Assignment title: Information
CRICOS Provider No: 00103D 1/3
ITECH 7410: Software Engineering Methodologies
Assignment 1
Due Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2016 - 16:00 (Week 6)
Weighting: 20%
Submission: via Moodle
Refer to Course Description, especially in regard to: Extensions, Special Consideration, Late
Submissions, and Plagiarism.
Purpose:
The purposes of the assignment:
1. Understanding a real-time and time-critical system
2. Understanding Entity Relationship Diagram and Data Flow Diagram in terms of a realtime software system
3. Analyzing a real-time system and the flow of the corresponding software
Introduction:
The banks in Australia (and most of the other countries having modern banking
system) provide the customers to transfer money between two accounts in real time. In most
of the Australian banks, the transfer software/app, popularly known as Real-time Money
Transfer (RMT), has the identical flow. As for example, a transfer starts after usual login and
standard authentication. After that, user selects a recipient for the transfer. Having proper
authentication (if required), if the total amount to transfer is less than the current balance of
the user, the system transfers the money immediately to the recipient. Some of the system
allows the sender to send an email to the recipient to let him know about the transfer.
Although the transfer seems to be a straight-forward one, most of the bank enforce
additional authentication to ensure the smooth and safe transfer of the money. You are now
the in-charge of the development of this software in a new Bank. Your task is to oversee the
development of this Real-time system required to ensure secured money transfer.
Description:CRICOS Provider No: 00103D 2/3
The RMT should work according to the following rules:
Step-1: Sender enters the interface after successful authentication
Step-2: Selects the account (multiple account may be linked in one interface) and amount
to transfer
Step-3: Select the recipient of the transfer either
a) from an already Save info and move to Step-6, OR
b) by entering the recipient name and account info
Step-4: The bank sends a code in SMS in sender's mobile number (which is already stored
in the bank database)
Step-5: Sender retrieve that code from SMS and enter the code in the website/ app and
resume the transfer
Step-6: Transfer is completed and a confirmation message is shown
Special Remark: Note that the code is valid for 5 minutes only and if you click on: "Send
SMS again with Code" for 5 times within a minute, the account will be blocked for an hour. In
addition, if the user requests to send multiple SMSs with different codes, only the final one
will work.
Your task is to do a Real-Time Structured Analysis for the RMT considering the
aforementioned steps and the Special Remark. You are to present your analysis including the
following information:
1. An External Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) indicating relationships of the RMT and the
other external entities in the system.
2. Data and Control Flow Diagrams (DFD/CFDs) - to sufficient detail that only a single task is
carried out by each process at the lowest level. You should show the control events that
occur on the same diagrams. Use the real-time extensions for control flows etc. shown in the
lecture notes. You need to determine when and where events will occur. For example,
whenever a piece of data becomes available it may need a control event to let the system
know that it is available. These events must be clearly shown in these DFD/CFD diagrams
and then handled in the Control Specification (CSPEC).
3. Process Specifications (Pspecs) - a psuedo-code or similar design language specification is
required for each process at the lowest level.
4. Control Specifications (Cspec) - use combinational or sequential FSMs as required,
presented in an appropriate format. The idea is that the Cspec will completely describe how
each and every event or control flow is handled in the system. Note you need to provide both
"Process Activation Table" and "State Machine Diagram".CRICOS Provider No: 00103D 3/3
5. A Data Dictionary is required to adequately describe each name or special term used in the
analysis, which includes process names, data flow names, control flow names etc. If you
think further information is required make reasonable assumptions and clearly state these in
the submission.
Submission Criteria:
The assignment must be submitted electronically through Moodle in pdf format. Draw the
diagram using any suitable graphic software, no handwritten diagrams will be accepted.
Write a conclusion of the analysis in your own words.
Marking Guide:
Item Marks
An External Entity-Relationship Diagram 4
Data and Control Flow Diagrams (DFD/CFDs) 4
Process specifications (Pspecs) 4
Control Specifications (Cspec) 4
Data Dictionary 3
Conclusion 1
Total 20