Contents Music Tutorial Software 1 1 Background and Investigation 3 1.1 Introduction to the organisation 3 1.2 Existing situation 3 1.3 The client, potential users and audience 3 1.4 Justification for required solution 3 1.5 Use of investigation techniques 4 1.6 Client requirements 5 2 Analysis and deliverables 6 2.1 Scope of the project 6 2.2 Proposed system 6 2.3 Processes 8 2.4 Users skill level 9 2.5 Evaluation criteria 10 3 Design and planning 11 3.1 Alternate solutions 11 3.2 Feedback and amendments 12 3.3 Implementation, testing, installing and training 16 3.4 Testing strategy 16 3.5 Test Plan 18 4 Testing and Documentation 19 4.1 Testing 19 4.2 Users involvement 24 4.3 Documentation of testing 25 5.1 Strengths weaknesses and areas for improvement 31 5.2 Meeting client requirements 31 5.3 Self assessment 32
1 Background and Investigation
1.1 Introduction to the organisation
The organisation is Oxford Spires Academy which is a large school based in Cowley. It consists of around 1000 students aged between 11 and 19. It is currently run by Principal Miss Sue Croft who took over the school in January 2011. The school offers a wide range of courses from academic to vocational. Music is one of the performing arts subjects on offer which is compulsory for years 7 and 8 then optional choice for years 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13. The course gets about 5-8% of students in that year group selecting to continue it on to GCSE or A levels which gives classes of about 9 -12 students. This gives between 150-250 student music lessons a weeks. The school originally was failing GCSE’s and was then turned into an academy to try and improve GCSE results. The fact that the management team are concerned about GCSE results is putting music tuition under threat in school as students are missing lessons. A lot of