PRINCIPLE 3: PRODUCT

Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible. In particular, software engineers shall, as appropriate:

     

3.01. Strive for high quality, acceptable cost and a reasonable schedule, ensuring significant trade-offs are clear to and accepted by the employer and the client, and are available for consideration by the user and the public.

Our product is a source of share knowledge. That is mainly very useful for the children/students who are willing to study IT. It provides a detailed summery about the topics. So they can revise their knowledge, easy to memorize as well improve the knowledge of the related areas we have published. We have already identified that the main milestone or the most highlighted quality attribute of the project is the reliability and the accuracy of the information that we have included in the video. It directly affects the users of the video. To achieve that success and the standard we have gained ideas from a supervisor lecturer as well as from the friends of the university. And also we referred reliable sources to get the information. Our project is also a volunteer and charity based work so we have completed it free of charge and the time schedule is also acceptable. 

3.02. Ensure proper and achievable goals and objectives for any project on which they work or propose.

Our goal is to achieve a standard level to provide the knowledge about the IT to the students who are willing to learn about the particular area. To accomplish the above goal we have worked hard as a team by completing the identified steps of the project within the given period of time. The procedure that we followed to achieve the target is simple. We discussed with the team and the lecturer, refer the sources to get reliable information, created the book, test it, get ideas and recommendation and finally we have published it.

3.03. Identify, define and address ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues related to work projects.

The main target of getting a feedback during the sessions is this. We really want to know are there any ethical, economic, cultural, legal and environmental issues in the work we do and we always ready to correct ourselves as soon as possible.

3.04. Ensure that they are qualified for any project on which they work or propose to work by an appropriate combination of education and training, and experience.

We are students from University of Colombo School of Computing and we are Undergraduates of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science since 2013. So we think we are qualified people to such a service. We always get the responsibility of what we do.

3.06. Work to follow professional standards, when available, that are most appropriate for the task at hand, departing from these only when ethically or technically justified.

To build an accurate system we have followed many reference sources. We also mentioned about these sources in the book as the users can also access those sources. Mentioning about the reference sources will improve the ethical values of the entire project too. At the same time refer some accurate and reliable sources helped us a lot to create a standard outcome too.

3.08. Ensure that specifications for software on which they work have been well documented, satisfy the users’ requirements and have the appropriate approvals.

As we are computer science students we know what are the basics of IT and what are the things suitable for children who like to learn this IT subject as beginners. We also got some feed backs from IT expert people who are senior to us about the content of the book. After doing a session we definitely get a feedback from children to know whether our session is successful or not and to know what the areas that we should cover for the next session.

3.10. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and review of software and related documents on which they work.

We have tested our product individually while we were creating the book. Not only that we have got the approval from the supervisor and gained the comments and ideas from the students of UCSC before publishing it.

3.13. Be careful to use only accurate data derived by ethical and lawful means, and use it only in ways properly authorized.

We always be very careful about the accurate of the final product of our project. We have got a good guidance from the expert lecturer of the subject and we referred some documents, online materials. So we can assure the book is consisting of accurate data.