The personnel involved in the Test Tool project are organized into the following groups and subgroups:
End users are those who use the Test Tool for its intended purpose. Registered student users have the ability to take tests and to answer practice questions. Teachers are designated registered users who may generate tests and create questions. Master system administrators perform overall system administration functions, including student and teacher registration. Finally, teaching assistant users will have an arbitrary amount of power based on teacher discretion.
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 Test Tool as a class project in software engineering courses. Students whose work has been particularly helpful are Kevin Thrailkill, Zach Behnke, Braden Young, Raymond Ching, James Aldag, and Elaine Lau.
As noted above, the Test Tool is intended to serve as an example for use in software engineering courses. The students who use the Test Tool for this purpose focus on the artifacts of its development rather than its use as a functioning tool.
The Test Tool is available as public domain software for use by outside
parties. The project directory is located at
http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~gfisher/projects/test.