Frequently Asked Questions about Homework 1
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QUESTION Since this is an analysis, so this means everybody will have
different results! Some might be bad or some might be good results! I
think bad/ good results are depending on for example the questions
prepared by the interviewer and the response from the interviwees.  So
how are you gonna grade this homework? What kind of answer are looking
for from this homework? Are you gonna grade base on the interviewing
result, the questionnaires, or what? Because the approach I used that
I think is good might be considered bad by others, right?

ANSWER It's correct that good results depend on good questions - the
grade depends on your approach and questions more than it does on the
results. Overall grading criteria: "If I were a large company who jus
tpaid you $12,000 for this analysis, could I understand and use what I
get in return".


QUESTION Question C: how much detail of functional requirement do you
want? Or can we just give the outline?

ANSWER Similar to Figure 7.5, maybe a little bit more detail.


QUESTION Question G: same as #2 above: how much detail do you want?

ANSWER About as much as we had in the class exercise.


QUESTION In the tasks, there is one part for payment in which the user
enters the credit card number and some other information.  Should we
check if the credit card is valid and process the payment? If we
should do that, then we need a database regarding credit card
information and available credit and there is no information in this
regard for the project. Should we assume this database exists at this
stage or should we ignore the validity of credit card processing?

ANSWER Good question - if you want to, you can assume for this
assignment that you have this database and perform the checking. Your
software can simply assume that every non-blank credit-card field is
valid.