GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS This assignment should be done individually. The assignment consists of two parts one part is a written submission of code you have written, test plan and test runs (Part A, worth...

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

This assignment should be done individually. The assignment consists of two parts one part is a written submission of code you have written, test plan and test runs (Part A, worth 25 marks, details in this document), the other writing a swing program and demonstrating it (part B worth 5 marks details to be provided Tuesday week 7).

The main purpose of this assignment is for you to code a program in Java that solves a problem, from a fictional world of the kerbal space program.

You can ask for help during the tutorials and your tutor will be happy to assist; but they are instructed to try to guide you through finding a solution yourself rather than giving you an answer.

Students should be aware that I may do some kind of plagiarism check.

Note code must be in BlueJ code written and submitted in any other Java environment may not be able to be marked.

This assignment is marked by as a submission of a single zip file. It should be submitted to Canvas by its due date (see above). You need to submit:

· The java program code as a bluej project directory;

· A test plan;

· Documented results of your test plan;

· The results of mandatory test runs; and finally

· A short reflection report on what you learned.

There are no resubmission options for this assignment.

The grade you will achieve will depend on the functionality of the submitted program as shown in the marking rubric later in this document.

Assignment Briefing:

For the purposes of the assignment we will assume the following:

You are writing a program for the Kerbal Space Committee. This is the body of kerbals who’s job it is to hand out contracts and grant money to companies (like the real world spaceX) to do space science and exploration.

Each proposal for a mission includes the following details:

The highly efficient Kerbal Space Committee converts the filled out proposal forms into a numerical value as follows:

All the proposals to be assessed by the committee are stored in a file laid out as follows; each proposal is spread across 2 lines and has 6 values. For each proposal a score is calculated the scores are compared and the one with the highest score is then approved. If the highest one is not unique (ie two have the same highest score) the first one in the file is taken. (ie the one you read in first).

Example Proposals file containing three proposals

Launch Payloads

The only thing common to Mt1/Mt2 is a partial list of payloads.

The file can contain upper and lower case, so low, Low and LOW are considered the same

Hint: It turned out to be fairly easy to do test cases in Excel

What you must do:

a) Write a test plan enough test cases to convince yourself that the code works;

b) Write the code;

c) Test the code and document the results of the test

d) Debug the code

e) Test the code again and document the results of the test

f) Debug the code again

g) Repeat steps E and F till you are confident of your programs accuracy

h) Finally when you are happy with it Run the mandatory test cases and document the results

i) Write a report (or reports) that contain the following

a. Your test plan;

b. Documentation of your test plan, and documenting its results;

c. Evidence of you running the mandatory test runs and screenshots of the results;

d. A short reflection report-on what you have learned; and

e. An optional feedback paragraph to me which is not marked.

j) Finally zip all documents (including your source code and the bluej project directory) into a single zip file and load them onto Canvas.

What your program must do:

1. It must display a menu with 4 options shown below you can add extra debugging options if you desire;

2. Option:It must have an exit option;

3. Option:It must have a compute value option;

a. Note that this option does not include input of the description or of the cost (this is just to make your life easier)

4. Option:It must have a Process Proposals file option;

5. Option:It may have (for the extra marks) a ‘process many files’ option.

a. The recommendation is for the highest of all processed files

b. The list must include the filename of the proposal

6. The menu must loop so it can do repeated calculations without restarting;

7. The output must be well formatted in this case both a straightforward answer and also list of the proposals and their score;

8. It should edit check all input (the file and any keyboard input), so it does not crash on an error but instead gives a suitable error message.

Example Test Case 1

Test Case 2

The following test case is worked through for you for the option ‘a compute value:

Test Case 3

Process file testcaseK1.txt

Test Case 4

Process file testcaseK2.txt

Test Case 4 (for optional ‘process many files’ option)

Process file testcaseK2.txt and file testcaseK3.txt

Mandatory Testing

You must run and evidence the output of the following tests:

Sample runs

Marking (This assignment part is worth 25 marks).

Marking Rubric