Assignment - Formal Specification of a Library System Overview
This assignment provides students with the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills developed during the semester. Students work in small teams (3-4) for assignment 2, in which they complete a formal specification for a library system.
Learning Outcomes Assessed
The following course learning outcomes are assessed by completing this assessment:
Skills:
S1. Critically analyse and use complex decision making to research and determine the appropriate Software Engineering tools and methodologies to utilize in a given situation.
S2. Apply professional communication skills to support and manage the engineering of a large software system.
S3. Review, critically analyse and develop artefacts to define processes for quality assurance, risk management and communication in large software development projects.
S4. Implement quality assurance activities in order to verify user requirements and validate design decisions.
Application of knowledge and skills:
A1. Analysis of a large system development problem to decide upon the best methodological approach.
A2. Development of appropriate artefacts to support and manage the software engineering process such as change control and configuration management.
Assessment Details
1. Students will need to develop schema that will model a library - containing only books - and be able to perform the following tasks:
- Add a book
- Add a borrower
- Delete a book
- Delete a borrower
- Lend a book to a borrower
- Return a book from a borrower
- Enquire about a book
- Reserve a book
- Enquire about a reservation
- Cancel a reservation
2. The schema must be consistent and be shown to work using examples
3. Schema need to be annotated so that the Z statements are clearly expressed in plain language
4. Write three (3) non-trivial predicate statements about your system; explain them and show that they are true