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System Analysis

  • 21-11-2012 07:10PM
    #1
    benji2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭


    Im doing a system analysis project in college on an airline reservation company, i find it particulary difficult, includes standard Requirements List,ERD's & DFD's. Is there any external websites/experts that i could contact for help or data that i could use


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  • #2
    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,336 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo


    Sorry OP I have no airline reservation specific links.
    I'm just truly amazed colleges are still teaching SDM & DFDs .. I haven't used them since the early 90s.


  • #3
    benji2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭benji2012


    Really, our lecturer told us that what we are doing is current if for example we were in the workplace


  • #4
    h57xiucj2z946q
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭h57xiucj2z946q


    Im in software engineering 6 years, never used them in the workplace!


  • #5
    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,336 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo


    SDM & DFD & ERD were used heavily on most projects I worked on in the late 80s to early 90s. But after the move to OO in the early 90s I never saw them again. UML offered a better fit with Event-Driven software that the then newish GUI environments. Plus UML offered a one stop shop from analysis through design and even coding. I've not been involved with big multinationals in years now, but I get the feeling that uml has fllen by the wayside now to be replaced with "agile" approaches.


  • #6
    ressem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,427 ✭✭✭ressem


    Regarding sample data, you could look in the library for Len Silverston's Data Model Resource Book volume 2. Chapter 8 travel.
    These books describe data models for industry that provide fairly comprehensive coverage of what is necessary for a substantial application.

    e.g. One of the models in volume one is the basis for the Apache OfBiz project.


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  • #7
    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,336 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo


    Indeed, Len Silverston's book's are excellent for anybody task we Db design.


  • #8
    benji2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭benji2012


    i got it done, 115 pages of a project it better be worth it. After christmas i have to build it now tho as part of the course. i better get a good job out of it lol


  • #9
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    I completed a software development degree in 2006, it was a five year course. We never used SDM & DFD & ERD.


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