Requirements Specification
for Scheduler M
Version 0.1
9 December 2010
Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Problem Statement
1.2. System Personnel
1.3. Operational Setting
1.4. Impacts
1.5. Related Systems
1.5.1. Visual Classroom Scheduler
1.5.2. FET
1.5.3. Wise Timetable
1.5.4. UniTime
1.5.5. Lantiv TimeTabler
1.5.6. CyberMatrix Class Schedule
1.5.7. Feature Comparison Matrix2. Functional Requirements
2.1. User Interface Overview
2.1.1. Administrator Interface
2.1.2. Instructor Interface
2.1.3. Student Interface
2.2 Basic Schedule Generation
2.3 Database Management
2.3.1. Instructor Database
2.3.1.1. Adding an Instructor
2.3.1.2. Browsing Instructor Database
2.3.1.3. Edit an Instructor
2.3.2. Courses Database
2.3.2.1. Adding a Course
2.3.2.2. Adding a New Subject
2.3.2.3. Browsing the Course Database
2.3.2.4. View/Edit a Course Record
2.3.3. Rooms Database
2.3.3.1 Adding a Room
2.3.3.2 Browsing the Room Database
2.3.3.3 Filter/Search Room Records
2.3.3.4 View/Edit/New Individual Room Record
2.4 Detailed Instructor Interface
2.4.1. Course Preferences for Instructors
2.4.2. Time Preferences for Instructors
2.4.3. Room Preferences for Instructors
2.5 Advanced Schedule Generation and Editing
2.5.1. Constraints
2.5.2 Viewing, editing, and moving scheduled items
2.5.3. Conflict Resolution
2.6 Schedule Viewing
2.6.1. Structural viewing by work week, day, or lists
2.6.2 Multi-window Viewing
2.6.3 Searching the generated schedule
2.7 Server Administration - Posting and Accessing Shared Data
2.8 Details of File Commands
2.8.1. New Database, Open Database, and Exit
2.8.2. Import Existing Database
2.8.3. Save and Save Database As
2.9 Details of Edit Commands
2.9.1. Undo
2.9.2. Redo
2.9.3. Delete
2.9.4. Find
3. Non-Functional Requirements
3.1. Performance
3.2. General Characteristics
5. Formal Specification
5.1. Administrator Interface
5.2. Instructor Interface
5.3. Student Interface
5.4. Instructor Database
5.5. Courses Database
5.6. Rooms Database
5.7. Schedule Viewing and Editing