Overview
This capstone unit in the Application Development major of the Bachelor of Information Technology course is designed so that you can demonstrate your learning across the whole course of study before making the transition to the next stage of your career. You are required to demonstrate and apply the skills you have developed in earlier core and application development specialisation units by undertaking an authentic task group project or an industry project. 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 adhering to software engineering principles and standards. You will document and present the requirement analysis, identify potential cyber threats and system vulnerabilities, design artefacts, and the results from software testing. Your team will develop the project management, quality assurance, and cyber security components within project specifications. You will also evaluate and discuss your contribution to the project team and the overall team performance.
Details
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 - 2023
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).
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
Assessment Overview
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.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
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 Unit Evaluation
Redundant and inconsistent assessment requirements need to be rectified.
Review the assessment requirements to eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.
Feedback from Unit Evaluation
More useful learning materials would be helpful.
Review the learning materials.
- Apply software engineering processes in the context of application development, 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, application of cyber security best practices, 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
- Communicate effectively by using written and oral presentation, understanding the needs of various stakeholders
- Work effectively as part of a development team
- Critically review individual and team performance, along with identifying areas for improvement.
The Australian Computer Society (ACS), the professional association for Australia's ICT sector, recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is adopted by organisations, governments, and individuals in many countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles. ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile.
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 (USEV)
- Database design (DBDS)
- Systems integration and build (SINT)
- Testing (TEST)
- Configuration management (CFMG)
- Application support (ASUP)
- System installation and removal (HSIN)
- Information Security (SCTY)
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
There are no required textbooks.
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/)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing styles below:
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
l.li@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Project management and project planning
Chapter
Reference book: Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville
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
Form groups & topic exploration
Module/Topic
Requirements engineering and quality management
Chapter
Reference book: Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville
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
Module/Topic
System modeling
Chapter
Reference book: Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville
Chapter 5
5.2 Interaction models
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Requirements engineering and architectural design
Chapter
Reference book: Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville
Chapter 4
4.1 Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
4.4 Requirements Specification
Chapter 6
6.3 Architectural Patterns
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Object-Oriented design and testing
Chapter
Reference book: Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville
Chapter 7
7.1 Object-Oriented design using the UML
Chapter 8
8.2 Test-driven development
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Complete requirements and design
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
System implementation
Chapter
Reference book: Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville
Chapter 7
7.3 Implementation Issues
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
System implementation
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Configuration management
Chapter
Reference book: Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville
Chapter 24
24.3 Reviews and Inspections
Chapter 25
25.1 Version Management
25.2 System Building
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Software testing
Chapter
Reference book: Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville
Chapter 8
8.3 Release Testing
8.4 User Testing
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Project Presentation
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Written Assessment
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.
- A Use case diagram showing the main use cases of the software application to be developed.
- User Requirements.
- A preliminary project schedule showing the main tasks, completion times, and milestones, and team members responsible for the tasks.
- Risk management plan
- Quality Assurance plan
Further details and guidelines to complete this task will be provided on the unit website.
Week 3 Friday (24 Mar 2023) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 5 Thursday (6 Apr 2023)
- Clear concise and feasible scope of project
- Clear identification of system components and interaction
- Appropriate identification of use cases
- Feasible project schedule with tasks, time, and responsible team member
- Correct identification of software tools to be used in the project development
- Clear identification of risks and risk mitigation strategy
- Appropriate selection of quality standards and software engineering ethical guidelines.
Please refer to the unit website for the details.
- Manage a software development project, particularly the scheduling of time and resources, application of cyber security best practices, development of risk mitigation strategies, and the generation of supporting documentation
2 Written Assessment
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). 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 ) |
Due in Weeks 5,7,9,&11, as per instruction on the unit website.
Marked reports will be returned one week after submission.
Please refer to the unit website for the details.
- Work effectively as part of a development team
3 Written Assessment
This Assessment contains a written document and an in-class group oral presentation. The written document include:
- Functional and non-functional requirements
- Use-case diagrams
- Use case scenarios
- Software architecture
- Subsystem models and sequence models
- Entity-Relationship Diagrams
- User Interface Designs
- Mapping of requirements to use-cases
Week 7 Monday (24 Apr 2023) 9:00 am AEST
In-class presentations will take place in Week 7 and this will be organised by the local lecturer or tutor.
Week 9 Monday (8 May 2023)
The marked assessments will be returned within two weeks.
- Clear identification of use cases that align with the defined scope of the project
- Correct identification of functional requirements following the use cases
- Appropriately chosen quality standards suitable for the application domain
- Correct and clear identification of non-functional requirements that can comply with the quality standards
- Correctly illustrated software architecture showing main components
- Clearly written use-case scenarios
- Correct sequence diagrams illustrating the important sequences of operation
- The PPT and the oral presentation are clearly delivered in the class.
Please refer to the unit website for the details.
- Apply software engineering processes in the context of application development, 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)
This assessment has three components - the source code of the final software application (group submission), the implementation and testing document (group submission) and the project portfolio (individual submission). Please note the project portfolio needs to be submitted on to 2 platforms - one for Moodle and one for Portfolium (https://portfolium.com/activity) . Please read the below instruction carefully.
Group submission (one member of each team to submit)
- Source code of the final project - the completed software application source code files and binary file(s) (.jar or .war) for the fully executable software application.
- A Word document file that contains the implementation & testing report and the project review (check the unit website for the details).
Individual submission (every student needs to submit 2 copies - one for Moodle and one for Portfolium)
- A Word document that contains the final project report. The final project report should contain the revised project summary, scope, requirements specification, design, test plan, evidence of testing, user manual, and teamwork details (check the unit website for the details).
Week 12 Friday (2 June 2023) 11:45 pm AEST
Marked assessment results will be available on the certification day of Term 1.
- Completely developed software application as per the defined scope and any changes
- Correct functioning of the developed application as per the functional requirements and use cases
- User interface adhering to the designed User Interface Design Principles
- Adherence to planned quality standards
Please refer to the unit website for the details.
- Apply software engineering processes in the context of application development, 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, application of cyber security best practices, 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
- Critically review individual and team performance, along with identifying areas for improvement.
5 Presentation
Your group must deliver your Final Presentation live using Zoom video conferencing. The final presentations will be scheduled in a conference-style event, running up to 1 day. Groups will be assigned to present at time slots during the day, and also be required to view presentations of other groups. The presentation day is planned for Monday 5 June 2023; the detailed schedule for presentations will be announced during the term.
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. The PPT slides need to be submitted by one group member (check the unit website for the details).
Review/Exam Week Monday (5 June 2023) 9:00 am AEST
The exact time of presentation will be informed nearing to the date. You should make yourself available for the whole day.
The results will be available on the certification day of Term 1.
You should consider the following aspects for your presentation.
- Clearly written formal presentation slides
- Clear expression of ideas
- Convincing arguments
- Consideration of technical and non-technical audience in usage of terms.
Please refer to the unit website for the details.
- Communicate effectively by using written and oral presentation, understanding the needs of various stakeholders
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?
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What can you do to act with integrity?
