School of Computer Science BCS accreditation 2021 - 2026

Although the requirements are determined by the group, they reflect on these and future needs in the final presentation.

Assesement : Presentation

Students learn testing through the provision of unit tests in the labs and coursework in order to make sure that their code meets the expectations set.

Assesement : Group coursework, Lab work

We go through step-by-step from the initial requirements to the ending database system and students will evaluate and assess the usefulness of their database throughout.

Assesement : Individual coursework, Lab work

Bugs are injected into the system and the course requires that students fix those bugs

Assesement : Individual coursework, Group coursework

As students build an enterprise web system over a period of ten weeks, students are given new requirement every week whereby the lecturers act as customers. Students are encouraged to check with the "customers" whether the requirements are met. In this way, students learn that requirements can be initially ambiguous and become more specific over time. They also learn that some requirements may disappear, some others will emerge unexpectedly and some other are open to interpretation.

Assesement : Examination, Group coursework

Current and future requirements for distributed systems are taught and discussed in class, and tested as both formative and summative assessment.

Assesement : Individual coursework, Lab work

Construct surveys to understand user's experience of systems

Assesement : Examination, Individual coursework

The student's work will be evaluated against requirements derived as part of the project.

Assesement : Individual coursework

These are addressed in lecture notes, slides, and videoed lectures.

Assesement : Examination, Test