Reference no: EM132615655

CMP73010 Managing Software Development - Southern Cross University

Part 1 - Agile processes

Spearhead Technology Services (STS) were so pleased with your previous software development advice where you assisted them with procurement processes, that you have retained them as a client.

As you know, STS are involved with Internet of Things (IoT) products. The founders of STS recognised a larger need for small and ‘smart' software products than centralised large systems. To maintain its competitive advantages, STS has to adapt itself to the market. Sizes of their development projects will become smaller, while multiple projects of many varieties may be undertaken in parallel. The Waterfall process model is not appropriate for many of their future projects. STS is investigating the adoption of Agile methodologies and practices. You are required to write a report on the adoption of Scrum and XP methodologies (including identifying individual practices and processes suitable for STS), for STS. Your report should provide:
• An overview of Agile methodology (4 marks).
• Comparison of the Agile methodology and the Waterfall process.
• Description of Scrum process and XP methodology.
• Guidelines for choosing Scrum or XP according to types of projects.
• Another well-known process as candidate of adoption of new process for the second stage.

The other well-known process can be any process you know. This will require independent research and your illustration of understanding Agile concepts in software development. The contents of the report should be organised logically, and the report should have a title, an executive summary, an introduction, a conclusion, and reference list. The briefing should be a maximum of 1500 words. This is a briefing to an employer/client. You will be penalised for going over the limit, as it may indicate your writing is not precise and you have not thought about your responses enough.

Part 2 - Automatic document generation

Your clients have requested a demonstration on the value of automatic document generation to be presented to their new junior programmers that have just begun working at the company. Attached is a C# program for a simple word game that you are required to use to demonstrate this. You must replace the current inadequate comments with the C# XML comments. Your XML comments should contain examples of each of the following tags at the very least:
- <summary> and <remarks>
- <param> and <returns>
- <code>
- <see>

Note that your code does not have to compile but you could implement it in Visual Studio to iron out problems. Please note that you need to explain each of your C# XML comments. Comments without a good explanation will result in loss of marks and may not be marked entirely.

namespace Assign2
{
//
// This program is for CMP73010 Assignment 2 (2020)
//
// It calls some functions that need commenting
//
class Program
{
//
// Mainline function
//
static void Main(string[] args)
{

int num1 = ReadNumber(); int num2 = ReadNumber();
FormatBinary(num1, "+", num2, Add(num1, num2)); Console.ReadLine();
}

//
// Read a single integer
//
public static int ReadNumber()
{
Console.Write("Number: "); try
{
return Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
}
catch (FormatException)
{
Console.WriteLine("illegal number format"); return 0;
}
}

//
// Formatted operation output
//
public static void FormatBinary(int n1, string op, int n2, int result)
{

Console.WriteLine("{0} {1} {2} = {3}", n1, op, n2, result);
}

//
// Add two integers
//
public static int Add(int n1, int n2)
{
return n1 + n2;
}

}
}