Pre-requisite module Assessment for SESE MMM 2020

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CT091-0-M-SDM
SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
METHODS

Lecturer: Ravi Rauniyar

Student Name: Mary Karmacharya

Submission Date:

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Answer all questions.
Tutorial 02: SDLC Concepts and Principles
1. What is SDLC?

Ans : The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is a conceptual model used in
project management that describes the stages involved in an information system
development project, from an initial feasibility study through maintenance of the
completed application. (Wiki, 2015)

a) Explain THREE benefits of applying SDLC for a IS project.

Ans :
-Reduction of cost and time
-Improvise in quality of work
-To ensure consistency in management of project

b) Explain THREE problems of applying SDLC for a IS project.

Ans:
-Miscommunication and requirement gathering in intail phase.
-Late request and requirement of the project.
-Lack of allocated time for testing.

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c) Search the net/books and draw diagram for SDLC

Ans:

Fig : A typical Software Development Life Cycle graphical reprentation

Tutorial 03: SDLC Sub-phases

1. Use a large paper to draw SDLC

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2. Make a summary of SDLC Main Phases and sub-phases.

Ans:

PLANNING ANALYSIS DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION MAINTENANCE

Problems Statement Designing of IT infrastructure

Initial Study Designing of system model
Feasibility Study
Requirement Gathering

Gathering business requirement Support the system users

Creating process diagrams System maintenance
Performing a detailed analysis System changes andadjustment

3. Under each Main Phases, show it’s:

a. Sub-phases
b. Who are involved?
c. Input document
d. Output documents
e. Popular Techniques used

Tutorial 03: IS Methodologies Part-1:

1. Find names of a few popular methodologies used today? What are the types of project they
used for?
Ans:

-SCRUM: Scrum is comprised of five values: commitment, courage, focus, openness, and
respect. It’s goal is to develop, deliver, and sustain complex products through collaboration,
accountability, and iterative progress.
-Kanban is another popular Agile framework that, similar to Scrum, focuses on early releases
with collaborative and self-managing teams.

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-PRINCE2 methodology is a “full stack” Waterfall project management methodology that
includes principles, themes and processes
-Waterfall methodology, often referred to as SDLC (Software Development Life
Cycle) is a project management methodology theme with a very simple approach that
values solid planning, doing it once and doing it right, rather than the Agile approach
of incremental and iterative delivery.

2. Discuss the advantages using IS Development Methodologies.

Ans:

Advantages of Waterfall Model:

 Waterfall model is very simple and easy to understand and use a method that is why it
is really beneficial for the beginner or novice developer
 It is easy to manage, because of the rigidity of the model. Moreover, each phase has
specific deliverables and individual review process
Advantages of Agile Development Methodology:

 Agile methodology has an adaptive approach which is able to respond to the

changing requirements of the clients
 Direct communication and constant feedback from customer representative
leave no space for any guesswork in the system

Advantages of the RAD model:

 Rapid Application development model helps to reduce the risk and required
efforts on the part of the software developer
 This model also helps client’s to take quick reviews for the project

Advantages of Scrum Development:

 In this methodology, decision-making is entirely in the hands of the teams

 This methodology enables project’s where the business requirements
documentation is not considered very significant for the successful development

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3. Discuss the distinctive disadvantages using the following IS Development Methodologies.

Ans:
o Waterfall model

 The main drawback of this method is that once an application is in the testing stage, it
is not possible to go back and edit something
 There is no possibility to produce any working software until it reaches the last stage
of the cycle

o SSADM

 The disadvantage of SSADM methodology
 Long development times as each stage must be completed thoroughly before moving
on to thenext. This costs time and money so organizations have to have large
resources for SSADMprojects.
 Lack of user involvement means the system rarely meets user needs and is less likely
to beaccepted.

Tutorial 05: IS Development Methodologies Part-2

1. Draw a table and compare THREE differences between Traditional Methodologies with Agile
Methods.
Ans:

Charactersitics Traditional Agile

Users Not involved Frequenct collaboration
Project size big small
Requirements Clear ,low change rate Creative,unclear,
System criticality More system failure Less critical system

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2. Draw a simple diagram of the following Methodologies

Ans:

 XP

 Scrum

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 RAD

Tutorial 08: System Analysis

1. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the following data analysis methods;
Ans:

 Data Mining

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1. It violates user privacy:

It is a known fact that data mining collects information about people using some

market-based techniques and information technology. 

Accuracy of data:
Most of the time while collecting information about certain elements one used to seek help
from their clients, but nowadays ever
Misuse of information:

As it has been explained earlier that in the data mining system the possibility of safety and

security measure are really minimal.

ything has changed.

 Statistical Analysis

2. Write 2 functional and non-functional requirement for Webspace3 (upgrade of Webspace2).

Tutorial 14: System Testing

1. Explain 5 advantages and disadvantages of Software Testing.

Ans
 Finding errors at the initial and final stage
 Optimizing the interface errors
 Checking errors or missing functions
 To check and verify the errors in the external dat
 It helps to optimize the whole internal source code as the tester is having
programming knowledge
 Almost all paths of a software product will be covered
 As the tester is having programming knowledge it will be easy to find out the
inappropriate unit code

Disadvantage

 Only limited coverage of application as the tester cannot target specific code
segment
 Test cases are difficult to design as the tester doesn’t have prior knowledge on
specifications and coding
 Some possible inputs will only be tested
 There may be a chance of occurring redundant if the designer already starts
the test case

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 Results will be more efficient but according to resources it may become
expensive

2. Find 3 Testing Tools (software) which can be used to test other software.

3. Apache JMeter

It is an Open Source load testing tool, scripted in Java 6+ and can operate across platforms.
Apache recently released JMeter ‘v2.11’ that supports all platforms and is used for load testing to
analyze and gauge performance of the system/application.

Its strong GUI helps build Test Plan quickly and debug processes. It further helps analyze the
overall performance under various loads on the server, and the network.

14. Sandstorm

It is a load testing tool from Impetus Technologies Inc. that supports protocols for the Web,
Mobile and Email. It facilitates test from multiple locations, across browsers and simulates cache
with rich extensible framework for modification of test cases by using JavaScript and core Java
APIs.

It provides User Interface for handling dynamic parameters and automated cookies. It also
integrates resource monitoring for most of the popular Web applications and Database servers.

NeoLoad

This is a load and stress testing tool by Neotys built for Windows, Linux, and Solaris. It is available
in English and French, and its latest version 4.2 helps measure, analyze, and improve the
performance of the website.

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While there are multiple users simultaneously accessing the website, the tool helps check the
performance of the website under added load to ensure required user experience. It makes the
testing process faster, efficient, and repetitive.

4.

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