SRS for student database management system

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Software Requirements Specification
for LNMIIT’s STUDENT MANAGEMENT PORTAL
Version 1.0
Prepared by:-
Suman Saurabh (Y11UC231)
Sunil Agarwal (Y11UC233)
Shivam Prakash (Y11UC208)
Ankit Choudhary (Y11UC038)
Anurag Kanodia (Y11UC055)

Software Requirements Specification for <Project> Page ii
INDEX
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 ................................................................................................................................... 3
2. Overall Description ..................................................................................................................4
2.1 Product Perspective……………………………………………………………………………4
2.2 Product Functions ........................................................................................................................ 5
2.3 User Classes and Characteristics ................................................................................................. 5
2.4 Operating Environment ............................................................................................................... 5
2.5 Design and Implementation Constraints ...................................................................................... 5
2.6 User Documentation .................................................................................................................... 5
2.7 Assumptions and Dependencies .................................................................................................. 6
3. External Interface Requirements ...........................................................................................6
3.1 User Interfaces ............................................................................................................................. 6
3.2 Software Interfaces ...................................................................................................................... 6
3.3 Communications Interfaces ......................................................................................................... 6
4. System Features .......................................................................................................................6
4.1 Use Case Activity for Instructor .................................................................................................. 7
4.2 Use Case Activity for Student ..................................................................................................... 7
4.3 Use Case Activity for Admin ...................................................................................................... 8
5. Other Nonfunctional Requirements .......................................................................................9
5.1 Performance Requirements .......................................................................................................... 9
5.2 Safety Requirements .................................................................................................................. 10
5.3 Security Requirements ............................................................................................................... 10
5.4 Software Quality Attributes…………………………………………………………………..10
5.5 Business Rules………………………………………………………………………………...11
6. Other Requirements…………………………………………………………………………11
Appendix A: Glossary………………..…………………………………………………………11
Appendix B: To Be Determined List…………………………..………………………………11
Revision History
Name
Date
Reason For Changes
Version
Group No:20
09-02-14
Initial preparation
V 1.0

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1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose
This software package is developed from scratch exclusively for The LNM Institute of information Technology, Jaipur in order to,
 To maintain/process complete details of Students about their personal, academic, sports and health domain.
 To enable students to view their marks and grades any time from their home. No need to meet professors personally.
 To enable professors to upload marks and submit grades from his/her office. No need to mail and wait it to be forwarded to all mailing groups.
 To enable medical officer and admin staffs to view student‟s medical history and medical status in any case of emergency.
 To enable Sports PTI to classify students in different categories and accordingly form their groups during any fest.
1.2 Document Conventions
The following documentation conventions are followed in preparing this SRS:
 All key-words related to the academics are formatted in italics.
 SRS-Software Requirement Specification
1.3 Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions
This document is created for,
 The Instructors of the course „Software Engineering‟ for their review and monitoring progress of the project.
 The software development team for their use in analysing the requirements.
1.4 Product Scope
The scope of the to-be-developed „Student Management Portal‟ software package is:
i) To cater to ALL types of Courses offered by the administration of LNMIIT to its students.
ii) To cater to the need of a suitable interface for all students and instructors of an offered course.
iii) To facilitate medical officer to know students‟ medical history and fill up any details.

iv) To facilitate PTI to quick team selection in case of participation in any sports fest/tournament.
v) To facilitate administration to view any details of student quickly.
1.5 References
The following references are used in preparing this SRS:
 The SRS Template and Sample sent by Prof. Ravi Gorthi.
 Wikipedia.
2. Overall Description
2.1 Product Perspective
The following diagram describes the high-level business process of the Student Management functions of the LNMIIT:
The Student Management Functions Part – I: Creation and Maintenance of Student Details:

The Student Management Functions Part – I: Creation and Maintenance of Grade Details of Students:
The Student Management Functions Part – I: Creation and Maintenance and Modifying Student Details:

2.2 Product Functions
This software package is expected to offer the following services:
1. for Administrators of LNMIIT:
a) To facilitate the maintenance of important records of students currently studying in LNMIIT.
b) To maintain grade reports of any student and courses offered in any semester online.
2. for Faculties of LNMIIT:
a) To keep track of improvement/decline in the performance of any student enrolled in their courses online.
b) To provide their contact details to students and acquire students‟ contact details when needed.
3. for Students of LNMIIT:
a) Facility to go through their course progress and the grades and marks of various fields in the course.
b) Facility to view their personal details and view some of them.
c)
4. for Medical Officer of LNMIIT:
a) Facility to access medical history of student and view current health status.
b) Facility to add/modify any health detail of any student.
5. for Physical Trainer of LNMIIT:
a) Facility to access sports achievement details of all students.
b) Facility to classify students into different levels of competence, thus easing team selection during any fest/tournament.
2.3 User Classes and Characteristics
a) Faculty: These users will fill the marks of the students that are enrolled in the course, and will calculate the grades of a student and publish them.
b) Administrator: In the aspect of the student, this user will create profile for a new student; assign him/her the courses in which he/she has been enrolled. Admin can modify the details related to the registered student. And in the aspect of faculty, Admin can allot them courses to teach according to the particular session.
c) Student: This user can see his profile and progress in particular or current curriculum via viewing his grades uploaded by the faculty on his profile and can contact to the faculty if there are any issues related to it.
d) Medical Officer: They can view student medical history and data related to various health aspects of student (e.g.: height, weight, Blood report etc.). They can add/modify these details as well.

e) Physical Trainer: They can view details regarding sports activity of a student. They can add any achievement of any student. They can classify students according different level of competence that will ultimately ease them to select proper team for any fest.
2.4 Operating Environment
This software package is expected to work in the following atmosphere:
i) Microsoft stack consisting of,
a) OS - Windows 7, XP
b) Eclipse IDE
c) Java, PHP, JQuery, HTML, Java Applets
d) MySQL for RDBMS on Apache server.
2.5 Design and Implementation Constraints
The design time constraints are:
a) The software package should be designed so as to handle the access by ~20 Instructors/staff, 1 Admin and ~150 students concurrently.
2.6 User Documentation
a) This software package will come with a user‟s manual as a guide to its interface actions.
b) The details of the (i) Analysis, (ii) Design and (iii) Test Cases of this software package will be delivered along with this software.
2.7 Assumptions and Dependencies
There are no assumptions made.
3. External Interface Requirements
3.1 User Interfaces
The set of User Interfaces consists of,
a) To log in to their respective accounts by users.
b) To Add and Modify courses, Add fields to a course such as Quizzes, Attendance, Midsem, Endsem and define their respective weightages in the course, save and publish the various data stored in the fields.
c) To read the „published‟ data, by the students/Admin according to the permission of their respective accounts.
d) To generate the grade sheet by the admin for the particular semester for each student.
e) To view sports and medical details of a student and edit those.

f) To get list of student playing a particular sport with required level of profiency.
3.2 Hardware Interfaces
NIL
3.3 Software Interfaces
NIL
3.4 Communications Interfaces
This software package should be securely accessible through intranet communication channels (wired or wireless).
4. System Features
The requirements of this software package are described per each category of User:
i) All requirements of the MIS Portal for The LNMIIT Administrative Staffs
ii) All requirements of the MIS Portal for The LNMIIT Student.
iii) All requirements of the MIS Portal for The LNMIIT Faculty.
iv) All requirements of the MIS Portal for The LNMIIT Medical Officer.
v) All requirements of the MIS Portal for The LNMIIT Physical Trainer.
Business Use Case # 1: All the Requirements of The LNMIIT Administrative Staffs:
4.1 Adding Student and Faculty Details in The Database
4.1.1 Description and Priority
The TBD (to-be-developed) software package should facilitate The LNMIIT Administrative staff to,
i) To add a new Student‟s Personal details, Academic details, Financial details, Medical details and Sports Activity details in the MIS Database.
ii) Assigning user name and password to each Student.
iii) Viewing and Modifying Personal details, Academic details, Financial details, Medical details and Sports Activity details in the MIS Database.
iv) Adding Faculty information and course in the MIS Database.
v) Assigning user name and password to faculty.
Manual # 1, section 2.3.4 (see reference);

4.1.2 Stimulus/Response Sequences
Sr No
Stimulus from the User
Response from the Software
1
MIS (Administrative Staff) logs-in using user-id and password (see Appendix-I for user-id and password rules)
Software will validate the user-id and password;
Software will display the MIS Administrative Staff Initial Screen by recognizing the user-id;
2
MIS (Administrative Staff) chooses the „Add new Student‟ option.
The software will display the form (see Appendix-I for a list of the fields) to enter the details of the new Student and all the associated rule-sets, else the Software will display an error message (see Appendix-I for the list of Situation- Error Message‟);
3
MIS (Administrative Staff) will enter all the fields of the new Student including user-id.
Software will validate all the fields of the new Student (see Appendix-I for all the validation rules); default password will be generated which is same as user id; if there are any errors, the software will re-display the screen with the errors being high-lighted; else, the software will display a message that „Student Details added to Database‟;
4
If errors are displayed, the MIS (Administrative Staff) will correct the errors and re-submits the student details;
Software will display the MIS Administrative Staff Initial Screen;
5
MIS (Administrative Staff) can choose „View an existing Student Details‟;
Software will authenticate the user whether he / she is authorized to perform the chosen option or not and accordingly display either the associated next screen or an error message;
6
MIS (Administrative Staff) can choose „Modify an existing Student Details‟;
7
MIS (Administrative Staff) chooses the „Add Faculty Information‟ option.
The software will display the form (see Appendix-I for a list of the fields) to enter the details of the Faculty and all the associated rule- sets, else the Software will display an error message (see Appendix-I for the list of Situation-Error Message‟);
8
MIS (Administrative Staff) will enter all the fields of the new Faculty including user-id.
Software will validate all the fields of the new Faculty (see Appendix- I for all the validation rules); default password will be generated which is same as user id; if there are any errors, the software will re-

display the screen with the errors being high-lighted; else, the software will display a message that „Faculty Details added to Database‟;
9
If errors are displayed, the MIS (Administrative Staff) will correct the errors and re-submits the student details;
Software will display the MIS Administrative Staff Initial Screen;
10
MIS (Administrative Staff) can choose „View an existing Faculty Details‟;
11
MIS (Administrative Staff) can choose „Modify an existing Faculty Details‟;
12
MIS (Administrative Staff) can choose „Logout‟;
Software will logout MIS (Administrative Staff).
4.1.3 Functional Requirements
As per the above table described in 4.1.2.
Business Use Case # 2: All the Requirements of The MIS Portal for The LNMIIT Student:
4.2 Viewing and Editing Information from Student Portal
The TBD (to-be-developed) software package should facilitate the MIS Portal for The LNMIIT Student to,
i) View his/her Personal details, Academic details, Financial details, Medical details and Sporting Activities in the MIS Database.
ii) Students are authorized only to edit Mobile Number, Email –id, Residential Address.
The priority of this requirement is 70.
4.2.2 Situation-Response Sequence
Sr No
1
The Student accesses the MIS Portal through the internet;
Software displays the following options: (a) User Id (b) Password.
2
The Student logs-in using user-id and password (see Appendix-I for user-id

and password rules)
Software will display the Student portal‟s Initial Screen by recognizing the user-id;
3
The Student can choose the „Personal information‟ option.
The software will display the form where the information filled by administrative staff will be present also student will be allowed to edit some information like secondary email id, residential address and mobile no.;
4
The Student can choose the „Academic Details‟ option.
In this menu there will be two tabs one for the courses which he had done and other for the courses which he is currently doing;
5
If The Student chooses the „Courses done‟ option
Software will display him all the courses which he had done and grades he got in the courses. And in the last of the page software will show Students current CPI;
6
If The Student chooses the „Previous year mark seat‟ option
Software will display him a drop down box in which he can select session and accordingly his course for that semester including SPI(Of that semester) will be shown;
7
If The Student chooses the „Currently pursuing courses‟ option
Software will display him all the courses which he is doing in the current semester. And he can also view his marks which he got in the quizzes, mid semester, end semester;
8
The Student can choose the „Sports Details‟ option.
The software will display him a form where he can view his sport, achievements and level at which he is currently standing. And if he want to add or modify something he can contact in administrative staff;
9
The Student can choose the „Financial Details‟ option
The software will display him. His fees and fines with the total at the end.
10
The Student can choose the „Medical
Details‟ option
The software will display him. His Medical information.
Business Use Case # 3: All the Requirements of The MIS Portal for The LNMIIT Faculty:
The TBD (to-be-developed) software package should facilitate the MIS Portal for The LNMIIT Faculty to,
i) View his/her list of courses assigned in the current semester.
ii) Faculty are authorized to edit his/her details such as: Name, Phone Number, Room Number, Mobile Number, Email -id.
iii) Faculty gets list of all the courses assigned to him/her.

iv) On selecting particular course will get a list of student registered for that course.
v) Faculty can give/edit the marks of Midsem 1, Midsem 2, Endsem, 8 quizzes of any student assigned to his/her course.
vi) Faculty are allowed to enter grades of each student at the end of semester.
The priority of this requirement is 95.
Sr No
1
The Faculty accesses the MIS Portal through the internet;
Software displays the following options: (a) User Id (b) Password .
Upon login will show MIS Faculty initial screen
2
Faculty can edit his/her details such as: Name, Phone Number, Room Number, Mobile Number, Email -id, Password as it fits.
Selecting update, the above field will be uploaded to database(see Appendix-I for all the validation rules);
3
Clicking 'Course' tab.
It will show his/her courses in the current semester.
4
Selecting particular course.
It will generate list of students registered for that course with fields of Midsem 1, Midsem 2, Endsem, 8 quizzes for each student.
5
Selecting 'Update' after entering the marks and grades.
The uploaded details will be added to database.
6
Assigning 'Final Grades' to students.
After selecting this option, faculty cannot edit the grades of students.
7
MIS (Faculty) can choose „Logout‟;
Software will logout MIS (Faculty).
4.3.iii. Functional Requirements
As per the above table described in 4.1.2.

Business Use Case # 4: All the Requirements of The LNMIIT Medical Officer:
4.4 Viewing and Adding Student information by The Medical Portal
The TBD (to-be-developed) software package should facilitate the MIS Portal for The LNMIIT Student to,
i) View any student‟s Personal details, Medical details and Sporting Activities from the MIS Database in a single line.
ii) The Medical Officer will be allowed to add new disease which he found in the student and also can change student‟s current health status.
The priority of this requirement is 70
Sr No
1
The Medical Officer accesses the MIS Portal through the internet;
2
The Medical Officer logs-in using user-id and password (see Appendix-I for user-id and password rules)
Software will display the Medical Officer portal‟s Initial Screen by recognizing the user-id;
3
The Medical Officer can choose the „Student Details‟ option.
The software will display “Enter Students Roll No” with text box below,
4
The Medical Officer will manually input the Roll No of a particular student and will submit.
This will search the MIS Database and will show student‟s Personal details, Medical details and Sporting Activities.;
5
If The Medical Officer chooses the „Adding new reports‟ option
Software will display him a form where Medical Officer will type student‟s new disease and current health status that will be updated In the database ;
Business Use Case # 5: All the Requirements of The LNMIIT Physical Trainer:
4.5 Viewing and Adding Student information by The Trainer Portal
The TBD (to-be-developed) software package should facilitate the MIS Portal for The LNMIIT Physical Trainer,
i) View any student‟s Personal details, Medical details and Sporting Activities from the MIS Database in a single line.
ii) .
The priority of this requirement is 70

Sr No
1
The Physical Trainer accesses the MIS Portal through the internet;
2
The Physical Trainer logs-in using user-id and password (see Appendix-I for user-id and password rules)
Software will display the Physical Trainer portal‟s Initial Screen by recognizing the user-id;
3
The Physical Trainer can choose the „Student Details‟ option.
The software will display “Enter Students Roll No” with text box below;
4
The Physical Trainer will manually input the Roll No of a particular student and will submit.
This will search the MIS Database and will show student‟s Personal details, Medical details and Sporting Activities;
5
If The Physical Trainer chooses the „Modifying Level‟ option
Software will display him a form where Physical Trainer will type student‟s new level that will be updated In the database;
5. Other Nonfunctional Requirements
5.1 Performance Requirements
This software should be able to handle the following tasks:
a) At least 20 instructors/staff can log in on an average of four hours a day for five days a week.
b) At least 100 students can log into their accounts for 3 hours for 5 days of the week.
c) It should be able to handle the MYSQL database of 100 instructors and 1500 students.
5.2 Safety Requirements
This software will ease the process of student grading. At the end of every semester each student will receive a grade sheet generated by the administration using the data uploaded by the course instructor on this software. All important details should be maintained in hard copy as well.
5.3 Security Requirements
This software will,
a) Authenticate each user, who logs in;
b) When the user performs any action, authorize him/her to perform the actions allowed for the user and displays an error message if found to be unauthorized.

5.4 Other Software Quality Attributes
NIL
5.5 Business Rules
No such business rule.
6. Other Requirements
NIL
Appendix A: Glossary
<Define all the terms necessary to properly interpret the SRS, including acronyms and abbreviations. You may wish to build a separate glossary that spans multiple projects or the entire organization, and just include terms specific to a single project in each SRS.>
Appendix B: Analysis Models
<Optionally, include any pertinent analysis models, such as data flow diagrams, class diagrams, state-transition diagrams, or entity-relationship diagrams.>
Appendix C: To Be Determined List
<Collect a numbered list of the TBD (to be determined) references that remain in the SRS so they can be tracked to closure.>
Appendix 1: Username and Password Rules:
1. Username should begin with any letter.
2. Username should be unique for all users.
3. Username should be at-least 6 characters long.
4. Password should contain at least one special character and one number.
5. Password should be at least 6 characters long.

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