• performance
• general characteristics
  • Security and Privacy
  • Simplicity versus Power

All test creation, viewing, and options commands must execute instantaneously, except for the following:

• the time to execute a meeting scheduling operation must be on the order of seconds the time to execute viewing another user's test must be instantaneous, except for any delays due to network transmission of data from the central host to the local computer The time to execute all administrative commands must be instantaneous, except for any delays due to network transmission of data from the central host.

The time to execute all administrative commands must be instantaneous, except for any delays due to network transmission of data from the central host.

In general, the performance of Test Tool commands that must access data across a network is subject to potential network delays. The Test Tool must transmit data as fast as is possible on any given network, but delays due to external network circumstances are beyond the control of the Test Tool.

There are no specific requirements for the allowable size of a Test in terms of the number of questions.

The maximum expected sizes of the Test Tool databases are the following:

• user database -- up to tens of thousands of records
• group database -- up to thousands of records
• location database -- up to tens of thousands of records

The Test Tool must be able to operate with databases of sizes larger than these normal maximums. However, the tool need not the meet the previously-enumerated time performance requirements for databases larger than normal maximum sizes.

3.2. General Characteristics

3.2.1. Security and Privacy

Scheduled items with a security setting other than `Public' must have only the allowed information viewable to any user other than the application's owner. The central host passwords of any user must be kept secure from viewing or modification by any other Test Tool user, and from any user at all on the central host.

3.2.2. Simplicity versus Power

On a spectrum of simple-to-use versus powerful, the Test Tool is heavily on the side of powerful. Users are assumed to be fully computer literate and knowledgeable on the use of computer networks consisting of local computers and central data servers.