srs intelligentquizmaster

SRS for Intelligent Quiz Master

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Software Requirements

Specification

for

Intelligent Quiz Master

Version 1.0

Prepared by: Group 34

Members:

Akanksha Kumawat (Y12UC021)

Akshat Kumar (Y12UC024)

Ekshit Nalwaya (Y12UC087)

Parag Saxena (Y12UC173)

Yashvardhan (Y12UC297)


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Table of Contents

Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................... 2

Revision History ............................................................................................................................. 2

1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 3

1.1 Purpose ............................................................................................................................ 3

1.2 Document Conventions ................................................................................................... 3

1.3 Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions ................................................................. 3

1.4 Product Scope .................................................................................................................. 3

1.5 References ....................................................................................................................... 4

2. Overall Description .................................................................................................................. 4

2.1 Product Perspective ......................................................................................................... 4

2.2 Product Functions ............................................................................................................ 6

2.3 User Classes and Characteristics ..................................................................................... 6

2.4 Operating Environment ................................................................................................... 6

2.5 Design and Implementation Constraints .......................................................................... 6

2.6 User Documentation ........................................................................................................ 7

2.7 Assumptions and Dependencies ...................................................................................... 7

3. External Interface Requirements ........................................................................................... 7

3.1 User Interfaces ................................................................................................................. 7

3.2 Hardware Interfaces ......................................................................................................... 7

3.3 Software Interfaces .......................................................................................................... 7

3.4 Communications Interfaces ............................................................................................. 7

4. System Features ....................................................................................................................... 8

4.1 Take a Self Quiz .............................................................................................................. 8

4.2 Define and conduct quizes ............................................................................................... 8

4.3 Register and participate in the quiz ................................................................................. 9

5. Other Nonfunctional Requirements ..................................................................................... 10

5.1 Performance Requirements ............................................................................................ 10

5.2 Safety Requirements ...................................................................................................... 10

5.3 Security Requirements ................................................................................................... 10

5.4 Other Software Quality Attributes ................................................................................. 10

6. Other Requirements .............................................................................................................. 11

Appendix A: Glossary ................................................................................................................. 11

Appendix B: Analysis Models ..................................................................................................... 11

Appendix C: To Be Determined List ......................................................................................... 11

Revision History

Name Date Reason For Changes Version

Group 34 7th February 2015 Initial Preparation V 1.0


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1. Introduction

1.1 Purpose

This software package is developed from scratch to develop a quiz master, that

Allow moderators to conduct quizzes by providing a joint interface for multiple teams to participate together.

Letting the Moderators to maintain the question database, and the quiz rules. Allows generic users to have a random general quiz, which automatically

adapts to their preferences, knowledge. Maintain users individual score. Allow users to participate in a quiz conducted by moderators.

1.2 Document Conventions

The following documentation conventions are followed in preparing this SRS:

The priority of a requirement is specified at the end of that requirement using the notation Priority: nn, where nn is an integer in the range 00 (lowest priority) to 99 (highest priority).

1.3 Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions

This document is created for

Various organizations who conduct quizzes with multiple teams participating simultaneously on a local area network.

General users who want to take casual self-quiz and/or want to participate in quizzes conducted by others.

The software development team for their use in analysing the requirements.

1.4 Product Scope

The scope of the to-be-developed Intelligent Quiz Master software package is:

To enable the general end users to use this as a general self-quiz, which maintains their score and adapts itself to provide adequate challenge to the

users. To enable participants to participate in quizzes conducted by moderators. To enable organizations to use this as a replacement for manual quizzes and

provide a better, secure and an automated interface to conduct quizzes among

multiple participants.


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1.5 References

http://io.acad.athabascau.ca/~oscarl/pub/edutainment.pdf

https://www.facebook.com/SmartQuizMasterBhandul

http://the-britannica-quizmaster.software.informer.com/

2. Overall Description

2.1 Product Perspective

This product is a new, self-contained product which intends to replace the present

manual way of conducting Quizzes.

The Quiz Master functions Part I: Conducting a new quiz:

Start

Stop

S1 S2 S3

Validation of the

fields

Creation of a

new quiz and/or

deletion of an

existing quiz by

an authorized

moderator

Creating the

quiz and

generating the

registration link


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The Quiz Master Functions Part II: Registering for an upcoming quiz:

The General User Functions: Playing a quiz

Start

Stop

Stop

S1 S2 S3

S4

C1

Validate and check for availability

Register for a quiz

using the provided

link

Decide if entries are available

Register the

participant and

provide username,

password and the

quiz link

yes

no

Reject and

close the

registration

screen

Start

Stop

S1 S2

S4

C1

Start the quiz

User quits

Ask question and

wait for user

response.

no

yes

S3

Compute the score

and display to the

user

Evaluate the user

response and prepare the

next question.


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2.2 Product Functions

This software package is expected to offer the following services:

For Moderators: o Facility to conduct quizzes with multiple participants. o Facility to maintain the questions database. Facility to define and maintain

the process flow and eligibility rules of each quiz.

o Facility to keep track of all the participants scores.

For End Users: o Facility to participate in quizzes conducted by others. o Facility to take self-quiz and monitor their own progress.

2.3 User Classes and Characteristics

This software package will be used by three categories of users:

Quiz moderators: These users will use this software package to define, modify and conduct quizzes at any given time on a local area network.

Participants: They will use the software package to register themselves and to participate in quizzes being conducted by moderators at any given time.

General users: They will use the software package as a self-assessment quiz and monitor their own progress.

2.4 Operating Environment

This software package is accepted to work in the following atmosphere:

Microsoft Stack consisting of o MS Windows Vista and higher versions based thin client

o C++

o Visual Studio

o Apache HTTP Server 2.2 and higher

2.5 Design and Implementation Constraints This software package will not carry over the details of the participants of the

previous quizzes, i.e., new entries for each participants taking the quiz is

mandatory.

This software package allows simultaneous connection of up to four participating teams, provided they are all connected on a local area network.

Registrations of participants for a particular quiz will be made on a first come first serve basis. No new registration will be made after four entries have

already been made.

There will be no connectivity provided with the internet.

In case a registered team does not enter the quiz it will be automatically disqualified from the quiz.

In case no team shows up then the quiz will be considered as dropped.


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2.6 User Documentation Video tutorials for this software package will be provided on the internet for

each of the three types of users.

This software package will come with an user manual on how to use the facilities available for the different types of users.

The details of the Analysis, Design, and Test Cases of this software package will be delivered along with this software.

2.7 Assumptions and Dependencies Assumptions: All the participants are required to have this software package in

order to participate in the quiz. Dependencies: Boost(Third party Library for C++ programming Language) will

be used.

3. External Interface Requirements

3.1 User Interfaces To take a Self-quiz and check the score. To register in an upcoming Quiz. To enter in an ongoing quiz. To login as a moderator.

o To schedule and conduct a new quiz. o To monitor the ongoing quiz. o To maintain a question database. o To view the details of all the past quizzes

3.2 Hardware Interfaces

Nil

3.3 Software Interfaces

This software package should have an interface with:

The question database stored in a XML file.

The scoreboard and quiz history stored in a XML file.

Boost Libraries

3.4 Communications Interfaces

The clients will connect to the server through TCP ports.

Data will be exchanged through packets transferred over FTP protocol.

Synchronous connection will be stabilised between the client and the server, tracked with accurate timestamps.

In case of high latency or communication error the server will halt till the issue is fixed.


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4. System Features

The requirements of this software package are described per each category of User:

All requirements of the Quiz Moderators All requirements of the Quiz Participants All requirements of the General Users

Business Use Case # 1: All the Requirements of the General User:

4.1 Take a Self-Quiz

4.1.1 Description and Priority

The TBD (to-be-developed) software package should facilitate the General User

to,

Take a self-quiz View score

The priority of this requirement is 99.

4.1.2 Stimulus/Response Sequences

Sr No Stimulus from the User Response from the Software 1 The User starts the quiz Depending upon the previous

records the software stars the quiz and ask the first question;

2 The user selects an option Depending on the answer the software informs whether the selected option is correct or not and ask the next question;

3 The User chooses to quit the quiz The software ends the quiz compute the final score and display it to the user;


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Business Use Case # 2: All the Requirements of the Moderators:

4.2 Define and Conduct Quizzes


The TBD (to-be-developed) software package should facilitate the Moderators to,

Define and conduct a new quiz, its associated process flow and eligibility rules, underwriting rules and approval rules.

Cancel the upcoming quiz. Modify the question database. Monitor an ongoing quiz and authority to disqualify any team. View the past scoreboard and the entire quiz history.



Sr No Stimulus from the User Response from the Software 1 Moderators logs-in using user-id

and password Software will validate the user-id and password; Software will display the Quiz Master Initial Screen by recognizing the user-id;

2 Moderator chooses the Conduct a New Quiz option

The software will display the form to enter the details of the new quiz and all the associated rule-sets;

3 Moderator will enter all the fields of the new quiz and also will enter all the associated rule-sets

Software will validate all the fields and generate the link through which participates will be able to register for the quiz;

4 The Moderator can choose to modify the database by supplying an XML file

Depending on the outcome the software will print either Imported Successfully OR Imported Unsuccessfully;

5 Moderator can choose to monitor an ongoing quiz

Software will display the scoreboard along with the questions that have been asked and their responses that have been entered;

Business Use Case # 3: All the Requirements of the Participants:

4.3 Register and participate in the quiz


The TBD (to-be-developed) software package should facilitate the Moderators to,

Register in an upcoming quiz. Participate in an ongoing quiz. View the final result.



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Sr No Stimulus from the User Response from the Software 1 The Participants registers for the

quiz using the provided link The software validates the link if the link is valid it checks for availability, if available it registers the participant and provide a username and password;

2 The participant logs-in to an ongoing quiz by providing its username and password along with the contest link

The software will validate the username, password, and link, upon recognizing the software will display the quiz lobby;

Other Stimuli and responses are described in table 4.1.2.

5. Other Non-functional Requirements

5.1 Performance Requirements Each transaction (situation-response case), on an average taken for a duration of

100 hours or till 1000 transactions are successfully completed, should have a turn-

around time of less than 5 seconds under the following load on the software: There are 5 users accessing this software at a given time. There are 10,000 questions in the database.

5.2 Safety Requirements

The network system and the connection will not be vulnerable to spam and DDoS attacks.

Synchronous connections between the clients and the server will be maintained.

In case of file corruption, a backup of the question database will be provided to the moderators.

5.3 Security Requirements This software package should: Authenticate each moderator who logs-in.

Authenticate each registered participants for an ongoing quiz.

Use a 64 bit key to encrypt all the questions and responses transferred to and from the thin client and the server; similarly, encrypt all the questions that is

stored in the XML files.

5.4 Software Quality Attributes Nil


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6. Other Requirements

Nil

Appendix A: Glossary

Visual Studio: Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs for Microsoft Windows, as well

as web sites, web applications and web services. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software

development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation

Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight. It can produce both native

code and managed code.

DDoS Attacks: A denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.

XML File: Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format which is both human-readable and machine-

readable. It is defined by the W3C's XML 1.0 Specification and by several other related

specifications, all of which are free open standards.

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