The documentation and evaluation of team-oriented database projects

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on documentation and evaluation techniques for monitoring and assessing team oriented database projects in a senior level database course in computer science. Instead of effecting documentation as the last phase in traditional software development, the documentation procedures are implemented as nine separate staggered deliverables during the project development. These deliverables are revised and organized into a final documentation binder. Evaluation techniques are monitored through four distinct phases: Project Plan, Ongoing Documentation, Progress Report, and Project Presentation (Demonstration).

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
          Subjects: Computer science education

General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Human Factors