Y\618\4736 Unit 22 L5 Application Development Assignment 1, 2025

Important

• Read the Plagiarism notice and requirements
• Accepted Sources: Research Papers (Journal Articles, Conference Proceedings, Thesis), Text Books, Governmental Data, Websites (only a registered organisation, an educational institution, government agency)
• Information taken from unreliable sources will not be accepted
• Must follow Harvard Reference Style
• Assignment must be submitted through the Plagiarism Detection Tool

Assignment Submission Format

Each student has to submit their assignment as guided in the assignment brief. The students are guided on what sort of information to produce to meet the targeted criteria. You are required to make use of headings, paragraphs and subsections as appropriate, and all work must be supported with research and referenced using the Harvard referencing system.

Unit Learning Outcomes

LO1 Produce a software design document for a business-related problem based on requirements
LO2 Research design and development tools and methodologies for the creation of a business application
LO3 Plan and produce a functional business application with support documentation
LO4 Evaluate the performance of a business application against its software design document and initial requirements

Assignment Scenario

You've just been hired as a web developer by a reputed IT company, Code Art Web Technologies. The company helps build the online presence of local organisations through sophisticated, innovative and easy-to-use websites.

Your first job in the company is to design and build a job portal for a new client, Elevate Workforce Solutions, to digitise their current processes and promote the company.

Elevate Workforce Solutions is a well-established employment agency based in Nepal, providing better employment opportunities. The company wants to grow with the help of technology and make its services available to broader demographics. The company wants to promote equal opportunities, provide transparency and easy access to more jobs, which they believe is possible through a well-designed website.

The company is looking for the following features, but not limited to:

• Secure and effective authentication system with registration, login, and logout functionality
• Display all the job listings with proper pagination
• Ability to add/update/delete jobs by their respective logged-in companies
• Job application listings on respective companies' dashboard page

Criteria:

This assignment should include the following things

1. Documentation regarding the project and the solutions proposed.
2. UML diagrams for the classes required.
3. Implementation using any programming language.
4. Strictly follow the object-oriented paradigm.
5. Strictly follow the MVC (Model, View, and Controller) design of software programming.

Assignment Tasks

Activity 1

Produce a software design document for a business-related problem based on requirements, and Research design and development tools and methodologies for the creation of a business application

• Explore a business-related problem and produce a well-defined Problem Definition Statement supported by a set of user and system requirements.
• Review areas of risk related to the successful development of your application.
• Research the use of software development tools and techniques and identify any that have been selected for the development of this application.

For a higher grade

• Analyse a business-related problem using appropriate methods and produce a well-structured Software Design Document that defines a proposed solution and includes relevant details on requirements, system analysis, system design, coding, testing and implementation.
• Compare the differences between the various software development tools and techniques researched and justify your preferred selection as well as your preferred software development methodology.
• Evaluate the solution to a business-related problem and the preferred software development methodology by comparing the various software development tools and techniques researched.

Activity 2

Produce Presentation slides to show the plan and produce a functional business application with support documentation:

• Effectively review your plan for the business application, problem definition statement, proposed solution and development strategy. Use this presentation as part of a peer review and document any feedback given. Interpret your peer review feedback and identify opportunities not previously considered
• Develop a functional business application based on a specified business problem. For a higher grade:
• Develop a functional business application based on a specific Software Design Document with supportive evidence of using the preferred tools, techniques and methodologies.

Activity 3

Evaluate the performance of a business application against its software design document and initial requirements.

• Review the performance of your business application against the Problem Definition Statement and initial requirements.
  For a higher grade:
• Critically review the design, development and testing stages of the application development process, including risks.
• Justify improvements to the business application system made because of feedback and also feedback that was not acted upon, including opportunities for improvement and further development.