Writing a credits page

CSC 302

How to write a Credits Page

The purpose of the "credits" page is to acknowledge the people who were involved in the creation of the work product. The format of the page is very simple; list each individual involved in the document production and give a concise description of their role or contribution.

The "credits" page of a document is very important from the standpoint of your grade in the course. The document will be graded by awarding a score to each individual based on the work that he or she contributed.

Guidelines

Each component of the document must be credited to one and only one person. Two people may not take credit for the same item.
The entire team should write the credits page together. There should be consensus that the credits page reflects how grades should be distributed. Ideally this should take place during the lab meeting before the document is due. That way if there is any controversy or dispute over who should get credit for what, the instructor is available to help mediate the discussion.

Example from an SRS document

Data Flow Diagram	Gene
Functional requirements - networking subsystem	Jason
Functional requirements - database subsystem	Fred
Non-functional requirements	Sue
Data dictionary (A - J)	Anne
Data dictionary (K - Z)	Fred
Quality Assurance Checklist	Jason
Engineering Analysis	Sue