| Question |
Answer |
| The current TEIS interface provides a large number of “Quick Searches” (18 in total). Are all these searches necessary / useful? |
Probably not. Certainly it should be possible to combine some of them, and exclude from the final implementation those that don't show any additional web application features. |
| What would the majority of visitors to the TEIS site be searching for? |
Projects, companies or products by name. Also some users are browsing for information that has been updated recently. |
| Which elements of the current system frustrate you? (e.g. speed of information retrieval) |
None (from the user perspective), but then I'm not a typical user! |
| Are the headings used for the various types of information appropriate? Some appear to be slightly ambiguous (e.g. “infrastructure”). |
It was not intended as part of the assessment for you to worry about aspects such as that, though I agree some may be ambiguous. |
| What additional functionality would you like provided that is not already in either of the two previous implementations of the TEIS website? |
See answers to questions above. |
| Is there any technical documentation that might help me to understand how the project was implemented in the past, and how I might improve upon previous implementations? |
The database structure is documented here. |
| To add update functionality to the application I would need to add additional columns/tables to the database. Is this allowed? |
Yes, provided you make your own local copy of the database (e.g. in Java DB or MySQL), and add the additional items to that. |
