Question

Course Registration Project

Case Study Description

Problem Statement

•           At the beginning of each semester, students get a course catalogue containing a list of course offerings for the semester. Information about each course, such as professor, department, and prerequisites will be included to help students make informed decisions.

•           The system will allow students to select four course offerings for the coming semester. In addition, each student will indicate two alternative choices in case the student cannot be assigned to a primary selection.

•           Course offerings will have a maximum of ten students and a minimum of three students.         A course offering with fewer than three students will be cancelled. Once the registration process is completed for a student, the registration system sends information to the billing system so the student can be billed.

•           Professors must be able to access the online system to indicate which courses they will be teaching. They will also need to see which students signed up for their course offerings.

•           For each semester, there is a period of time that students can change their schedule. Students must be able to access the system during this time to add or drop courses.

Based on the above simple scenario, answer the following questions:

List the stockholders of the above project?

List Four main functions (Functional Requirements) the above project provides ?

List two constrains/conditions/triggers the above project should have?

Answer 1

1. The Stockholders of the above project are:

Student: The one who is registering for courses.

Professor: The one who will be responsible for teaching that course taken up by students.

Registering Folks: The ones who will compile data of professors, departments, students' registrations for courses and course catalogue.  .

Billing System: To bill students based on the courses chosen.

2. Four main functions that the above project provides are:

a. Registering for courses.

b. Teaching of various courses

c. Registering data of professors, departments, students' registrations for courses and course catalogue.  .

d. Billing of students based on the courses chosen.

3. The two constraints the above project should have:

a. Each semester, students have limited period to change their schedule(i.e adding or droping courses)

b. Cancelling of a course offering because of not meeting the mininum number of students required. Then the professor would not be able to teach.