Chapter 9- Feasibility Study

Introduction:

The feasibility study of any system is mainly intended to study and analyze the proposed system and to decide whether the system under consideration will be viable or not after implementation. That is it determines the usability of the project after deployment. To come to result a set of query is answered keeping the efficiency of the software and its impact on the domain for which it was developed. It main emphasis is on the following three questions elucidated below as:

What are the user’s requirements and how does a candidate system meet them?

What resources are available for the proposed systems? Is it worth solving the problem?

What is the likely impact of the proposed system on the organization? I.e. how does the proposed system fit with in the organization?

Thus since the feasibility study may lead to commitment of large resources, it becomes necessary that it should be conducted competently and no fundamental errors of judgment are made. Different types of feasibility study and the way we performed on our project “On Line Examination” .

Technical Feasibility:

In technical feasibility, we study all technical issues regarding the proposed system. It is mainly concerned with the specifications of the equipments and the software, which successfully satisfies the end-user’s requirement. The technical needs of the system may vary accordingly but include:

    • The feasibility to produce outputs in a given time.

    • Response time under certain conditions.

    • Ability to process a certain volume of the transaction at a particular speed.

    • Facility to communicate data.

Under this analysis process questions like (i) does the compatible platform exist within our domain or can we procure it? (ii) Does the proposed equipment have the technical capacity to hold the data required using the new system?.

Both at the development site and at server where we will be hiring the space for the website, and also the database would it be possible to upgrade the system after it is developed and implemented, if necessary? And would the recommended technology guarantee the reliability, accuracy and data security? This analysis process requires more emphasis on system configuration given more importance rather than the actual hardware specifications.

. The configuration of the existing systems is:

    • Processor : Pentium III, 500 MHz (or above)

    • Memory : 128 MB (or above)

    • Secondary storage : 20 GB (or above)

For Software there are following alternatives:

Operating System :Window 98,2000,XP,NT

Development tools :ASP.Net ,C# ,HTML,DHTML

Database :Microsoft SQL server 7.0

Documentation tool: MS-Word