CSCI 490 Fall 2009

DIRECTED PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE- aka ‘Senior Project’

Dr. Melody Stapleton

1) *** Major Field Test (MFT) – MANDATORY FOR ALL CSCI SENIORS ***

Note: An exam for CINS majors will be announced shortly!!!

Obtain the form to fill out to Register for the test from the Department Web Site Here is some more information on the MFT that is off of our Department Web Site - http://csci.ecst.csuchico.edu/resources/trends-major-field-test-mft

Register by: Friday, Nov. 13 by paying the $25 fee at Cashiering in the Student Services Center

Date of Exam: – Tuesday, Nov. 17, in OCNL 340, from 5 – 7 pm
(bring PHOTO ID & Receipt... be on time)

2) Syllabus - Fall 2009

3) Proposal Format: 1)Preliminary Background/Requirements Text Description 2)Preliminary Object Model OR Entity-Relationship Model and 3)Preliminary Set of Use Cases: bring proposal to class and upload in VISTA. For an example based on an old CSCI 370 project, take this link.

4) What you are to turn in with your project:

5) Proposal Deliverables, Plus one Process document from each of the following ReadySET stage templates:

a) Architecture and Design

i) Architecture worksheet

ii) Source and build

iii) User interface worksheet

iv) Persistence worksheet

v) Security worksheet

b) Implementation and Testing

1) User guide

2) Test suite

a) Test case format

b) Test cases

c) Deployment and Installation

i) Release checklist

ii) Installation / Quick start guide

iii) Release notes

iv) Demo script

6) For the site the above is referring to click on this link: Process Documents

7) Presentation Summary

8) Meriam Library Research Station