Online Examination System - Project Kenai

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Software Engineering Project
Online Examination System
Vision Document
Author:
Hong Yang
Ye Jiabin
Team Member:
Han Jun
Hong Yang
Wang Junli
Yang Zhiyuan
Ye Jiabin
March 9, 2011

Contents
1 Introduction 2
1.1 Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2 Positioning 3
2.1 Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2 Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3 Position Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Stakeholder and User Descriptions 6
4 Product Overview 7
4.1 Product Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2 Function Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.3 Assumptions and Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.4 Cost and Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5 Product Features 9
6 Constraints 10
7 Quality Range 11
8 Priority 12
9 Other Product Requirement 13
9.1 Applicable Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
9.2 Performance Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
10 Document Requirement 14
10.1 User Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
10.2 Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1 Goal
This document sets out the vision for the Online Examination System project.
1.2 Bibliography
TEX[1] document is not easy to master as well as the Software Engineering[2].
The detailed bibliography will show at the tail of the vision report.
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Chapter 2
Positioning
2.1 Business
Generally, an online examination system is mainly for educational institutions.However,
in our case, we’ll draw more emphasis on public education
and users can not only test what they learn themselves but also share knowledge
with each other by contributing their questions.Thus, the online examination
system covers various aspects of knowledges including arts, science
, engineering ,etc and everybody is welcomed to participate in the tests no
matter whether or not you are just a novice or an expert.
2.2 Problem Statement
The problem of
the influence
Traditional examination method spans thousands
of years in our country, and frequent
exams today brings lots of problems as well.
Teachers spend much time in mechanically
marking papers and excessive use of paper
contributes large number of environmental
problems.
Educational institutions are the majority to
be influenced by our system and exams participants
will also be involved.
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the impact of which is
a successful solution would be
This has leads following problems Educational
institutions will vary their approach
to manage large-scale test.In the meantime,
exam participants may spend some time in
getting accustomed to the new way of exam.
Depending on information technology, an examination
system can be deployed in a web
server.Teachers and supervisors may publish
their test paper with the help of autogenerated
templates and objective questions
can be marked by computer which significantly
increases the efficiency. Students or
exam participants experience a different examination
procedure. Although it won’t take
much effect on exam itself, we supply a communication
platform such as bbs for discussion
after or before taking an exam or even
chatting in the exam if it contributes lots of
benefits.
2.3 Position Statement
For the
OES
function
Educational Institutions and any organization
or group purpose to hold exams or test
platform
classified to Web Information System
OES supports various kinds of examination
and could be capable for a large-scale test.
And it also provides abundant resource of
test and knowledge and platform for communication
that participant will probably enjoys
the experience of examination.
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difference
our products
Generally, today’s online examination system
mainly orients to the aspects of language
learning and computer science, such as New
Horizon English System used by SJTU
Our system is generic system , namely, you
may hold any type of examination on it for
you are free to create test paper template.In
addition, students will be granted more freedom
in the exam if you want.
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Chapter 3
Stakeholder and User
Descriptions
TODO:by Hong Yang
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Chapter 4
Product Overview
OES will be free and open source. In summary the products includes:
• Problem Set Management
• Test Paper Template Management
• Online Test and Marking System
4.1 Product Perspective
OES can be easily deployed on clients web service system which contributes
easily use for examination institute and any other test holders. For test
participants, the system may be designed as cross-platform solution by using
Javascript RIA or Adobe Flex RIA 1 . Users will have easy access to the exam
and check the status of the exam they take by various device, PC,Mac,Mobile
Phone,iPad 2 and etc.
4.2 Function Summary
Customer Benefits
Fast and easy deploy the system on the
web server
Supporting Features
Using mature J2EE Framework 3 make
it a handy approach of deployment
1 It will be implemented if time permits.
2 Flash may not support on iPad.
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Efficiency in marking papers
Effortless Management
Students will love it.
As soon as the text is over, it will be
immediately score out so long as it
contains all objective questions.
Our system granted users have their
permissions to create/delete/modify
test paper or template, and the
administrator will own authority to
manage all permissions.
It’s more than a examination system
and it also offer a platform for communication
by built-in forum.Knowledge
sharing is also encouraged that students
can create Exam-WIKI in their
page.
4.3 Assumptions and Dependencies
We assume that;
• User’s host is capable to hold a J2EE web container
• Exam participants have HTML5-supported or flash plugged-in browser
• Both users and exam participants’ devices supports utf-8 encoding
4.4 Cost and Price
Our product is free and open source.
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Chapter 5
Product Features
TODO:by Hong Yang
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Chapter 6
Constraints
TODO:by Hong Yang
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Chapter 7
Quality Range
TODO:by Hong Yang
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Chapter 8
Priority
TODO:What does it mean?. . .
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Chapter 9
Other Product Requirement
9.1 Applicable Standards
TCP/IP acts as basic network protocol connecting browser to server.
Unix and other Unix-like operating systems are recommended to be the basic
environment of our system.
9.2 Performance Requirement
It all depends.User may have a server that is capable for at least ten thousand
user being examined at the same time if he or she would like to hold such a
large exam like College Entrance Examination in China.
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Chapter 10
Document Requirement
10.1 User Guide
All installing and configuration process will be showed to users.It also includes
elementary administrators and ordinary users help document.Indexes
and glossaries will be auto generated by L A TEX.
10.2 Online Help
If you have any problem when installing or using our software, you can mail
us to mailing-list@onlineex.kenai.com.
Or any bug found in our product, you can report a issue to issues@
onlineex.kenai.com.
Of course, you’re welcomed to discuss our project in our forum http:
//kenai.com/projects/onlineex/forums .
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Bibliography
[1] Donald E. Knuth. The TEXbook. Addison-Wesley, 1984.
[2] Roger S. Pressman. Software Engineering. Mc Graw Hill, sixth edition,
2010.
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