INF60010 Assignment 1 Current System Analysis and Modelling (Individual)
Words Limit: 2000 +/-10% Weighting: 30%
Due date: Friday 5th April @ 11.59 PM
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Assignment 1 submission details
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Assignment overview
This assignment aims to produce a requirements document that captures the functional and non-functional requirements for an information system that supports the current needs of the Software Design Company car booking management system as described in the Case Study Description.
Note: This assignment covers the traditional approach.
Your tasks
Information system development projects incorporate several key milestones. This assignment will require you to complete
Milestone 1 - problem analysis which includes understanding the business in general, their challenges, current system issues/problems, key functional/nonfunctional requirements and limitations.
Milestone 2 – Data Modelling which uses some of the models of a Structured Approach, such as Event table, Data fragments, a context diagram, DFDs, ERD and DFD documentation to illustrate the current system features.
Case Description
A vehicle pool manager of Software Design Company is in charge of issuing company vehicles to employees as well as ensuring that all vehicles undergo regular maintenance. Vehicles are provided to employees for several hours or days at a time and are all centrally located at one site.
The current system doesn’t support pool manager to manage his day to day jobs, most tasks are time consuming and also many errors.
The manager would like to automate as much of the current processing as is reasonably possible. For example, he envisions that employees should be able to make bookings, cancel bookings and view their own bookings over the company intranet. When a car becomes unavailable, it is time consuming to find the current bookings for that vehicle, find alternative cars (if available) and contact those employees concerned, so he would like to improve this process. can be found in a separate file ‘
More details of the case and specific problems can be found in a separate file ‘
More details of the case and specific problems Assign1&2_case_S1 2024.pdf’ on the same site.
The Report Components
Create a word-processed business report with:
Cover page
Document Title
Author(s) information
Executive Summary
What this assignment is about and what you want to achieve (should be about 100 words, ES is differed in comparison to the Introduction).
Table of contents
You have to use Microsoft Word built-in function to create a Table of Contents.
Introduction
Why conduct system analysis and design for a business? (You should write a brief literature review on the topic of system analysis and design, why this is important, the development trends, what are some of the key aspects that should be considered, what are the roles of requirement analysis in the system analysis and design process?).
Business or system analysts need to have a “big picture” view of any business and their information systems. You are required to list the major responsibilities which you should take on to help the business. What is your basic plan, where you start, what you do and what you want to achieve?
The purpose of your work.
Business Background
What is the business, and what does this business do? (A brief description of their current business operation and services. Please note that you should read the case description, understand it and provide a summary. You shouldn’t copy the case description provided directly to your report. Max, 100 words.)
What are some of the challenges (internal and external) that the business current faces and how they will impact on overall business future development?
In your opinion, what are the three major problems which you consider are the most important for the business and explain why they are important. What are some of the opportunities when these problems are solved? How would the organisation be better off by solving this problem or taking up this opportunity? You are welcome to add on problems/issues which not currently listed, but which you consider are essential to address. You should provide reasoning.
Clearly explain the current system’s objectives and constraints. Please note: you need to read the case description to understand what the current system does. Swinburne University of Technology
Scope (Current system)
A written statement of functional/non-functional requirements (you are required to list them all with a brief explanation for each of them).
Discuss the techniques of identifying the use cases.
Documentation
Data dictionary
o Complete at least THREE (3) key data flow descriptions (Logical data dictionaries)o Data element descriptions (Physical data dictionaries, at least 1 of the key data entities)
Process Descriptions
o A brief description for each of the key processes (top-level processes in level 0 DFD) written in plain Englisho Write at least ONE lower-level process description in structured English
Conclusion
*Reference list
List all references used in the report. You have to follow the newest Harvard referencing system. Please check the Swinburne website for details.
This is a business report and should be written accordingly, i.e. directed to the customer. It should reflect your understanding of the tasks required.
*Appendices (Ensure your pages are numbered for easy reference)
You should include the following information in appendices:
Events table, DFD fragments, context diagram, levels 0 & 1 DFDs and ERD (Please see below modelling requirements for the current system).
The appendices should also contain any other documents that might be useful for reference or too detailed or lengthy to put into the main part of the document.
Modelling requirements for the current system
Provide a structured analysis of the functional requirements of the system presented as a set of logical data flow diagrams and prepare a data model represented as an entity-relationship diagram for the current system.
The set of data flow diagrams should include:
Identify 15 key events, please note that:
o for each key function, you must have at least one event linked to it;o shouldn’t have more than one ‘cancellation’ or ‘updating’ related event (there are many conditions for which cancellation and updating required, because we only ask you to write 15 events, you shouldn’t include more than one); Swinburne University of Technologyo You should have at least one state, and one temporal event included in your list of events. You should create an event table to list all these identified events, and each event should be matched with a DFD Fragment.
A Context Diagram: This must be for the entire Software Design Company car booking managementsystem. You need to show relevant external agents together with data flows between the system andthe external agents.
A set of levelled data flow diagrams which includes:
1) Level 0 DFD which includes all top-level processes, key data stores, key data flows and key externalentities.
2) At least 1 top-level process from this Level 0 DFD is decomposed to level 1 DFD.
You will be assessed on your application of data flow diagrams according to the following criteria:
o DFD syntaxo DFD data conservation (also commonly known as “balancing” or data consistency in sometextbooks)o Quality of nameso Logical, not physical descriptiono Quality of modelling is more important than quantity
Consistency - not only should each view (data flow, process, data store) be accurate and readable, butalso the views must be consistent with each other, so the whole analysis makes sense.
An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD): It should be a high-level data model (many to manyrelationships is acceptable in this unit).
Diagrams should preferably be generated by using Visio Pro, but students may use the drawingcapabilities of other drawing packages subject to the approval of tutors.
Notes on formatting and structure
It is expected that all work submitted has been edited for spelling, grammar and clarity.
Your report needs to follow our standard format. Pages need to be numbered, and your name must also appearon each page, not just the cover page. Evidence of attention to layout and structure needs to be present. Thewritten submission is to be formatted as a report, word-processed in 12 point font and 1.5 line spacing. Theword count does not include the cover sheet, executive summary, table of contents, references and appendices.
Please respect the word count. Swinburne University of Technology
Warning
Any evidence of plagiarism (click on to read in detail) will result in a Fail. Collaborativediscussion with other members in the unit around concepts and additional examples ishighly recommended, but don’t copy.
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