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Assessment 1: Quiz
Assessment Details:
This online quiz will assess your knowledge of key content areas and to identify further support needs. For successful completion of the quiz, you are required to study the material provided (lecture slides, tutorials, and reading materials), engage in the unit’s activities, and in the discussion forums.
The prescribed textbook is the main reference along with the recommended reading material. By completing this assessment successfully, you will be able to identify key aspects of system analysis and design including system vision, work-breakdown structure (WBS), SDLC, methodology, approaches to software development.
The quiz will be completed online through the APIC Online Learning System (CANVAS).
Assessment 2: Case Study-1
Assessment Details:
Overview:
In this assignment, you are going to perform a system analysis and design of a membership and facility management system of a gymnasium of given case study
Task:
You are to perform an analysis and design of a “membership and facility management” system. You are required to submit:
i) Discuss the six core processes of the SDLC required to develop the membership and facility management system
ii) A Class Diagram for the entire membership and facility management system, showing:
• Attributes
• Custom methods
• Various relationships
• Association names
• Multiplicities
• Association Classes (if any)
iii) A use case diagram which models the actors and the use cases of the Manager schedules staff roster
iv) A use case diagram which models the actors and the use cases of the Member registers for class (just before the commencement of a class)
v) Develop PERT/CPM chart explaining the early and late start for each task. Identify the critical path and the total time to finish the project
Whenever you make assumptions, please state these clearly.
You will be marked on various aspects, including among other things:
• Completeness of analysis (thoroughness)
• Correctness of analysis – i.e. how much the analysis represents the described system.
• Use of notation – whether you correctly used the UML notations.
• Appropriate use of generalization/specialization (in class diagram)
• Appropriate use of aggregation/composition (in class diagram)
• Clearness of diagrams
Case Study
Specification: Body Sculptors Gymnasium
Body Sculptors is a gymnasium that uses a computer-based information system to track and monitor membership and member activity in the gymnasium facilities.
Staff Management
Body Sculptors employs managers, administration staff and trainers. All staff have a staff ID, personal contact details and bank account number to enable direct debit of wages. Staff may be salaried or casual, with casual staff paid on an hourly rate. Both salaried and casual staff may be paid overtime rates.
The trainers work on the gym floor and have one or more areas of expertise called a specialty. A trainer’s specialty determines where in the gym they can work. For example, only trainers with a speciality in aerobics may conduct any of the aerobic or aquarobic sessions. Specialities are aerobics, strength and circuit. A trainer’s speciality is based on formal qualifications completed (or updated) within the last 5 years. Qualifications have an institution name, course name, course length and starting year. All trainers must have a current first aid certificate.
Rostering
The gym is open from 5.00am until 11.00 pm with a manager and trainers rostered on throughout that time. Administrative staff work from 8.00 am until 4.00 pm. The roster is organised so that at any time of the day or night, there is at least one trainer with each specialisation available in the gym. In some of the busier times several staff are scheduled to cover demand. A typical daily roster may look like:
Each cell on the timetable indicates that an employee will be required for a specialty or role type at a particular time slot and that they will be skilled and qualified for that particular task.
Facilities and Equipment
Body Sculptors provides a range of resources such as strength and flexibility apparatus; facilities that include a swimming pool and a sauna; and a number of different classes. All resources are linked into the system.
The apparatus includes equipment used for fitness and strength development, for example treadmills, bench presses, exercise cycles and rowing machines. Each apparatus has a maximum time for individual member use, after which time it is disabled until the next user logs in. Each apparatus also calculates the calories used to operate it, based on the speed and effort being applied during use.
The swimming pool and sauna temperatures are thermostatically controlled, and are regularly monitored. Each has a current temperature and maximum temperature. If the maximum temperature is exceeded, a notification is sent to the manager, and the heaters are automatically switched off. The swimming pool has a daily log that has the pH for each 15 minute interval throughout the day. If the pH drops below or rises above the preset limits a notification is sent to the manager.
Each class has a maximum number of participants, a duration (which may not be the fully scheduled time), and a calorie value. One or more trainers is allocated to each class.
Member services
Customers are called members and have their details registered to ensure that important health and insurance requirements are met. Members each have a name, address, date of birth, phone number, occupation, and an access type, that may be full or restricted. Full members have access to all facilities and equipment in the centre. Restricted members may access only the services or resources that they have nominated. Members are issued a swipe card and a PIN used to authorise their use of services and equipment in the gym. A session is a visit in which the member exercises on an apparatus, participates in a class, makes use of a facility, such as the swimming pool or sauna, or any combination of these. Members can visit the gym and not have a session.
Members are regarded as current when they have paid the fee for their elected level of membership at least up to the current date. Members whose paid-to date is greater than 3 months old must rejoin, by paying the nominal joining fee and providing another doctor’s certificate certifying that they are fit to use the gym.
A typical member’s session may look like this. The restricted member arrives at the gymnasium for a circuit session. At the front desk, the member registers, by swiping their card and entering their PIN, to confirm their membership status and to identify themselves to the system. If their membership is not paid up to date, they are requested to make a payment in order to activate their membership. If no valid membership period is remaining, the session is cancelled, otherwise, the member then enters session targets in time or calories for this session, and the session commences. The member proceeds to the circuit room. The circuit consists of apparatus each designed to improve aerobic fitness, muscle strength and flexibility, such as treadmills, rowing machines, bench presses, etc.
Before commencing their exercise on each apparatus in the circuit, the member first registers (swipes their card). The apparatus then displays the calories and time from that member’s last session on that apparatus, the total time and calories for the session so far, and the session targets. While the apparatus is in use the time elapsed and calories expended on that apparatus are updated every 10 seconds. When the member finishes exercising, they log off the apparatus by pressing a button.
Classes are run in activities such as aerobics, health management, relaxation, and many other fields for which trainers are qualified. When scheduling an activity, the class leader provides the maximum number of participants for the schedule, as well as the time and calories for the planned activity. To be sure of a place in a class members book in advance, and receive a notice confirming whether or not a place has been reserved for them. A place may not be reserved if the class is already full, or if the member is restricted from that type of activity by their membership choice.
At the commencement of the class, members swipe their card in the reader. If they have a booking, this is verified, and they are accepted for the class. If they do not have a booking, they are verified for access, and admitted if there are places available. On the way out the card is swiped again, at which time the class details are added to their session, with any pro rata adjustment in time or calories for and early exit. If they forget to swipe their card on exit, it is assumed that they have completed the class.
When using the swimming pool other than for a class, the time is registered, and the member is asked for the laps and pace when exiting to allow calculation of calorie expenditure. In the sauna, only the time is used.
When the member indicates that he or she has finished a session, they are provided with a printed report of the session, detailing the targets, time and calories expended on each resource, and the total calories and time for the session.
Assessment 2: Case Study-2
Assessment Details:
The Case Study-2 assessment covers the following topics: information system development, system development approaches, data Modeling, IS project management, system requirements, user and system interfaces, and system testing, deployment and maintenance.
This assessment allows student to apply theoretical concepts to practice by analysing case studies and proposing a suitable design.
The Case Study-2 assessment covers the following topics: information system development, system development approaches, data Modeling, IS project management, system requirements, user and system interfaces, and system testing, deployment and maintenance.
Detail of the case study-2:
Training Inc. conducts training seminars in major U.S. cities. For each seminar, the logistics department must make arrangements for the meeting facilities, the training consultant’s travel, and the shipment of any seminar materials.
For each scheduled seminar, the bookings department notifies the logistics coordinator of the type of seminar, the dates and city location, and the name of the consultant who will be conducting the training. To arrange for the meeting facilities, the logistics coordinator gathers information on possible meeting sites in the scheduled city. The meeting site location decision is made based on date availability, cost, type of meeting space available, and convenience of the location.
Once the site is decided, the coordinator speaks with the sales manager of the meeting facility to reserve the meeting room(s), plan the seating arrangement(s), and reserve any necessary audio-visual equipment. The coordinator estimates the number and size of meeting rooms, the type of seating arrangements, and the audio-visual equipment needed for each seminar from the information kept in a logistics database on each type of seminar offered and the number of anticipated registrants for a particular booking.
After negotiations are conducted by the logistics coordinator and the sales manager of the meeting facility, the sales manager creates a contract agreement specifying the negotiated arrangements and sends two copies of it to the logistics coordinator. The coordinator reviews the agreement and approves it if no changes are needed. One copy of the agreement is filled and the other copy is sent back to the sales manager.
If changes are needed, the agreement copies are changed and returned to the sales manager for approval. This approval process continues until both parties have approved the agreement. The coordinator must also contact the training consultant to make travel arrangements. First, the coordinator reviews the consultant’s travel information in the logistics database and researches flight schedules. Then the consultant is contacted to discuss possible travel arrangements; subsequently, the coordinator books a flight for the consultant with a travel agency. Once the consultant’s travel arrangements have been completed, a written confirmation and itinerary are sent to the consultant.
Two weeks before the date of the seminar, the coordinator determines what, if any, seminar materials (e.g., transparencies, training guides, pamphlets, etc.) need to be sent to the meeting facility. Each type of seminar has a specific set of materials assigned to it.
For some materials, the coordinator must know how many participants have registered for the seminar in order to determine how many to send. A request for materials is sent to the material-handling department where the materials are gathered, boxed, and sent to the meeting address listed on the request. Once the requested materials have been shipped, a notification is sent the logistics coordinator.
Task:
• Draw a class diagram, showing the relevant classes, attributes, operations, and relationships, for the above situation.
• Draw the ERD Diagram
• Draw state machine diagram
• Draw a Sequence diagram
• Draw activity diagram
• Draw a system architecture diagram
• Draw a suitable user interface
• Plan the suitable testing and deployment activities.
if you believe that you need to make additional assumptions, clearly state them for each situation