CQUniversity Unit Profile
COIT13230 Application Development Project
Application Development Project
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General Information

Overview

This unit is the capstone project for the application development major of the Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) course. You are required to synthesise and apply your skills developed across the units studied previously. This unit will help you to consolidate your competence with a relevant set of software engineering concepts, practices, and tools. To achieve this, you will work in small teams with a designated customer to identify a problem and develop a software application application adhering to software engineering principles and standards. You will document and present the requirement analysis, design artifacts, and the results from software testing. In addition to the documented application, your team will also identify and produce the project management and quality assurance components required to ensure that the project is delivered within specified project outcome parameters. You will also evaluate and discuss your contribution to the project team and the overall team performance.

Details

Career Level: Undergraduate
Unit Level: Level 3
Credit Points: 12
Student Contribution Band: 8
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.25

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisite: COIT12200, (COIT12207 or COIT13224) and (COIT12208 or COIS13064) Co-requisite: COIT13229 and COIT13234

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 1 - 2022

Brisbane
Cairns
Melbourne
Online
Rockhampton
Sydney
Townsville

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Class and Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.

Class Timetable

Bundaberg, Cairns, Emerald, Gladstone, Mackay, Rockhampton, Townsville
Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney

Assessment Overview

1. Written Assessment
Weighting: 15%
2. Written Assessment
Weighting: 10%
3. Written Assessment
Weighting: 25%
4. Project (applied)
Weighting: 40%
5. Presentation
Weighting: 10%

Assessment Grading

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.

Previous Student Feedback

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from Student Evaluations

Feedback

Students enjoyed having real world projects and meeting real clients.

Recommendation

Continue to provide real-world projects.

Feedback from Student Evaluations

Feedback

Students wanted a cross-campus, mid-term presentation so students could compare themselves with all other groups.

Recommendation

Consider cross-campus presentations during and at the end of term.

Feedback from Student Evaluations

Feedback

Students want more involvement with the real-world clients.

Recommendation

Add more meetings with clients.

Feedback from Student Evaluations

Feedback

Students want more conflict resolution support.

Recommendation

Include a review of conflict resolution strategies.

Feedback from Unit Coordinator Reflection

Feedback

There are not enough student project examples.

Recommendation

Add more student project examples.

Unit Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
  1. Apply software engineering processes, including requirement analysis, application software design, algorithm design, coding and debugging, software testing, and software project management.
  2. Manage a software development project, particularly the scheduling of time and resources, development of risk mitigation strategies, and the generation of supporting documentation
  3. Develop and implement a quality management plan for a small software development project adhering to ethical responsibility
  4. Communicate effectively by using written and oral presentation, understanding the needs of various stakeholders
  5. Work effectively as part of a development team
  6. Review and critically evaluate team and individual performance to reflect on the processes followed and identify areas for improvement.

Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA provides a consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is adopted by organisations, governments, and individuals in many countries and is increasingly used when developing job descriptions and role profiles.
ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html
This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA 8. The SFIA code is included:

  • Requirements definition and management (REQM)
  • Programming/software development (PROG)
  • Software Design (SWDN)
  • Data modelling and design (DTAN)
  • User experience evaluation (HSEV)
  • Database design (DBDS)
  • Systems integration and build (SINT)
  • Testing (TEST)
  • Configuration management (CFMG)
  • Application support (ASUP)
  • System installation and removal (HSIN)

Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes
N/A Level
Introductory Level
Intermediate Level
Graduate Level
Professional Level
Advanced Level

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes

Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 - Written Assessment - 15%
2 - Written Assessment - 10%
3 - Written Assessment - 25%
4 - Project (applied) - 40%
5 - Presentation - 10%

Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes

Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 - Communication
2 - Problem Solving
3 - Critical Thinking
4 - Information Literacy
5 - Team Work
6 - Information Technology Competence
7 - Cross Cultural Competence
8 - Ethical practice
9 - Social Innovation
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures
Textbooks and Resources

Textbooks

There are no required textbooks.

IT Resources

You will need access to the following IT resources:
  • CQUniversity Student Email
  • Internet
  • Unit Website (Moodle)
  • JDK 11 - OpenJDK
  • Apache NetBeans IDE 12.4 (available from https://netbeans.apache.org/download/nb124/nb124.html)
  • Scene Builder 12 or later available from https://gluonhq.com/products/scene-builder/
  • MySQL Community Server 8.0.26 (available from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/)
  • JavaFX 11.0.12 (available from https://gluonhq.com/products/javafx/)
  • Apache TomEE 8.0.0 TomEE Plus (available from https://tomee.apache.org/download.html)
  • Jakarta EE 8 (available from https://jakarta.ee/release/8/)
Referencing Style

All submissions for this unit must use the referencing styles below:

For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.

Teaching Contacts
Mary Tom Unit Coordinator
m.tom@cqu.edu.au
Schedule
Week 1 Begin Date: 07 Mar 2022

Module/Topic

Project Management and Project Planning

Chapter

Chapter 1
Section 1.2 Software Engineering Ethics
Chapter 22
22.1 Risk Management
22.3 Teamwork
Chapter 23
23.2 Plan-driven development
23.3 Project Scheduling

Events and Submissions/Topic

Week 2 Begin Date: 14 Mar 2022

Module/Topic

Requirements Engineering and Quality Management

Chapter

Chapter 23
23.4 Agile Planning
Chapter 4
4.1 Requirements elicitation
Chapter 5
5.1 Context Models
Chapter 24
24.2 Software Standards
24.4 Quality Management and Agile Development

Events and Submissions/Topic

Read the recommended sections of the reference Textbook and apply the principles in your project plan.

Week 3 Begin Date: 21 Mar 2022

Module/Topic

System Modeling

Chapter

Chapter 5
5.2 Interaction models

Events and Submissions/Topic

Project Proposal and Project Plan Due: Week 3 Friday (25 Mar 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 4 Begin Date: 28 Mar 2022

Module/Topic

Requirements Engineering and Architectural Design

Chapter

Chapter 4
4.1 Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
4.4 Requirements Specification
Chapter 6
6.3 Architectural Patterns

Events and Submissions/Topic

Week 5 Begin Date: 04 Apr 2022

Module/Topic

Object-Oriented Design and Testing

Chapter

Chapter 7
7.1 Object-Oriented design using the UML
Chapter 8
8.2 Test-driven development

Events and Submissions/Topic

Project Progress Report 1 Due: Friday (8 April 2022) 11.45 pm AEST

Vacation Week Begin Date: 11 Apr 2022

Module/Topic

Chapter

Events and Submissions/Topic

Week 6 Begin Date: 18 Apr 2022

Module/Topic

Chapter

Events and Submissions/Topic

Week 7 Begin Date: 25 Apr 2022

Module/Topic

System Implementation

Chapter

Chapter 7
7.3 Implementation Issues

Events and Submissions/Topic

Project Progress Report 2 Due: Friday (29 April 2022) 11.45 pm AEST


Project Requirements Specification and Design Due: Week 7 Tuesday (26 Apr 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 8 Begin Date: 02 May 2022

Module/Topic

System Implementation

Chapter

Events and Submissions/Topic

Week 9 Begin Date: 09 May 2022

Module/Topic

Configuration management

Chapter

Chapter 24
24.3 Reviews and Inspections
Chapter 25
25.2 System Building

Events and Submissions/Topic

Project Progress Report 3 Due: Friday (13 May 2022) 11.45 pm AEST

Week 10 Begin Date: 16 May 2022

Module/Topic

Software Testing

Chapter

Chapter 8
8.3 Release Testing
8.4 User Testing

Events and Submissions/Topic

Week 11 Begin Date: 23 May 2022

Module/Topic

Chapter

Events and Submissions/Topic

Project Progress Report 4 Due: Friday (27 May 2022) 11.45 pm AEST

Week 12 Begin Date: 30 May 2022

Module/Topic

Chapter

Events and Submissions/Topic

Final Project - software and report Due: Week 12 Friday (3 June 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Review/Exam Week Begin Date: 06 Jun 2022

Module/Topic

Project Presentation

Chapter

Events and Submissions/Topic

Project Presentation Due: Review/Exam Week Monday (6 June 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Exam Week Begin Date: 13 Jun 2022

Module/Topic

Chapter

Events and Submissions/Topic

Term Specific Information

Unit Coordinator
Dr Mary Tom
College of Information and Communications Technology
School of Engineering and Technology
Central Queensland University
Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia
Phone: +61 7 3295 1119
Email: m.tom@cqu.edu.au

Assessment Tasks

1 Written Assessment

Assessment Title
Project Proposal and Project Plan

Task Description

This is a group assessment. In this assessment, you should clearly define the scope of the project you will be undertaking as a team. You should create a context diagram illustrating the main components of your proposed software application. You should include the following sections in your written submission.

  1. A Use case diagram showing the main use cases of the software application to be developed.
  2. User Requirements.
  3. A preliminary project schedule showing the main tasks, completion times, and mile stones, and team members responsible for the tasks.
  4. Risk management plan
  5. Quality Assurance plan

Further details and guidelines to complete this task will be provided in Moodle Unit website.


Assessment Due Date

Week 3 Friday (25 Mar 2022) 11:45 pm AEST


Return Date to Students

Week 5 Thursday (7 Apr 2022)


Weighting
15%

Assessment Criteria

  1. Clear concise and feasible scope of project
  2. Clear identification of System components and interaction
  3. Correct identification of Use cases
  4. Feasible project schedule with tasks, time, and responsible team member
  5. Correct identification of software tools to be used in the project development
  6. Clear identification of risks and risk mitigation strategy
  7. Appropriate selection of quality standards and software engineering ethical guidelines


Referencing Style

Submission
Online

Submission Instructions
You should submit one document file (.doc or .docx) following the given template availabe from the Unit website. One of the team members only should submit.

Learning Outcomes Assessed
  • Manage a software development project, particularly the scheduling of time and resources, development of risk mitigation strategies, and the generation of supporting documentation

2 Written Assessment

Assessment Title
Periodic Project Progress Reports

Task Description

This is an individual assessment. Each team member is required to submit four Periodic Project Progress Reports (2A, 2B, 2C, and 2D). The progress reports 2A, and 2B weigh 2 marks each and the other two progress reports 2C, and 2D weigh 3 marks each (totaling 10 marks for all project progress reports). All four reports must be written using the standard template file provided in the Moodle Unit website. The detailed specification of this assessment will be provided in the Moodle Unit website. The submission due dates for all 4 progress reports are as below:

Project Progress Report 1 (Assessment 2A) Friday of Week 5 (11:45 pm AEST)
Project Progress Report 2 (Assessment 2B) Friday of Week 7 (11:45 pm AEST)
Project Progress Report 3 (Assessment 2C) Friday of Week 9 (11:45 pm AEST )
Project Progress Report 4 (Assessment 2D) Friday of Week 11 (11:45 pm AEST )


Assessment Due Date

Return Date to Students

Marked reports will be returned one week after submission.


Weighting
10%

Assessment Criteria

The assessment specification and marking criteria will be provided in the Moodle Unit website.


Referencing Style

Submission
Online

Submission Instructions
Submit one document file (.doc or .docx) by all team members of each group.

Learning Outcomes Assessed
  • Work effectively as part of a development team

3 Written Assessment

Assessment Title
Project Requirements Specification and Design

Task Description

This Assessment contains group and individual components. Group task is to prepare the written document containing software requirements specification and design. Individual component is an in-class presentation of the written document. The written document should include:

  1. Functional and non-functional requirements
  2. Use-case diagrams
  3. Use case scenarios
  4. Software architecture
  5. Subsystem models and sequence models
  6. Entity Relationship Diagrams
  7. User interface Designs
  8. Mapping of Requirements to use-cases

Each team member should prepare and submit presentation slides using Microsoft PowerPoint or other presentation software. This should also be presented in-class. Refer to the Assessment 3 specification available from the Moodle Unit website for further details.


Assessment Due Date

Week 7 Tuesday (26 Apr 2022) 11:45 pm AEST

In-class presentations will take place in Week 7 and this will be organised by the local lecturer or tutor.


Return Date to Students

Week 9 Monday (9 May 2022)


Weighting
25%

Assessment Criteria

  1. Clear identification of use cases that align with the defined scope of the project
  2. Correct identification of functional requirements following the use cases
  3. Appropriately chosen quality standards suitable for the application domain
  4. Correct and clear identification of non-functional requirements that can comply with the quality standards
  5. Correctly illustrated software architecture showing main components
  6. Clearly written use-case scenarios
  7. Correct sequence diagrams illustrating the important sequences of operation

Refer to the Assessment 3 specification and marking criteria available from the Moodle Unit website.


Referencing Style

Submission
Online

Submission Instructions
Submit one document file (.doc or .docx) by one of the team members. Submit one file containing presentation slides (.ppt) by all team members.

Learning Outcomes Assessed
  • Apply software engineering processes, including requirement analysis, application software design, algorithm design, coding and debugging, software testing, and software project management.
  • Develop and implement a quality management plan for a small software development project adhering to ethical responsibility
  • Communicate effectively by using written and oral presentation, understanding the needs of various stakeholders

4 Project (applied)

Assessment Title
Final Project - software and report

Task Description

This assessment has two components -the final software application and written report. One member of each group must submit the completed software application source code files and binary file(s) (.jar or .war) for the fully executable software application. All team members should submit the final report which is a document file (.doc or .docx). The project final report should contain the revised project scope, requirements specification, design, test plan, evidence of testing, user manual, and teamwork details. This report should be prepared following the given template and should include all the details as required in the Assessment 4 Specification available from the Moodle Unit website.


Assessment Due Date

Week 12 Friday (3 June 2022) 11:45 pm AEST


Return Date to Students

The marking sheet with comments will be returned after the certification of grades.


Weighting
40%

Assessment Criteria

  1. Completely  developed software application as per the defined scope and any changes
  2. Correct functioning of the developed application as per the functional requirements and use cases
  3. User interface adhering to the designed User Interface Design Principles
  4. Adherence to planned quality standards

Further details are available in the Assessment 4 specification and marking criteria available from the Moodle Unit website.


Referencing Style

Submission
Online

Submission Instructions
Submit one zip file containing source code files and distributable application (.jar or .war) by one of the team members. Submit also the final report document file (.doc or .docx) by all team members.

Learning Outcomes Assessed
  • Apply software engineering processes, including requirement analysis, application software design, algorithm design, coding and debugging, software testing, and software project management.
  • Manage a software development project, particularly the scheduling of time and resources, development of risk mitigation strategies, and the generation of supporting documentation
  • Develop and implement a quality management plan for a small software development project adhering to ethical responsibility
  • Work effectively as part of a development team
  • Review and critically evaluate team and individual performance to reflect on the processes followed and identify areas for improvement.

5 Presentation

Assessment Title
Project Presentation

Task Description

This is an individual assessment. You should do an oral presentation of one part of your project to an audience including the cohort of students and staff in this unit, industry representatives, and students and staff from the School of Engineering and Technology. Each of you should prepare formal presentation slides such a way that the presentations by all group members should provide the complete project presentation to the audience.


Assessment Due Date

Review/Exam Week Monday (6 June 2022) 11:45 pm AEST

The exact time of presentation will be informed nearing to the date. You should make yourself available for the whole day.


Return Date to Students

Weighting
10%

Assessment Criteria

You should consider the following aspects for your presentation.

  1. Clearly written formal presentation slides
  2. Clear expression of ideas
  3. Convincing arguments
  4. Consideration of technical and non-technical audience in usage of terms.

Further guidelines and marking criteria are available from Project Presentation Specification available from the Unit website.


Referencing Style

Submission
Online

Submission Instructions
All group members should submit presentation slides in one pdf (.pdf) file.

Learning Outcomes Assessed
  • Communicate effectively by using written and oral presentation, understanding the needs of various stakeholders

Academic Integrity Statement

As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.

Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.

When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.

Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.

As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.

What is a breach of academic integrity?

A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.

Why is academic integrity important?

A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.

Where can I get assistance?

For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.

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