Assignment title: Information
CIS8011 – assessment item
Case Based Learning Activity 2
Due date: (See the course website)
Value: 5%
Description: Essay
Assessment Question:
Write an essay – using 250 words only – to answer the following question:
Assessment Question:
You are a start up with a digital idea. Write an essay to outline your idea, its value
proposition, revenue sources, cost structure, relevant customer and key activities and
resources involved. Outline how you plan to fund the idea and the strategy to convert the
idea to an innovation.
Special Instructions
1. Remember, you need to do TWO reviews, mark the work of other students submitted through
peer review system, once you have submitted your own assessment item.
2. You need to upload your essay in pdf file through the link available on the course web site.
3. You are not required to submit the plagiarism report for the journal. However, you are strongly
recommended to check the journals using a plagiarism application (this can be any application
that detects plagiarism) and keep the report safely. If the report is found to contain
‘similarities’ then you will be awarded with a ‘zero’ and automatically referred to the Faculty
for further action.
4. Email submission will NOT be accepted in any circumstance.
5. Students should complete this assignment individually. You are encouraged to discuss the
assignment with others to improve your understanding and clarify requirements but you
should develop the solution to the assignment on your own.
6. Any delays in submission MUST be accompanied with proper approval documentation, despite
the course leader approving this. So please attach the approval to this assignment as markers
may not have access to delay approvals. If the approval documentation is not found, late
penalty, as per university rules, will be levied.
7. Assignments MUST be submitted in the link provided. If they are not submitted via the link,
then it is assumed that submission was not made. If the assignments were submitted in other
locations, it is very difficult to track them, as the course team have no access to other
locations.
8. No need to attach plagiarism report. You keep it for any future reference.
9. Late submission may attract penalties as per the USQ/BELA requirements (for further details
see the www.usq.edu.au )
10. The following is the criteria will be adopted to evaluate for Case Based Learning activities:
A:- LEVEL OF SYNTHESIS - Maximum Marks (40%)
B:- QUALITY OF ARGUMENTS WITH REFERENCING – Maximum Marks (20%)
C:- READABILITY - Maximum Marks (20%)
D:- QUALITY OF WRITING - Maximum Marks (20%)
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CRICOS Provider No: 00103D 1/2
ITECH 7410: Software Engineering Methodologies
Assignment 2
Due Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 - 16:00 (Week 11)
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 large software system
2. Developing schema for small parts of a software system
3. To be familiarize in formal design using Z
Introduction:
Note: This assignment is an extension of your tutorial on Week 6 with a different scenario. Follow
the guidelines of your lecturer/tutor that were delivered during the lecture or tutorial time.
UBER, a transport network company, got attention to a large group of people in the past few years. At
the time UBER is getting popularity, they have extended their business to other related domains in the
recent years. UBER Eats is one of them which will allow you to grab some foods from a
shop/restaurant through UBER drivers. This is also getting interests among the people who are using
smart phones and not that much interested to go out of home/ office for lunch/dinner. Please refer to
the site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_(company) and https://ubereats.com to know more about
Uber and Uber Eats, respectively. Here goes the functionalities of Uber Eats:
1. The company has a website and apps for the mobiles
2. User needs to fill-up a particular form to be the member of UBER Eats
3. A person must register if she is interested about delivery service (driver)
4. Users must use their own credit card/debit card account while ordering the foods
5. Interested companies must register their business to Uber so that the restaurant/business should
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6. A user will have to use the mobile app to order any food.
7. The restaurant will prepare the food according to the order from users in due time so that the
driver can collect it
8. The driver will turn-on the UBER App in her mobile and will allow her to receive any
notification to handover a packet of food to its customer.
9. Entire cost calculation will be performed in the UBER side and this will be disbursed in the
following month to the driver and the restaurant.
You have been assigned to a team that is developing software for the UBER Eats. Your job is to
develop a part of the UBER Eats which involves: i) a user to select the food from any of the suggested
companies ii) preparing the foods and make it ready to deliver from company/restaurant side iii) a
driver who will collect that food and handover it to the customer’s location, iv) providing the facility to
the users to update their information. Here goes the item that you need to submit in the assignment:
A. In natural language, write down the state information and the operations that are likely
to be needed for the food order.
B. Develop a mathematical description for the state space of the system and present it in a
schema in the Z specification language.
C. Write three possible schemas for Add User, Add Driver, Add Company, separately
D. Write a schema that describes a function to look up the phone number for a name (this
is required when the driver will be delivering the food to the customer).
E. Write a robust schema to remove a company and associated information from the
UBER eats database.
F. Produce a Z specification for a card information that includes the information about
account numbers, name, expiry date and CVV number.
G. Use the Z schema calculus to get a robust version of the lookup schema.
H. An extensive analysis of various risk and possible way to cater the risks
I. Conclusion about what you have gained by solving this assignment.
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:
Items Marks
A-G 2 for each item = 2*7 = 14
H and I 3 for each item = 3*2 = 6
Total Marks 20