Exercise 0: Project Proposal
SE2-Software Design & Architecture (CS446/CS646/ECE452) Spring 2011

Part 0.1

Propose a team and a title for your project. You are to work in teams, ideally with 4 or 5 people per team.

PART 0.2

In this assignment (part 0.2) you are to propose an implementation project. This proposal must be approved by the Teaching Assistant. Your report for Assignment 0.2 should answer these questions:

• Proposed project. What is the purpose of the proposed project? Who will use it? What equipment will it run on? On what operating system(s)? What software will your project use? What sort of user interface (if any) will you software have?
• Demo. What will you demonstrate (and present) for Assignment 5?
• Code size. Give a rough estimate of how much code (measured in Lines of Code) you expect your team will produce?
• Languages and tools. The project will be written in what language(s)? What software tools/technology will you use in your project?
• Version control. How will you handle version control?
• Related projects. What is the relationship of this project to any projects you have already done or which you expect to do?
• Risk. What will be the most risky and most difficult parts of carrying out your project?
• Architecture. How/why does your proposed system have an interesting, non-trivial architecture.

Constraints

• Limit your report for part 0.2 to at most 3 pages.
• Documentation: All documentation (including the solution to each assignment) is to be in PDF. At the same time, your report must be printable, and you are to turn in a hard copy of your reports for marking.
• IMPORTANT: Each group member needs to submit this exercise
• Submission: Submit via UWACE email, send the assignment to me and to the TAs