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COMP4100 in 2007
Software Quality Management

Assessment Details

COURSE ASSESSORS: Malcolm Newey, Clive Boughton and Chris Johnson.

Assessment Distribution

30% for assignment work

Assignment 1 (HOL) due after Easter is worth 8%
Assignment 2 (Z) due in week 10 is worth 8%
Assignment 3 (Inspection) due in week 12 is worth 14%

70% for final examination

Formal methods questions are worth 35%;
Process-oriented questions are worth 35%.

Minimal Exam Performance

A student who does not achieve at least 30% in the final examination will automatically fail the course unless other mitigating circumstances prevail.
A student who undertakes a supplementary examination but does not pass will also fail the course.

Nature of Assignments

The assignments will all be problem examples in the areas indicated above. Each will have a duration that is roughly proportional to its weight, as follows, and they vary in the extent to which they are group based.

For assignment 1 the norm will be groups of 2 and the expected duration is 12 hours per person.
(Individual submission is acceptable, though not encouraged.)
For assignment 2 the norm will be groups of 2 and the expected duration is 10 hours per person.
(Individual submission is acceptable, though not encouraged.)
Assignment 3 will be designed for groups of 5 (or 4 or 6) to complete in less than 15 hours per person.

The times quoted above do not include the time you may need to learn the material that you are applying. On the contrary, it is assumed that you will have read and understood the appropriate lecture and tutorial material beforehand. It is expected that assignments will be handed in on time, but a late penalty of 10% per day will apply.

In the case of assignment 3 group work will be part of the requirements, with target group size being 5. A severe timing constraint for this assignment is that the documents to be inspected cannot be made available until week 11, since they are SRS's supplied by 3100/3500/4500 groups.

eScience & Honours Students

Students enrolled in COMP6312 do only the inspection assignment and the process-oriented half of the exam. The assignment 3 weight then becomes 30%.
Honours students who are taking the course for 3 points declare which half they will be assessed on and the above component weights are adjusted in the obvious way.

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