Challenge Overview
Project Overview
The client for this project has decided to build a web-based application that will allow participants (professional investors) to complete assessments, such as card sorting tasks. The application will also allow Testers, the people running the assessments, to create and run assessments. This new Psych Assessment application will be designed to work on a variety of platforms (including Windows, Mac, iPad, and other tablets).
For the first version of the application, the Psych Assessment application will be built to support two distinct types of assessments: “Q-Stack” assessments and “Card Stacking” assessments. However, the framework will also be designed to support a common framework that allows the client to add and change assessments over time.
A Q-Sort assessment is where a number of items (cards with different words or sentences on them) have to be ranked / ordered by a Participant so that they result in a sequence. This sequence will be one a scale, such as from high to low, or from “agree the most” to “agree the least”.
In a Card Stacking assessment, Participants will assign items (cards with different words or sentences on them) into a predefined number of different response groups. These groups will be visually arranged in the form of stacks that look like an approximately bell-shaped distribution curve. This will result in a final ordering sequence that has the symmetrical shape of a bell shaped distribution.
The Psych Assessment application will be designed to support three main user types: Testers, Participants and Admin users. Testers are the users responsible for conducting the assessments and viewing the results. Admins will be in charge of setting up the assessments and managing them in the system. A Participant will be the user who is completing the assessment. Participants will enter basic information about themselves and then complete an available assessment. In addition, the platform will also support Admin users who will be responsible for managing user accounts and registration codes.
Testers will also be able to use the Psych Assessment application for reporting purposes. Reports can be viewed (including both statistics and graphics), as well as exported for further analysis. For example, Testers will be able to comparison a Participant’s results to relevant groups of others who have taken the assessment and show these results to the Participant (if they are physically there).
The conceptualization document captures business processes and requirements necessary for creating the new Psych Assessment application.
Competition Task Overview
The purpose of this contest is to evaluate the conceptualization document and the wireframes, and produce a high level system architecture for this web-based application.
Please ask as many questions as you can to get you clarified with the business requirements and final goals.
Detailed Requirements
- Considering all the business requirements in conceptualization document and wireframes, properly break them into modules
- Clarify all open questions in conceptualization document
- Properly design the database for persistence.
Open Source Library
There is no limitation. Basically we're fine with open source libraries with commercial friendly license (such as Apache License 2.0), but we also want to make sure that the libraries are reliable. So if you want to use any that's not lised, please let us know in contest forum or via email.
Documentation Provided
- Conceptualization Document
- Wireframes
Final Submission Guidelines
Submission Deliverables
See http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/tc/System+Architecture+Inputs+and+Deliverables
Make sure you include an ERD and a requirement mapping file in addition to the ones mentioned in the page.
Submission Guidelines
For each member, the final submission should be uploaded to the Online Review Tool.