Course Information
Lecturer Name
E-mail address
Web site
Course Code
Course Title
Credit Unit
Category
Teaching Pattern
CHANG YU
ychang88@hotmail.com
www.chuhai.edu.hk/changyu/
CS206
Systems Analysis and Design
2
Major Course
2 lecture periods per week
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Course Aims: To teach students the techniques for analysing and
designing information systems.
Course Objectives:
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To define and describe in details the seven phases of the
systems development life cycle (SDLC).
To learn the skill of drawing data flow diagrams and making
structured decisions.
To get a concept of Unified Modelling Language for
database design.
Syllabus:
The role of Systems Analysts
Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Feasibility study, Prototyping, Data Flow Diagrams
Data Dictionary, Structured Decisions
Software Engineering, Unified Modeling Language
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Teaching materials
Text Book:
System Analysis and Design
Kendall & Kendall
Sixth Edition
Lecture Notes
Assessment
Project
Grading Policy
Attendance
Assignment
10%
Project
Mid-term Examination
Final Examination
5%
25%
15%
45%
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Brief tour of the sixth edition
Part I: System Analysis
Fundamentals
Part II: Information
Requirements Analysis
Part III: The Analysis
Process
Part IV: The Essentials of
Design
Part V: Software Engineering
and Implementation
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Week
Topics
Key Words
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Assuming the roles of the system
analyst
• Types of system
• System development life cycle
2
Understanding organization style
and its impact on information
system
• Organization as system
• Depicting systems graphically (DFD)
• Levels of management
3
Managing projects, Designing
activities and scheduling projects
• Determining feasibility
• Tools: Gantt charts pert diagrams
• Computer-Based project scheduling
4
Determining feasibility, initiating
and planning system development
projects
• Economic feasibility, Technical feasibility
• Operational feasibility
• Schedule feasibility
5
Information gathering with
interactive and unobtrusive
methods
• Interviewing, Joint application design
• Questionnaires, Sampling , Investigation
6
Prototyping, RAD, and Extreme
Programming
• Basic concepts, RAD , EP
• Advantage and disadvantage of prototyping
7&8
Structuring system requirements & • Process Modeling and structure
process modeling
• Data Flow Diagram
• Process, Entry
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Week
Topics
Key Words
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Analyzing system using
dictionaries
• DFD Description Form, data structure
• Data element, Data store Description form
11
Structuring system
requirements: Logic Modeling
• Process specification form, structured decision
12
Structuring system
requirements: Conceptual Data
Modeling
• Data Modeling, Top-Down Approach,
• Bottom-Up Approach, Basic Symbols, ER
Diagram
13
Input Design & Output Design
• Input Design concepts & Guidelines: GUI controls
• Design and Prototype input / output.
14
Designing Database
• Conventional files: DB data concepts, DB concepts
• Normalization, Denormalization
15
Introduction to Software
Engineering
• Software Engineering & Management,
• Software Design Process, Different approaches
16
Object-Orient Analysis Design
• Basic concepts, Objects, Class, Inheritance
• Benefits in using Object Approach
17&18
Unified Modeling Language
• UML, Use Case Diagram, Class Diagram
• Sequence Diagram, Statechart Diagram
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