The first step of the project is to produce a software requirements specification (SRS) for the software system that you propose to develop (or modify). In this document, recall that your perspective is squarely in the problem domain (aka application domain).
Your SRS must contain at least two sections: an "introduction section" that describes your application domain and the problems that your system will address once it is implemented and a "requirements section" that documents the features of your proposed system using a number of the techniques discussed in class.
For the introduction section, you may follow the outline for an SRS that is given on pages 126 and 127 in the Jalote textbook, or use it only as a checklist for the types of issues that you should address when creating your SRS. (In other words, I'm not mandating a specific format that you must follow when creating your SRS other than it having the two sections listed above.) In your introduction section, be sure to include a section that identifies your team members and how your team divided the work of creating the SRS among themselves.
The requirements section should contain at a minimum, the following items:
- a textual list of functional requirements and/or use cases
- a data flow diagram that identifies the prominent types of information used by your system and how that information is produced, manipulated, and stored
- a UML class diagram that documents the core concepts of your application domain and the relationships between those concepts
- a set of FSP specifications and structure diagrams that document the concurrent behaviors expected of your final system. If the finite state machines associated with your FSP specifications are small enough to be graphed by the LTSA tool, please include their diagrams in your document. If LTSA indicates a problem with any of your specifications (deadlock, progress, etc.) be sure to highlight this and discuss how you plan to address those problems as you move forward with the design and implementation of your system
- a list of any non-functional concerns you intend to address while designing and/or implementing your system
This assignment is worth 100 points.
Please submit your SRS as a PDF document to the moodle by 11:55 PM on Thursday, April 12th. (Note: Since some CAETE students are working with in-class students on this project, I am not intending on having a separate due date for CAETE students on this assignment. CAETE students working on their own, please contact me if you'd like to have your due date extended by one week as usual.)
You may also create your SRS as a set of HTML pages. If so, you should submit a small text file to the moodle that contains the URL of the "home page" of your SRS.
Contact Professor Anderson if you have any questions or concerns about this assignment.