Assignment Title
Reporting Foxes
ICA CMPONENT 2
Submission Date: 3rd February 2012
Table of Contents
Task 4 3
Running-Instructions Document: 3
Task 5 4
Test Plan for Reporting Foxes: 4
Task 6: 5
Critical Evaluation of My Application and the Software and Methodology 5
Task 7 7
Question 1: 7
Question 2: 8
Compare Mendix in detail with ONE other RAD tool 8
Reference: 13
Task 4
Running-Instructions Document:
Running-Instructions Document is an important document for an application either it is small or large. Without this document it leads the users to be uninterested about any application so the purpose of the software will fail. The following Running-Instructions Document provides the step by step instructions, how to run the Application Fox Reporting.
Install the Mendix Business Modeler 2.5.6 if required.
Run the modeler
Open Reporting Fox.mpr, in the folder Mendix Reporting Fox.
Run it
It will go through several steps before the server starts
Automatically Build the application
Click “Open the browser”
A new web browser object will load the application
First it needs authentication for users (Administrator, Expert, Resident and AnyUser) to enter into the Application. The following table shows User Names and Passwords:
Role Name
User Name
Password
Administrator
A/a
a
Y/y y Admin/admin
1234
Expert
E1/e1
e
E2/e2 e Resident
R1/r1
r
R2/r2
R
John/john
123
Tawfiq/tawfiq abc If users are not authenticated then the Application shows message so that they can Register here or Exit.
Administrator can Add and Delete Expert upon some criteria
Expert can View, Add, Edit and Validate the Fox report to be displayed in the form submitted by the Residents.
Expert can Start and Make blog entries and Edit the blogs entered by the Residents.
Resident can enter reports and make blog entries of fox-sightings near their home in text and point on the map view.
Resident can query the report of fox-sighting.
Any
References: Reference: BPC, Articles and Glossary (2011) Rapid Application Development [online]