PPT Slide
The same database serves all the users of the system, but each group has a separate interface to interact with it.
The first stage of the project was requirement analysis. Before the database schema was designed, before the interface was laid out, and before any code was written, the requirements had to be thoroughly defined and understood.
Since the same database serves different user groups with different expectations and needs, the requirements report was broken into three main sections with the details of the specifications of each of the user groups.
There are three main user groups for the CO-OP dB system:
- Faculty: 3 Co-op faculty members, and 1-2 work-study students.
- Students: 600 active CCS undergraduate and graduate students.
- Employers: 1200 employers (530 active) mostly from Massachusetts, but also from other states in the U.S.