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An Investigation into New Software Development Processes, Techniques and Technologies in an Academic Environment

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With the advent of graphical user interfaces (GUIs)， as well as a need for software to support complex event-driven systems， computer programs are more suited to an object-oriented (OO) approach。 The use of an appropriate OO methodology in systems development projects is important as it helps to produce better quality products。 Students of information systems (IS) project courses are required to develop such GUI， event driven information systems， and therefore require a methodology which satisfies the criteria and constraints identified for these courses。 The sample case used is the 3rd Year Project course (WRR301) at the University of Port Elizabeth (UPE)。 The skills that the students of the WRR301 course need to develop can be grouped into the following five core competency area:ⅰ) systems analysis and design; (ⅱ) database connectivity; (ⅲ) user interface (UI) design and development; (ⅳ) information retrieval; and (v) project management。 This paper recommends a model for the adoption of a proposed OO methodology， called the Contextual Unified Process (CUP)， into the lifecycle of the WRR301 course。 Prior to the adoption of this methodology， the WRR301 course was using a structured approach with a traditional System Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodology。 This paper also demonstrates that the 。NET Framework is a technology which provides adequate support for the proposed OO methodology and satisfies each of the five areas of competency identified as required by students of IS project courses。 It also provides additional benefits and features that could assist students with system development。

microsoft .NET frameworkOO methodologyacademic IS projects and intended learning outcomes (ILOs)

Brenda Scholtz、Janine Nel

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Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Port Elizabeth Port Elizabeth, South Africa

8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics(SCI 2004) vol.1: Information Systems, Technologies and Applications

Orlando,FL(US)

World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics(SCI 2004) vol.1: Information Systems, Technologies and Applications; 20040718-21; Orlando,FL(US)

P.79-84

2004