TCSS 360
Grading Criteria for Milestones

Version: November 16, 2001

The following are the primary questions that I will be asking about your project milestones, and that you can ask yourself as you critically examine your own project.

• Form:
  1. To what extent have you followed the Document Layout Guidelines?
  2. To what extent does your document clearly structured?
• Approach:
  1. Does your milestone use the prescribed techniques, and use them correctly and effectively, in order to solve the particular problem that your project comprises?
  2. Are all requirements, design elements, tests, code elements, etc. strictly necessary?
  3. Are all requirements, design elements, tests, code elements, in total sufficient to solve the problem at hand?
  4. Are requirements, design, tests, and documentation specified at a sufficiently detailed level?
  5. Are your statements sufficiently unambiguous so as to be verifiable? That is, is there clear criteria by which we can decide if your design, coding, and testing meets the requirements?
• Coherence and Consistency:
  1. To what extent do all of the parts of your project fit together, both within each milestone, and between milestones?
  2. Does your project function as a unified whole?
  3. To what extent is there uniformity of style, language, and approach throughout your entire project?
  4. Does one part of your project contradict what is in another part?
  5. Do you recommend two or more incompatible approaches? Do you effectively use hyperlinks to tie the parts of the project together?

Change Log

• November 16, 2001. Changed weighting. Added more clarification to each section.
• October 23, 2001. Original version.