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SEOC Practical Work

This page contains all the information necessary to complete the SEOC practical. In the practical you will be required to work in a small group on the specification and design of a Secure Coursework Submission System (SCSS) for the School of Informatics.

The following references provide the main information for your system requirements. You should use them as a basis for eliciting and gathering your system requirements.

1. A paper describing some aspects of such systems.
2. A group at Warwick also have a proposal for a secure coursework submission system.
3. A preliminary proposal from Edinburgh outlines our view of the problem.

The handouts and deliverables provide detailed instructions. Over the course of the practical there will be several handouts issued, these are listed here:

1. The first handout details the practical exercise.
2. The first deliverable is described in the note. Deadline for Deliverable 1: 3pm Monday 30th October 2006.
3. The Marking Scheme 1 consists of three different parts. Please fill in each part of the Marking Scheme 1 and submit it as cover sheet for your Deliverable 1. Note that you have to justify any allocated mark by answering each corresponding question and providing an assessment supporting your mark allocation. You have to justify your mark assignment by answering the questions and proving an assessment in a separate sheet. [marking_scheme1.pdf]
4. The second deliverable is described in the note. Deadline for Deliverable 2: 3pm Monday 4th December 2006.
5. The Marking Scheme 2 consists of three different parts. Please fill in each part of the Marking Scheme 2 and submit it as cover sheet for your Deliverable 2. Note that you have to justify any allocated mark by answering each corresponding question and providing an assessment supporting your mark allocation. You have to justify your mark assignment by answering the questions and proving an assessment in a separate sheet. [marking_scheme2.pdf]

The following presentation provides further clarification about the practical work and the deliverables.

• Secure Coursework Submission System (SCSS) - Information Document 1.
• Using Eclipse in Teams - Information Document 2. It provides some information on connecting Eclipe to a CVS repository. Chrapter 6 extracted from the O'Reilly Eclipse Cookbook provides a description of the main Eclipse (CVS) functionalities supporting team work.

Much of the work of the tutorials will be directed towards completing the project. The list of tutorial groups tells you what group you belong to.

Most of the tutorial meetings will have some kind of activity associated with them. The tutorial handout describes the tutorial organisation and timetable. The activities are described here:

1. Week 3. This is the activity for the Tutorial 1.
2. Week 4. This is the activity for the Tutorial 2.
3. Week 5. This is the activity for the Tutorial 3.
4. Week 6. This is the activity for the Tutorial 4.
5. Week 7. This is the activity for the Tutorial 5.
6. Week 8. This is the activity for the Tutorial 6.
7. Week 10. This is the activity for the Tutorial 7.
8. Week 11. This is the activity for the Tutorial 8.

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