CS708– Software Requirement Engineering
Assignment No.1
Maximum marks: 50
Due Date: 05 May, 2017
Instructions
The purpose of this assignment is to give you hands on practice. It is
expected that students will solve the assignments themselves. Following
rules will apply during the evaluation of assignment.
Cheating from any source will result in zero marks in the
assignment.
Any student found cheating in any of the two assignments submitted
will be awarded "F" grade in the course.
No assignment after due date will be accepted through email
Question No. 1 (10+10+5 =25 marks)
We intend to develop a software product for the agriculture domain; our focal point is to maximize the yield per acre but monitoring the inflow of raw material used in the production of different agricultural product. Our main focus is to find out the cost per field which includes cost of human resource, cost of transport (fuel), pesticides used to spray the field and other miscellaneous expenses like electricity etc. We need to design a system which should cater for the need of the farm and should give a very transparent view to the owner of the farm about daily cost per field. Usually plots are divided into fields and human resource is allocated to the plot instead of field and same is the case with transport and pesticide which is creating a major bottleneck to capture the required information. There is a supervisor for a plot and under supervisor there are multiple assistants to whom multiple fields within a plot are allocated. The process of data capturing starts early in the day when human resource is distributed per field and record is maintained in the head office; tractors are used to transport the human resource to the plots and from plot human resource are divided into per field. Pesticides are allocated on daily for each plot and same process is opted to distribute the pesticide as used in distribution of human resource. In addition to it; record of issuance of pesticide is maintained by the store keeper and supervisor is responsible for the utilization of the pesticide. When the product at the field is ready for selling, the process of collection of the product takes place, during this process the waste product record and actual product record per plot is maintained on daily basis during the days of collection. The actual production is transported to the packing house where the product is packed and ready for transfer to the market for selling. Currently cost per plot is calculated but cost per field is not calculated or we can say that the current process does not enable the owner of the land to calculate the cost per field.
Based on the above scenario you are required to identify
Functional requirements
Non-functional requirements
Actors and stakeholders
Question No. 2 (10+10+5=25 marks)
Read the research paper entitled "An Effective Requirement Engineering Process Model for Software Development and Requirements Management" and answer the following questions:
How can you produce the quality requirements according to the given paper?
Why requirement management and planning phase is executed independently?
Write the critical review of this paper.
Please download above Research paper which is attached with the assignment file.
Note:
Plagiarism will be checked for each question. Please answer the questions in your own words and marks will be awarded on the basis of your answer and plagiarism report.
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Virtual University of Pakistan MS (CS), Spring 2017
