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- 1. Criteria for Research Assignment PSCI 1010 · The paper is due on Apr. 29 before 11:59pm. · For your final paper, you might want to follow the suggested guideline/rubric below: 1) Introduction a) Thesis: “The primary purpose of this paper is to...”, Or “Terrorist attacks influence public support for civil liberties” The thesis of the research should be stated early in the paper— the first few paragraphs. http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/thesis-statements/ b) Include in your introduction a brief statement describing the importance of the topic and the thesis. What is new here? What are the political, theoretical, and normative implications of your research? How does your research improve upon the existing literature? What contribution will the proposed research make to the literature? What new, exciting directions will you take the literature? Like a journalist, you need to convince the reader that the paper is worthy of careful consideration. c) Be sure to discuss the political implications of your research. d) Plan of the paper: In a brief paragraph (usually placed at the end of your introduction), give an overview of your arguments and how the paper will be organized. This should be short. e) Think about the Reader when writing your paper. You must convince the Reader (me or anonymous reviewers) in the first few sentences to keep reading. You need to engage the Reader, tell her/him what your research is about, convince her of the importance of your study and its contribution to the literature. The Reader is busy and has volunteered a few hours of their day to read your study. -Narrative Hook- 2) Past Research (review of the literature—collect
- 2. qualitative/quantitative data to support your thesis). Please be especially vigilant about keeping the review relevant to the central thesis of the paper, which should be the central organizing theme of your paper. I don’t want a bibliographic essay, but an evaluation of relevant prior research on the topic that will prove or disprove your thesis statement (three concise but informative paragraphs). a) Strengths and weaknesses of prior research; you might discuss one or more of the following: i) How existing research has overlooked or given inadequate attention to your topic, for whatever reason. ii) You might critique existing studies on a number of grounds, including inadequate measures, inappropriate design, fuzzy concepts, lack of theory, contradictory findings, puzzles in the literature that need to be solved, and so on. b) Don’t call it a “Literature Review” and don’t say you are filling a gap in the literature. 3) Conclusions: Reflect back on your thesis and the contribution of your research. It’s that simple! Something else you might do is take a close look at an article you really like and see how the authors introduce the topic, make transitions, and all the other things listed above. Use that article as a template to organize and write your paper. Imitation is an important form of learning! Deadline: 04/28/2019 Sunday Resource: · "Software Testing Plan" document
- 3. Continue your work using the scenario presented in Week One. The Director of Software Engineering would like to have you create a new Software Testing Plan. Using the Software Testing Plan document provided, develop a 3- to 4-page software testing plan. The plan will include the following: · Design and Develop: Software testing goals, assumptions, and deliverables: · Testing Goal · Test Assumptions · Quality Attributes · Schedule in the Life Cycle · Required Artifacts · Test: Data: generation and automation tools: · Test Data Generation Methods · Test Automation · Acceptance Test · Deploy: Versioning, maintenance, and environment: · Version Control · Maintenance Plan · Testing Environment Cite all sources using APA guidelines. Remember from week one, this is the description of the software being developed The company you work for is a programming services contractor that consults with businesses in the United States requiring assistance in creating software in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Your company advertises a proven track record in providing secure code that meets regulatory and compliance recommendations that include the protection of all Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
- 4. Your client is a small hospital and surgery center that requires a program that will calculate the bill for a patient's hospital stay, including charges for the surgery, daily hospital fees, and pharmacy. The hospital only performs five types of surgeries, limits the patient stay to three days, and has a limited pharmacy offering of ten prescription drugs. The hospital employees who will use the program should be able to enter the patient information, including name, hospital ID number, diagnosis, surgery type, length of stay, and prescriptions. The program will then produce a final billing statement. The client would like the program completed in six months. System Development Life Cycle BSA/385 Version 6 2 System Development Life Cycle Individual Assignment – Week One Complete the following table: SDLC Phases Phase Description Questions/Engineering Principles Typical Documents or Artifacts used in this phase Requirements/ Analysis The objective of this phase is to determine the user expectations for a new or modified system. At the end of this phase all the
- 5. functions to be performed by the system will be known although it might be clear how the system will perform them. During requirements analysis there is frequent communication with the users of the system to determine their expectations and requirements all which are documented to avoid feature creep. · How should the program calculate the bills? · What information should be included in the billing statement? · At what point/time should the bills be calculated? Requirements Document Software Requirements Specifications (SRS) Use Cases Design It is in this phase that the elements that will make up the new system are designed. These elements include: the system architecture, modules and components as well the different interfaces of the system. The data that goes into the system and the database design must also be decided in this phase. The design of the new system follows the user requirements set in the requirement analysis phase. During this phase the programming language to be used to program the system is also decided. 1. Evaluate design alternatives 2. Use an appropriate process model 3. Use different languages for different phases Software Development Plan (SDP) Data flow diagram (DFD) or entity-relationship diagram (ERD) Design Specification Technical Specification User Interface Prototype Implementation In the implementation phase the program specifications are
- 6. turned into source code through coding by programmers. Other experts such as network engineers and database developers may be brought in to develop the system network and database respectively. A flow chart is incorporated in this phase to ensure that everything is node well. The programming of the system must be done in modules in order to speed the development and make it easy to maintain as well as to make changes. 1. Put technique before tools 2. Inspect code 3. People are the key to success Implementation Strategy Programming Conventions and Libraries Specification Implementation Schedule Testing This is the process which checks the functionality and the correctness of the developed system to find whether it meets the requirements set. This process is time consuming and can sometimes be expensive and requires good planning in order to succeed. The tests may be repeated as many times as possible with different data to check for errors and bugs. If the system passes the tests set and the end user finds it acceptable, it is good and ready to go to production. Testing also involves verification and validation to ensure that every process in the system completes successfully. 1. Base the process on an architecture-first approach. 2. Establish an iterative process that addresses risks early in the process. 3. Establish a configurable process, because no one process is suitable for all software development. Testing Plan Deploy/Maintenance This phase involves installation of the developed system and
- 7. putting it production. In the process of deploying the new system data and components are moved from old system to the newly developed system. When the system is in production it is maintained to eliminate errors that may occur during its working life. 1. Establish a change-management environment. 2. Plan to have incremental releases, each composed of a group of usage scenarios, with evolving levels of detail. 3. Use model-based and machine-processable notation to capture design Installation Guide Training Manuals Software Testing Plan BSA/385 Version 6 1 Software Testing PlanIndividual Assignment - Week Five Design and Develop: Software testing goals, assumptions, and deliverables: 1. Testing Goal <Provide an overall description of the goal of testing the program, including what functional and non-functional requirements of the program you will test.> 2. Test Assumptions <Logically describe how your test environments will mimic the operating environment of the Program.> 3. Quality Attributes <Indicate what attributes you will test for, such as correctness,
- 8. reliability, safety or security.> 4. Schedule in the Life Cycle <Indicate when in the development life cycle verification tests will be performed. Indicate if any are assigned to an Agile sprint.> 5. Required Artifacts <Indicate the artifacts that will be required like source code or the executable code and what artifacts you will collect for each stage in the life cycle. Include at least one per stage.> Test: Data generation and automation tools: 6. Test Data Generation Methods <Completely describe any functional, structural, or random methods you will use to test your program.> 7. Test Automation <Concisely describe the purpose of test automation. Identify at least one automation tool. Indicate if you will use test automation and if so using what tool.> 8. Acceptance Test <Provide a full description of what the acceptance test will look like and how you will determine if the test was successful.> Deploy: Versioning, maintenance, and environment: 9. Version Control <Indicate how you will manage version control if testing identifies weaknesses that must be corrected.> 10. Maintenance Plan <Indicate how you will maintain the program over time. How often will you re-evaluate the goals for the program and test the
- 9. program?> 11. Testing Environment Environments are used in program development, testing and production. An environment includes both hardware and the software tools to assist with the management of the environments. Complete the Suggested Software Tools for each environment in the table below. Environments Suggested Software Tools Development with unit testing Testing User Acceptance Test (UAT) Pre-production or Staging Copyright © 2017 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Research Paper Assignment Specifics OBJECTIVE · To gain an understanding of American government/PSCI through study and research of individually chosen topic · To further perfect proper term paper format through the use of IN-TEXT citations and reference page. REQUIREMENTS · Student may choose any topic listed below relating to American Government. · Paper must be TYPED with no typos or grammatical errors
- 10. · Paper must contain citations and bibliography · Paper must be double-spaced, no less than 5 pages, and no more than 7 pages · Paper must contain a title page with title of paper, course name, student's name and due date. · Title page and reference page are NOT part of the 5-7 page count. SOURCES · Encyclopedias and dictionaries are NOT acceptable sources · Newspaper and periodical sources are fine. Published books are best! · Use only scholarly sources · Paper must contain at least 10 sources - computer generated sources MUST have a publisher and date published - if only books are used, 8 sources is sufficient - be prepared to show hard copies of your sources on demand - information verifiably published elsewhere that is retrieved from the Internet is NOT considered a computer-generated source. Examples: text of "I Have a Dream" speech, magazine archives, and newspaper archives. · Use APA 5TH format for list of references and citations. TOPICS Must have to do with FEDERAL government, not local or state, and be about something current or within the last 40 years or
- 11. so. Incorporate both your knowledge of history, and government- where students should focus on effects of government action on people's lives today and in the recent past, and on how the various branches of government deal with the topic. Brown v. Board of Education Legalization of marijuana Merit System for Government Prayer in public schools Legality of affirmative action Restrictions on stem cell research Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage Miranda rights Restrictions on partial birth abortions Newdow v. U.S. Congress (Pledge of Allegiance "under God") Roe v. Wade Watergate scandal Copyright law and internet music sharing Student rights - search of locker, dorm and/or backpack on campus Federal wiretapping
- 12. US support for World Bank Brokering peace in the Middle East Amnesty for illegal aliens Restrictions on civil rights post 9/11 Death penalty Abolishing the electoral college Second amendment (gun) rights including the Heller case US Space Program Government-funded health care or health insurance War Powers Resolution Welfare Reform 1996 US Energy Policy Entitlement programs The 1992 Presidential Election The 2000 Presidential Election The Military Industrial Complex Campaign Finance Rules & Cases The FCC & the Media