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ITAP2013 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

This assessment item relates to the unit learning outcomes as in the unit descriptor. This assessment is designed to improve student skills and to give students experience in constructing a range of documents as deliverables form different stages of the Software Engineering Process using a simulated industry case study.

Case Study: Mentcare system

The mid-Scotland health-authority has a statutory duty to provide mental healthcare services to citizens living in the mid-Scotland area. Most mental health patients do not require dedicated hospital treatment but need to attend specialist clinics regularly where they can meet a doctor who has detailed knowledge of their problems. The health authority has a number of day clinics that patients may attend in different hospitals and in local health centres. Patients need not always attend the same clinic and some clinics may support ‘drop in' as well as prearranged appointments. All patients seen at clinics have been referred to the clinic either by their own doctor, by doctors in Accident and Emergency when they have attended for treatment or by hospital doctors, when they have completed a course of hospital treatment. The nature of mental health problems is such that patients are often disorganised so may miss appointments, deliberately or accidentally lose prescriptions and medication, forget instructions and make unreasonable demands on medical staff. The Mentcare system must therefore be able to cope with patient unpredictability and irregular attendance at clinic sessions. The patient information system to support mental health care (the Mentcare system) is a medical information system that maintains information about patients suffering from mental health problems and the treatments that they have received. The Mentcare system has to provide both management and clinical information:

1. Management information that allows health service managers to assess performance against local and government targets and to monitor the costs of treatment.

2. Clinical information on medical history, diagnoses and treatments

The system is used to record information about patients (name, address, age, next of kin, etc.), consultations (date, doctor seen, subjective impressions of the patient, etc.), conditions and treatments. Reports are generated at regular intervals for medical staff and health authority managers. Typically, reports for medical staff focus on information about individual patients whereas management reports are anonymized and are concerned with conditions, costs of treatment, etc

Question 1

Given the Case Study above, what SDLC Model would you use to develop the associated software. You will need to justify your answer. Outline the advantages and disadvantages your SDLC model would have over other SDLC models that could be utilized in developing the software.

Question 2

Creare a software requirement specification which includes the following

I. Identify four types of System users. (system user: that may make use of the Mentcare system).
II. A detailed decription of both user and system requirements. (At least four user requirements and four system requirements should be provided).
III. A detailed decription of both functional requirements and non- functional requirements. (At least four functional requirements and four non-functional requirements should be provided).

INSTRUCTIONS:
The above list of documents is not necessarily in any order. The chronological order we cover these topics in lectures is not meant to dictate the order in which you collate these into one coherent document for your assignment.

Your report must include a Title Page with the title of the Assignment and the name and ID. A contents page showing page numbers and titles of all major sections of the report.

All Figures included must have captions and Figure numbers and be referenced within the document. Captions for figures placed below the figure, captions for tables placed above the table. Include a footer with the page number. Your report should use 1.5 spacing with a 12 point Times New Roman font. Include references where appropriate. Citation of sources is mandatory and must be in the IEEE Style.

Attachment:- Software Engineering.rar