FIT9130 Systems Analysis and Design

This podcast discusses the final examination format and discusses some possible solutions to the sample exam paper released for the unit.

This weeks podcast discusses data flow diagrams.

This week's podcast discusses the principles of user centered design and introduces some additional concepts pertaining to the second assignment submission.

This podcast discusses the principles of user interface design.

This weeks podcast discussed physical modelling techniques, specifically the first cut and final cut SSD and the design class diagram.

This week's podcast discusses the fourth UML diagrammaing technique of Class diagrams. The tutorial introduces the similarities between class diagrams and ERD's and emphasizes the various associations which can be defined within a UML class diagram.

This podcast discusses three main UML diagrammaing concepts - Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and System Sequence Diagrams. The objective of the tutorial is to illustrate the importance of consistency between the various models and it also demonstrates to students the proper technique which can be adopted when drawing these models.

This podcast discusses general feedback on Assingment 1 and provides an anlysis of the assignment case to allow students to develop a comprehensive ERD and process model diagrams for assignments 2b and 2c.

This weeks podcast discusses an indepth overview of the design and developement of a conceptual entity relationship diagram.

This podcast covers some important aspects pertaining to deep structure, discussed as part of representation theory. It outlines the application of a comprehensive analysis of deep structure through functional decomposition and incorporating relationships and behaviors. It also discusses some discussion questions about requirement ellicitation and a brief snapshot of the narrative overview for Assignment 2a. Lastly, the client specifications are elaborated on and discussed as part of the self understanding process of requirements ellicitation.

This podcast discusses the concepts of requirement ellicication in more detail by outlining the steps involved in the process of interaction between an analyst and a client. Additionally, an informal structure of the report for an introductory narrative is discussed and proposed which should assist new analyst in approaching the writeup for a requirement specifications document.

This tutorial cover the aspects of deep structure and how to use functional decomposition to break down complex systems into their underlying entities, attributes, and relationships. The focus is on understanding a conceptual representation of the same. The second half of the tutorial focuses on requirement elicitations.