PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION CAREFULLY.

This assignment contributes 100% to your final module mark. Please ensure that you retain a duplicate of your assignment work as a safeguard in the unlikely event your work is lost or corrupted online.

THE FOLLOWING LEARNING OUTCOMES WILL BE ASSESSED:

Knowledge

1.    Have a critical awareness of a range of practitioner methods and techniques appropriate to developing a product in a specific computing context.

2.    Understand the business and technological context in which product development and evaluation take place.

Skills

3.   Apply appropriate techniques to determine, specify, design, build and test a solution to a problem.

4.    Critically evaluate the process and the product of development activity.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

You are required to submit your work within the bounds of the University Infringement of Assessment Regulations (seeyour Programme Guide). Plagiarism, paraphrasing and downloading large amounts of information from external sources will not be tolerated and will be dealt with severely.   The coursework submission for this module is largely based on your practice. Still, this should be duly referenced when you use material from other sources, such as an occasional short quote. It is important to note that your work WILL BE SUBJECT TO CHECKS FOR ORIGINALITY, which WILL include using an electronic plagiarism detection service.

Where you are asked to submit an individual piece of work, the work must be entirely your own. The safety of your assessments is your responsibility.  You must not permit another student access to your work at any time during the inception, design or development of your coursework submission and must take great care in this respect.

Where referencing is required, unless otherwise stated, the Harvard referencing system must be used (seeyour Programme Guide or university library website).

Assessment (Portfolio - 100%)

Assessment Scenario

The City of Payris won the bid to host the next FunOlympic Games in 2024.  During the build-up to the planned games in 2024, the city invested hugely in IT infrastructure and systems to ensure that the games would be well organised, staffed, attended, and accessible to everyone on an online broadcast platform.

The FunOlympic committee have decided that they require a few additional projects which need to be completed before the games start to ensure the games run smoothly and that worldwide audiences can enjoy the games online.

The city has appointed a team of IT systems and infrastructure professionals – you are one of them. Interacting with the client to clarify exact system requirements is your job.

Analysis, Design and Development Task

You will gain  more  information  needed  to  complete  the  design  and  development task via  client meetings. These meetings will reflect the knowledge and skillset appropriate to your programme of study.  You will not be required to provide the entire solution – see details below:

Each  top-up  degree programme has its own  scenario. You only need to complete the scenario for your degree.

. Scenario - Applied Business Computing

The  FunOlympic  committee  need  an  online  web  system/web   presence  to   promote  the  games worldwide. The games will only be available to watch through a new online broadcast platform - but the platform does not yet exist. As the committee need to establish how great the demand for the service will be, they want you to build a system that promotes all the sports and asks potential audiences to register their interest in accessing the new online broadcast platform. The public users need to  provide details of their name, country, email address and which sports they are mainly interested  in  watching  online.  There  is  no  need  for  them  to  login  and  provide  passwords.    The FunOlympic committee also need an admin area which is password protected, which provides them with access to the data on the number of users who have signed up.

. Scenario - Mobile and Web Technologies

The FunOlympic committee needs an app that athletes will use to record their movements while they attend the game. This needs to record the venues they are at and the dates and times of their presence at the venues. Athletes will be required to input this information into the app manually. The system  needs  to  be  secure,  so  a login and password system is  needed.  Ideally,  some  form  of geolocation would also be present in the system.

. Scenario - Computer Systems Engineering

The committee require you to build an online registration system for audiences to gain access to the proposed broadcast platform. The system must allow public users to register, login and logout when using it and makeselections of broadcasts they wish to watch. The system should also have an admin side to allow an admin user to view user interactions, reset passwords, etc. The users need to provide details of their name, country, email address, contact number and which sports they are mainly interested in watching online. The users also need to provide passwords to register in the system.  The prototype solution must deliver the key functionality described (you will need to interview the client to derive a full requirement list). However, at this prototypical stage, the inclusion of mechanisms for securing payments is not required.

. Network Systems Engineering Students

You must research appropriate network design methodologies/paradigms and use these to design and implement an appropriate secure network solution that can be used at the FunOlympic Games in Payris.  It is recommended that a simulation of the network is developed with documentation of the addressing scheme to be used. You will need to evaluate the methodologies, justifying your choice and using it to implement a secure network solution. You should evaluate the design, implementation and security.

The committee have provided you with a “skeleton” design planned for the previous year’sevent that did not happen. You must design and simulate this set-up, but in addition, you need to allow for the added online broadcast platform – and you must design with security in mind such that the broadcasts aren’t hacked andrestreamed elsewhere for free.

Each of the venues’ host requirements is shown in the table below:

. Scenario - Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, and ICT

It is your responsibility to discuss and establish the requirements the client needs. In general, you will need to develop tools that will allow the client to analyse how successful the broadcast platform is. They hope the analysis tools will aid marketing and advertising during the run of the games.

Given that the games have yet to take place, the client is expecting you to generate test data of web server logs. Assume the web server is Internet Information Server, and the format of the logs is shown below. Save the web server log file in an Excel file (CSV or similar). Then, you should develop tools using R or Python to analyse the web server logs to report information such as country of origin, number of visits to the website, time of each visit, main interests (based on selected/viewed sports), etc. The client is hoping for a detailed analysis, so you should aim to include diagrams such as bar charts, scatterplots or pie charts to represent the results from your analysis best. You can also use basic statistics to describe any summaries, such as means and standard deviations.

Web server log file example:

02:49:36 228.10.0.1 GET /index.html 200

03:01:07 155.55.0.24 GET /images/games.jpg 304

03:54:36 157.20.30.10 GET /searchsports.php 200

04:17:04 157.20.30.10 GET /football.html 200

Assessment Tasks

Your role is to act as a consultant, analyse your client's needs, develop and test a prototype solution and deliver and evaluate this solution with your client.  In parallel, you must document the project professionally and ethically, just as expected, if you were an analyst working for a software house or service provider.

You must consult with your client to determine and agree on the exact requirements.  Your module tutor (or someone appointed for this by the module tutor) will act as your client. You are to interview your client to determine the exact requirements and to develop your solution using suitable technologies.

To carry out the project  professionally, you must carefully consider the appropriate development methodology and the choice of implementation technologies.  This should be based on the client‘s needs and the nature of the project.  You will need to document the choice of these methods and technologies and any alternatives in your report and justify your choices.  The application should be developed based upon a sound software engineering or networking/telecoms approach, which should cover the requirements elicitation, implementation, testing and evaluation phases where you verify the solution and critically evaluate the overall result.

You also  need to  plan your  project  and generate a  project schedule with task  breakdown, effort allocation  and  sequencing  of  tasks.  You  are  then   required  to  demonstrate  the   use  of  this documentation,  including  any  updates/adjustments  which  reflect  the  true  development  history, including any rescheduling and provide a critical reflection on the history of your project.

You must evaluate your system with your client and confirm that it meets the requirements originally negotiated and satisfies the client’s needs.  This evaluation activity must be reflective and show that the development process and the product were properly tested and evaluated.

How well you report all these aspects will affect the mark you receive; please view the marking criteria. Your module mark is derived both from your ability to provide a technical solution for a client AND from the portfolio, which documents the planning and conduct of the project in total; compliance with portfolio requirements is, therefore, very important.

For this assessment, you are required to produce the following:

Task 1: Portfolio Report

Task 2: Prototype Product and Demonstration

Task 1: Portfolio Report

You are required to produce a portfolio report that documents the project's development.  This MUST be submitted as a single PDF file that is well structured, coherent and contains the following sections:

Front Cover: This should include the module code, your project title, your student’sname and your ID.

Contents: Your work MUST include page numbers throughout and contents.

1.    Requirements Specification: A mandatory statement of your proposed solution's functional, non-functional  or  technical  requirements  and  expected  deliverables   using  the  template provided.   This statement must be approved and signed off by your client as a basis for the development.

2.    Planning  Documentation: A  Project  Schedule  that  identifies  the  tasks,  effort  allocation, timescales and deliverables required during the project to successfully generate the proposed solution and systems documentation by the specified deadline.  This must also reflect upon any revisions to scheduling where applicable during the project

3.    Client  Contact Record  Sheet: Mandatory  record  of  3  client   meetings.    This  should   be completed and signed off by your client and yourself at set points in the project, then scanned and inserted into your e-portfolio illustrating your regular engagement with the client with key bulleted Action Points.

4.    Methodology: A report made with direct reference to your Planning Documentation, which explains  and justifies  the  main  approaches,  methods  and  tools  you  have  built  into  your planning cycle to ensure that you deliver the specified solution to your client in the agreed- upon timescales.  Note this report must be written in your own words about your professional practice.  This is NOT a research review, so you are not required to reference academic papers. However, you need to investigate the approaches you intend to implement and apply in your practice to write about them critically.

5. Solution Design Documentation: Present the design documentation relevant to the field of study that you have created.

6. Testing and Evaluation: This section should detail how you tested your project against the functional and non-functional requirements. You should provide details of the  testing methodologies, protocols, frameworks, tools, etc., and provide your testing results.

7. Technical Deployment of the Solution: A section describing the technical requirements of the solution, including a summary of any installation and/or  deployment procedures  in  the proposed  production  environment.  It is highly  recommended that a screencast is also included.

8.    Critical  Reflection: Regarding  your  Planning  Documentation  and  Practitioner  Statement, critically review the effectiveness of implementing the methods and tools adopted during the entire planning and development cycle and how this will inform and adapt your approach to client projects in the future.

Task 2: Prototype Product and Demonstration

You are required to produce a working solution and demonstrate  this  to  your  client.  This demonstration will be done via a pre-recorded video, which shows the functionality of the solution you have created.  Your solution must:

1. Conform to the agreed requirements

2. Be functional and largely error-free

You should carefully plan your demonstration before you begin recording it to ensure that you fully demonstrate how you have met each requirement.

You will only be graded on the functionality you demonstrate in the video.

Submission Requirements

Task 1: For this task, you must submit a single PDF file containing all the sections outlined in the Assessment Tasks section of this document.

Task 2: For this task, you are required to submit a video demonstration of your solution; you will only be graded on the functionality that you demonstrate in this video.