CS4025 Project Proposal Guideline

Due: Thu., Jan. 31, 2008

As the first phase of developing your course project – a course work processing web application, you are first asked to develop the use-case model for the project. A use-case includes a use-case diagram containing actors and use cases as well as their relationships, and a use-case specification for each use case. A use-case specification describes how this use-case works in terms how the actor of the use case interacts or dialogs with the system. You can write a use case specification in a paragraph using plain English or a two-column table with each step of the interaction:

	Actor	System
1	action
2		action
3	action
4		action

The following is the required constraints for this application in terms of functionality.

• The scope of the system is for UNB professors, students, teaching assistants, and lab instructors to process students’ course work including assignments and labs.
• Using the web application,
• a professor can post assignments and final marks for each assignment,
• a student can submit her/his assignments and view her/his mark for each assignment, as well as sign in labs and view lab schedules and arrangements and lab results,
• an TA can retrieve submitted assignments and submitting marking results to the professor for approval, and
• a lab instructor can post lab instructions, lab sign-in forms, lab teaming/equipment assignments, and lab results.
• It must be a secure web application, that is, each actor can only play her/his own role, not other’s. Also each user can only view/modify information that is related to her/himself, not other’s.
• You can use your own creativity in designing the use cases, to make your system be a realistic, effective and attractive web application that will be useful for all involved UNB users in real would usage.

If you want to develop a different web application, you can write your use-case model in the same format. Note that your application should have multiple use cases for 3 or more actors. User authentication and use of database are required. Your project proposal is subject to approval by the course instructor.

You can use any graphical drawing tool to draw the use-case diagram, such as the Rational Rose which is installed in ITD414 lab. Write the whole use-case model in a single file in PDF or Word or others.

Name the use case model file as “cs4025proposal” and submit the file online through CS4025 course web site.