Practical 3

Objective: To identify the suitable software development model for the given case
studies/scenario.

Problem description:
Identify the most appropriate SDLC model for these scenario.

Case Study-1
“ABC” is a new enterprise recently started by a few young entrepreneurs, intended to
develop robotic systems using IT based solutions. “TENZ” is a well-established
automobile manufacturing plant, interested in automating some of the operations of the
plant as first step towards automation, TENZ has decided to deploy a robotic arm to
pick and place large number of bolts from one tray of a conveyer belt to another tray of
a different conveyer belt. Moving one bolt at a time. TENZ has asked ABC for
demonstration the robotic arm for the said purpose as a proof of concept. This is the
first project being executed by ABC.TENZ would like to have a first experience of the
robotic arm before signing the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with ABC. After
MOU sign-off, TENZ would provide the complete set of requirement of the robot.

Case Study-2
ABC is an international software house. ABC is currently working on a project that is
totally new for the development team and even the client is confused about the
requirements of this project. Hence this company is facing difficulties because they fail
to apprehend user requirements properly. For this project, it is decided to build a sample
application and show it to the client for feedback. In the context of this above scenario
as a project manager what will be the choice of the software lifecycle model?

Case Study-3
SMART_TECHY is a software development company working for online shop of
electronic equipment. The different tasks that are expected from the teams in the
company are as follows:
· The registered users must be allotted with an initial password after registration the
user should be able to change the password keep his/her account secure.
· The people who are browsing through the shopping website, want to subscribe
through the mailing list so that they can get updates about discount, availability of the
product and they can buy the product.
· The graphics on the website must be catchy, to the point and must be optimized for
memory and time.
· The admin must give security support so that there is no unauthorized access by
earlier employees or other intruders.
· The shopping must be available on mobile app, so that all the data can be saved on
cloud, and it can be accessed from anywhere.
· Finally, all the information should be stored in a database in a proper data model
Suppose you are a project manager for a software product in a new and growing market
with your competitors who are also developing a product will be the same product.
Which model to select and why? How will you decide the tasks and the assignment to
the team members?

Case Study-4
There is a software project called “Election management system” and we want to
choose a process model. What do you think is the suitable one? The software
requirements are clear.

Case Study-5
Video-Rental LTD is a small video rental store. The store lends videos to customers for
a fee, and purchases its videos from a local supplier. A customer wishing to borrow a
video provides the empty box of the video they desire, their membership card, and
payment – payment is always with the credit card used to open the customer account.
The customer then returns the video to the store after watching it. If a loaned video is
overdue by a day the customer’s credit card is charged, and a reminder letter is sent to
them. Each day after that a further card is made, and each week a reminder letter is
Sent. This continues until either the customer returns the video, or the charges are
equal to the cost of replacing the video. New customers fill out a form with their personal
details and credit card details, and the counter staff give the new customer a
membership card. Each new customer’s form is added to the customer file. The local
video supplier sends a list of available titles to Video-Rental LTD, who decide whether
to send them an order and payment. If an order is sent, then the supplier sends the
requested videos to the store. For each new video a new stock form is completed and
placed in the stock file.

Case Study-6
To develop the Home Health portion of General Hospital that keeps track of the billing
and Medicare requirements and payments. The current system was not scalable to the
growing needs and transformation within the environment. Thus, in addition to specific
desirable criteria of the chosen software, our explicit purpose in helping General was
twofold: 1) to modernize their operations with current technology; and 2) to provide the
best patient care available to their clients in the Home Health arena.
Case Study-7
The Income tax filing portal, will undergo changes as and when the change in the
income tax rules come into effect. The requirements are clear and already existing
systems may have to undergo changes.

Case Study-8
The required LMS is a digital learning environment used to support learning in schools
with students from age 4 to 18. It is intended to replace an existing system (Glow) that
was specially built for the purpose and which includes its own applications for e-mail,
etc. Clients are from non-technical background. Users did not care about the system
requirements and did not have time to interact with the development team. Secondly,
stakeholders simply did not understand the terminology or approaches used – terms
such as use-case simply made no sense to them.

Case Study-9
Airbus 340 flight control system is a safety critical system that implements the fly-by-
wire flight system on the Airbus. The Airbus A340 is a long-haul aircraft that includes a
critical fly-by-wire flight control system that mediates pilot commands and controls flight
surface actuators. This is a development of the first fly-by-wire system which was
introduced in the Airbus A320 aircraft.

Case Study-10
You are interacting with the MIS department of a very large oil company with multiple
departments. They have a complex regency system. Migrating the data from this legacy
system is not an easy task and would take a considerable time. The oil company is very
particular about processes, acceptance criteria and legal contracts.

Hint: Below table will assist in making a proper selection of process model.

Factors Waterfal V- Evolutionar Spiral Iterative and Agile

l Shape y Incremental
 d Prototyping

Unclear User Excell Excell

Poor Poor Good Good
Requirement ent ent

Unfamiliar Excell
Poor Poor Excellent Good Poor
Technology ent

Complex Excell
Good Good Excellent Good Poor
System ent

Reliable Excell
Good Good Poor Good Good
system ent

Short Time Excell

Poor Poor Good Poor Excellent
Schedule ent

Strong Project Excelle Excell Excell Excell

Excellent Excellent
Management nt ent ent ent

Excell
Cost limitation Poor Poor Poor Poor Excellent
ent

Visibility of Excell Excell

Good Good Excellent Good
Stakeholders ent ent

Skills limitation Good Good Poor Poor Good Poor

Excelle Excell
Documentation Good Good Excellent Poor
nt ent
Component Excelle Excell
Poor Poor Excellent Poor
reusability nt ent