Analyse et Mthodologie Informatiques

Case: Courseware System

Roel Wuyts
ULB 2005/2006 http://decomp.ulb.ac.be/education/ami0506/

Sequential approach: case study

Well take a problem statement and

dene use cases design the system

build class diagrams complement with interaction diagrams

This would then be followed by the implementation

which we will not do

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Case : Requirements
For our case study, we will be the architects assigned the task of constructing the design elements for a system that can be used to manage courses/classes for an organization that specializes in providing training. Let us name the system that we will be designing as the Courseware Management System. The organization offers a variety of courses in a variety of areas such as learning management techniques and understanding different software languages and technologies. Each course is made up of a set of topics. Tutors in the organization are assigned courses to teach according to the area that they specialize in and their availability. The organization publishes and maintains a calendar of the different courses and the assigned tutors every year. There is a group of course administrators in the organization who manage the courses including course content, assign courses to tutors, and dene the course schedule. The training organization aims to use the Courseware Management System to get a better control and visibility to the management of courses as also to streamline the process of generating and managing the schedule of the different courses. Students can view and take courses.
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Make use cases

Remember:

What are the actors? What are their relations (if any)? What are the use cases? Associate actors and use cases

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Finding actors
From the problem statement we can nd the following terms and entities specic to the system:

Courses and Topics that make up a course Tutors who teach courses Course administrators who manage the assignment of the courses to tutors Calendar or Course Schedule is generated as a result of the course management system Students who refer to the Course schedule or Calendar to decide which courses they wish to take up for study
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Finding actors (ctd)

What are the active parts in the previous list?

Tutors Course administrators Students

Difference between tutors and students, and administrators

the course administrator is the primary actor students and tutors are secondary actors

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Finding use cases

The primary business ows in the system are:

Manage courses Manage course assignments

Lets have a look at these two in more detail

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Managing courses
We can nd the following processes for managing courses:

View courses Manage topics for a course Manage course information

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Manage course assignments

Similarly, we can identify the following processes for managing course assignments:

View course calendar View tutors Manage tutor information Assign courses to tutors

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So..
We found one primary actor: course administrators And the following use cases:
View courses Manage topics for a course Manage course information View course calendar View tutors Manage tutor information Assign courses to tutors

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Use case diagram

Courseware Management System View courses

Manage course information

Manage topics for a course Student

View course calendar

Course Administrator

View tutors Tutor Assig courses to tutors Manage tutor information

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Build class diagram

We now have use cases

what does the system do?

Now lets design the system

how does the system accomplishes its goal? Can use responsibility-driven design
Find responsibilities from requirements, and distribute them over classes

Or can get them from use cases

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Identifying classes
Actors are primary entities in the system

will be mapped on classes

Also have passive entities (courses, topics, calendar)

also will be mapped to classes

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Identifying methods
CourseAdministrator is the primary actor

use cases it is connected to become methods

ClassName Methods viewCourses() manageCourse() manageTopic() viewCourseCalendar() viewTutors() manageTutorInformation() assignTutorToCourse()
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CourseAdministrator

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Identifying methods (ctd)

Add methods for domain knowledge
ClassName Course Methods
viewAllCourses() viewCourseInformation() createCourse() modifyCourse() removeCourse() viewAllTopics() viewTopicInformation() createTopic() modifyTopic() viewTutorInformation() createTutor() modifyTutor() removeTutor() viewCourseCalendar() viewAllStudents() viewStudentInformation() 15

Topic

Tutor CourseCalendar Student

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Classes
CourseAdministrator +viewCourses() +manageCourse() +manageTopic() +viewCourseCalendar() +viewTutors() +manageTutorInformation() +assignTutorToCourse() Tutor +viewTutorInformation() +createTutor() +modifyTutor() +removeTutor() Student +viewAllStudents() +viewStudentInformation()

Topic +viewAllTopics() +viewTopicInformation() +createTopic() +modifyTopic() +removeTopic()

Course +viewAllCourses() +viewCourseInformation() +createCourse() +modifyCourse() +removeCourse() CourseCalendar +viewCourseCalendar()

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Finding relations
Lets highlight the actors in our original description: The organization offers a variety of courses in a variety of areas such as learning management techniques and understanding different software languages and technologies. Each course is made up of a set of topics. Tutors in the organization are assigned courses to teach according to the area that they specialize in and their availability. The organization publishes and maintains a calendar of the different courses and the assigned tutors every year. There is a group of course administrators in the organization who manage the courses including course content, assign courses to tutors, and dene the course schedule. The training organization aims to use the Courseware Management System to get a better control and visibility to the management of courses as also to streamline the process of generating and managing the schedule of the different courses.

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Finding relations
Now lets nd relations between the classes: The organization offers a variety of courses in a variety of areas such as learning management techniques and understanding different software languages and technologies. Each course is made up of a set of topics. Tutors in the organization are assigned courses to teach according to the area that they specialize in and their availability. The organization publishes and maintains a calendar of the different courses and the assigned tutors every year. There is a group of course administrators in the organization who manage the courses including course content, assign courses to tutors, and dene the course schedule. The training organization aims to use the Courseware Management System to get a better control and visibility to the management of courses as also to streamline the process of generating and managing the schedule of the different courses.

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Finding relations
Each course is made up of a set of topics
Topic +viewAllTopics() +viewTopicInformation() +createTopic() +modifyTopic() +removeTopic() consists of Course +viewAllCourses() +viewCourseInformation() +createCourse() +modifyCourse() +removeCourse()

Tutors in the organization are assigned courses

Can mean different things (does the tutor knows its assigned courses?)

... administrators ... who manage the courses ... ... calendar of the different courses ... The organization publishes and maintains a calendar ... and ... tutors ...
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Class Diagram
CourseAdministrator +viewCourses() +manageCourse() +manageTopic() +viewCourseCalendar() +viewTutors() +manageTutorInformation() +assignTutorToCourse() Tutor manages +viewTutorInformation() +createTutor() +modifyTutor() +removeTutor() Student +viewAllStudents() +viewStudentInformation()

manages

manages

teaches

views

views

Topic +viewAllTopics() +viewTopicInformation() +createTopic() +modifyTopic() +removeTopic() consists of

Course +viewAllCourses() +viewCourseInformation() +createCourse() +modifyCourse() +removeCourse() consists of CourseCalendar +viewCourseCalendar()

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Adding interactions
Lets add some interactions to complement the (static) class diagrams

sequence diagrams collaboration diagrams

These come normally from the use case descriptions

which we have not looked at in this case

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Manage course information

The sequence of steps carried out in the "Manage course information" ow are:

A user who is a course administrator invokes the manage course functionality. The manage course functionality of the course administrator invokes either the course creation or course modication functionality of a course. After the course is either created or modied, the manage topic functionality of the course administrator calls the topic creation or modication functionality of a topic. Finally, the user invokes the assign tutor to course functionality of the course administrator to assign a tutor to the selected course.
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With a sequence diagram

cmsUser admin: CourseAdministrator manageCourse() createCourse() course: Course courseID createTopic() topic: Topic topicID assignTutorToCourse() tutor: Tutor

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With a collaboration diagram

course: Course <<new>> 1..* 1.1 : courseID := createCourse() admin: CourseAdministrator 0..*

user

1 : manageCourse()

1.2: topicID := createTopic()

topic: Topic <<new>>

1.3: assignTutorToCourse() tutor: Tutor

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Wrap-up
Sequential approach example using OO

Use case analysis OO design (implementation)

Illustrates mechanism for nding classes/methods

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References
Took the example from: http://www.developer.com/design/article.php/1593811 But adapted it because there are errors in the solution on the website...

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