YR 11 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS

Purpose

To determine and describe the elements which make up the project and how they interact with each other.

Three Elements

Design Journal

Audience

Project specific designs

Design Journal

Review a number of similar projects All reviews should be contained in an appendix

Each review:

What was good

What was bad

Summary of reviews In the main body of you design document

Overall what was good

Overall what was bad

Audience

How will the audience effect your design?

Project specific designs

Requirements will be determined by the type of project being undertaken

Planned testing regime

Alpha testing Tests to see if the project works correctly

Undertaken by developers

Test extremes – try to break the project

Beta testing Test to see if the project is ‘user friendly’

Undertaken by users

What do you include in your design document? A list of things that you are going to check

How you intend to check it.