectural style for cloud-based systems. Explains what is meant by microservices and architectural choices for microservices
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch1Mohammed Romi
The document provides an introduction to software engineering concepts. It discusses what software engineering is, the importance of ethics in software development, and introduces three case studies that will be used as examples throughout the book. Specifically:
[1] It defines software engineering as an engineering discipline concerned with all aspects of software production. Professional and ethical practices are important.
[2] It discusses software engineering ethics and introduces the ACM/IEEE code of ethics for software engineers.
[3] It provides an overview of three case studies that will be referenced in later chapters: an insulin pump system, a patient management system, and a weather station system.
This document discusses the management information system (MIS) and its development and implementation. It describes MIS as recognizing information as a key organizational resource that must be managed through planning and control. It discusses two approaches to developing an MIS - the prototype approach, which involves progressively testing systems on a smaller scale, and the life cycle approach for more static systems. The implementation of an MIS is described as bringing organizational change that must address human factors through guidelines like respecting user needs and gaining management acceptance.
The document discusses software products and product engineering. It defines software products as generic systems that provide functionality to a range of customers, from business systems to personal apps. Product engineering methods have evolved from custom software engineering techniques. The key aspects of product development are that there is no external customer generating requirements, and rapid delivery is important to capture the market. Product managers are responsible for planning, development, and marketing software products throughout their lifecycle.
This document discusses software reuse and application frameworks. It covers the benefits of software reuse like accelerated development and increased dependability. Application frameworks provide a reusable architecture for related applications and are implemented by adding components and instantiating abstract classes. Web application frameworks in particular use the model-view-controller pattern to support dynamic websites as a front-end for web applications.
This document provides an overview of component-based software engineering (CBSE). It discusses CBSE processes, component models, composition, and issues related to developing and reusing components. Specifically, it covers CBSE for reuse, which focuses on developing reusable components, and CBSE with reuse, which is the process of developing new applications using existing components. Component identification, validation, and resolving interface incompatibilities during composition are also addressed.
The document discusses reliability engineering and fault tolerance. It covers topics like availability, reliability requirements, fault-tolerant architectures, and reliability measurement. It defines key terms like faults, errors, and failures. It also describes techniques for achieving reliability like fault avoidance, fault detection, and fault tolerance. Specific architectures discussed include redundant systems and protection systems that can take emergency action if failures occur.
This document provides an overview of operating systems. It defines an operating system as a program that acts as an interface between the user and computer hardware to control execution of programs. The document then describes key functions of operating systems like memory management, processor management, device management, file management, and security. It also outlines different types of operating systems including batch, time-sharing, distributed, network, and real-time operating systems.
System Development Life Cycle & Implementation of MISGeorge V James
The document discusses the system development life cycle (SDLC) and implementation of management information systems (MIS). It describes the six main stages of the SDLC as investigation, analysis, design, development, implementation, and maintenance. For MIS implementation, it lists four methods: installing a new system, cutting over from an old system, cutting over in segments, or operating systems in parallel before cutting over. It then provides 14 steps for MIS implementation, including planning, acquiring hardware/software, testing, training users, and providing ongoing system maintenance.
The document discusses the design and implementation process in software engineering. It covers topics like using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for object-oriented design, design patterns, and implementation issues. It then discusses the design process, including identifying system contexts and interactions, architectural design, identifying object classes, and creating design models like subsystem, sequence, and state diagrams. The example of designing a weather station system is used to illustrate these design concepts and activities.
The document summarizes several models for software evolution and maintenance. It describes the reuse-oriented model which includes the quick fix, iterative enhancement, and full reuse models. It also outlines the staged model and change mini-cycle model for the software maintenance life cycle. Finally, it discusses software maintenance standards from IEEE and ISO, including the seven phase and iterative maintenance processes.
Software Usability Implications in Requirements and DesignNatalia Juristo
There are so many software products and systems with immature usability that it is for sure that most people have enough frustrating experiences to acknowledge the low level of use that usability strategies, models and methods have in software construction.
However, usability is not at all an extra but a basic for a software system: people productivity and comfort is directly related to the usability of the software they use (in their work or at home) and several quality attribute classifications agree on the importance of considering usability as a quality attribute the seminar will discuss and debunk three myths that stand in the way of the proper incorporation of usability features into software systems. These myths are:
• usability problems can be fixed in the later development stages.
• usability has implications only for the non-functional requirements.
• the general statement of a usability feature (“The system must incorporate the undo feature”) is a sufficient specification.
A pattern-oriented solution that support developers in incorporating usability features into their requirements and designs is presented
IPC 2013 - High Performance PHP with HipHopSteve Kamerman
A look at Facebook's HipHop for PHP library, both the first generation, HPHPc, and the new HHVM. This presentation walks through the challenges that faced Facebook and their PHP-based solution from a year after their explosive growth in 2007 to late-2013.
This document provides an introduction and overview of PHPUnit, a tool for writing and running unit tests for PHP code. It discusses why unit testing and PHPUnit are useful, how to install and run PHPUnit, and best practices for writing effective unit tests with PHPUnit including describing tests clearly, using specific assertions, and decoupling test code and data. The document also addresses using PHPUnit for legacy code and references additional resources.
This lecture document provides an overview of comparative development methodologies. It discusses frameworks like Multiview, Strategic Options Development and Analysis (SODA), the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), and Euromethod. It also covers methodology issues such as the components of a methodology, the rationale for adopting a methodology, and considerations for adopting a methodology in practice. Additionally, it outlines the evolution of methodologies from the pre-methodology era to early methodologies to more modern approaches.
This document discusses software processes and models. It covers the following key points:
1. Software processes involve activities like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution to develop software systems. Common process models include waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented development.
2. Processes need to cope with inevitable changes. This can involve prototyping to avoid rework or using incremental development and delivery to more easily accommodate changes.
3. The Rational Unified Process is a modern process model with phases for inception, elaboration, construction and transition. It advocates iterative development and managing requirements and quality.
The document discusses the system development life cycle (SDLC), which includes various phases for developing and maintaining systems. The key phases are: system investigation, feasibility study, system analysis, system design, coding, testing, implementation, and maintenance. The feasibility study phase evaluates the technical, operational, economic, motivational, and schedule feasibility of a proposed system. The system analysis phase involves studying user requirements and the current system. System design then specifies how the new system will meet requirements through elements like data design, user interface design, and process design. This produces specifications for the system.
Software Change in Software Engineering SE27koolkampus
There are different strategies for managing software change, including software maintenance, architectural evolution, and software re-engineering. Lehman's Laws describe invariant relationships that affect how software systems evolve over time. Maintaining software is typically more expensive than the original development and costs are influenced by factors like staff stability and system structure. Architectural evolution involves transitioning legacy systems from centralized to distributed architectures, often starting with distributing just the user interface.
Chapter01 the systems development environmentDhani Ahmad
This document discusses information systems analysis and design. It covers the modern systems development approach, which includes both process-oriented and data-oriented methods. Four main types of information systems are described: transaction processing systems, management information systems, decision support systems, and expert systems. The systems development life cycle is outlined as having six phases: project identification and selection, project initiation and planning, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance. Alternatives to the traditional life cycle like prototyping, rapid application development, and joint application design are also discussed.
This document discusses configuration management (CM) and version control. It covers topics like version management, system building, change management, and release management. CM is important for software development as it allows tracking of changing software systems and components. Version control systems are key to CM, identifying and storing different versions. They support independent development through a shared repository and private workspaces. Developers check components in and out to make changes separately without interfering with each other.
The document provides an overview of a 7-step process for building an information system. The 7 steps are: 1) Identify and list stakeholders, 2) Identify and list actors, 3) Identify and list use cases, 4) Identify and list scenarios, 5) Identify and list steps, 6) Identify and list classes/objects, and 7) Manage work products. It describes each step in the process, including defining stakeholders, actors, use cases, scenarios, and mapping analysis to design. The process emphasizes discovery, iteration, and developing a shared understanding between stakeholders.
This document proposes a 3 layered filtering approach to help developers and managers efficiently implement changes to agile software projects based on new requirements. The first layer classifies requirement changes. The second layer identifies which architecture layers will be affected. The third layer selects the appropriate agile methodology based on the first two layers. Each layer iterates as new requirements emerge, with layers tightly related to each other. This provides a way to abstract and prioritize different issues related to new requirements, allowing changes to be made with less time and money spent.
Discusses the microservices architectural style for cloud-based systems. Explains what is meant by microservices and architectural choices for microservices
Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering, 9th Edition Ch1Mohammed Romi
The document provides an introduction to software engineering concepts. It discusses what software engineering is, the importance of ethics in software development, and introduces three case studies that will be used as examples throughout the book. Specifically:
[1] It defines software engineering as an engineering discipline concerned with all aspects of software production. Professional and ethical practices are important.
[2] It discusses software engineering ethics and introduces the ACM/IEEE code of ethics for software engineers.
[3] It provides an overview of three case studies that will be referenced in later chapters: an insulin pump system, a patient management system, and a weather station system.
This document discusses the management information system (MIS) and its development and implementation. It describes MIS as recognizing information as a key organizational resource that must be managed through planning and control. It discusses two approaches to developing an MIS - the prototype approach, which involves progressively testing systems on a smaller scale, and the life cycle approach for more static systems. The implementation of an MIS is described as bringing organizational change that must address human factors through guidelines like respecting user needs and gaining management acceptance.
The document discusses software products and product engineering. It defines software products as generic systems that provide functionality to a range of customers, from business systems to personal apps. Product engineering methods have evolved from custom software engineering techniques. The key aspects of product development are that there is no external customer generating requirements, and rapid delivery is important to capture the market. Product managers are responsible for planning, development, and marketing software products throughout their lifecycle.
This document discusses software reuse and application frameworks. It covers the benefits of software reuse like accelerated development and increased dependability. Application frameworks provide a reusable architecture for related applications and are implemented by adding components and instantiating abstract classes. Web application frameworks in particular use the model-view-controller pattern to support dynamic websites as a front-end for web applications.
This document provides an overview of component-based software engineering (CBSE). It discusses CBSE processes, component models, composition, and issues related to developing and reusing components. Specifically, it covers CBSE for reuse, which focuses on developing reusable components, and CBSE with reuse, which is the process of developing new applications using existing components. Component identification, validation, and resolving interface incompatibilities during composition are also addressed.
The document discusses reliability engineering and fault tolerance. It covers topics like availability, reliability requirements, fault-tolerant architectures, and reliability measurement. It defines key terms like faults, errors, and failures. It also describes techniques for achieving reliability like fault avoidance, fault detection, and fault tolerance. Specific architectures discussed include redundant systems and protection systems that can take emergency action if failures occur.
This document provides an overview of operating systems. It defines an operating system as a program that acts as an interface between the user and computer hardware to control execution of programs. The document then describes key functions of operating systems like memory management, processor management, device management, file management, and security. It also outlines different types of operating systems including batch, time-sharing, distributed, network, and real-time operating systems.
System Development Life Cycle & Implementation of MISGeorge V James
The document discusses the system development life cycle (SDLC) and implementation of management information systems (MIS). It describes the six main stages of the SDLC as investigation, analysis, design, development, implementation, and maintenance. For MIS implementation, it lists four methods: installing a new system, cutting over from an old system, cutting over in segments, or operating systems in parallel before cutting over. It then provides 14 steps for MIS implementation, including planning, acquiring hardware/software, testing, training users, and providing ongoing system maintenance.
The document discusses the design and implementation process in software engineering. It covers topics like using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for object-oriented design, design patterns, and implementation issues. It then discusses the design process, including identifying system contexts and interactions, architectural design, identifying object classes, and creating design models like subsystem, sequence, and state diagrams. The example of designing a weather station system is used to illustrate these design concepts and activities.
The document summarizes several models for software evolution and maintenance. It describes the reuse-oriented model which includes the quick fix, iterative enhancement, and full reuse models. It also outlines the staged model and change mini-cycle model for the software maintenance life cycle. Finally, it discusses software maintenance standards from IEEE and ISO, including the seven phase and iterative maintenance processes.
Software Usability Implications in Requirements and DesignNatalia Juristo
There are so many software products and systems with immature usability that it is for sure that most people have enough frustrating experiences to acknowledge the low level of use that usability strategies, models and methods have in software construction.
However, usability is not at all an extra but a basic for a software system: people productivity and comfort is directly related to the usability of the software they use (in their work or at home) and several quality attribute classifications agree on the importance of considering usability as a quality attribute the seminar will discuss and debunk three myths that stand in the way of the proper incorporation of usability features into software systems. These myths are:
• usability problems can be fixed in the later development stages.
• usability has implications only for the non-functional requirements.
• the general statement of a usability feature (“The system must incorporate the undo feature”) is a sufficient specification.
A pattern-oriented solution that support developers in incorporating usability features into their requirements and designs is presented
IPC 2013 - High Performance PHP with HipHopSteve Kamerman
A look at Facebook's HipHop for PHP library, both the first generation, HPHPc, and the new HHVM. This presentation walks through the challenges that faced Facebook and their PHP-based solution from a year after their explosive growth in 2007 to late-2013.
This document provides an introduction and overview of PHPUnit, a tool for writing and running unit tests for PHP code. It discusses why unit testing and PHPUnit are useful, how to install and run PHPUnit, and best practices for writing effective unit tests with PHPUnit including describing tests clearly, using specific assertions, and decoupling test code and data. The document also addresses using PHPUnit for legacy code and references additional resources.
Automated php unit testing in drupal 8Jay Friendly
An overview of PHPUnit Automated testing in Drupal 8, including a comparison of manual testing vs automated testing, the pros and cons of automated testing, and the types of automated tests available in Drupal 8.
Este documento proporciona una introducción al desarrollo guiado por pruebas (TDD) y al framework de pruebas PHPUnit. Explica qué es TDD, su ciclo de desarrollo basado en pruebas, y las diferencias con el desarrollo guiado por funcionalidades. También describe la instalación, uso y ejemplos básicos de PHPUnit, el popular framework para automatizar pruebas unitarias en PHP.
Unit testing is important for code quality and confidence. PHPUnit is the standard unit testing framework for PHP. It allows developers to write tests using assertions, data providers, exceptions handling, fixtures for setup and teardown, and database testing. PHPUnit works with all PHP IDEs and frameworks and provides code coverage reports. It can be installed via PEAR or Composer.
The document discusses unit testing and the PHPUnit testing framework. It provides an overview of what unit testing is, why it is useful, and how to get started with PHPUnit. Key points include that unit testing finds bugs early, encourages good coding practices, and makes codebases easier to change and deploy. PHPUnit is introduced as the most popular PHP testing framework. Instructions are given for installing PHPUnit via PEAR and writing basic tests, including test fixtures, assertions, and annotations. More advanced topics like mock objects, data providers, and exception testing are also covered.
Automated Testing in WordPress, Really?!Ptah Dunbar
Did you know that WordPress has an automated test suite? It contains well over 1500 integration tests and growing. However one of the primary culprits of WordPress is in the quality of its plugins. Most plugins don't have an automated test suite you can run to verify all features are working as expected, and fail gracefully.
In this talk, Ptah will introduce you to automated testing in WordPress using PHPUnit. We will cover concepts like unit testing, integration testing and end-to-end testing with examples in WordPress. You will leave the talk equipped with practical knowledge and ready to start adding an automated test suite to your plugins.
A lot of people using PHPunit for testing their source code. While I was observing my team
I recognized most of them are only using the standard ssertions like 'assertEquals()' or
'assertTrue()' and are complaining about how hard it is to test the code even when the tests are written first. This talk is about all the stuff not used on a daily basis. It shows you some nice features of PHPUnit and how to use them for your benefit.
This document introduces unit testing with PHPUnit. It discusses what unit testing is, why it's important, and tools like SimpleTest and PHPUnit. It provides examples of basic unit tests for a HelloWorld class using PHPUnit. It also covers more advanced testing techniques like data providers, expected exceptions, fixtures, doubles, mocks, stubs, and database testing using examples like testing a BankAccount class. The document provides hints and tips for unit testing MVC frameworks like Zend Framework.
This document provides an overview of test driven development with PHPUnit. It discusses what unit testing is, the benefits of testing, and how to get started with PHPUnit. Key topics covered include writing tests, assertions, dependencies, data providers, testing errors and exceptions, fixtures, and database testing. The document also mentions test output, incomplete/skipped tests, test doubles, code coverage analysis, and the skeleton generator.
PHPUnit is an automated unit testing framework for PHP. It allows developers to write tests for their code in PHP and run those tests to determine if the code is working as expected. Some key aspects of PHPUnit include writing tests in classes that extend the PHPUnit test case class, using assertions to validate expected outcomes, and the ability to test databases and output using PHPUnit extensions. PHPUnit is widely used for test-driven development in PHP projects.
Here are the DFD diagrams for the Online Auction System:
Level 0 (Context Level) DFD:
Online Auction System (Context Diagram)
Seller - Post Product Details
Buyer - View Auction Updates, Search Products, View Products
Level 1 DFD:
Online Auction System
Seller
- Post Product
- Product Details
Buyer
- Search Products
- View Products Details
Administrator
- Manage Products
- Manage Users
Database
- Product Details
- User Details
This shows the basic data flows in and out of the overall Online Auction System at a high level (Level 0) and then breaks it down further
Online auction system is web based application, in which the seller can sell the goods by sitting in his own house ,so the main advantage of this application is that there is no more system compatibility requirement problem. The main advantage of the online auction system is that the user can have the better choices for their investment and also it is time saving , and through this system user can invest in their own selected firm.
The document provides an overview of a college website management system. It discusses the purpose and scope of the system, which is to automate college operations and provide services to members. It outlines the key functionality including online membership, tracking admissions and activities. The objectives are to make information retrieval and maintenance easy while adopting security measures. The proposed system would use ASP.NET for the front-end and be suitable for any education institute.
This document provides an overview of a final year project to develop an online banking system using Java and Oracle. It includes acknowledgments, an abstract, table of contents, and sections on project introduction and objectives, system development life cycle, system design, and testing. The project was created by 4 students for their bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering, and was supervised by a faculty member.
The document provides details for a project proposal approval form for an MCA student named Hitesh Jangid. The form includes the student's enrollment number, study center, regional center code, contact details, project title ("Project Management System"), software to be used (Xampp, Sublime Text), confirmation of previous projects completed, and spaces for the guide's details and signature. It also has sections for office use only including approval/rejection, suggestions for reformulating the project, and the project proposal number.
The document provides details about a Canteen Management System project, including its objectives, scope, and design considerations. The key points are:
1. The project aims to develop a computerized system to manage canteen activities like recording user details and transactions in order to simplify tasks, reduce paperwork, and provide reports.
2. The system design focuses on making the interface user-friendly, automating processes, improving accuracy, and making data easily available.
3. Input, output, file, and procedure designs are discussed to optimize data entry and processing while minimizing errors and delays. Database design and testing plans are also covered.
This document provides a feasibility report for an online university hostel management system. It discusses the problem definition, proposed solution, functionality requirements, and various feasibility aspects of the project such as technical, economic, and operational feasibility. It also covers requirements analysis, software configuration, system implementation, and provides a conclusion. The key functionality of the system includes modules for administration, hostel management, and students to manage activities like bookings, bills, meal ordering, and notices.
Software is a set of instructions and data structures that enable computer programs to provide desired functions and manipulate information. Software engineering is the systematic development and maintenance of software. It differs from software programming in that engineering involves teams developing complex, long-lasting systems through roles like architect and manager, while programming involves single developers building small, short-term applications. A software development life cycle like waterfall or spiral model provides structure to a project through phases from requirements to maintenance. Rapid application development emphasizes short cycles through business, data, and process modeling to create reusable components and reduce testing time.
Project Documentation Student Management System format.pptxAjayPatre1
This document outlines a proposed student management system. It describes the existing manual system and its drawbacks. The proposed system would allow teachers to easily add, search for, and sort student details electronically. It covers system analysis, feasibility study, input/output design, testing procedures, future enhancements, and software and hardware requirements for the new computerized student management system.
Project on multiplex ticket bookingn system globsyn2014Md Imran
This document appears to be a project report for a movie ticket booking system developed using ASP.Net. It includes sections like acknowledgements, objectives, feasibility analysis, system requirements, database design, tables used, data flow diagrams, screenshots of the system, code snippets and references. The system allows users to book movie tickets, and has functionality for admins to add movies, theaters and manage the system. Group members who worked on the project are also listed.
Introduction To Software Concepts Unit 1 & 2Raj vardhan
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 OBJECTIVE
The objective of this project is to develop an Online Information Portal for an
Institution so that portal admin is able to post, update and manage college circulars, notices,
events, manage hall booking and department contacts using a robust admin interface. The
project’s main objective is to overcome all the limitations and drawbacks of the existing
system by emphasising on simplicity of design and ease of implementation that helps the
administrators to manage and share most of the important and high priority information and
events going on in college premises from a single admin dashboard. This web based
application focuses on enhanced user interface and user experience for both administrators
and end users. The existing system is developed and deployed on Windows platform and
runs on commercial server provided by Microsoft. The project aims to be developed and
implemented using Open Source software and components. Rather than being a single
unified system, the modules and components of existing system are separate from each other
with each module having its own database, user interface and management console. So, to
overcome these limitations, one of the major objective of the project is to unify all the
separate modules and components into a single unified management system which utilises
same database, user interface and management console for all. The idea behind using open
source software for this project is that it gives freedom to use and modify the code by
developers and chose among various open source licenses. For many developers, peer
review and acclaim is important, so it's likely that they will prefer to build software that is
admired by their peers. Highly prized factors are clean design, reliability, scalability and
maintainability, with adherence to standards and shared community values with an ultimate
goal of managing all the aspects of circulars and notices as well as events in the college.
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CHAPTER 2
SYSTEM ANALYSIS
2.1 EXISTING SYSTEM
The existing web based system is developed and deployed using a proprietary software
platform. Posting and managing circulars and notices as well as events not user friendly in a
sense that it lacks a proper admin interface for managing all the files and data. The front-end
modules and components of existing system are separate from each other with each module
having its own database, user interface and management console. The following points
highlight the main drawbacks of the existing system:
2.1.1 Drawbacks
• Lack of web based admin interface for each module.
• System does not have proper search interface for both backend and front-end.
• The existing system is not platform independent.
• Front-end is not unified with some modules lacking user friendly interface.
• Manual files and data management is time consuming.
• For developers and system maintenance team, it is a drawback that the existing system
can only be tested or debugged on Windows platform rather than having choice of
open source operating system like Linux.
• Managing various admin tasks are more complex compared to an automated system.
2.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM
The proposed system will try to overcome all the limitations and drawbacks of the
existing system by emphasising on simplicity of design and ease of implementation that helps
the administrators to manage and share most of the important and high priority information
and events going on in college premises from a single admin dashboard. The proposed system
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will also overcome the limitations of existing system by being platform independent. The
following points highlight the advantages of proposed system:
2.2.1 Advantages
• Robust and user friendly admin interface for all the system modules.
• Search user-interface for backend and front-end to allow administrators and users find
what they were looking for.
• The major advantage of the proposed system is the use of open source technology and
being platform independent.
• Unified backend and front-end interfaces with focus on enhanced user experience.
• Easy files and data management through admin dashboard.
• The system is developed and deployed using open source technologies which are
platform independent and eliminates the only choice of using Windows platform.
• For developers and maintenance team, it is a major advantage that the system can be
further scaled, modified, tested, debugged and enhanced in future on any operating
system of choice whether it is Windows or Linux or Mac OS.
• Various admin tasks and processes are automated for convenient files and data
management.
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CHAPTER 3
SYSTEM STUDY
3.1 FEASIBILITY STUDY
Feasibility study is an assessment of the practicality of a proposed project. A
feasibility study aims to objectively and rationally uncover the strengths and weaknesses of
an existing business or proposed venture, opportunities and threats present in the
environment, the resources required to carry through, and ultimately the prospects for
success. Feasibility study is a test of system proposal ac- cording to its work ability, impact
on the organisation, ability to meet user needs, and effective use of resources. The objective
for this phase is not to solve the problem but to acquire a sense of scope. During the study,
the problem definition is crystallised and aspects of the problem to be included in the system
are determined. There should be a careful assessment of each project before it is begun in
terms of economic justification, technical feasibility, operational impact and adherence to
the master development plan. We started the project by listing the possible queries that the
user might want to be satisfied. And on these lines we guided the project further.
The three main points, kept in mind at the time of project, are :
• Possible (To build it with the given technology and resources)
• Affordable (given the time and cost constraints of the organisation)
• Acceptable (for use by the eventual users of the system)
The three major areas to be considered while determining the feasibility of a project are :
• Technical Feasibility
• Operational Feasibility
• Economic Feasibility
• Timeline Feasibility
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3.1.1 Technical Feasibility
The technical issue usually raised during the feasibility stage of the investigation includes the
following :
• Does the necessary technology exist to do what is suggested?
• Do the proposed equipments have the technical capacity to hold the data required to
use the new system?
• Will the proposed system provide adequate response to inquiries, regardless of the
number or location of users?
• Can the system be upgraded if developed?
• Are there technical guarantees of accuracy, reliability, ease of access and data
security?
The current system developed is technically feasible. It is a web based system. Thus it
provides an easy access to the users and admin through any web browser. The databases
purpose is to create, establish and maintain a workflow among various entities in order to
facilitate all concerned users in their various capacities or roles. Permission to the users would
be granted based on the roles specified. Therefore, it provides the technical guarantee of
accuracy, reliability and security. The software and hardware requirements for the
development of this project are not many and are already available as free and open source.
The work for the project is done with the current equipment and existing software technology.
Necessary bandwidth exists for providing a fast feedback to the users irrespective of the
number of users using the system.
3.1.2 Operational Feasibility
Operational feasibility is a measure of how well a proposed system solves the
problems, and takes advantage of the opportunities identified during scope definition and how
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it satisfies the requirements identified in the requirements analysis phase of system
development. A systems development project is likely to be operationally feasible if it meets
the needs and expectations of the organisation. User acceptance is an important determinant of
operational feasibility. Anticipated performance and outcomes of the new system are
compared with the existing system. Under this category of service we conduct a study to
analyse and determine whether the organisation’s need can be fulfilled by using a proposed
solution. The result of this operational feasibility study will clearly outline that the solution
proposed for the organisation or the institution is operationally workable and conveniently
solves the problems under consideration after the proposal is implemented. Further in the
documentation, its precisely described how the system will interact with the users and
different systems. This feasibility report would provide results of interest to all stakeholders.
To ensure success, desired operational outcomes must be imparted during design and
development. These include such design-dependent parameters such as reliability,
maintainability, supportability, usability, producibility, disposability, sustainability,
affordability and others. These parameters are required to be considered at the early stages of
design if desired operational behaviours are to be realised. A system design and development
requires appropriate and timely application of engineering and management efforts to meet the
previously mentioned parameters.
3.1.3 Economic Feasibility
The purpose of the economic feasibility assessment is to determine the positive
economic benefits to the organisation that the proposed system will provide. It includes
quantification and identification of all the benefits expected. This assessment typically
involves a cost/ benefits analysis. This project is found to be economically feasible. More
commonly known as cost benefit analysis, the procedure is to determine the benefit and saving
that are expected from a candidate system and compare them with costs. Development of this
project on the long run was considered feasible when the various cost and benefits analysis
was done. Among the several cost elements, which affected the development of the system,
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were the hardware cost and facility cost. The other cost factors viz. Personal cost operating
cost and supply cost was absent or can be said negligible.
3.1.4 Timeline Feasibility
It is important to understand that a need must be fulfilled when it has to be. Some
otherwise feasible and highly desirable projects can become non-feasible due to very
restrictive timeline constraints. This fact makes it imperative that milestones are clearly linked
to the timeline and projects are well conceived with safe unforeseen margins. We make sure
that we strictly follow what has been stated above. A project will fail if it takes too long to be
completed before it is useful. Typically this means estimating how long the system will take to
develop, and if it can be completed in a given time period using some methods like payback
period. Timeline feasibility is a measure of how reasonable the project timetable is. Given our
technical expertise, are the project deadlines reasonable? Some projects are initiated with
specific deadlines. It is necessary to determine whether the deadlines are mandatory or
desirable.
3.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION DOCUMENT
3.2.1 Data Requirements
Data requirement is meant to be the data that will be used in our application. Data
required in this project is all circulars, that need to be conveyed to the user. This application
also require the username and passwords of admins in order to register them and make them
able to manage circulars, events and hall booking. So the four main requirements are:
• User details
• Circular Details
• Event Details
• Hall Details
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3.2.2 Functional Requirements
In order to make this application functional, we require the following:
• View web based application in browser
A user should be able to view the application through any standards compliant web
browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer.
The application is free and accessible to all users through web browsers.
• Admin Registration, roles and access
Admin access to the system can be achieved by registering the user with all the
credentials provided. Various roles can be assigned to different admin users with full as
well as restricted access.
• Reset Password
Given that a admin user has registered, then the user should be able to retrieve his/her
password as well as reset it.
• DashBoard
Given that an admin user is logged in to the admin backend of the system, then the
first page that is shown should be the dashboard page. The user should be able to see
all the recent activities regarding posts and events.
• Front-end Homepage
This homepage will be accessible to any user in the college premises using web
browser and given URL. The homepage consists of most recent and highlighted
circulars and notices, old circulars, archive calendar and list of upcoming events.
• Search Circular and events
The user should be able to search for a circular by name, tag, title or description or can
easily navigate older circular and events through archive calendar on the homepage.
• Download the circulars and notices
A user should be able to select and download any circular being posted. The user can
either view the circular in the browser itself or download for future references.
• Navigating back to circular and event list using calendar
The user should be able to navigate back to circular list and events list from the
circular details section using calendar. This is required to give a good user experience.
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• Deleting, expiring and scheduling the circular
The admin user should have the option to delete, expire and schedule the circulars
through backend admin interface.
• Posting Circular and Events
The admin of this application should be able to post the circulars and events from the
backend. He or she should be able to add circular in the various formats like PDF,
image, HTML, MS Word Document, MS Excel along with audio and video. The files
and media can be managed from media library in the backend.
3.2.3 Performance Requirements
The requirements in this section provide a detailed specification of the user interaction with
the application and measurements placed on the system performance.
• Prominent search feature
The search feature should be prominent and easy to find for the user.
• Usage of the Circular Information
The circular link should be prominent and it should be evident that it is a usable link.
Selecting and downloading the circular link should only take one click.
• Response Time
The response time should not be more than 5 seconds if the user is connected to the
local intranet and if the server is up and running.
• Fault Tolerance
The fault tolerance of the system should be very good. If the system loses the
connection to the local area network or the system gets some strange input, the user
should be informed.
3.2.4 Security Requirements
• Communication Security
There should be security of the communication between the system and server. The
messages should be encrypted for log-in communications, so others cannot get user-
name and password from those messages. Every exchanges of information between
client and server should be encrypted so that no one can track it.
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• Admin Login Account Security
If an admin tries to log in to the web portal with a non-existing account then the admin
should not be logged in. The admin should be notified about log-in failure.
• Admin Account Security
There should be security of admin accounts. An admin and IP address should not be
able to log-in to the web portal for a certain time period after certain number of times
of failed log-in attempts.
• Admin User Create Account Security
The security of creating account for admin users with different roles of the system
should be maintained. If a admin user wants to create an account and the desired user
name is occupied, the user should be asked to choose a different user name.
3.2.5 Maintainability Requirements
Following are the maintainability requirement of the project:
• Application extendibility
The application should be easy to extend. The code should be written in a way that it
favours implementation of new functions. It is required in order for future functions to
be implemented easily to the application.
• Application testability
Test environments should be built for the application to allow testing of the
applications different functions.
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CHAPTER 4
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
4.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
Web Server
Operating System : Ubuntu Linux or Windows Server
System : Intel Core i3 - i5
Ram : 4 - 8 GB
Hard disk : 500 GB
4.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Web server : Apache HTTP Server (bundled with XAMPP)
Backend : MySQL
Server side scripting : PHP 5.5 or above
Client side scripting : HTML5 / CSS3 / Javascript / JQuery
Development Tools : Sublime Text 2, Notepad++
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CHAPTER 5
SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION
5.1 LAMP (Software Bundle)
LAMP (referred to as WAMP for Windows and MAMP for Mac OS) is an archetypal
model of web service solution stacks, named as an acronym of the names of its original four
open-source components: the Linux operating system, the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL
relational database management system (RDBMS), and the PHP programming language.
LAMP is suitable for building dynamic web sites and web applications.
Fig 5.1: A high-level overview of LAMP's determining components.
5.2 Apache HTTP Server
The role of LAMP's web server has been traditionally supplied by Apache. The
Apache HTTP Server has been the most popular web server on the public Internet. Apache is
developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the
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Apache Software Foundation. Released under the Apache License, Apache is open-source
software. A wide variety of features are supported, and many of them are implemented as
compiled modules which extend the core functionality of Apache.
Fig 5.2: Apache Web Architecture
5.3 MySQL Server
MySQL Server is a powerful database management system and the user can create
application that requires little or no programming. It supports GUI features and an entire
programming language. PhpMyAdmin which can be used to develop rich interactive
applications. The MySQL database can act as a back end database for PHP. MySQL supports
the user with its powerful database management functions. A beginner can create his/her own
database very simply by some mouse clicks. Another good reason to use MySQL as back end
tool is that it is a component of the overwhelmingly popular Open source software.
5.4 PHP
PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as
a general-purpose programming language. Originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994, the
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PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group. PHP stands for the
recursive backronym PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP code is interpreted by a web server
via a PHP processor module, which generates the resulting web page. PHP commands can
optionally be embedded directly into an HTML source document rather than calling an
external file to process data. PHP is free software released under the terms of PHP License,
which is incompatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) due to the restrictions
PHP License places on the usage of the term PHP.
5.5 WORDPRESS FRAMEWORK
WordPress is a free and open-source framework based on PHP and MySQL. It has a
web template system using a template processor which consists of Themes and Plugins.
Themes allow users to change the look and functionality of an application and they can be
installed without altering the content or health of the site. Plugin architecture allows users to
extend the features and functionality of a website or application.
Fig 5.3: Framework’s Working Principle
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CHAPTER 6
SYSTEM DESIGN
6.1 USE CASE DIAGRAM
A Use Case diagram at its simplest is a representation of a user’s interaction with the
system and depicting the specifications of a use case. A use case diagram can portray the
different types of users of a system and the various ways that they interact with the system.
This type of diagram is typically used in conjunction with the textual use case and will often
be accompanied by other types of diagrams as well. There are two types of user in this
application, user and admin. Following depicts their use case diagram:
Fig 6.1.1: Use Case Diagram for Circular Management
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Fig 6.1.2: Use Case Diagram for Event Management, Hall Booking and Contacts
Management
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6.2 ENTITY RELATIONSHIP (ER) DIAGRAM
An entity–relationship model (ER model) describes inter-related things of interest in a
specific domain of knowledge. An ER model is composed of entity types (which classify the
things of interest) and specifies relationships that can exist between instances of those entity
types. In software engineering an ER model is commonly formed to represent things that a
business needs to remember in order to perform business processes. Consequently, the ER
model becomes an abstract data model that defines a data or information structure that can be
implemented in a database, typically a relational database.
Entity–relationship modelling was developed for database design by Peter Chen and
published in a 1976 paper. However, variants of the idea existed previously, some ER
modellers show super and subtype entities connected by generalisation-specialisation
relationships, and an ER model can be used also in the specification of domain-specific
ontology. Entities may be characterised not only by relationships, but also by additional
properties (attributes), which include identifiers called "primary keys". Diagrams created to
represent attributes as well as entities and relationships may be called entity–attribute-
relationship diagrams, rather than entity-relationship models.
An ER model is typically implemented as a database. In a simple relational database
implementation, each row of a table represents one instance of an entity type, and each field in
a table represents an attribute type. In a relational database a relationship between entities is
implemented by storing the primary key of one entity as a pointer or "foreign key" in the table
of another entity. An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) is a visual representation of different
data using conventions that describe how these data are related to each other. ER diagrams are
most often associated with complex databases that are used in software engineering and IT
networks. In particular, ER diagrams are frequently used during the design stage of a
development process in order to identify different system elements and their relationships with
each other. For example, an inventory software used in a retail shop will have a database that
monitors elements such as purchases, item, item type, item source and item price.
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6.4 DATABASE DESIGN
Table name: st_posts
Primary key: ID
Table 6.4.1 Circular Post Table
Table name: st_ai1ec_events
Primary key: post_id
Table 6.4.2 Event Table
Field Type Null Default
ID bigint(20) No NULL
post_date datetime No
post_title text No
post_status varchar(20) No
Field Type Null Default
post_id bigint(20) No NULL
start int(10) No
end int(10) Yes
venue varchar(255) Yes
contact_name varchar(25) Yes
contact_phone varchar(32) Yes
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CHAPTER 7
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
7.1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This project is to develop an Intranet based web application to post, update and
manage college circulars, notices, events, manage hall booking and department contacts using
a robust admin interface. The system has robust and user friendly admin interface for all the
system modules. It has search user-interface for backend and front-end to allow administrators
and users find what they were looking for. The major advantage of this project is the use of
open source technology and being platform independent.
7.2 MODULES
The system consists of the following modules:
• Admin
• Front-end interface
• Event
• Hall Booking
• News Tracker
• Contacts
7.2.1 Admin Module
This module is developed for administrators who can perform the tasks such as add
new circular post, schedule post, create and manage events, create users and their roles,
manage hall reservation and calendar, create plugins, add tabular data and manage news. The
admin can also manage files and data using media library. Here administrator has to login by
using their unique user name and password. Administrators are the only authorized person to
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access admin module for security purpose. So other user doesn’t get rights to access this
module.
The following tasks can be performed by administrators:
• Add, edit, delete and schedule circular posts.
• Create, update and manage event details and event calendars.
• Create hall categories, manage hall reservations and update booking schedules.
• Add tabular data like contacts and update them.
• Add and manage posts categories.
• Add and update news informations.
7.2.2 Front-end Interface Module
This is the front-end interface for viewing circulars, posts, notices, news, events,
contacts and hall information. This module is viewed using a web browser and a specified
URL that shows the latest circular and event details. In intranet, users can freely access this
module without any restrictions. This module focusses on enhanced user interface and user
experience through best design practices.
7.2.3 Event Module
In this module, events list is organised in a calendar form where users can select
particular department and date and can view details about upcoming events in the college.
Users have full access to calendar that is organised in daily, weekly, monthly and yearly
format. The events are listed inside the calendar.
7.2.4 Hall Booking Module
In this module, users can select one of the listed halls and can reserve for any
particular event or seminar. The hall booking module consists of calendar interface where it
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shows hall availability, booking status and time slots to book and reserve. Once user books a
hall, the information is sent to admin at the backend where it can be updated and managed.
7.2.5 News Tracker Module
In this module, news and information from various sources like web and news portal is
published. It is updated daily and consists of different categories of news ranging from
technology, business to world news. Daily news is archived so that users can search and view
previous news by navigating through calendar.
7.2.6 Contacts Module
In this module, updated contact details of each department is published. The contact
details can be viewed in tabular form or can be downloaded as a PDF or Word document.
Contact details can also be searched through the search interface which uses AJAX to perform
high speed search.
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CHAPTER 8
SYSTEM TESTING
Software testing is a process of executing a program or application with the intent of
finding the software bugs. It can also be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a
software program or application or product meets the business and technical requirements that
guided it's design and development. Software testing involves the execution of a software
component or system component to evaluate one or more properties of interest. In general,
these properties indicate the extent to which the component or system under test:
• meets the requirements that guided its design and development,
• responds correctly to all kinds of inputs,
• performs its functions within an acceptable time,
• is sufficiently usable,
• can be installed and run in its intended environments, and
• achieves the general result its stakeholders desire.
8.1 TYPES OF TESTING
8.1.1 Unit testing
Unit testing, also known as component testing, refers to tests that verify the
functionality of a specific section of code, usually at the function level. In an object-oriented
environment, this is usually at the class level, and the minimal unit tests include the
constructors and destructors. These types of tests are usually written by developers as they
work on code (white-box style), to ensure that the specific function is working as expected.
One function might have multiple tests, to catch corner cases or other branches in the code.
Unit testing alone cannot verify the functionality of a piece of software, but rather is used to
ensure that the building blocks of the software work independently from each other.
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Unit testing is a software development process that involves synchronized application of a
broad spectrum of defect prevention and detection strategies in order to reduce software
development risks, time, and costs. It is performed by the software developer or engineer
during the construction phase of the software development lifecycle. Rather than replace
traditional QA focuses, it augments it. Unit testing aims to eliminate construction errors before
code is promoted to QA; this strategy is intended to increase the quality of the resulting
software as well as the efficiency of the overall development and QA process.
Test strategy and approach
Field testing will be performed manually and functional tests will be written in detail.
Test objectives
• All field entries must work properly.
• Pages must be activated from the identified link.
• The entry screen, messages and responses must not be delayed.
Features to be tested
• Verify that the circular entries are of the correct format
• No duplicate entries should be allowed
• All links should take the user to the correct page.
Unit Testing for PHP
PHPUnit is a programmer-oriented testing framework for PHP. It is an instance of the xUnit
architecture for unit testing frameworks. PHPUnit invokes the PHPUnit command-line test
runner. The following page shows various testing phases for each type of circular post and
different types of pages.
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404 Page
• The 404 page displays properly
• Some content is displayed, more than merely the basic "Error 404 - Page Not Found"
message - such as some helpful text, a search form, a list of Post or Pages, etc.
• Debugger returns no PHP errors, warnings, or notices
• The browser reports no JavaScript errors
Search Results Page
• The Search Results page displays properly, with search query results displayed.
• Debugger returns no PHP errors, warnings, or notices
• The browser reports no JavaScript errors
• Circular Posts Index Pages display correctly
• Test the following posts when viewing the Circular Posts Index page. Post Titles in the
test data correlate with section titles below.
Scheduled Post
• Should not be displayed by the Theme (status "scheduled", rather than "publish").
Draft Post
• Should not be displayed by the Theme (status "draft", rather than "publish").
Layout Test
• Displays properly as a "Sticky Post."
• Page navigation links display and work properly.
Readability Test
• Displays "Read More" link properly.
• "Read More" link works properly (links to single post at "More" tag location).
Post Format Tests (All)
• If Theme supports Post Format Type, Post displays as intended in the index view
Post Format Test: Gallery
• Gallery images display as intended in the index view
Post Format Test: Image (Linked)
• Image displays as intended in the index view
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• Image does not overflow the content area
Post Format Test: Image (Attached)
• Image displays as intended in the index view
• Image does not overflow the content area
Post Format Test: Video
• Video displays as intended in the index view
• Video does not overflow the content area
8.1.2 Integration testing
Integration testing is any type of software testing that seeks to verify the interfaces
between components against a software design. Software components may be integrated in an
iterative way or all together ("big bang"). Normally the former is considered a better practice
since it allows interface issues to be located more quickly and fixed.
Integration testing works to expose defects in the interfaces and interaction between
integrated components (modules). Progressively larger groups of tested software components
corresponding to elements of the architectural design are integrated and tested until the
software works as a system.
The different types of Integration testing are as follows:
• Big Bang: In this approach, most of the developed modules are coupled together to
form a complete software system or major part of the system and then used for
integration testing. The Big Bang method is very effective for saving time in the
integration testing process.
• Top-down and Bottom-up: Bottom Up Testing is an approach to integrated testing
where the lowest level components are tested first, then used to facilitate the testing of
higher level components. The process is repeated until the component at the top of the
hierarchy is tested. Top Down Testing is an approach to integrated testing where the
top integrated modules are tested and the branch of the module is tested step by step
until the end of the related module.
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8.1.3 Functional Test
Functional tests provide systematic demonstrations that functions tested are available
as specified by the business and technical requirements, system documentation, and user
manuals.
Functional testing is centred on the following items:
Valid Input : identified classes of valid input must be accepted.
Invalid Input : identified classes of invalid input must be rejected.
Functions : identified functions must be exercised.
Output : identified classes of application outputs must be exercised.
Systems/Procedures : interfacing systems or procedures must be invoked.
Preparation of functional tests is focused on requirements, key functions, or special
test cases. In addition, systematic coverage pertaining to identify Business process flows; data
fields, predefined processes, and successive processes must be considered for testing. Before
functional testing is complete, additional tests are identified and the effective value of current
tests is determined.
8.1.4 System Test
System testing ensures that the entire integrated software system meets requirements.
It tests a configuration to ensure known and predictable results. An example of system testing
is the configuration oriented system integration test. System testing is based on process
descriptions and flows, emphasizing pre-driven process links and integration points.
8.1.5 White Box Testing
White-box testing (also known as clear box testing, glass box testing, transparent box
testing, and structural testing) is a method of testing software that tests internal structures or
workings of an application, as opposed to its functionality (i.e. black-box testing). In white-
box testing an internal perspective of the system, as well as programming skills, are used to
design test cases.
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The tester chooses inputs to exercise paths through the code and determine the
appropriate outputs. This is analogous to testing nodes in a circuit, e.g. in-circuit testing (ICT).
White-box testing can be applied at the unit, integration and system levels of the software
testing process. Although traditional testers tended to think of white-box testing as being done
at the unit level, it is used for integration and system testing more frequently today. It can test
paths within a unit, paths between units during integration, and between subsystems during a
system–level test. Though this method of test design can uncover many errors or problems, it
has the potential to miss unimplemented parts of the specification or missing requirements.
8.1.6 Black Box Testing
Black Box Testing is testing the software without any knowledge of the inner
workings, structure or language of the module being tested. Black box tests, as most other
kinds of tests, must be written from a definitive source document, such as specification or
requirements document, such as specification or requirements document. It is a testing in
which the software under test is treated, as a black box .you cannot “see” into it. The test
provides inputs and responds to outputs without considering how the software works.
8.1.7 Acceptance Testing
User Acceptance Testing is a critical phase of any project and requires significant
participation by the end user. It also ensures that the system meets the functional requirements.
Test Results: All the test cases mentioned above passed successfully. No defects encountered.
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CHAPTER 9
SYSTEM MAINTENANCE
The results obtained from the evaluation process help the organization to
determine whether its information systems are effective and efficient or otherwise. The
process of monitoring, evaluating, and modifying of existing information systems to make
required or desirable improvements may be termed as System Maintenance. System
maintenance is an ongoing activity, which covers a wide variety of activities, including
removing program and design errors, updating documentation and test data and updating
user support.
For the purpose of convenience, maintenance may be categorized into two classes,
namely:
• Corrective: This type of maintenance implies removing errors in a program,
which might have crept in the system due to faulty design or wrong assumptions.
Thus, in corrective maintenance, processing or performance failures are repaired.
• Adaptive: In adaptive maintenance, program functions are changed to enable the
information system to satisfy the information needs of the user. This type of
maintenance may become necessary because of organizational changes which may
include:
a) Change in the organizational procedures,
b) Change in organizational objectives, goals, policies, etc.
c) Change in forms,
d) Change in information needs of administrators.
e) Change in system controls and security needs, etc.
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CHAPTER 10
CONCLUSION AND FUTURE ENHANCEMENT
10.1 CONCLUSION
Online Information Portal for Institution is specially designed web portal that brings
college information together from diverse sources and all departments in a uniform way.
Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying
information called a portlet. Each portlet consists of information regarding college circulars,
news, upcoming events, display different halls like seminar halls, auditoriums etc to reserve
for particular event, staff birthday details and department wise contact details. The extent to
which content is displayed in a "uniform way" may depend on the intended user and the
intended purpose, as well as the diversity of the content. This project emphasises on creating
unified and single interface and robust and secure backend for admin to manage all the
information regarding college circulars, news, upcoming events, hall reservations and contact
details.
10.2 FUTURE ENHANCEMENT
Every application has its own merits and demerits. The project has covered almost all
the requirements. Further requirements and improvements can easily be done since the coding
is done in MVC (Module View Controller) pattern. Changing the modules can append
improvements. Further enhancement can be made to the project, so that the website’s
functionality can be improved and user experience can be enhanced.
The future enhancements of the project are:
• Adding more modules related to college circular sharing.
• Adding enhanced birthday event and plugin to display staffs’ birthday.
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