Systems Development Methods

New Century Health Clinic

New Century Health Clinic offers preventive medicine and traditional medical care. In your role as an IT consultant, you will help New Century develop a new information system.

Background

You completed the design for the information system at New Century Health Clinic. The associates at the clinic have approved the design specification, and you hired two programmers, Bill Miller and Celia Goldring, to assist you with the programming and testing of the information system.

Questions

1. In your opinion, what are the primary responsibilities of a programmer during the system implementation phase, and how could a programmer contribute to the quality of the finished product?
2.  A supervisor states, “Integration testing is a waste of time. If each program is tested adequately, integration testing is not needed. Instead, we should move on to system testing as soon as possible. If modules don’t interact properly, we’ll handle it then.” Do you agree or disagree with this comment? Justify your position.
3.  Create THREE (3) test plans for the New Century Health Clinic system. You should consider unit, integration, and system testing in your test plans and determine who should participate in the testing. Also, design the test data that you will use. Describe your test plans by using the following template:

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