ONLINE HOTEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

ONLINE HOTEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

A PROJECT SYNOPSIS

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in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree of

BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

IN

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

VASANT KUNJ, NEW DELHI

SEPTEMBER 2011

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University, Delhi) Vasant Kunj, New Delhi

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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ABSTRACT
This project entitled Online Hotel Management System is the software that deals with the problem of storing employees leave details in a manual way. The project planning is to automate an organizations day-to-day and monthly dealings with employee leaves like new leave, cancel leave, etc.

The information provided by this software will be of great use in managing all the records of various employees and their respective leaves. It also checks the entered data before storing any specific record to the database. This software is very userfriendly and can be mastered with very few efforts.

As the existing system required a lot of stress in maintaining records and producing reports, hence this computerized system of the existing manual system is undertaken for increasing the efficiency in terms of speed and accuracy of information in reports. Standardization of all the activities at various levels for uniformity, ease of maintenance and an ultimate aim to achieve the effortless generation of reports makes this software an intelligent investment.

This software is developed on the platform Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 as the front-end and Microsoft Access 2007 as the back-end. The software is running efficiently.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1Objective 1.2 Need for the system 1.3 Characteristics of proposed system 1.4 Scope of the project 1.5 Advantages of proposed system

Chapter 2 System Requirements 2.1 Hardware Requirements 2.2 Software Requirements

Chapter 3 System Specification 3.1 Security 3.2 Maintainability 3.3 Portability 3.4 Feasibility

Chapter 4 System Design 4.1 System Design 4.2 Design Principle 4.3 Design Concepts 4.4 Project Execution Model

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4.5 Database

Chapter 5 Implementation and Coding

Chapter 6 Software Testing 6.1 Objectives of testing 6.2 Testing Principles 6.3 Verification and Validation 6.4 Types of Testing 6.5 Testing procedure

Chapter 7 Utilities in the system

Chapter 8 Conclusion

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Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION
LEAVE MENEGEMENT SYSTEM AN OVERVIEW

This system LEAVE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM has been designed for maintaining the records of employees and their respective leave applications to the college. Till now our college has been recording the leave applications of employees manually in the form of a file called dak file.

As from the security and discipline perspective it is very important to have all records of all leaves of an employee, and in this system the margin of error is very less.

Keeping in mind all the above aspect, a computerized version of leave management has been designed which we think will be very beneficial and is strongly needed by our college

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1.1 Objectives
The main objective of any computerized system is to minimize the manual work performed. As our project reduces the register work or manual work of the gate keeper as all the entry system has been computerized. Objective of our system is to minimize and overcome the limitations of manual work.

This computerized system possesses a good GUI which provides an ease of support to the administrators and to perform their task in a very efficient manner and this work is also effective in nature. This system is also capable of generating error free reports that describes all records and custom reports can also be generated. The handling of this project is also very simple so that anyone can understand it easily. And this system is also very beneficial from the security point of view.

1.2 Need of the system

In todays fast changing world of technology every organization is in want of fully utilization of time and space in order to be counted in the lists of worlds highestranking organizations.

In order to this each organization is making itself fully computerized. Computerization also helps organization to minimize paper work as well as manpower. In this revolution software engineers play a vital role. Software packages provided by them help organization to maintain records of faculties,

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students and visitors, automatic calculation of time consuming problems and in lot of other work that involves a lot of time and manpower. The project Leave Management System does the same.

The system helps in (need of system): Registering a new employee. Removing the record of an employee who has left the institute. Modifying information about an employee. Searching for information about an employee Updating the records. Adding leave applications of an employee. Cancelling leave.

1.3 Characteristics of proposed system

The manual dealing of preparing reports is a very tedious job, as administrator first needs to search for applications from the dak file and then presenting those in the form of reports. Thus we need to automate this process to systemize and fasten up the overall system, as through computerization enormous data will become easily accessible. The system should be distributive in nature; it should be designed to provide functionalities as explained below: Database can be accessed by the Administrator.

Maintains the employee information and leave applications.

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Administrator can take the backups and generate reports of any or all the databases.

1.4 Scope of the work

As in todays world there is nothing perfect, so there is always a chance of scope in every aspect of project. At this point of time our project is a standalone application whereas it can be converted into a fully automated system, reducing the paperwork to close to zero. Also in this the administrator has to enter the unique ID of an employee into the forms of Visual Basic which consumes time.

We can improve this project further by using web services and fully automating it where-in applications can be submitted online and receive the corresponding response by e-mail. The data can be stored centrally at the server terminal.

1.5 Advantages of proposed system

With the feature of Login ID and password , data becomes more secure , as only the person who has the password and login id can view or modify records , rest no one can enter the system without password. It provides a better and faster way of managing and maintaining various leave applications and related employee details. Time wastage is minimal, as all records and reports are just a click away. This system is an efficient, secure, tidy and fast way to manage so many records.

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Chapter 2

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
2.1 Hardware requirements
2 GB Hard Disk(minimum requirement) 128 MB RAM Supports for printer (Dot Matrix / Inkjet / Laser printer)that is, appropriate drivers are installed and printer connected. Printer will be required for printing of reports. Standalone system or network based system- not a concern, as it will be possible to run the application on any of these. Processor- Pentium 166MHz or above Monitor with appropriate resolution and color quality for proper and complete viewing of screens.

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Any windows-based operating system (Windows-98/2000/XP/NT) Visual Basic 6.0 for coding/developing the software MS Access- for database

PLATFORMS VISUAL BASIC AS VISUAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE VISUAL BASIC follows an event driven programming approach. The user interface is designed first with all the required controls placed on the user interface form. Customizing their properties modifies these controls. After the user interface is designed the events that occur in the application are decided and are relating to their respective controls. Every control is associated with its respective events to be trapped. VISUAL BASIC APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT The figure shows the steps that all visual basic developers follow as they prepare projects: Design and build user interface Write event driven code Create and call other procedures

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Test and debug

Prepared distribution file

The prototypical visual basic development cycle The steps mentioned above arent symmetrical. Some steps take longer than other do and there is repetition of several steps as the initial application is design is refined and enhanced. Most of the development time is spent in the first four steps. Even the most complex visual basic projects follow the steps described above. Most of time is spent in building the user interface and writing the code required by the application.

UNDERSTANDING THE ADVANTAGES OF VISUAL BASIC Lets take a minute to review some of the features that make visual basic such a robust and exciting development platform. The following key points make visual basic an excellent development tool: -

1 Visual Basic Application Are Event Driven - Event driven means the user is in control of the application. The user generates a stream of events each time he clicks with mouse or presses a key on the keyboard. Your visual basic application respond to those event a through the codes written and attached to those events.

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2 Visual Basic Supports The Principals Of Object Oriented Design - This

means that you can comport mentalist different aspects of your application as object and develop and test those objects independently of the rest of the application.

3 Microsoft Has Designed Visual Basic To Be A Complete Window Development System - This means that your visual basic application will look and behave like other windows program user might work with.

4 Visual Basic Is Infinitely Extensible Through The Use Of Active X, Controls, Dynamic Link libraries (DLLS) And Add MS-ACCESS 07

Microsoft (MS) Access is relational database management system (RDBMS) used to stored and manipulate large collection of information of any kind. Here RDBMS refers to the organization of data in a series of rows and columns in such a manner that any specific piece of information is available with the click of a mouse and a few keystrokes. MS-Access has tools, which are easy to used and provide powerful development environment, making it an appropriate choice for novices as well as professional.

There are different ways in which an application with multiple components that includes, Access can be integrated. A component (in Microsoft terminology) is an application or development tool that makes it objects available to other applications. Using automation in Visual Basic it is possible to work with objects from other components to construct a seamless integrated application. Using the

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Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technology, a user can include documents created in another component on a report or form within Access. Automation and OLE are distinct technologies, which are a part of the Component Object Model (COM), a standard proposed by Microsoft.

Microsoft Access is used as backend because: -

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It is easy to use.

2.

It can be integrated / connected easily with a Visual Basic.

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No programming skills required to work with.

4.

The database access time is better than other database Software. Access uses structured query language (SQL), which is English like language, and makes interaction between user and the database very simple. It helps in easy creation, manipulation and modification of the database.

5.

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Chapter 3

SYSTEM SPECIFICATIONS
3.1 Security The application will be password protected. The user (administrator) will have to enter the correct username and password in order to access the application.

3.2 Maintainability The application will be designed in maintainable manner. It will be easy to incorporate new requirements in the individual modules.

3.3 Portability
The application is easily portable on any Windows-based system.

3.4 Feasibility
The economical and technical factors are considered to be feasibility study of the system. ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY 1. No manpower cost is incurred in this proposed system as the system has been developed as project work. 2. The system has been developed in an environment where no hardware & software facilities have to be installed for the purpose of development. 3. The cost entailed in this respect was nil.

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TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY 1. The existing hardware & software facilities are sufficient for development of this proposed system. However at the beginning of the project, the P-II 400MHz machine was enough for the work. Soon we realized that machine is little bit slower for some complicated data retrieval & it will keep the user unnecessary waiting for the result to pop-up on the screen. 2. So the project was relocated to P-IV machine. Thus no additional costs are incurred during the development of the project.

OPERATIONAL FEASIBILITY Here we consider the extent to which the proposed system will fulfill any administrators requirement. That is whether the proposed system covers all aspects of the working system or it has considerable improvements.

BEHAVIORAL FEASIBILITY A disputation of any kind of change in existing system may be appeared by users. But in the Leave Management System there may be less chance of having any opposing views because this software is easy to operate and increases the efficiency in user operation. Because of its simplicity, any user can easily be trained to use the software.

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Chapter 4

SYSTEM DESIGN

Requirement elicitation
Interview- an interview was conducted with (Accounts Head,). Mr. Joshi is responsible for managing pay roll for all employees in and also for maintaining leave records. thereby, we concluded that he would be the right to person to gather requirements from. Questions asked were as follows: 1.1How are you maintaining records? 1.2Problems with existing system? 1.3 Any calculation errors? 1.4 Any requirement of data from other system? 1.5 Any specific problem? 1.6 Any additional functionality desired? 1.7 What are the organizations policies regarding leave of an employee

Time (in person-months) estimation We now know that the proposed system is of organic type, having 1484LOC (Lines Of Code). By organic type we mean, that the proposed system is simple and is being developed by experienced professionals in a very familiar environment. The source code of organic type ranges from 1 to 50 KLOC.

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E(Effort) = ab(KLOC)b D(Development time) = cb(E)d Where, ab=2.4 bb=1.05 cb=2.5 db=0.38

E= 2.4(1.5)1.05 =3.96 person- months =3 (approx.) D =2.5(1.5)0.38 =3.16 months =3(approx.)

It implies that if 3 persons had worked on this project then it would be completed in 3 months time. However, we had a time limit of 2 months thereby reducing the number of development months. To overcome this problem 2 more developers were introduced in the team to compensate and speed up the process.

4.1 System design

Design is a meaningful engineering representation of something to be built. Software design is the first of three technical activities- designs, code generation and tests- that are required to build and verify the software. Design focuses on the four major areas of concern- data, architecture, interfaces and components. The Data design transforms the information domain model created during analysis into the data structures that will be required to implement the software. The data objects and relationships defined in the ERD provide the basis for the data design activity.

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The Architectural design defines the relationship between major structural elements of the software, the "design patterns" that can be used to achieve the requirements that have been defined for the system. The architectural design representation i.e. the framework of a computer based system can be derived from the system specification, the analysis model and the interaction of subsystems defined within the analysis model. The Interface design describes how the software communicates with itself, with systems that interoperate with it. An interface implies a flow of information and a specific type of behavior. Therefore, data and DFDs provide much of the information required for interface design. The Component-level design transforms structural elements of the software architecture into a procedural description of software components. The importance of software design can be stated with a single word- Quality. Design is the only way that we can accurately translate a customer's requirements into a finished software product or system.

4.2 Design principles

Software design is both a process and a model. The design process is a sequence of steps that enable the designer to describe all aspects of software to be built. The design model is the equivalent of an architect's plans for a house. The design process should not suffer from "tunnel vision"- a good designer should consider alternative approaches, judging each based in the requirements of the problem. The design should be traceable to the analysis model- it is necessary to have a means for tracking how requirements have been satisfied by the design model. The design should exhibit uniformity and integration- rules of styles and

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format should be defined for a design team before design work begins. A design is integrated if care is taken in interfaces between design components. The design should be structured to accommodate change The design should be structured to degrade gently, even when aberrant data, events or operating conditions are encountered- it should be designed to accommodate unusual circumstances. Design is not coding, coding is not design- when detailed procedural designs are created for program components, the level of abstraction of the design model is higher than source code. The only design code level address the small implementation details that enable the procedural design to be coded. The design should be reviewed to minimize conceptual (semantic) errors- a design team should ensure that major conceptual elements of the design have been addressed before worrying about the syntax of the design model.

4.3 Design concepts

The beginning of wisdom is to recognize the difference between getting a program to work, and getting it right. Fundamental software design concepts provide the necessary framework for getting it right. ABSTRACTION When we consider a modular solution to any problem, many level of abstraction can be posed. At the highest level of abstraction, a solution is stated in broad terms using the language of the problem environment. At lower level of abstraction, a more procedural orientation is taken. Finally, at lowest level of abstraction, the solution is stated in a manner that can be directly implemented. REFINEMENT

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Refinement is a process of elaboration. Refinement causes the designer to elaborate on the original statement, providing more and more detail as each successive refinement occurs. It helps the designer to reveal low-level details as design progresses. It aids the designer in creating a complete design model as the design evolves. MODULARITY Software is divided into separately named and addressable components, often called modules that are integrated to satisfy problem requirements.

4.4 Project execution model

In this, we are developing an application phase developing process to manage the complexity, better project tracking, and quality to achieve consistency, software process is divided into set of phase, quality and progress checks are made without waiting till the development is completed. We have selected the waterfall model in the present application because this model is suitable to automate the existing manual system for which all requirements are known before the design starts. Requirement analysis & specification Design Implementation & unit testing Integration & system testing

Operation & maintenance

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USE CASE APPROACHUse case diagram for Leave Management System

Maintain employee records

Maintain leave records Log-in

Generate leave reports

Generate employee reports

Administrator
View employee and leave records

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1. Maintain employee recordsadd/modify/update employee details like

name, employee number, department number, etc. 2. Maintain leave records- add/modify/update employee leave details like leave id, reason, duration, etc. 3. Log-in use to provide a way to enter through user id and password. 4. Generate leave reports- use to print various reports like monthly leave, annual leave etc. 5. Generate employee reports- use to print various reports like custom employee reports, etc. 6. View results- according to employee number, department number, etc.

1. Login 1.1 Introduction: This use case describes how a user logs into the Leave Management System. 1.2 Actors: System Administrator 1.3 Pre Conditions: None 1.4 Post Conditions: If the use case is successful, the actor is logged into the system. If not, the system state is unchanged. 1.5 Basic Flow: This use case starts when the actor wishes to login to the Leave Management system. (i) System requests that the actor enter his/her name and password. (ii) The actor enters his/her name & password. (iii) System validates name & password, and if finds correct allow the actor to logs into the system.

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1.6 Alternate Flows 1.6.1 Invalid name & password If in the basic flow, the actor enters an invalid name and/or password, the system displays an error message. The actor can choose to either return to the beginning of the basic flow or cancel the login, at that point, the use case ends.

2. Maintain employee records 2.1 Introduction: Allow administrator to maintain employee details. This includes adding, changing and deleting employee information. 2.2 Actors: Administrator 2.3 Pre-Conditions: Administrator must be logged onto the system before this use case begins. 2.4 Post-conditions: If use case is successful, employee information is added/updated/deleted from the system. Otherwise, the system state is unchanged. 2.5 Basic Flow: Starts when administrator wishes to

add/modify/update/delete employee information. (i) The system requests the administrator to specify the function, he/she would like to perform (Add/update/delete). (ii) One of the sub flows will get executed after getting the information. If administrator selects "Add employee", "Add employee" sub flow will be executed. If administrator selects "update", "update" sub flow will be executed.

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If administrator selects "delete employee", "delete employee" sub flow will be executed.

2.5.1 Add an employee (i) The system requests the administrator to enter: Emp no Emp name Emp title Dept no Joining date Contact no Salary Address (ii) Emp no is the unique id.

2.5.2 Update employee records (i) The system retrieves and displays the employee information. (ii) Administrator makes the desired changes to the employee information. (iii) The system prompts the administrator to confirm the updation of the employee. (iv) After changes, the system updates the employee record with changed information.

2.5.3 Delete an employee (i)The system retrieves and displays the student information.

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(ii) The system prompts the administrator to confirm the deletion of the employee. (iii) The administrator confirms the deletion. (iv) The system marks the employee record for deletion.

2.6 Alternative flows 2.6.1 Update Cancelled If in the update a employee sub-flow, the data entry operator decides not to update the employee information, the update is cancelled and the basic flow is restarted at the begin.

3. Maintain leave applications 3.1 Introduction: The administrator maintains leave applications. This includes adding, changing, deleting leave application from the system 3.2 Actors: administrator 3.3 Preconditions: administrator must be logged onto the system before the use case begins. 3.4 Post conditions: If the use case is successful, the leave applications can be added or deleted from the system, otherwise the system state is unchanged. 3.5 Basic flows: The use case starts when administrator wishes to add or delete leave application from the system. (i) The system requests administrator to specify the function he/she would like to perform i.e. Add an application Delete an application

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(ii) Once the administrator provides the required information, one of the sub flows is executed. If administrator selected Add Leave Application, the Add leave sub flow is executed. If administrator selected Delete Leave Application, the Delete leave sub flow is executed.

3.5.1 Add a Subject (i) The System requests the administrator to enter the leave details. This includes: Emp no Dept no Leave id Start date End date Reason (ii) The application is added to the system.

3.5.2 Delete an application (i)System retrieves & displays leave applications. (ii)System prompts the administrator to confirm the deletion. (iii) Administrator verifies the deletion. (iv)The system marks the leave record for deletion.

4. View employee and leave records 4.1 Introduction: This use case allows the administrator to view the employee and leave records.

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4.2 Actors: Administrator 4.3 Pre Conditions: administrator must be logged onto the system before the use case begins. 4.4 Post Conditions: If use case is successful, the employee and leave information is displayed by the system. Otherwise, state is unchanged. 4.5 Basic Flow: Use case begins when administrator wishes to view the records.

5. Generate reports 5.1 Introduction: This use case allows the administrator to generate reports. Options are a. leave reports b. employee reports 5.2 Actors: administrator 5.3 Pre-Conditions: administrator must be logged on to the system. 5.4 Post conditions: If use case is successful, desired report is generated. Otherwise, the system state is unchanged. 5.5 Basic Flow: The use case starts, when administrator wishes to generate reports. (i) Administrator selects option. (ii) System retrieves the information displays. (iii) Administrator takes printed reports.

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0 - LEVEL DATA FLOW DIAGRAM (DFD)

Administrator Employee information entry Leave information entry

Leave Management System

MS-Access

Employee reports

Leave reports

Custom reports

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1 LEVEL DATA FLOW DIAGRAM (DFD)

Admin

Log in

Database

Enter employee details

Enter leave details

Employee reports

Leave reports

Custom employee reports

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The very first step towards database designing is Entity Relation (ER) diagram.

jobtitle d.o.j empname deptno deptname empno Department Employs Employee deptno econtact

deptno empno reason Applies

Leave

leavetype_ id

Type

lstart_dt lend_dt leavetype_i d Abides by Leavetype

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As a byproduct of ER diagram we get our database design, entities become tables and their corresponding attributes form the columns or fields of the table. But we first need to normalize them before actually implementing them. Normalization While designing database, one should always try to make relation tables or relations as simple as possible i.e. it can very well be defined in terms of two dimensional tables. This process is known as normalization. Normalization theory is built around the concept of Normal Forms. A relation is said to be in a particular normal forms (NF), if it satisfies a certain specified set of constraints or conditions. Finally, what we achieve after this exercise is our final database, which is as follows:Department Department name Department id Employee Empname Empno Dept id Emp title d.o.j Contact Leave Emp no Dept id Leave id Lstart_date Lend_date Reason Leave_type Leave id Leave type

Log in Username Password Category

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Chapter 5

Implementation and Coding

The proposed system is an application developed in Visual Basic 6.0, making it an event driven or menu driven system. Visual basic is an object based programming language. The programming does not execute itself in any predetermined sequence but different lines of code in response to events. Visual Basic specifically follows procedural approach of coding wherein the problem is decomposed into independent procedures or modules (coded and tested), which are later combined and finally a system is ready to be executed. It allows us to adopt a parallel approach, with independent sections of code for each option that the user might select.

Coding for the proposed system was not a very tedious task since forms were distributed amongst the team of developers, who individually coded their parts, tested them and then combined them to form Leave Management system.

Full coding of the proposed system is provided in the copy of CD being provided with this project report.

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Screen Shots
Login screen

Home Screen

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Add new leave

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View leave records

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Chapter 6

TESTING
Software testing is the process used to measure the quality of developed software product. Effective software testing will contribute to the delivery of higher quality software products, more satisfied users, lower maintenance costs, more accurate, and reliable results. Usually, quality is constrained to such topics as correctness, completeness, security, but can also include more technical requirements as described under the ISO standard ISO 9126, such as capability, reliability, efficiency, portability, maintainability, compatibility, and usability. Testing is a process of technical investigation, performed on behalf of stakeholders, that is intended to reveal quality-related information about the product with respect to the context in which it is intended to operate. This includes, but is not limited to, the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding errors. Hence software testing is necessary and important activity of software development process. It is a very expensive process and consumes one-third to one-half of the cost of a typical development project. It is partly intuitive but largely systematic. Good testing involves much more than just running the program a few times to see whether it works. Thorough analysis of a program helps us to test more systematically and more effectively.

6.1 Objectives of testing

Testing is a process of executing a program with the intent of finding an error. A good test case is one that has a high probability of finding as yet undiscovered error. A successful test is one that uncovers an as-yet-undiscovered error

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All tests should be traceable to customer requirements. Tests should be planned long before testing begins. Testing should begin in the small and progress toward testing testing in large. Exhaustive testing is not possible. To be most effective, testing should be conducted by an independent third party.

6.3 Verification and validation

Software testing is used in association with verification and validation (V&V). Verification is the checking of or testing of items, including software, for conformance and consistency with an associated specification. Software testing is just one kind of verification, which also uses techniques such as reviews, inspections, and walkthroughs. Validation is the process of checking what has been specified is what the user actually wanted.

6.4 Types of testing

Unit Testing- In unit testing, different modules are tested against the specification produced during design for the modules. The main goal of unit testing is to test the internal logic of the modules. A module is

considered for integration and used by others only after it has been unit tested satisfactorily. Integration Testing- The main emphasis is on testing interfaces between modules.

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System Testing- In system testing, the entire software is tested. The reference document for this process is the requirements document

and the goal is to see if software meets its requirements. This is essentially a validation exercise. Acceptance Testing- Acceptance testing involves planning and execution of the functional tests, performance tests and stress tests in order to demonstrate that whether the implemented system satisfies its requirements or not. Stress Testing- Applying stress to a plan means that a large amount of data is fed in for processing in a short period of time. In other words, consumption of computer resources is drastically raised in that time frame with the intention to ensure that the system will still perform effectively if the same condition occurs in the future.

6.5 Testing Procedure

Different types of checks like duplicate checks; completeness check, validity check, etc. are incorporated in this system. The user is not familiar with the new system, the data entry screens are designed in such a way that they are Consistent Compatible Easy to use Has quick response

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Conventions for the System to be User Friendly All items that are logically related must be placed together. Whenever possible, list of values must be provided to display all valid options to the user. Errors and validation messages must be provided whenever required.

Test Review Test Review is the process, which ensures that testing is carried out as planned. Checks Example of validation check: Username and password should successfully match before user logs into the system.

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Example of type check User cannot enter text in the fields of numeric concern like emp no. and vice versa. Null check that is user cannot leave any field empty.

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Leave start date and leave end date should be in ascending order only

Various combo boxes are applied to prevent user from entering ambiguous values.

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Chapter 7 Utilities in the system

General utilities in the system are as follows: Calculator Calendar Notepad Web search page

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Chapter 8

CONCLUSION

The project Leave Management System has been a rewarding experience in more ways than one.

Firstly, we have gained an insight into the institution. This represents a typical real world situation.

Secondly, in order to generate information from the institution, a number of validations have been performed which has strengthened our understanding of database design.

Initially there were some problems but with the guidance of our project coordinator and project head we were able to solve the problems easily and implement validations.

Finally we can appreciate the power of VB and its file handling ability to make the module interactive and how the code can be reduced by applying procedures. We are now confident of handling such real life situations concerning front end and back end designs.

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