Systems Analysis

Chapter 1 – From Beginning to End: An Overview of Systems Analysis and Design

Chapter Case: Keeping Track of Your Geocaching Outings

Wayne's Geocaching System

Solutions

Table of Contents

Assignment D0: System Vision Document

Assignment D1: Work Breakdown Structure

Assignment D2: Use case and Class diagrams

Assignment D3: Workflow diagram and screen layout

Assignment D4: Database design and system structure

Assignment D5: Programming approach

Assignment D6: Final testing and deployment issues

Wayne's Geocaching System

Assignment D0-1: System Vision Document

Description

Wayne Johansen has become an active fan of geocaching and would like to keep track of all of his geocaching activities. Rather than use one of the free or commercial web sites, he would like to have his own geocaching system on his own computer. The system will need to have to support several different geocaching types of activities, including listing interesting geocaches and trips that Wayne would like to do, also geocaches that he has found and trips he has taken. In addition, since Wayne also would like to create his own geocaches, he would like to be able to create and describe his own geocaches and track those that he has posted for public use.

This system is essentially an information tracking system. It will need its own database to keep track of all of the information about his activities and his geocaches. For this first version, since he did not know a lot about computers, he decided it would be best just to have a system built to run on his laptop.

System Capabilities

The new system should do the following:

← Keep track of interesting geocach locations that have not been located yet

← Keep track of geocaches that have been located

← Record detailed and ancillary information about located geocaches

← Keep track of new geocaches that are being created by Wayne

← Keep track of posted geocaches that Wayne...