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Chapter-1
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INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT
Those were old days when employees on Gas Agency
have to store all the information related to stock and bill ing
into the very huge bundle of fi les. So the idea of automated
Gas Agency Control and Billing has come forward.
This system is developed in that respect for the stock,
Bookings of Cylinders by customers and bills schedule, the
data will be stored in the database from where we can
retrieve the data which is required with in few seconds and
we can modify the data easily. As soon as related authority
makes the entries and click on the Save button Items will be
entered in the master table and we can take the printout and
can issue it to the customers. Before issuing the
products/Items to the customers we have to enter all the
available stock and purchase bills.
This Gas Agency Management System is such
software, which helps user to do their work very easily and
with fewer efforts. Once all the Master data is entered then
all the available stock from purchase has to be entered in
the database from front end. There is a user name and
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password so that any unauthorized person cannot be open
and make changes into the stored data.
Interface of the system is in Visual Basic 2005
(VB.Net), which is very much user friendly and backend is in
MS ACCESS used to stored the data base and for reports
Crystal Reports are used.
VB.NET
(Need and Importance)
Till recently, applications generally provided a
character–based interface. In a character–based system,
text was the medium of information exchange. The
application displayed text that prompted the user for the
required information. It also specified the valid options, if
any. The user then responded to these prompts by
specifying the required information.
With the advent of graphical operating systems like
windows, the world of computing went through a dramatic
change. It opened up a whole new world of graphics.
VB.NET is also one of the visual programming tool, through
which we can design very attractive and user–friendly
software. A visual programming environment automates the
process of creating a user interface. The interface provided
by the visual programming environment to the programmer is
called the visual interface. Using the visual interface, the
programmer designs the user interface visually instead of
writing code.
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The biggest advantage of visual programming is its
Ready–to–use components. Visual programming
environment displays a list of available components,
programmer picks up the required component from tool box.
These components can be moved, resized and even deleted,
if so required.
This software is designed in VB.NET using MS ACCESS
database, with some Oracle commands for different queries.
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CHAPTER-2
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We use the computer technology in many ways, from
visible to invisible, spectacular to routine, video games and
special effects for fi lms and television to microwave ovens,
electronic cameras and automobile ignition system. In
business too, computers and information system occupy a
special place. Computers make possible the smooth and
efficient operation of airline reservations, hospital record,
departments accounting and payroll functions, electronics
banking, telephone switching systems, Gas Agency stock
and bill ing and countless other operations both large and
small.
To be of any use, a computer–based information
system must function properly, be easy to use and suit the
organization for which it has been designed. If it helps
people do their jobs better and more efficiently, they will use
it. If it is not helpful, they will surely avoid it.
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WHAT IS A SYSTEM?
A system is a body of related components that function
in harmony to achieve a common objective.
We come across many systems in our day-to-day life.
We all l ive according to an economic system in which goods
and services are exchanged for other goods and services of
comparable value, which benefits the participants to the
exchange.
A person communicates by means of a language, a
highly developed system of words and symbols that convey
meaning to each other.
The complex central nervous system is responsible for
our experiencing physical sensations like heat, cold, touch.
A system is simply a set of components that interact to
accomplish some purpose.
Or
A system is an orderly grouping of interdependent
components linked together according to a plan to achieve a
specific objective.
The components that make up systems may actually be
other smaller systems; that is, systems may be made up of
levels of systems or sub-systems.
Organizations consist of many business systems, each
having the features of the general system.
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The purposes of information systems are to process
input, maintain files of data about the organization and
produce information, reports and other output.
An Information System can be defined as a sub-system
of the business. Specifically, it is an arrangement of
interdependent human and machine components that
interact to support the operational, managerial and decision–
making information needs of an organization.
Information systems consist of sub-systems, including
hardware, software and data storage for fi les and databases.
The set of subsystems that uses – the specific equipment,
programs, files and procedures – constitutes information
systems application. Thus, information systems can be sale
and purchase, accounting or payroll applications.
Categories of Information Systems
What is Systems Analysis and Design?
Systems development has two major components:
Systems Analysis and Systems Design
Systems analysis refers to the process of examining a
business situation with the intent of improving it through
better methods and procedures. Systems design is the
process of planning a new business system to replace the
old system. Before this planning can be done, we must
thoroughly understand the old system and determines how
the computer can be best used to make its operation more
effective.
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Systems analysis then, is the process of totally
understanding the current system by gathering and
interpreting facts, diagnosing problems and using the facts
to improve the current system.
Having determined the requirements and ‘what’ the
system is intended to do, the new system is designed,
keeping in mind the objectives set during the system
analysis.
Thus, Analysis specifies ‘what’ the system should do,
that is it sets the objective and Design states ‘how’ to
accomplish this objective.
Members of the Systems Development Team:
User/Management Group: These are the people who
recognize a problem in the existing system and initiate a
request to modify it.
Systems Analyst: A Systems Analyst studies the problems
and needs of an organization to determine how people,
method and computer technology can best accomplish
improvements for the business. When compute technology is
used, the analyst is responsible for the efficient capture of
data from its business source, the flow of that data to the
computer and the timely information back to business users.
Systems Designer: A Systems Designer designs the new
system keeping in mind the objectives set during systems
analysis. It is the job of the designer to convert the
requirements specified by the analyst, into technical
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specifications. Very often the systems analyst and the
systems designer are the same person.
Programmer: A programmer takes the technical
specifications from the designer and turns them into
workable programs for the user/management. Group.
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SYSTEM DESIGN
System design specifies how the system will work. It
consists of five parts:
1. Output Design: The starting print of the design process is
the proper knowledge of system requirements, which will
normally be converted in terms of output.
2. Input Design: Once the output requirements have been
finalized, the next step is to find what data need to be made
available to the system to produce the desired output. The
basic documents in which these data are available need to
be identified.
3. File Design: Once the input data is captured in the
system, these may have to be preserved either for a short or
long period. These data will generally be stored in files in a
logical manner. The designer will have to devise the
techniques of storing and retrieving data from these files.
4. Procedure Design: This step involves specification of how
processing will be performed. In this, there are two aspects:
A. Computer Procedure B. Non-Computer
Procedure
5. Control Design: The control design indicates necessary
procedures, which will ensure correctness of processing,
accuracy of data, timely output etc. this will ensure that
system is functioning as per plan.
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SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE (SDLC)
As already mentioned Systems development is a
process consisting of the two major steps of Systems
Analysis and Design. It starts when management or the
systems development personnel realize that a particular
business system needs improvement.
The Systems development life cycle is a sequence of
events carried out by analysts, designers and users to
develop and implement an information system. These
activities are carried out in different stages.
Most life cycles leave you with the impression that the
phases of a project must be completed in a sequence. That
is, you must finish one phase or task before starting the
next. In reality phases of systems development life cycle can
overlap. Each phase is subject to change, based on the
outcome of reviews held at the end of each phase.
This section examines each of the seven events that
make up the systems development life cycle. Most systems
activities are all closely related and are usually inseparable.
Even the order of the steps in thse activities may be difficult
to determine. Different parts of the project can be in various
phases at the same time. Some components may be
undergoing analysis while others are at advanced design
stages.
Phases of Systems Development Life Cycle are as
follows:
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1. Preliminary Investigation (feasibility study)
2. Determination of Systems requirements (Analysis)
3. Design of the System
4. Development of Software
5. Systems Testing
6. Systems Implementation
7. Systems Maintenance
Here we will concentrate on the Preliminary
Investigation (Feasibility Study)
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PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION (FEASIBILITY
STUDY)
Preliminary Investigation starts as soon as someone,
either a user or a member of a particular department
recognizes a problem or initiates a request, to modify the
current computerized system or to computerize the current
manual system. An important outcome of the preliminary
investigation is determining whether the system requested is
feasible or not.
The major purposes of this study are listed below:
1. Identify the responsible users and develop an
initial “scope” of the system.
2. Identify current deficiencies in the user’s
environment.
3. Determine objectives for the new system.
4. Determine whether it is feasible to automate the
system and it so, suggest some acceptable
options.
The seven major areas to consider while determining
the feasibility of a project are:
Technical Feasibility
The organization being pioneer in the area of education
and training is well equipped with hardware as well as
software. As far as the hardware setup is concerned, the
organization is self-sufficient. Maximum polytechnics are
ISO certified institutions.
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Economical Feasibility
Organization is already equipped with all the latest
software and is also has a self-sufficient hardware setup.
System is designed so as to fit in the current software
present in the organization. If at all purchasing new software
is required for long run and hence it is not an overhead. So
system is economically feasible.
Operation Feasibility
The points to be considered are:
1. What changes will be brought with the system?
2. What organizational structures are disturbed?
3. What new skills will be required? Does the
existing staff have these skills? If not, can they be
trained in due course of time.
Personnel, who understand the parts of the business that
are relevant to the project and are skilled in system analysis
and design process, carry out this feasibility system.
The system incorporates user-friendly, default processing
and required validation. These all are done keeping in view
the individual with minimum computer knowledge.
Social Feasibility
Social feasibility is determination of whether a
proposed will be acceptable to the people, who are
concerned with, or not. This determination typically
examines the probability of the project being accepted by
the group directly affected by the proposed system. Change.
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Management Feasibility
It is a determination of whether proposed project is
acceptable to management. If management does not accept
a project or gives a negligible support to it, the analyst will
tend to view the project as a not-feasible one.
Legal Feasibility
It is determination of whether a proposed system
infringes on known Acts, Statutes, as well as any pending
legislation.
Time Feasibility
It is determination of whether a proposed system can
be implemented fully within a stipulated time frame. If
project takes too much time it is likely to be rejected.
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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PARADIGM APPLIED
QUALITY ASSURANCE
The software life cycle include various stages of
development and each stage has the goal of quality
assurance.
1 Quality factors specification: The goal of this stage is to
describe various factors mainly responsible quality of this
proposed system. They are follows:
Correctness: The extent to which a program meets
system specification and user objectives.
Reliability: The degree to which the system performs its
intended functions over a time.
Efficiency: Computer resources required by a program
to perform a particular function.
Usability: Efforts required to understand and operate a
system.
Maintainability: The ease with which the program error
are detected and removed.
Testability: The efforts required to test a program to
ensure its correct performance.
Accuracy: The required precision in input,editing,
computation and output.
Error Tolerance: Error detection and correction versus
error avoidance.
Expandability: Ease of expanding the existing
database.
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Access Control and Audit: Control of access to the
system and the extent to which that access can be
audited.
Communicativeness: Usefulness and effectiveness of
the inputs and outputs of the system.
2. Software requirements Specifications: The quality
assurance goal of this stage is to generate the requirement
documents that help in providing technical specifications for
developing software.
3. Software design specification: In this stage, the software design
document defines the overall architecture of the software that provides
the functions and features given in the software requirement
document.
4. Software testing and implementation: The quality
assurance goal of the testing phase is to ensure that
completeness and accuracy of the system and minimize the
retesting process in the implementation phase, the goal is to
provide a logical order for the creation of the modules and in
turn the creation of the system.
5. Maintenance and support: This phase provides the
necessary software development for the system to continue
to comply with the original specification. The quality
assurance goal is to be developing a procedure for
correcting errors and enhancing software.
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LEVELS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE
1. Testing: system testing is quite expensive and time
consuming process. The common view of testing held by
users is that it is performed to prove that program is error
free. But this is quite difficult since the analyst cannot prove
that software is free from all sort of error.
2. Verification with Validation: It is also intended to find
error. Executing a program in a simulated enviournment
performs it. Validation refers to a process of using software
in alive environment to find errors.
3. Certification: The last level of quality assurance is to
certify that the software package developed conforms to
standards. With a growing demand for purchasing ready to
use software, importance of certification has increased. A
package that is certified goes through a team of computer
specialists who test, review and determine how well it meets
the user’s requirements and vendor’s claim. Certification is
issued only if the package is successful in all the tests.
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Chapter-3
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SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE REQUIREMENT
SPECIFICATION
SOFTWARE SELECTION
The criteria for software selection are:
Reliability: gives consistent results without any failure for a
specified time period.
Functionality: functions to standards.
Capacity: satisfies volume requirements of the user.
Flexibility: adapts to the changing needs.
Usability: is user friendly.
Security: maintains integrity and prevents unauthorized user.
Performance: delivers the results as expected.
Serviceability: have good documentation and vendor
supports.
Ownership: has right to modify and share use of package.
Minimum Cost : is justified and affordable for intended
application.
HARDWARE SELECTION
Selecting a system is a serious and time-consuming
business. The time spent on the selection process is a
function of the application and whether the system is a basic
microcomputer or a mainframe. In either case, planning
system selection and acquiring experienced help where
necessary pay off in the long run.
There are various important factors, which should be
considered prior to system selection. They are:
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Define system capabilit ies that make sense for the business.
Specify the magnitude of the problem; that is clarify whether
selection entails a few peripheral or a major decision
concerning the mainframe.
Access the competence of the in-house staff.
Hardware and software should be considered as package.
Develop a time frame for the selection process.
Provide user indoctrination: This is crucial, especially for the
first time user. Selling the system to the user staff, provide
inadequate training and creating an environment conductive
to implementation and pre-requisites for the system
acquisition.
The selection process consist of several process:
Requirement analysis: The first selection in understanding
the user’s requirement within the framework of the
organization’s objectives and the environment in which the
system is being installed.
System specification: System specification must be clearly
defines. These specifications must reflect the actual
application to be handled by the system and include system
objectives, flowcharts, input-output requirements, fi le
structure and cost.
Request for proposal: After the requirement analysis and
system specification have been defined, a request for
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proposal is prepared and sent to selected vendors for
bidding.
Evaluation and validation: The evaluation phase ranks
various vendor proposals and determines the one best
suited to the user’s requirements. It looks into items such as
price, availability and technical support. System validation
ensures that the vendor can, in fact, match his/her claims,
especially system performance.
Vendor Selection: This step determines the vendor with the
best combination of reputation, reliability, service record,
training, delivery time, lease/finance systems. The selected
vendors are invited to give a presentation of their system.
The system chosen goes through contract negation before
implementation.
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Hardware Profile: -
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1. Processor Pentium IV 1.5 GHz or above.
2. RAM 128 MB or above.
3. Hard Disk 40 GB or above.
4. Printer Any type of printer
5. Monitor Any colored monitor
Software Profile: -
1. Operating System Windows Operating System.
2. Front End VB.Net
3. Back End SQL Server 2000
4. Report Crystal Report (already with
VB.Net)
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Chapter-4
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SYSTEM STUDY
Existing System
Any Gas Agency have different types of products/items to
sales. They firstly purchase Items from refineries and then
maintain their Stock record on paper. Bill ing is also
manually.
Following is the flow of existing system: -
1. They purchase Items as per demand or requirement.
2. Make the manual entry of purchased Item in file.
3. Sale the item to the customer.
4. Provide a manual bill to customer of the item sold
5. At day end they have to calculate all the purchased and
sold item manually which take a lot of time to calculate.
6. Accuracy was not in the manual calculation.
Problem In Existing System
1. The system required more manpower.
2. As the system is manual data redundancy take place.
3. This Leads to wastage of time, man-hours and money.
4. Difficulty to get quick information due to much of paper
handling.
5. Data security cannot be achieved.
6. Report generation takes lot of time as they are done.
7. Manually, fatal errors may occur at these points.
Now the main problem is to maintain Stock, Purchase entry
and sales entry. On which we have concentrated our project
work.
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NEED FOR THE SYSTEM
Need of computerization
1. Easy to keep track of all records.
2. Proper and regular modifications are done in time.
3. Easy and quick report generation.
4. Fast processing of data, which help in giving correct
outputs.
PROPOSED SYSTEM
Proposed system scope
The main purpose of the system is allow user to fil l all
the details related to Item Master, Tanks and Machines. It
saves lots of time user and the organization, the cost
incurred on the system is one time and not like manual
system where there are recurring costs. Quick assessment
of task is possible. Reports are generated in no time.
It can store information of the Items Master, Stock-in
Entry and Sold Item etc.
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FACT FINDING TECHNIQUE
By applying the structure System Analysis and Design
methodologies, the background information is collected.
Interview
As this is the most efficient way of gathering
information from the individuals, various person where
interviewed which gave quantitative information such as
adjective, constraint, problem, failures and allocation of
duties.
Observation
The obstacles were found by observing the daily work
in the Institute. This gave and idea about the environment of
the Institute.
Record Searching
Various resisters and files were scanned to obtained
information about the manual procedure and difficulties
faced. Sample of various document were studied. They
proved to be very helpful in developing this system.
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IMPLEMENTATION
Minimum requirement for implementing the system is
hardware, which is already available and the users of the
system, which are familiar with the basics of the computers.
A short training program will be concluded to the user
to help them to understand the system. Once the training
program is over implementation of the system is done.
Pilot-run of the system
In this phase the historical data will be entered in the
system as test data and the outputs of the system will be
checked against the historical reports. As both input and
output are available, this phase is not taking much time.
Parallel run of the system
In this phase both the manual system as well as
computer system will process. As in some cases of test it is
necessary to do some paper work. Rest entire College
Admission System will be computerized.
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Chapter-5
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ENTITY RELATIONSHIP (ER) DIAGRAM
The object /relationship pair is the cornerstone of the data
model. These pair can be represented graphically using the
ENTITY/RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM. The ERD was originally
proposed by Peter Chen for the design of relational
database system and has been extended by others. The
primary purpose of the ERD is to represent data objects and
their relationships . A set of primary components is identified
for the ERD. These are:
ENTITIES RELATIONSHIPS ATTRIBUTES
Which specify dist inct real world i tems in an applicat ion
Which connect enti t ies and represent meaningful dependencies between them.
Which specify propert ies of enti t ies and relat ionships
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METHODOLOGY
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Implementation
Information
Gathering
Analysis
Designing Solution
Coding
Testing
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Chapter-6
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DATABASE USED MS ACCESS
MS Access is a Relational Data Base Management System. In MS
Access has much advantage over other DBMS. The user can create
Table and store related data in it. MS access provides easy way to
create tables we can create tables in design mode or by using the in
build Wizards. User can also create form layout in MS Access.
To create table in MS Access follows These Steps.
1) Start MS Access form Start -> Program File -> MS Office -> MS
Access.
2) In the File Menu Select New to create new database.
3) MS Access Ask You to save the database name in specified
location. Type the file name in file save dialog box and click save
button.
4) MS Access opens a table design window in which you can
design the table by using design view of by using wizard.
5) Select Create Table in Design View to open design table
windows
6) Here you can type the field name, specify the data type and the
size of the fields. This window also allows the user to define the
different constraints like Primary Key constraints and Not Null Key
constraints.
7) Select save button in tool bar to save the table by giving a
suitable name.
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THE TABLE DESIGN WINDOW
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To attach the MS Access with Visual Basic the three major
tools are widely used.
1) The Data Control
2) The Data Access Object (DAO)
3) The Active Data Object (ADO)
Data Control
With data control we can access database without any
programming. We can set to property of data control i.e. Database
name to database, and Record Source to table name. We can
display the data in regular controls like textboxes etc.
The Data Access Object
The Data Access Object is a structure of object s for accessing
database through VB code. All the function of Data Control available
in VB Code.
Record Sets
Record Sets are the objects that represent collection of records
from one or more tables. In database programming, Record Sets
are equivalent of a variable in regular programming. We can access
a table directory via a Record Set Object. A Record Set is
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constructed of columns and rows and is similar to a table, but it can
contain data from multiple tables. The Record Set work like a bridge
between the Visual Basic and The Database.
There are three types of Record Sets
1) DynaSets, which are updateable views of data
2) Snapshots, which are static (read-only) views of data
3) Tables, Which are direct views of tables.
The SQL Statements
The SQL statements are used to extract data from a database. SQL
statements are basically Record Set definitions. With SQL
statements we can extract data from multiple table at a given time.
We can make query, sub query with SQL statements. The SQL
Statements are beginning with the SELECT statement.
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VALIDATION CHECKS
1. Name should not contain any non-alphabetic characters.
2. Date should be in correct format.
3. Fields should not be left blank.
4. Phone No. should be numeric with – mark.
5. Item Code in master table should be unique.
6. Tank No. in master table should be unique.
7. Bill No. should be unique.
IMPLEMENTATION, EVALUTION
AND MAINTENANCE
Implementation is the processes of having system personnel check
out and put new equipment into use, train users, install the new
application and constructs any files of data needed to use it. This
phase is less creative than system design. Depending on size of
organization that will be involved in using the application and the
risks involved in its use, system developers may choose to test the
operation in only one area of the firm with only one or two persons.
Sometimes they will run both old and new system in parallel way to
compare the results. In stil l other situations, system developers
stop using the old system one day and start using the new one the
next.
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Evaluation of the system is performed to identify its strengths and
weaknesses. The actual evaluation can occur along any of the
following dimensions:
Operation Evaluation: Assessment of the manner in which the
system functions, including case of use, response time,
overall reliability and level of util ization.
Organizational Impact: Identification and measurement of
benefits of the organization in such areas as financial
concerns, operational efficiency and competitive impact.
User Manager Assessment: Evaluation of the attitudes of
senior and user manager within the organization, as well as
end users.
Development Performance: Evaluation of the development
process in accordance with such yard sticks as overall
development time and effort, conformance to budgets and
standards and other project management criteria.
Maintenance is necessary to eliminate errors in the working system
during its working life and to tune the system to any variations in
its working environments. Often small system deficiencies are
found as a system is brought into operations and changes are
made to remove them. System planners must always plan for
resources availability to carry out these maintenance functions.
The importance of maintenance is to continue to bring the new
system to standards.
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MAINTENANCE ISSUES
When the systems are installed, they are normally used for a
considerable period. Average life of system is generally 4 to 6
years with the oldest applications often in use for over 10 years.
However this period of constant use brings with it the used to
continually maintain the system. When system is fully implemented
analyst must take precautions to ensure that the need for
maintenance is controlled through design and testing the ability to
perform it is provided through proper practices.
Maintenance is necessary to eliminate errors in the working
system during its working life and to tune the system any variations
in its working environment. Often small system deficiencies are
found as a system is brought into operations and changes are
made to remove them. System planners must always plan for
resources availability to carry out these maintenance functions the
importance of maintenance is to continue to bring the new system
to standards.
1. From 60% to 90% of the overall cost of software during the
life of a system is spent on maintenance.
2. Often maintenance is not done very efficiently.
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3. Software demand is growing at a faster rate than supply.
Many programmers are spending more time on system
maintenance that on new software development.
Type of System maintenance
Category Activity Relative Frequency
Corrective Emergency fixes routine
debugging.
20%
Adaptive Accommodation of changes to
data and files and to hardware
and system software.
20%
Perfective User enhancement improved
documentation, recording for
computational efficiency.
60%
Adaption maintenance means changing the program functions.
Enhancing the performance or modifying the program according to
user’s additional or changing needs are included in perfective
maintenance – the greatest amount of maintenance is for user
enhancement and improved documentation of the system for better
efficiency. More time and money spend on perfective that on
corrective and adaptive maintenance together.
The key to reduce the need for maintenance while making it
possible to carry with essential tasks more efficiently is as follows:
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1. More accurate defining the user’s requirement during
system development.
2. Preparation of system documentation in a better way.
3. Using more effective ways for designing processing logic
and communicating it to project team members.
4. Making better use of existing tools and techniques.
5. Managing the systems engineering process effectively .
TESTING
Testing plays an important role while developing particular
system. It help us to know if there as any fault in the system, which
would be due to part of the manual procedure is not considered at
all.
The data is observed at every stage of the system of the
system and verified the data movement updates are appropriate.
Data process and results are observed at every stage of the
system. Then results are verified and compared with the already
available result.
Testing is the process to find errors in the software. The
testing is done with the philosophy to find errors. There are two
general strategies for testing the software.
Code Testing: in the testing, the analyst develops that cases
to execute every instructions and path in a program.
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Specification Testing: in this testing, analyst examines the
program specification and then rites test data to determine how the
program operates under specific conditions .
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LEVEL OF TESTING:
There are two level of testing:
Unit Testing: It is also called a program testing. Unit testing
gives stress on the modules independently of one another, to find
error. The analyst tests the program making up a whole system; it
tends to delete errors in each every modules of system
independently. Its main features are:
It helps the tester in deleting errors in syntax and logic of
particular modules alone.
It avoids the error resulting from interaction between modules.
System Testing: Testing the system as a whole. System
testing makes the assumption that if all the parts of a system are
correct then the ultimate goal will be successfully achieved. A
newly developed system has many subsystems or parts that are in
a working order but all of them work independently. Under system
testing all of them come under one pool and tested simultaneously
as a whole system to detect the interaction caused errors and
correct them. System testing is of five steps:
Program Testing: Under this testing the logical and syntactical
errors within the program are detected and connected.
Syntax Error: It is a program statement the violated one or
more rules of the languages it is written e.g.
Omitted Key Words.
Improperly defined fields.
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Logical errors: Deal with incorrect data fields out of range
items and invalid combinations. These errors are not detected by
the compiler, so that programmers must examine the output
carefully to detect the error. The actual output is compared with the
expected output and if difference is there in the program are traced
to detect the problem.
String Testing: The programs of a system are interrelated to
one another so . Their interaction results are checked. Each
modules checked to see whether it works with union with other
subsequent module or not or in other words the interactive
functioning of different modules is checked.
System Testing: System testing is designed to uncover the
weaknesses that were left in earlier tests. This includes forced
system failures are used to test the recovery and feedback after
major failures to ensure that no data are los during the emergency.
System Documentation: All design and test documentation
should are kept safe for failure maintenance of the new system.
User Acceptance Testing: It is tested to the whether the user
accepting the system or not it verifies that the system procedure
operates to system specification. It is vital steps, which determines
that he system is ultimately developed according as the
requirements predefined earlier.
Benchmark Testing: It is process in which a s/w is tested for
its reliability. It is a kind of software that is used to check the
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hardware part as well as software on the basics of terms given by
vendors.
The benchmark is a special program, which is specially
designed to evaluate the performance of different computers and
their software. As regard, Evolution of software benchmarking is
mainly concerned with validation of vendor’s claims in respect of
following points:
Minimum hardware configuration.
Time required to execute a program
Affect of performance of package & new software on existing
programs and running software. The common benchmarks test the
speed of the central processor, with typical instructions executed in
a set of programs, as well as multiple streams of jobs in a
multiprogramming environment. The same benchmark run on
several different computers will make apparent any speed and
performance different attributable to he central processors.
Benchmark can also be centered around an expected
languages mix for the programs that will be run a mix of different
sets of programs and applications having widely varying input and
output volumes and requirements.
Thus benchmarking is one of the evolution techniques used
by he computer purchaser to determine which marking is best for
them in marking is best for them in marking out their requirements
in terms of both speed & cost.
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SYSTEM SECURITY MEASUREMENT
The measurements for data protection taken by an
organization reflect its awareness and attitude towards information
technology. If top management treats computers as a
dehumanized, intangible, but necessary evil, the measures taken to
protect data, individual privacy and data integrity would, be
lackadaisical. On the other hand, if the management considers
information as an important resources and computers as an aid in
decision making one would find a positive approach and
involvement by the management towards security of information.
This attitude naturally percolates down to the lower levels and the
workers consider the computer corresponding as or an ally.
One of he best and first steps in ensuring data security is to create
an awareness and develop a culture within the organisaion towards
the way in which information can be lost/altered and what would be
the concequence, of such an occurrence, o the organization and
indivisuals. The others steps that can be taken are:
IT Planning
Selection of Technology.
Three types of security:
Physical Security
Software Security
Network Security
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COST ESTIMATION OF THE PROJECT
Software costs constituted a small percentage of the overall
computer-based cost. As order of magnitude error in estimates of
software cost had relatively litt le impact. Today, software is the
most expensive element of virtually all computer-based system. For
complex, custom system, a large cost estimation error can make
the difference between profit and loss. Cost overrun can be
disastrous for developer. Software cost and effort estimation will
never be an exact science. Too many variable-human, technical,
environmental, political – can affect ultimate cost of software and
effort applied to develop it. However, software project estimation
can be transformed from a black art to a series of systematic steps
that provide estimates with acceptable risk.
To achieve reliable cost and effort estimates, a number of options
arise:
1. Delay estimation until late in the project (obviously, we can
achieve 100% accurate estimates after the project is
complete)
2. Base estimates on similar projects that have already been
completed.
3. Use relatively simple decomposition techniques to generate
project cost and effort estimates.
4. Use one or more empirical models for software cost and
effort estimation.
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Unfortunately, the first option, however attractive, is not
practical. Cost estimates must be provided “up front”. However, we
should recognize that the longer we wait, the more we know and
the more we know, the less likely we are to make serious errors in
our estimates.
The second option can work reasonably well, if the current
project is quite similar to past efforts and other project influences
(e.g. the customer, business condition, the SEE, deadlines are
equivalent, unfortunately, past experience has not always been a
good indicator of future result. The remaining options are viable
approaches to software project estimation. Ideally the techniques
noted for each option should be applied in tandem, each used as a
cross-check for the other.
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FUTURE SCOPE AND FURTHER ENHANCEMENT
After the successful completion and Implementation of this project I will
work to append the software to the II phase.
In this phase I’ll like to add automatic generation of ordering of items
according to the available stock of Items
Now, in the III and last phase:
Salary of the employees can be added automatically.
On the basis of this phase we can maintain and can calculate benefits
with out any efforts.
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CONCLUSION
It was enlightening experience to have work on the development on the
proposed system “Gas Agency Management System”. During the
development I had come across different approaches to overcome and as a
result my knowledge in that area. While developing the project I learned how
to integrate the software and hardware to achieved the desired result. The
completion of the project has improved my approach .
This system satisfied most of the objective like: -
The proposed system features updation.
It will generate various reports.
It will perform with proper speed and accuracy.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
I take help from the following books to maintain this proposal. The list of books is:--
Books:-
Elias M.Awad, System Analysis and Design, Galgotia Publications (P) Ltd., 5, Ansari Road, Darya Gang, New Delhi- 110002, year 2002, second Edition.
Bhatia Parteek, Singh Gurvinder, Simplified Approach to DBMS, Kalyani Publishers, V.K. Printers, New Delhi and Published By Mrs. Usha Raj Kumar for Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi-110002, year 2004, First Edition.
Website Consulted:
1) GOOGLE for searching information
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