UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND

SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

MODULE CODE: CET333

MODULE TITLE: Product Development
MODULE ASSESSOR: Barnali Das
ASSESSMENT: 1 of 1
TITLE OF ASSESSMENT: Product Development ePortfolio
ASSESSMENT VALUE: 100%

PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION CAREFULLY.

This assignment contributes 100% to your final module mark. Please ensure that you retain a
duplicate of your assignment work as a safeguard in the unlikely event your work is lost or corrupted
online.

THE FOLLOWING LEARNING OUTCOMES WILL BE ASSESSED:

Knowledge
1. Have a critical awareness of a range of practitioner methods and techniques appropriate to
developing a product in a specific computing context.
2. Understand the business and technological context in which product development and
evaluation take place.

Skills
3. Apply appropriate techniques to determine, specify, design, build and test a solution to a
problem.
4. Critically evaluate the process and the product of development activity.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
You are required to submit your work within the bounds of the University Infringement of Assessment
Regulations (see your Programme Guide). Plagiarism, paraphrasing and downloading large amounts
of information from external sources will not be tolerated and will be dealt with severely. The
coursework submission for this module is largely based on your practice. Still, this should be duly
referenced when you use material from other sources, such as an occasional short quote. It is
important to note that your work WILL BE SUBJECT TO CHECKS FOR ORIGINALITY, which WILL include
using an electronic plagiarism detection service.

Where you are asked to submit an individual piece of work, the work must be entirely your own. The
safety of your assessments is your responsibility. You must not permit another student access to your
work at any time during the inception, design or development of your coursework submission and
must take great care in this respect.
Where referencing is required, unless otherwise stated, the Harvard referencing system must be used
(see your Programme Guide or university library website).

Submission Date and Time: Detailed in the CANVAS assignment area

Submission Location: Electronic submission to the CANVAS assignment area
Assessment (Portfolio – 100%)

Assessment Scenario

The City of Payris won the bid to host the next FunOlympic Games in 2024. During the build-up to the
planned games in 2024, the city invested hugely in IT infrastructure and systems to ensure that the
games would be well organised, staffed, attended, and accessible to everyone on an online broadcast
platform.

The FunOlympic committee have decided that they require a few additional projects which need to
be completed before the games start to ensure the games run smoothly and that worldwide audiences
can enjoy the games online.

The city has appointed a team of IT systems and infrastructure professionals – you are one of them.
Interacting with the client to clarify exact system requirements is your job.

Analysis, Design and Development Task

You will gain more information needed to complete the design and development task via client
meetings. These meetings will reflect the knowledge and skillset appropriate to your programme of
study. You will not be required to provide the entire solution – see details below:

Each top-up degree programme has its own scenario. You only need to
complete the scenario for your degree.

▪ Scenario - Applied Business Computing

The FunOlympic committee need an online web system/web presence to promote the games
worldwide. The games will only be available to watch through a new online broadcast platform - but
the platform does not yet exist. As the committee need to establish how great the demand for the
service will be, they want you to build a system that promotes all the sports and asks potential
audiences to register their interest in accessing the new online broadcast platform. The public users
need to provide details of their name, country, email address and which sports they are mainly
interested in watching online. There is no need for them to login and provide passwords. The
FunOlympic committee also need an admin area which is password protected, which provides them
with access to the data on the number of users who have signed up.

▪ Scenario - Mobile and Web Technologies

The FunOlympic committee needs an app that athletes will use to record their movements while
they attend the game. This needs to record the venues they are at and the dates and times of their
presence at the venues. Athletes will be required to input this information into the app manually. The
system needs to be secure, so a login and password system is needed. Ideally, some form of
geolocation would also be present in the system.

▪ Scenario - Computer Systems Engineering

The committee require you to build an online registration system for audiences to gain access to the
proposed broadcast platform. The system must allow public users to register, login and logout when
using it and make selections of broadcasts they wish to watch. The system should also have an admin
side to allow an admin user to view user interactions, reset passwords, etc. The users need to provide
details of their name, country, email address, contact number and which sports they are mainly
interested in watching online. The users also need to provide passwords to register in the system. The
prototype solution must deliver the key functionality described (you will need to interview the client
to derive a full requirement list). However, at this prototypical stage, the inclusion of mechanisms for
securing payments is not required.

▪ Network Systems Engineering Students

You must research appropriate network design methodologies/paradigms and use these to design and
implement an appropriate secure network solution that can be used at the FunOlympic Games in
Payris. It is recommended that a simulation of the network is developed with documentation of the
addressing scheme to be used. You will need to evaluate the methodologies, justifying your choice
and using it to implement a secure network solution. You should evaluate the design, implementation
and security.
The committee have provided you with a “skeleton” design planned for the previous year’s event that
did not happen. You must design and simulate this set-up, but in addition, you need to allow for the
added online broadcast platform – and you must design with security in mind such that the broadcasts
aren’t hacked and restreamed elsewhere for free.

Aquatics Palace

Stadium of
Delight

Web Server FunOlympic

(Yet to be connected) INTERNET/WAN
Village

FunOlympics HQ

Each of the venues’ host requirements is shown in the table below:

 Dept/ Venue Stadium of Aquatics Palace FunOlympic
Delight Village
Venue Management 10 4 6
Athletes 120 60 90
Venue Security 5 2 4
Merchandise Vendors 32 14 20
Web Server 2 n/a n/a

▪ Scenario - Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, and ICT

It is your responsibility to discuss and establish the requirements the client needs. In general, you will
need to develop tools that will allow the client to analyse how successful the broadcast platform is.
They hope the analysis tools will aid marketing and advertising during the run of the games.

Given that the games have yet to take place, the client is expecting you to generate test data of web
server logs. Assume the web server is Internet Information Server, and the format of the logs is shown
below. Save the web server log file in an Excel file (CSV or similar). Then, you should develop tools
using R or Python to analyse the web server logs to report information such as country of origin,
number of visits to the website, time of each visit, main interests (based on selected/viewed sports),
etc. The client is hoping for a detailed analysis, so you should aim to include diagrams such as bar
charts, scatterplots or pie charts to represent the results from your analysis best. You can also use
basic statistics to describe any summaries, such as means and standard deviations.

Web server log file example:

02:49:36 228.10.0.1 GET /index.html 200
03:01:07 155.55.0.24 GET /images/games.jpg 304
03:54:36 157.20.30.10 GET /searchsports.php 200
04:17:04 157.20.30.10 GET /football.html 200
Assessment Tasks
Your role is to act as a consultant, analyse your client's needs, develop and test a prototype solution
and deliver and evaluate this solution with your client. In parallel, you must document the project
professionally and ethically, just as expected, if you were an analyst working for a software house or
service provider.

You must consult with your client to determine and agree on the exact requirements. Your module
tutor (or someone appointed for this by the module tutor) will act as your client. You are to interview
your client to determine the exact requirements and to develop your solution using suitable
technologies.

To carry out the project professionally, you must carefully consider the appropriate development
methodology and the choice of implementation technologies. This should be based on the client‘s
needs and the nature of the project. You will need to document the choice of these methods and
technologies and any alternatives in your report and justify your choices. The application should be
developed based upon a sound software engineering or networking/telecoms approach, which should
cover the requirements elicitation, implementation, testing and evaluation phases where you verify
the solution and critically evaluate the overall result.

You also need to plan your project and generate a project schedule with task breakdown, effort
allocation and sequencing of tasks. You are then required to demonstrate the use of this
documentation, including any updates/adjustments which reflect the true development history,
including any rescheduling and provide a critical reflection on the history of your project.
You must evaluate your system with your client and confirm that it meets the requirements originally
negotiated and satisfies the client’s needs. This evaluation activity must be reflective and show that
the development process and the product were properly tested and evaluated.

How well you report all these aspects will affect the mark you receive; please view the marking
criteria. Your module mark is derived both from your ability to provide a technical solution for a client
AND from the portfolio, which documents the planning and conduct of the project in total; compliance
with portfolio requirements is, therefore, very important.

For this assessment, you are required to produce the following:

Task 1: Portfolio Report

Task 2: Prototype Product and Demonstration

Task 1: Portfolio Report
You are required to produce a portfolio report that documents the project's development. This MUST
be submitted as a single PDF file that is well structured, coherent and contains the following sections:

Front Cover: This should include the module code, your project title, your student’s name and
your ID.

Contents: Your work MUST include page numbers throughout and contents.

1. Requirements Specification: A mandatory statement of your proposed solution's functional,

non-functional or technical requirements and expected deliverables using the template
provided. This statement must be approved and signed off by your client as a basis for the
development.

2. Planning Documentation: A Project Schedule that identifies the tasks, effort allocation,
timescales and deliverables required during the project to successfully generate the proposed
solution and systems documentation by the specified deadline. This must also reflect upon
any revisions to scheduling where applicable during the project

3. Client Contact Record Sheet: Mandatory record of 3 client meetings. This should be
completed and signed off by your client and yourself at set points in the project, then scanned
and inserted into your e-portfolio illustrating your regular engagement with the client with
key bulleted Action Points.

4. Methodology: A report made with direct reference to your Planning Documentation, which
explains and justifies the main approaches, methods and tools you have built into your
planning cycle to ensure that you deliver the specified solution to your client in the agreed-
upon timescales. Note this report must be written in your own words about your professional
practice. This is NOT a research review, so you are not required to reference academic papers.
However, you need to investigate the approaches you intend to implement and apply in your
practice to write about them critically.

5. Solution Design Documentation: Present the design documentation relevant to the field of
study that you have created.

6. Testing and Evaluation: This section should detail how you tested your project against the
functional and non-functional requirements. You should provide details of the testing
methodologies, protocols, frameworks, tools, etc., and provide your testing results.

7. Technical Deployment of the Solution: A section describing the technical requirements of the
solution, including a summary of any installation and/or deployment procedures in the
proposed production environment. It is highly recommended that a screencast is also
included.
 8. Critical Reflection: Regarding your Planning Documentation and Practitioner Statement,
critically review the effectiveness of implementing the methods and tools adopted during the
entire planning and development cycle and how this will inform and adapt your approach to
client projects in the future.

Task 2: Prototype Product and Demonstration

You are required to produce a working solution and demonstrate this to your client. This
demonstration will be done via a pre-recorded video, which shows the functionality of the solution
you have created. Your solution must:

1. Conform to the agreed requirements

2. Be functional and largely error-free

You should carefully plan your demonstration before you begin recording it to ensure that you fully
demonstrate how you have met each requirement.

You will only be graded on the functionality you demonstrate in the video.

Submission Requirements

Task 1: For this task, you must submit a single PDF file containing all the sections outlined in the
Assessment Tasks section of this document.

Task 2: For this task, you are required to submit a video demonstration of your solution; you will only
be graded on the functionality that you demonstrate in this video.
Help with Referencing
Whenever you need to refer the reader to the source of some information, e.g., a
book/journal/academic paper/WWW address, provide a citation at that point within the main body
of your report.

Example 1: ... as we are all now aware, referencing is not trivial (Kendal, 2017)

Provide a reference list towards the end of your research paper (after your conclusions section but
before any appendices) that contains:

• References, a list of books/journals/academic papers/URLs, etc., that have been directly cited
from within the report (see example citation above).
• Any material from which text, diagrams or specific ideas have been used, even if this has been
presented in your own words, must be cited within the main body of the paper and listed in
the reference list. It is not enough to list this material in a bibliography.

Example 2: For Example 1 (using the Harvard system), the reference list would contain the following:

Kendal S., 2017, Referencing standards, International Student Journal, Vol 55, Pages 25 – 30, Scotts
Pub., ISBN 1-243567-89

This shows the authors, the date published, the title of the paper (in single quotes), the title of the
journal or conference (in italics), volume, page numbers, and publisher (ISBN desirable but not
essential).

For further help, see the following book, which is available in the library:
• Cite Them Right: The Essential Guide to Referencing and Plagiarism by Richard Pears and
Graham Shields

An interactive online version of this guide is available by logging into My Sunderland with your User
ID and password and then clicking on Me and Library Resources.