Methodology

##1.7 Methodology

The project plan is to carry the design and implementation of the project in a completely step-by-step manner. The entire project is divided in the following phases:-

Phase 1 – Study and Analysis Phase:

• Many renowned universities websites (Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, MIT, IIT-Bombay, IIM-Bangalore, and DAVV) survey was done.
• Survey indicates that almost all of the following sections/features are available on homepages of Websites of renowned institutes.

1. Logo and name at top left corner
2. Slideshow of photos
3. Info links • About college, about university, about director, about VC etc. • Links to other major sections of sites • Entrance exams • Faculty profile • Placement • Infrastructure • Links to departments/courses, research groups, libraries etc: • Courses • Professional development centers • Research centers/groups • Library • Co-curricular event
4. Links to institute's presence on social networks • Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Google+ groups (if any)
5. Institute's name, Contact link, phone, address, sitemap, last update etc. in site footer
6. News/events/notice board
7. Embedded email login box on homepage
8. Search box The following features are easy to implement and thus compulsory (until the new website is created):
9. Logo and name at top left corner
10. Slideshow of photos
11. Info links • About college, about university, about director, about VC etc. • Links to other major sections of sites • CET • Faculty profile • Placement • Infrastructure • Links to departments/courses, research groups, libraries etc: • Courses • Development Center • Library • Xpressions, Synergy etc.
12. Links to institute's presence on social networks • Facebook group (if any) • LinkedIn group (if any) • Facebook official alumni group
13. Institute's name, Contact link, phone, address, sitemap, last update etc in footer
14. News/events/notice board The following features might be difficult to implement and are thus optional:
15. Embed IIPS email login box (http://iips.edu.in/mail/) on homepage (similar to http://www.dauniv.ac.in/)
16. Search box Suggest that following sections should be removed from current version of homepage:
17. Name of college and IIPS description at the bottom of website.

Phase 2 - Design Phase: In this phase the database design of the system are made. The database design is being carried in the following steps-

• Identified the entities and their relationships from the scenario.
• Designed ER model for the proposed system and relation among these entities were noted down in form of tables, having fields as attributes. (included in project report)
• The logical model of the system is designed, normalizing the relations.
• Data flow diagram of the whole system is constructed. For proper information flow, each level DFD is prepared. (included in project report)
• Flow chart of each process of DFD is constructed for better flow of data and its verification. (included in project report)
• Proposed the physical design of the system.
• Defining hardware and software requirements.

Phase 3 - Coding Phase

• The design of the system is implemented through actual code.
• Proper validation of data is used.
• Proper validation on important fields provided.
• User does not need to have the knowledge of the code, output is defined user friendly.

Phase 4 – Testing and Implementation Testing is done on various test cases and data set. Testing is applied on:-

• Testing on each form by taking different user cases.
• Records are managed when information was change or new information is uploading on the site. Testing is done by:- Black box testing, White box testing and unit testing and finally after first iteration beta version of the site was launched for beta testing.

The above plan follows the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model for the development of the proposed system. There are several ways for developing software. They consist of the following steps: ***Preliminary Investigation - When a request to receive assistance from an information system is made, the first system activity, the preliminary investigation begins. It has three parts- *Requirement clarification - All the requirement of the new proposed system is collect by study and analysis phase. *Feasibility analysis - An important outcome, the system is technically feasible, institute budget is kept in mind, so economically supportive, and implementation is not so difficult, so operationally feasible. *Request Approval - Not all requests are desirable or feasible. So the development center incharge and authority decides which one are important and then we schedule them accordingly.

Design of a system - It produces the details that state how the system will meet the requirements specified during systems analysis. Design of report and output -> Design of input data and form, and data to be stored -> Calculation performed-> validation and verification code done-> testing.