Question

You are to develop 5 functional requirements and 5 non-functional requirements for the course project in which you develop an electronic degree program planning application that helps the student:

1. Keep track of the courses that the student has completed

2. Generates eligible courses that the student can take each semester or yearly.

3. The system can suggest courses that meet the prerequisite requirements.

4. The system should also be able help the student map out all of his/her semesters.

5. It should know what courses are only offered one semester, for example CSC464 is only offered in the Fall, and the prerequisites that prevent a student from taking a course, for example CSC498 can not be taken before CSC380.  

Answer 1

Functional requirements

Functional requirements are product features or functions that developers must implement to enable users to accomplish their tasks. So, it’s important to make them clear both for the development team and the stakeholders.

Generally, functional requirements describe system behavior under specific conditions.

1) Creating courses

i) Integration with registration system

- The system should periodically upload the latest registrar classes list to determine courses that offered in current semester.

- The system generate the course pre requisite requirements and determine the current set of students that enrolled in that course.

2) Grade management

- The system allow their student login their account and their respective grades at any time.

- The system should be able to handle requests for re-grades and all the information about the grades should be available to the student and course instructor.

3) Home work submissions

- The system shall provide information about late submissions and also disallow the submission after certain period of time.

- Homework is integrated to grade management.

4) Group management

- The system should the students to automatically created the groups and enforce the conditions such that each student is a member of his/her course group and assigned project group.

- Through registrar a student should be able to track the courses upto now completed and the ongoing courses.

5) create accounts

The system shall automatically create accounts for each class and for every student. So that he can do course management from that account login.

Non functional requirements

Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs) define system attributes such as security, reliability, performance, maintainability, scalability, and usability.

They ensure the usability and effectiveness of the entire system. Failing to meet any one of them can result in systems that fail to satisfy internal business, user, or market needs, or that do not fulfill mandatory requirements imposed by regulatory or standards agencies.

1) Security

I) firewall protection: the course management software should run inside a firewall.

II) The system should support different roles students, instructors, administration staff, the user login with given role should only be allowed access.

2) Response time

The average response time shall be less than 2 seconds.

3) Recovery time

In case of state failure, redundant system shall resume operations within 30 seconds.

Average repair time should be less than one hour.

4) Capacity

The system accommodate 4000 concurrent users.

5) Utilization of resources

The system shall store in the database no more than one million transactions.

If the database grows over this limit old transaction shall be backed up and deleted from the operational database.