Lab 3 - (Week of Oct 5)
SFWR ENG 3KO4 - Fall 2009
Software Development

• Due date
  • ABM's "component diagram" & "statecharts" to be submitted during Lab 4 sessions (L01: Tuesday October 13th; L03: Wednesday October 14).
  • Full SDS document to be submitted on Friday October 16th (EXTENDED to Tuesday October 20th) at 4pm. Therefore, only your enhanced and finsl SDS will be required.
  • Submit your completed SDS document in your lab drop-in box.
• Deliverables for both Lab 3 & Lab 4
  • (10%) First draft of ABM's "component diagram & statecharts" to be submitted during Lab 4 session.
  • (80%) Hard copy of the final SDS, Software Design Specification document (including revised "component diagram & statecharts") which is prepared according to the modified version of the IEEE SDS template.
  • (10%) Hard copy of the Component Diagram & Statechart for the Restaurant system.
  • Draw your diagrams using a tool such as Rational Rose or NetBeans.
    
• Goals

  To practice on generating "Architectural Design Specification" of a software system based on a complete "Software Requirement Specification (SRS)".
  

• Instructions

  A full description of the lab 3 instructions and marking scheme have been provided. Click HERE to obtain the PDF file of the instructions.
  

• Details

  In each lab section of this week the TA(s) will present a detailed description of the Requirement Specification of the whole ABM system for all groups in the labs and the students will take note of those. Then the students will design the architecture of the ABM system using the components and their corresponding interactions. The resulting diagram is called Component Diagram and represents the services that each component provides to other components through their interfaces. The interactions among the components are modeled by Statechart diagrams that specify the sequence of service invocations triggered through external or internal inputs.
  

• Example and Tutorial

  An example of SDS document for a Thermostat System has been provided for you as a guide. Click HERE to get the PDF file.

  Toturial on Ratioanl Rose , a UML Toolkit. Click HERE

  "Rational Rose for home computers & labtops on campus". The following is a message from lab system administrator. To use Rational Rose on home computer or on a laptop on campus, download and install Rational Rose Enterprise 7 for Windows [The zip file is ~500MB]. The software uses a license server, moore.cas.mcmaster.ca, which is only accessible from McMaster network, so you will need to connect to MacVPN (when off-campus) before you start the application.
  

• IEEE Citation Guideline

  Get the IEEE Citation Style Guide HERE and follow the rules for referencing a resource in your SDS document.

  
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