CSSE 221: Fundamentals of Software Development 1—Mini project

Write an Interative Enhancement Plan

Overview

This document describes one portion of your team's work on your Mini Project. The document begins with a description of the general guidelines for this work. Please read and follow these guidelines. Following the guidelines are some resources that should help you complete the work. Skim the resources before beginning the work and refer back to them as necessary. After the resources is a step-by-step listing of the work that your team needs to do for this portion of your Mini Project.

Guidelines

Please recall that in ALL your work on the Mini and Capstone projects, ALL members of your team:

• Must participate fully in ALL the process
• Must understand the basic ideas of ALL aspects of the project
• Are responsible for ensuring the above
  • Bring your instructor into the loop if necessary

Resources

Iterative Enhancement

• They implement the project in stages.
• Each stage adds more functionality.
  • Each stage must be testable by running the application.
• The final stage implements all the required functionality.
• They test each stage as they implement it, rather than doing all the testing at the end.

Iterative Enhancement Plan

• Each stage's description explains what functionality must be supplied at that stage.
  • The description must refer only to the project's functionality, not the project's code.

    (e.g. "The pull-down menus appear, without functionality" is correct; "Write the menu classes" is not correct)

  • The description should make plain what test(s) one would do to test that stage.
  • Your program should increase in complexity at each stage. Using a network program as an example, stage 1 might involve the creation of a very simple GUI with just one local machine function, plus network connectivity. In each successive stage you would add features to the GUI, the local machine, and the network.
  • Each stage has associated with it a number of requirement statements. Each statement must:
    • be a single, declarative sentence
    • be unambiguously testable
    • refer to program functionality, not program code
  • "Allows the user to add a record to the database" is a requirement, while "contains a method that adds a record to the database" is not. See the difference?

Instructions

With your teammates, write an iterative enhancement plan for your Mini project..

1. Your Iterative Enhancement Plan should list the major stages of your plan.
2. Then add detail to the plan by adding individual requirements to each stage. Each requirement is a sentence stating one feature that the program will exhibit up on completion of that stage. Again, these are written in English and contain no reference to the underlying code.
3. Put the iterative enhancement plan document in the MiniProject → ProjectManagement folder of your repository.