ICT Projects: Project Design & Methodology of Online Voter List Management System

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Chapter 4

Project Design & Methodology

PROJECT NAME : Analysis and Development of an Online Voter List Management System

1. System Analysis

2. Component of the system

3. Software Documentation

4.1 Systems Analysis:

The goal of this project was to develop software, which will make the automated voter list system of a voter list agent easy, reliable and less laborious and quick. To achieve the goal, following works are set to the target:

· To make the automated voter list system easy and updateable.

· To make the automated voter list system reliable and efficient.

· To make the system easy accessible and available for the end users using client-server technology.

· To generate various type of report, which is urgently required in decision making process.

To achieve the above target, the data were analysed first. Information must be collected from the appropriate source. Information is analysed in proper way and store in proper format in the database. Retrieval of the information by PHP code is crucial part. Report generation from this information for the appropriate manager is mandatory part for this software. Programming tools PHP was used in selection of the server side design for the following reasons:

v Its RAD (Rapid Application Development) technology minimises the development time.

v Due to its compatibility with various operating system.

v Its function library eases the programmer hard working.

v Both sever-side and client-side are platform independent.

Relational database management system was used to mange the database. In selection of RDBMS in back-end, we can use MySQL, SQL-Servr or Oracle for the following reasons

v MySQL, SQL-Servr or Oracle provide client-server technology.

v Security features of the above system are reliable.

v Availability of the expert users.

There is different Access level in the database. So low privileged user can see information with respect to his access level. This is accomplished by My-SQL tables.

Various types of report are generate in this software which are generated from RDMS data sources.

4.2 Component of the system:

ü PHP interpreter is used.

ü Mysql.dll are used to connect to the MySQL database.

ü Apache Web Server is used for PHP.

ü Client side used any browser.

4.3 Software Documentation:

The documentation of this automated voter list system developed in this project was done in two different ways. They were described below.

4.3.1 Online Help

To facilitate an online help during the using of this software, there has been developed an information file, which is anchored by an anchor in the home page.

4.3.2 Users Manual

The Chapter five of this report gives a detail description about different features of the software. It may be helpful for using this software. Further more, a printed user's manual should be produced providing the explanation of every module, sub-module and anchor to enable a user to conversant with this software.