The personnel involved in the Grader Tool project are organized into the following groups and subgroups:
End users are those who use the Grader Tool for its intended purpose. Teachers have one or more classes, with some number of students each. They use the Grader Tool to keep track of students' progress in their classes. Students attend one or more classes, and use the Grader Tool to observe their progress in their classes.
The primary customer is Gene Fisher. He is customer representative for his faculty and staff colleagues in the Computer Science department at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. In this representative capacity, Fisher will consult with other potential customers to gather requirements from them, and integrate their requirements with his own.
The primary system developer is also Gene Fisher. His development activities are all those of the software development process, from requirements analysis through product implementation and deployment. He will also conduct the ongoing process activities of testing, configuration, documentation, and project management.
Fisher's development efforts are based on the work of a number of software engineering students who have used the Grader Tool as a class project in software engineering courses. Students whose work has been particularly helpful are Alex Bozarth, Brandon Tanaka, Cait Rahm, Connor Citron, Doug Guastaferro, and Bill Dugger.
As noted above, the Grader Tool is intended to serve as an example for use in software engineering courses. The students who use the Grader Tool for this purpose focus on the artifacts of its development rather than its use as a functioning tool.
The Grader Tool is available as public domain software for use by outside
parties. The project directory is located at
http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~dguastaf/grader.