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The document discusses software processes and process models. It describes the waterfall model, evolutionary development, and component-based software engineering. It also covers process iterations, activities like specification, design, implementation, validation, and maintenance. Incremental and spiral development are iterative process models. Overall the document aims to explain how software process models can help structure software development and reduce risks.
This document discusses several software development models and practices. It describes the waterfall model which involves sequential stages of requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. It also covers prototyping, rapid application development (RAD), and component assembly models which are more iterative in nature. The prototyping model involves creating prototypes to help define requirements, RAD emphasizes reuse and short development cycles, and component assembly focuses on reusing existing software components.
This document provides an overview of software engineering and a generic process model. It discusses that software should be engineered to meet 21st century challenges. A software engineering process involves communication, planning, modeling, construction, and deployment activities applied iteratively. It also involves umbrella activities like tracking, reviews, and configuration management. Finally, it presents a schematic of a generic process model showing the relationship between framework activities, actions, and tasks.
The document is a term paper on efficient performance models in component-based software engineering. It discusses component-based software engineering as a development model that allows developers to rapidly assemble systems from pre-existing commercial off-the-shelf components. It describes what components are, component models, advantages and disadvantages of the approach, and concludes that component-based engineering provides an easy way to develop software but relies on well-defined component standards.
This document provides an overview of various software testing techniques, including:
- Unit testing, integration testing, acceptance testing, and regression testing.
- Top-down and bottom-up integration strategies are described.
- Testing objectives like quality improvement, verification, and reliability estimation are outlined.
- Additional topics covered include test drivers, stubs, white box testing, and stress testing. The document serves as a guide to different approaches for thoroughly testing software applications and systems.
The document discusses various prescriptive software process models including the waterfall model, incremental process model, evolutionary process model, and prototyping. The waterfall model proposes a sequential approach from requirements to deployment. The incremental model produces deliverable software increments. Evolutionary models iteratively produce more complete versions. Prototyping builds prototypes to help define requirements through evaluation. Issues with each approach are also outlined.
A performance testing tool measures how a system performs under increasing load by simulating multiple users. It generates load on the system, measures the response times of transactions as load varies, and produces reports and graphs. Key metrics measured include response time, hits/requests per second, throughput, transactions/connections per second, and pages downloaded per second. These metrics help identify how the system's performance is affected by load and determine if there are any scalability issues.
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The document discusses software processes and process models. It describes the waterfall model, evolutionary development, and component-based software engineering. It also covers process iterations, activities like specification, design, implementation, validation, and maintenance. Incremental and spiral development are iterative process models. Overall the document aims to explain how software process models can help structure software development and reduce risks.
This document discusses several software development models and practices. It describes the waterfall model which involves sequential stages of requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. It also covers prototyping, rapid application development (RAD), and component assembly models which are more iterative in nature. The prototyping model involves creating prototypes to help define requirements, RAD emphasizes reuse and short development cycles, and component assembly focuses on reusing existing software components.
This document provides an overview of software engineering and a generic process model. It discusses that software should be engineered to meet 21st century challenges. A software engineering process involves communication, planning, modeling, construction, and deployment activities applied iteratively. It also involves umbrella activities like tracking, reviews, and configuration management. Finally, it presents a schematic of a generic process model showing the relationship between framework activities, actions, and tasks.
The document is a term paper on efficient performance models in component-based software engineering. It discusses component-based software engineering as a development model that allows developers to rapidly assemble systems from pre-existing commercial off-the-shelf components. It describes what components are, component models, advantages and disadvantages of the approach, and concludes that component-based engineering provides an easy way to develop software but relies on well-defined component standards.
This document provides an overview of various software testing techniques, including:
- Unit testing, integration testing, acceptance testing, and regression testing.
- Top-down and bottom-up integration strategies are described.
- Testing objectives like quality improvement, verification, and reliability estimation are outlined.
- Additional topics covered include test drivers, stubs, white box testing, and stress testing. The document serves as a guide to different approaches for thoroughly testing software applications and systems.
The document discusses various prescriptive software process models including the waterfall model, incremental process model, evolutionary process model, and prototyping. The waterfall model proposes a sequential approach from requirements to deployment. The incremental model produces deliverable software increments. Evolutionary models iteratively produce more complete versions. Prototyping builds prototypes to help define requirements through evaluation. Issues with each approach are also outlined.
A performance testing tool measures how a system performs under increasing load by simulating multiple users. It generates load on the system, measures the response times of transactions as load varies, and produces reports and graphs. Key metrics measured include response time, hits/requests per second, throughput, transactions/connections per second, and pages downloaded per second. These metrics help identify how the system's performance is affected by load and determine if there are any scalability issues.
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 discusses four systems and suggests appropriate software process models for managing their development:
1. An anti-lock braking system is safety-critical, so the waterfall model is appropriate due to its formal transformations and proof requirements.
2. A virtual reality maintenance system has unpredictable requirements, so the exploratory programming model is suitable.
3. A university accounting system replaces an existing system, so the waterfall model is appropriate due to stable requirements.
4. A train time inquiry system has complex user interfaces but must be stable and reliable. It should use throw-away prototyping followed by incremental development or waterfall.
The document discusses various aspects of object-oriented systems development including the software development life cycle, use case driven analysis and design, prototyping, and component-based development. The key points are:
1) Object-oriented analysis involves identifying user requirements through use cases and actor analysis to determine system classes and their relationships. Use case driven analysis is iterative.
2) Object-oriented design further develops the classes identified in analysis and defines additional classes, attributes, methods, and relationships to support implementation. Design is also iterative.
3) Prototyping key system components early allows understanding how features will be implemented and getting user feedback to refine requirements.
4) Component-based development exploits prefabric
This document is a curriculum vitae for Aniket Raj that includes contact information, objective, education history, skills, work experience, projects, and a declaration. Aniket Raj has over 2 years of experience in application development for the IT industry. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Capgemini India Pvt Ltd where he works on business process and content management systems using technologies like Java, Hibernate, Spring, and Oracle. Previous projects include developing the Gabriel regulatory reporting system for the Financial Conduct Authority of the UK and the AMFAM policy center application for American Family Insurance.
This document summarizes key aspects of software engineering processes and models. It discusses the fundamental activities of software specification, development, validation, and evolution. It describes plan-driven and incremental process models like the waterfall model and incremental development. It also covers topics like software prototyping, reuse-oriented processes, and coping with changing requirements through change avoidance and change tolerance strategies.
The document contains questions about software processes, project management, requirements, and design from course chapters 4-6. Key points:
- Evolutionary development can be difficult to maintain due to abstract initial specifications and overlapping development/validation.
- The spiral model accommodates waterfall and prototyping by having well-defined stages that iterate based on customer feedback.
- The Rational Unified Process uses static and dynamic views to understand phases without tying them to a specific workflow.
- Components of a design method are requirements analysis, system/software design, implementation/testing, integration/testing, and operation/maintenance.
This document provides an overview of software engineering concepts including the definition of software engineering, software components, characteristics of software, the software crisis, software quality attributes, and software development life cycle (SDLC) models. It discusses several SDLC models - waterfall model, prototype model, spiral model, evolutionary development model - outlining their phases and advantages/disadvantages.
This document provides an outline and details of the key topics covered in Unit 1 of a Software Engineering course, including defining framework activities, identifying task sets, and process patterns. The five framework activities are communication, planning, modeling, construction, and deployment. Process patterns describe process-related problems, the environment they occur in, and proven solutions. The document also discusses approaches to software process assessment and improvement like SCAMPI, CBA IPI, SPICE, and ISO 9001:2000.
“Scrumbear” framework for solving traditional scrum model problemsjournalBEEI
Software engineering is a discipline that is little understood by people. It defines how software is developed and maintained to meet the clients’ requirements. Software engineers follow certain systems and standards in their work to meet the clients’ desires. It is on this background that engineers follow specific models in coming up with the final product. One of the models highly used is scrum, which is one of the agile methodologies. However, despite being highly used, it has inherent flaws that need to be corrected. Those flaws are product owner continues changing; do not accept changes in working scrum, sprint’s release time limitation, finally wasting team time within each sprint. This paper presents a new framework, which is an updated version of the current Scrum, to overcome the scum models mentioned issues. In this study, a new framework is presented in a way that is understandable and needed by software developer’s team upon the collected qualitative and quantitative data. The implementation was by making some changes to the current scrum model leading to the “Scrumbear”, certain flaws can be corrected. One of the presented changes involve adding the control master rule to ensure controlling the requirements changing.
This document provides an overview of several software development life cycle models:
- The Waterfall Model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration.
- Prototyping allows for experimenting with designs through iterative prototype development and user testing.
- Iterative models like the Spiral Model involve repeating phases of design, implementation, and testing in cycles with user feedback.
The document discusses different software development process models including the spiral model, concurrent model, and component-based development model. The spiral model is an evolutionary model that combines iterative development and risk analysis. It involves progressively more complete versions of the software through iterations. The concurrent model allows activities like modeling, analysis, and design to progress concurrently in different states. The component-based development model is evolutionary and reuse prepackaged software components, researching available products, designing architecture, and integrating and testing components.
This document discusses three software process models: the waterfall model, incremental development, and reuse-oriented software engineering. The waterfall model represents the software development process as sequential phases such as requirements, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. Incremental development interleaves these phases and develops the system in a series of versions that add new functionality. Reuse-oriented engineering focuses on integrating existing reusable components rather than developing everything from scratch.
The software process involves specification, design and implementation, validation, and evolution activities. It can be modeled using plan-driven approaches like the waterfall model or agile approaches. The waterfall model involves separate sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Reuse-oriented processes focus on assembling systems from existing components. Real processes combine elements of different models. Specification defines system requirements through requirements engineering. Design translates requirements into a software structure and implementation creates an executable program. Validation verifies the system meets requirements through testing. Evolution maintains and changes the system in response to changing needs.
Unit 2 analysis and software requirementsAzhar Shaik
The document discusses software requirements and requirements analysis. It introduces the concepts of user and system requirements and describes functional and non-functional requirements. It explains how requirements can be organized in a requirements specification document. The document outlines various topics related to requirements including problem analysis techniques, requirement specification, the components and format of a Software Requirements Specification, characteristics of a good SRS, validation methods, and the differences between functional and non-functional requirements.
This document discusses various software engineering concepts related to software design. It begins by outlining basic design principles and the software design process, which involves three levels: interface design, architectural design, and detailed design. It then covers topics like modularization, coupling and cohesion, function-oriented design using tools like data flow diagrams and structure charts, software measurement and metrics including function point analysis and cyclomatic complexity, and concludes with Halstead's software science for measuring program length and volume.
This chapter discusses distributed software engineering and distributed systems. It covers topics like distributed system characteristics including resource sharing, openness, concurrency, scalability and fault tolerance. Some key issues with distributed systems are their complexity, lack of single control, and independence of parts. The chapter addresses design issues for distributed systems such as transparency, openness, scalability, security, quality of service, and failure management. It also covers models of interaction, middleware, and client-server computing.
The document discusses software process models for different project scenarios:
1. For building a larger, more complex application similar to previous projects where requirements are documented, the prototype model would be used to develop the application in increments and allow additions as needed.
2. For integrating departments within a university onto one system to accommodate all processes, the component model would be chosen to reuse existing components, modify requirements, and design the system to incorporate components while developing new software as needed to meet the timeline.
3. For developing the next version of word processing software with tight deadlines, the RAD (Rapid Application Development) model would be selected to allow parallel team work on components to meet the schedule.
4.
Prescriptive process models advocate for orderly and structured approaches to software engineering. However, if these models strive for too much order, they may be inappropriate for an evolving software world that thrives on change. Yet rejecting traditional structured models could make it impossible to achieve coordination on software projects. The document then describes several prescriptive process models including the waterfall model, incremental model, RAD model, and evolutionary models like prototyping, spiral development, and concurrent development. It also mentions other approaches like component-based development, formal methods, aspect-oriented software development, and the unified process.
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.
The document describes an online examination system project created by 4th year computer science students. The proposed system aims to automate the exam process for a college and reduce costs and issues with the current manual system. It would allow instructors to create and upload exam questions online, and students to take timed exams via computer and immediately receive results. The system is intended to save time and resources compared to printing, distributing and grading physical exam papers. It also aims to increase security and reduce cheating opportunities during exams.
The document describes an examination system created in Microsoft Access 2007. It includes tables to store student admission information and examination results. Queries were designed to extract class-wise and group-wise data. Forms and reports were created for data entry and presentation. The system aims to automate an examination record keeping process that was previously done manually using registers and files. It allows for easier data access, storage, security and sharing compared to a manual system.
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 discusses four systems and suggests appropriate software process models for managing their development:
1. An anti-lock braking system is safety-critical, so the waterfall model is appropriate due to its formal transformations and proof requirements.
2. A virtual reality maintenance system has unpredictable requirements, so the exploratory programming model is suitable.
3. A university accounting system replaces an existing system, so the waterfall model is appropriate due to stable requirements.
4. A train time inquiry system has complex user interfaces but must be stable and reliable. It should use throw-away prototyping followed by incremental development or waterfall.
The document discusses various aspects of object-oriented systems development including the software development life cycle, use case driven analysis and design, prototyping, and component-based development. The key points are:
1) Object-oriented analysis involves identifying user requirements through use cases and actor analysis to determine system classes and their relationships. Use case driven analysis is iterative.
2) Object-oriented design further develops the classes identified in analysis and defines additional classes, attributes, methods, and relationships to support implementation. Design is also iterative.
3) Prototyping key system components early allows understanding how features will be implemented and getting user feedback to refine requirements.
4) Component-based development exploits prefabric
This document is a curriculum vitae for Aniket Raj that includes contact information, objective, education history, skills, work experience, projects, and a declaration. Aniket Raj has over 2 years of experience in application development for the IT industry. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Capgemini India Pvt Ltd where he works on business process and content management systems using technologies like Java, Hibernate, Spring, and Oracle. Previous projects include developing the Gabriel regulatory reporting system for the Financial Conduct Authority of the UK and the AMFAM policy center application for American Family Insurance.
This document summarizes key aspects of software engineering processes and models. It discusses the fundamental activities of software specification, development, validation, and evolution. It describes plan-driven and incremental process models like the waterfall model and incremental development. It also covers topics like software prototyping, reuse-oriented processes, and coping with changing requirements through change avoidance and change tolerance strategies.
The document contains questions about software processes, project management, requirements, and design from course chapters 4-6. Key points:
- Evolutionary development can be difficult to maintain due to abstract initial specifications and overlapping development/validation.
- The spiral model accommodates waterfall and prototyping by having well-defined stages that iterate based on customer feedback.
- The Rational Unified Process uses static and dynamic views to understand phases without tying them to a specific workflow.
- Components of a design method are requirements analysis, system/software design, implementation/testing, integration/testing, and operation/maintenance.
This document provides an overview of software engineering concepts including the definition of software engineering, software components, characteristics of software, the software crisis, software quality attributes, and software development life cycle (SDLC) models. It discusses several SDLC models - waterfall model, prototype model, spiral model, evolutionary development model - outlining their phases and advantages/disadvantages.
This document provides an outline and details of the key topics covered in Unit 1 of a Software Engineering course, including defining framework activities, identifying task sets, and process patterns. The five framework activities are communication, planning, modeling, construction, and deployment. Process patterns describe process-related problems, the environment they occur in, and proven solutions. The document also discusses approaches to software process assessment and improvement like SCAMPI, CBA IPI, SPICE, and ISO 9001:2000.
“Scrumbear” framework for solving traditional scrum model problemsjournalBEEI
Software engineering is a discipline that is little understood by people. It defines how software is developed and maintained to meet the clients’ requirements. Software engineers follow certain systems and standards in their work to meet the clients’ desires. It is on this background that engineers follow specific models in coming up with the final product. One of the models highly used is scrum, which is one of the agile methodologies. However, despite being highly used, it has inherent flaws that need to be corrected. Those flaws are product owner continues changing; do not accept changes in working scrum, sprint’s release time limitation, finally wasting team time within each sprint. This paper presents a new framework, which is an updated version of the current Scrum, to overcome the scum models mentioned issues. In this study, a new framework is presented in a way that is understandable and needed by software developer’s team upon the collected qualitative and quantitative data. The implementation was by making some changes to the current scrum model leading to the “Scrumbear”, certain flaws can be corrected. One of the presented changes involve adding the control master rule to ensure controlling the requirements changing.
This document provides an overview of several software development life cycle models:
- The Waterfall Model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration.
- Prototyping allows for experimenting with designs through iterative prototype development and user testing.
- Iterative models like the Spiral Model involve repeating phases of design, implementation, and testing in cycles with user feedback.
The document discusses different software development process models including the spiral model, concurrent model, and component-based development model. The spiral model is an evolutionary model that combines iterative development and risk analysis. It involves progressively more complete versions of the software through iterations. The concurrent model allows activities like modeling, analysis, and design to progress concurrently in different states. The component-based development model is evolutionary and reuse prepackaged software components, researching available products, designing architecture, and integrating and testing components.
This document discusses three software process models: the waterfall model, incremental development, and reuse-oriented software engineering. The waterfall model represents the software development process as sequential phases such as requirements, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. Incremental development interleaves these phases and develops the system in a series of versions that add new functionality. Reuse-oriented engineering focuses on integrating existing reusable components rather than developing everything from scratch.
The software process involves specification, design and implementation, validation, and evolution activities. It can be modeled using plan-driven approaches like the waterfall model or agile approaches. The waterfall model involves separate sequential phases while incremental development interleaves activities. Reuse-oriented processes focus on assembling systems from existing components. Real processes combine elements of different models. Specification defines system requirements through requirements engineering. Design translates requirements into a software structure and implementation creates an executable program. Validation verifies the system meets requirements through testing. Evolution maintains and changes the system in response to changing needs.
Unit 2 analysis and software requirementsAzhar Shaik
The document discusses software requirements and requirements analysis. It introduces the concepts of user and system requirements and describes functional and non-functional requirements. It explains how requirements can be organized in a requirements specification document. The document outlines various topics related to requirements including problem analysis techniques, requirement specification, the components and format of a Software Requirements Specification, characteristics of a good SRS, validation methods, and the differences between functional and non-functional requirements.
This document discusses various software engineering concepts related to software design. It begins by outlining basic design principles and the software design process, which involves three levels: interface design, architectural design, and detailed design. It then covers topics like modularization, coupling and cohesion, function-oriented design using tools like data flow diagrams and structure charts, software measurement and metrics including function point analysis and cyclomatic complexity, and concludes with Halstead's software science for measuring program length and volume.
This chapter discusses distributed software engineering and distributed systems. It covers topics like distributed system characteristics including resource sharing, openness, concurrency, scalability and fault tolerance. Some key issues with distributed systems are their complexity, lack of single control, and independence of parts. The chapter addresses design issues for distributed systems such as transparency, openness, scalability, security, quality of service, and failure management. It also covers models of interaction, middleware, and client-server computing.
The document discusses software process models for different project scenarios:
1. For building a larger, more complex application similar to previous projects where requirements are documented, the prototype model would be used to develop the application in increments and allow additions as needed.
2. For integrating departments within a university onto one system to accommodate all processes, the component model would be chosen to reuse existing components, modify requirements, and design the system to incorporate components while developing new software as needed to meet the timeline.
3. For developing the next version of word processing software with tight deadlines, the RAD (Rapid Application Development) model would be selected to allow parallel team work on components to meet the schedule.
4.
Prescriptive process models advocate for orderly and structured approaches to software engineering. However, if these models strive for too much order, they may be inappropriate for an evolving software world that thrives on change. Yet rejecting traditional structured models could make it impossible to achieve coordination on software projects. The document then describes several prescriptive process models including the waterfall model, incremental model, RAD model, and evolutionary models like prototyping, spiral development, and concurrent development. It also mentions other approaches like component-based development, formal methods, aspect-oriented software development, and the unified process.
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.
The document describes an online examination system project created by 4th year computer science students. The proposed system aims to automate the exam process for a college and reduce costs and issues with the current manual system. It would allow instructors to create and upload exam questions online, and students to take timed exams via computer and immediately receive results. The system is intended to save time and resources compared to printing, distributing and grading physical exam papers. It also aims to increase security and reduce cheating opportunities during exams.
The document describes an examination system created in Microsoft Access 2007. It includes tables to store student admission information and examination results. Queries were designed to extract class-wise and group-wise data. Forms and reports were created for data entry and presentation. The system aims to automate an examination record keeping process that was previously done manually using registers and files. It allows for easier data access, storage, security and sharing compared to a manual system.
The document discusses designing teams and processes to adapt to changing needs. It recommends structuring teams so members can work within their competencies and across projects fluidly with clear roles and expectations. The design process should support the team and their work, and be flexible enough to change with team, organization, and project needs. An effective team culture builds an environment where members feel free to be themselves, voice opinions, and feel supported.
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CRM System for WeLoveVideo
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In the implementation of the CRM system, there are many considerations that WeLoveVideo Inc. will need to consider.Being hired to implement CRM system, it need first to identify the project approaches that I will implement. Some of my recommendation for this project are waterfall and agile SDLC
Introduction
Waterfall SDLC model encompasses system development in which the entire process looks like the flow that entails moving of step from step in the system development.This model contains of predefined phases of requirement analysis, system design, implementations testing deployment and maintenance (Ragunath et al., 2010).
Waterfall and Agile SDLCs
Agile SDLC gives the customer the ability to see the development of the system at each phase and state whether he is satisfied or not. It contains phases such as requirement, architecture design, development and test and feedback, It basically does not have predetermined phases
Waterfall and Agile SDLCs…
Pros and cons of waterfall
Pros
it is easy to measure the progress
Parallel development is possible through this approach.
There is flexibility in this system approach
Cons There is need for constant management.Not the best for the small projects.Managing the project is typically difficult (Rastogi, 2015).
Pros and cons of Agile SDLC
Pros It is possible to divide the project into short and transparent iterations.Fast release of the first project. Risk is minimized through the flexibility created
Cons It is hard to measure the cost the final project due to permanent changes.New requirement may result to conflict with the existing design A lot of changes may increase time taken to complete the project
WeLoveVideo, Inc. CRM project
Features of CRMAllow the customer data to be stored.Analyses sales dataAllow leveraging of data driven decisions.
The team use Agile SDLC to make a custom made CRM system that will address the specific organizational needs
According to the nature of the operations of this company, the organizational complexity will require a project approach that can enable monitoring of each step.It is therefore this reason that I recommend Agile SDLC as the main approach for this project. It is therefore through this that shareholders can expect a flawless system as each phase will allow correction of any detected error through agile SDLC
Attribute and shareholder expectation
Rastogi, V. (2015). Software Development Life Cycle Models-Comparison, Consequences. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies, 6(1), 168-172.Ragunath, P. K., Velmourougan, S., Davachelvan, P., Kayalvizhi, S., & Ravimohan, R. (2010). Evolving a new model (SDLC Model-2010) for software development life cycle (SDLC). International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, 10(1), 112-119.
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Mvc architecture driven design and agile implementation of a web based software system
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MVC ARCHITECTURE DRIVEN DESIGN AND
AGILE IMPLEMENTATION OFA WEB-BASED
SOFTWARE SYSTEM
Sandhya Prakash
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Ashok Kumar
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Ravi Bhushan Mishra
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India
ABSTRACT
This paper reports design and implementation of a web based software system for storing and managing
information related to time management and productivity of employees working on a project. The system
has been designed and implemented with best principles from model view controller and agile development.
Such system has practical use for any organization in terms of ease of use, efficiency, and cost savings. The
manuscript describes design of the system as well as its database and user interface. Detailed snapshots of
the working system are provided too.
KEYWORDS
Model view control, agile system, time management,web based system, database, user interface, MySQL,
struts.
1. INTRODUCTION
Tracking and managing productive time spent on projects by software developers and other
employees is a very important task for any organization. This work is focussed on design and
development of a timesheet management system (TMS). The proposed system is a web-based,
multi-user application that is designed to be used beyond geographical boundaries and intended to
help employees to manage their work hours by keeping track of their daily and weekly productive
hours (i.e., time spent on projects). The information is stored in a central database system.
Computerized information collection, storage, and retrieval brings accuracy to the time
management system.
TMS is a model view control based system.It generates reports for employees and helps to create,
update and delete projects and calculates salaries for the employees by tracking their daily work
hours.TMS was mainly developed to accurately track employees’ work hours, to maintain
computerized attendance system, and based on this information, to calculate salaries for the
employees. The software was testedthoroughly to understand project costs, client bills, payroll,
and work productivity. TMS helps increase productivity among employees and it increases
accountability across an organization.
DOI : 10.5121/ijsea.2013.4602
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The remainder of the paper discusses project requirements, selection of design and
implementation methodologies, details of implementation, and snapshots of actual
implementation.
2. DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
A successful design of the presentedsoftware system is based on well described user and system
requirement specification, selection of appropriate design and implementation methodologies,
actual implementation, testing, and deployment. The development begins with understanding the
process by presenting a requirement documentthat specifies the purpose of the proposed TMS
system and the functions that it must perform in order to meet the requirements.TMS system
needed a lightweight framework of development to accommodate possible changes in functional
and technical specifications, to accommodate easy interactions among developers, and to produce
a rapid prototype of the system. Cost saving and flexibility were the key criteria in our selection
of agile methodology. The project was broken down into smaller pieces of functionality and
frequent iterations in all aspects of its development such as planning, analysis, design,
development, testing, and integration were entertained. Also, all stakeholders of the system such
as executives, managers, customers, software developers and testers were involved in the process
and the system was allowed to be flexible enough to accommodate requests for any reasonable
changes from any stakeholders.
Agile
Conception
Conception
Initiation
Initiation
Analysis
Analysis
Design
Vs
Design
Construction
Construction
Testing
Testing
Deployment
Deployment
Waterfall
Model
Figure 1. Agile versus Waterfall models
2.1Agile Model
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The TMS system used agile model of implementation which is described next. Agile model of
software development differs from the traditional waterfall model as shown in Figure 1.
An agile process produces greater customer satisfaction by quickly producing an initial prototype
of system and allows customers to have a feel for the system and most importantly it allows
customers to start giving them inputs early in the development rather than in the late stages of
development. Requirements are allowed to change in an agile process and yet an agile process, if
implemented properly, is completed in a given time frame. An agile process typically needs to
have team members with high accountability and excellence in providing timely inputs for
improving the system, and incorporating changes in the system as needed. Team members should
include not only developers and other technical executives but also representatives of end users.
Such team is typically empowered to make decisions which are crucial for the success of an agile
process.
An agile process is typically light weight and changes to the system-under-development are
considered a rule rather than an exception. Requirements can evolve over a time period and an
agile process accommodates such changes. This is one of the most significant advantages of an
agile process over traditional software development processes. Agile process is iterative, it allows
projects to be developed incrementally, and it greatly reduces the risk of the end result to be
significantly different from what was envisioned at the beginning of the project. Project
deliverables and meeting customers’ expectations are given much higher weight than rigorous
documentation.
It is clear that an agile process needs more frequent interactions among stakeholders and team
members and just-in-time approaches are typically used for such purposes. Frequent releases and
deliveries of software system isdone in the agile methodology in order to seek customers’
feedback and in order to allow software development (code) changes. In an agile process, a
software development team not only implements what the end user asks for but also provides the
end user with realistic view of which features can be included in the product a given timeline and
which cannot. Such communications, feedbacks, and adjustments help the agile process to
achieve high degree of success in comparison to traditional waterfall based approach of software
development.
2.2MVC Architecture
The TMS system used the model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern and Struts framework.
Using the MVC approach, an application is divided into three functional parts named as model,
view and controller. The model part represents the business logic of the TMS software
applications as well as access to relational database. The view is the visual interface provides a
medium to web users to interact with the system. View source codes for the TMS system are
created using java server pages (JSP) technology. The controller consists of one or more servlets,
configuration files and Struts actions files.MVC pattern is shown in Figure 2.
Generally, in model2 web applications the web server (e.g. Tomcat in the case of TMS) contains
view and controller both at application run time while data storage is done in third tier named as
Model. The view part represents user interface and it is created using JSP files that generally do
not contains any business logic in order to ease the rebuild process and to reduce the complexity
of applications internal dependency.
The controller part of MVC architecture is a component on web server that process all incoming
requests from user via user interface to a single servlet instance. Due to heavy load of processing
requests this controller is also known as fat controller.
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Java beans are known as model component in an MVCarchitecture. To process the requested
business logic, the action servlet selects and invokes one or more actions to process the request at
a time. Action generally creates or modifies java beans which is stored as a request or session
object and changes the state of a web application when a user interacts with the UI and requests
something. The RequestDispatcher.forward() method of servlet API is called by the action to
generate the next requested page by the user instead directly producing the requested page.
Web Server
Application Server
Request
Controller
Servlet
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T
T
P
Action
Model
View
Java bean
MySQL
Database
JSP
Response
EJB
Figure 2.MVC Design pattern overview
2.2.1 Advantages of MVC Design
The implementation of model-view-controller in three different dynamic parts has many direct
benefits. For example it is easy to delegate the development work within developers or team
members and distribute the total effort and MVC model ensures that changes in one web
application will not affect the other web application. As an example web designer and web
developer can work independently or a coder working on business logic can work independently
of the professional working application flow control.
By implementing the MVC architecture it becomes easy to prototype the work by following very
simple steps like to create a prototype of a web application that access several work stationsbased programs. By making little changes to the configuration files or renaming the server
contents only, one can implement production level programs that can run on different
platformswithout having to rewrite the source code.
Migration of legacy programs has become easy since the model and controller and totally
separated in MVC and it makes tailoring the user category or platform much simpler. MVC has
also great contribution in simplifying the scalability problem of software programs of large size
applications and making modification and maintenance of applications easier through clear
separation of tasks.
2.3USE CASE DIAGRAMS FOR THE TMS SYSTEM
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After deciding most suitable development methodologies for TMSsoftware design,the process
begins with a simple use case diagrams that represent interaction between the system and its users
without being trapped into details. Use case diagrams for TMS are presented in Figure 3
Login in to
TMS system
Create TS
View existing TS
Employee
Add new
employee
Update employee
Deactivate employee
Edit TS
Admin
Update TS
Delete TS
Figure 3. Use-Case diagram of interaction between employee, admin and system
2.4. REPRESENTATION OF BUSINESS FUNCTIONS FOR THE
TMS SYSTEM
Data flow diagrams are used by system analysts and software developers to represent the
functional requirements of the system and to model the process. Data flow diagram is considered
as one of the efficientmodelling techniques for eliciting and representing the processing
requirements of a system. Data flow diagram for the TMS system is shown in Figure 4 and it
captures business functions for the proposed system.It follows the rules of modern flowcharts.
Figure4.Data flow diagram of the TMS system
2.5. CLASS DIAGRAMFOR THE TMS SYSTEM
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The class diagram for the TMS system is shown in Figure 5. Itconsists of attributes(data) and
operations (behaviors) such that attributes are implemented as fields and class operations are
implemented as method. The entity-relationship for TMS is shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6.
EmpBean
Emp_ID: string
Pwd: string
Designation: string
First_Name: string
Last_Name: string
createTs ()
updateTs ()
submit ()
1
<<utility>>
Login Validation
<<utility>>
Employee Validation
0..*
TSBean
TS_ID:int
Date:int
Emp_ID: string
Entries: TSEntryBean
1
1..*
<<utility>>
TSValidation
<<utility>>
Date Format
-cal
TSEntryBean
TS: TSBean
Project_ID: int
Monday: double
Tuesday:double
Wednessday:double
Thursday:double
Friday:double
Saturday:double
Sunday:double
Notes: string
<<utility>>
Day Format
-number
<<utility>>
TS entry Validation
Figure 5.Class diagram with attributes and operations (incorporating inheritance)
Employee
-Emp_ID[PK]
-Password
-First_Name
-Last_Name
-Designation
1
0..*
Timesheet
- TS_ID[PK]
-Emp_ID
-Date
-Calender
1
1..*
TimesheetEntry
- Project_ID[PK]
-Client_ID
-TS_ID
-Monday
-Tuesday
-Wednesday
-Thursday
-Friday
-Saturday
-Sunday
Notes: string
Figure 6.Entity relationship model for TMS
2.6. DATABASE AND ORM FRAMEWORK (HIBERNATE) IN TMS
Database system used in TMS is a relational database management system (RDBMS)and it is a
collection of tables to store data.The database design process starts with information gathering
and understanding the functional requirements in the project. The document should give a concise
summary of all users’ requirements, not just a collection of individuals’ requirements, as the
intention is to develop a single shared database.
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The requirements should not describe how the data is to be processed, but rather what the data
items are, what attributes they have, what constraints apply and the relationships that hold
between the data items. Hibernate has been used in TMS as it provides ORM functions very well
as an abstraction layer between Java and MySQL database. The intent here is that Java will be
able to work internally with the objects defined as they desire, while the database is designed in a
purely relational.
In TMS system, key users of the system are employees and the system was built to track the
productive work hours of the employees. Themain tables in database are shown in Table 1, Table
2, and Table 3. The attributes of the table are self-explanatory.
Table1- Employee Details
ColumnName
Emp_Id
Last_Name
First_Name
Emp_Designation
Email
Cell_Phone
Home_Phone
Photo_Id
Street
City
Zip
State
Nationality
Visa_Status
Sex
Birth_Date
Emp_Type
Dept_Id
Emp_Memo
DataType
int
varchar
varchar
varchar
varchar
varchar
varchar
image
varchar
tinyint
varchar
tinyint
varchar
varchar
varchar
date
varchar
int
varchar
VariableLength
10
20
20
30
20
20
20
30
50
1
20
1
30
50
20
50
30
20
300
Null Value
Not null
Not null
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Table2- Login
ColumnName
Emp_Id
Password
Emp_Type
DataType
varchar
varchar
tinyint
Length
30
30
1
NullValue
Not null
Not null
Not null
Table3 - Projects Details
ColumnName
DataType
Length
NullValue
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Proj_Id
Proj_Name
Client_Name
Proj_Start_Date
Proj_End_Date
Int
varchar
varchar
varchar
varchar
Hibernate was used in the TMS system to map object oriented domain model to relational
database. Hibernate framework simplifies the development of java application to interact with the
database. Hibernate is an open source, light weight, object relational mapping tool. An ORM
simplifies the data creation, data manipulation and data access. It is a programming technique to
map the objects to data stored in a database in the form of tables.
There are many advantages of using hibernate framework for accessing data from a database in a
java web application. Some key advantages of why Hibernate was used in TMS are listed here.
First, Hibernate is an Open source software and very light weight. Second its performance is very
high because cache memory is utilized internally. Usually Hibernate framework uses two types of
cache memory first level cache and second level cache. First level cache is enabled by default.
Third benefit is Hibernate uses a database-independent query language known as Hibernate
Query Language (HQL) which is an object oriented version of SQL. It generates the database
independent queries. It means there is no need to change the query when changing the database.
As a result, database specific queries are not required. Hibernate supports automated table
creation which means database tables can be created automatically so no there is need to create
tables manually. Hibernate offers a technique to fetch data from multiple tables without
complexity. Hibernate is also well known for its excellent stability and quality, it allows
persistence, and it scales well.
2.7. STRUTS IN TMS
TMS uses an MVC architecture driven design and its implementation needed a web application
framework that could use Java Servlets and facilitate adherence to the MVC architecture. For this
reason, Struts were found to be a perfect match for the TMS system.For an example, the strut
based design of the login process in MVC is shown in Figure 9 and its processing details are
shown in Figure 7.
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Figure 7. Strut based design of login process architecture in TMS
Figure 8. Processing details
2.8. SNAPSHOTS OF WORKING TMS SYSTEM
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The TMS system used extensive testing including unit-tests to ensure proper functionality and
robustness of code. Classes that were difficult to test were refactored and deep hierarchies were
avoided in the design. The system underwent thorough testing and it was found to be fully
functional. Some of the snapshots of the system are shown in Figure 9 through Figure 20.
Figure 9. Home page of time sheet management system
Figure 10. Storing information of a new project
Admin Home page:
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Figure 11. Adding new projects
Figure 12. Storing information of a newly added project
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Figure 13. Updated display of a newly added project
Figure 14. Addition of a new employee to the system
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Figure 15. Storing information related to an employee
Again Login as Administrator to ‘Approve/Reject’ Employee Timesheet:
Figure 16. Administration login for approval or rejection
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Figure 17. Administration approval or rejection of timesheet
Figure 18. Display of updated time sheet
Figure 19. Employee’s view of an approved or rejected timesheet
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Figure 20. Password change option
2.9. RELATED WORK
The work in [1] is the seminal work on agile development and it has been widely cited and used.
The book in [2] provides an in-depth coverage of MVC architecture. The Struts framework is
described in [3] in detail. A web-based time management system was reported in [4] using a
client-server model.The works in [5] and [6] are somewhat, but very remotely, related as they use
struts and hibernate too.
3. CONCLUSIONS
This paper presented design and implementation of a software system for time management by
employing the best practices from model view controller based software architecture as well as
agile methodology based implementation. The proposed idea has been successfully implemented
and tested thoroughly, and it has practical use in both industry in academia.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The first author would like to acknowledge her teammates.
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Authors
Sandhya Prakash received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science.
Her areas of interest include Internet Computing, Software Engineering, Databases, and
User Interfacing.
Dr. Ashok Kumar is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and
Informatics at the University of ouisiana at Lafayette, USA. Dr. Kumar obtained his
Ph.D. in 1999 and worked for four years in industry before joining academia full time.
He has published extensively in refereed journals, conferences, and book chapters. He
has served on the program committees of several conferences. His areas of interest
span hardware design for low power, embedded and sensor-based computing, video
game design, and software engineering. He serves on the editorial committees of
several journals and is currently the editor-in-chief of the International Journal on
Embedded Systems and Its Applications.
Prof. Ravi Bhushan Mishra is a Professor and the Head of the Computer Engineering
Department at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi.
He has 34 years of teaching and research experience with more than 203 research
publications.He has published various books and book chapters with publishers of
international repute. His research areas include Machine Translation (MT), Multi
Agent System (MAS), Semantic Web Services (SWS), Medical Computing, Intelligent
Tutoring Systems (ITS), E-commerce, Robotics, Learning System in Computer
Education, Cognitive Computing, and Computational Bioinformatics. He has supervised 19 doctorates and
more than 42 masters students. He has visited and lectured in USA, UK, and NEPAL. He has been awarded
certificate of merit in India and UK. He has organized various national and international conferences in
computing.
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