ASSESSMENT BRIEF
COURSE: Bachelor of IT/Bachelor of Business
Unit Code:

OODP101

Unit Title:

Object Oriented Design and Programming

Type of
Assessment:

Assessment 3 - Individual Programming and demonstration

Length/Duration: 20 hour

Unit Learning
Outcomes
addressed:

1.
Demonstrate basic knowledge of object oriented programming concepts and
programming problems
2.
Analyse and dissect simple design and programming problem
3.
Implement a well-designed modularized solution to small programming problems
4.
Develop and/or implement testing schedules

Submission Date: Week 8
Assessment
Task:

Individual Programming and demonstration

Total Mark:

20 Marks

Weighting:

20% of the unit total marks

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ASSESSMENT DESCRIPTION:
Your task is to design, develop and test an application using Java Programming language for the below customer
requirement for their small firm in Australia.
Design, Develop and test the logic for an application that allows a user to enter employee name continuously
until a sentinel value is entered. Also input each employee’s hourly wage and hours worked. After taking input,
compute each employee gross pay (hours times rate), withholding tax percentage according to the table given
below, withholding tax amount and net pay (gross pay minus withholding tax).
Weekly gross pay ($)

Withholding
percentage (%)

$0-$300.00

10

$300.01-$500.00

13

$500.01-$800.00

16

$800.01 and up

18

Display all the results for each employee. After the last employee has been entered, display the sum of all hours
worked, total gross payroll for all employees and net payroll for all employees.

DESIGN TASK1:
Draw a Flowchart and Pseudocode for required functionalities of program

DEVELOPMENT
TASK 2
1.

Display the welcome message (Student ID, Student Name)

2.

Ask from user to enter the employee names, hours worked and hourly rate. Keep asking for new employee
until user enter a sentinel value to end the program.

3.

Compute and display each employee’s gross pay, withholding tax percentage, withholding tax amount
and net pay.

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4.

Use parallel arrays to store hours worked, gross pay and net payroll of each employee.

5.

Display the output on screen
***************************************************************
Thanking you for using the system
Your name and your student ID
Total hours worked by employees
Gross pay that needs to be paid by company
Tax withholdings
Net pay after tax deductions
***************************************************************

TEST
TASK 3:
TEST DOCUMENT
TESTER NAME:

APPLICATION NAME:
Case ID

Test case

Test Data

Expected Outcome

Actual Outcome

ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION:
Week 8

MARKING GUIDE (RUBRIC):

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Marking Criteria

Max Marks

Appropriate pseudocode and flowchart for tasks explained in
development

3

Display welcome message and ask for employee names again and again
until a sentinel value is entered using appropriate looping structure

2

Compute and display each employee’s gross pay, withholding tax
percentage, withholding tax amount and net pay

4

Use parallel arrays to store hours worked, gross pay and net payroll of
each employee.

2

Output with correct details

3

Quality of Code and comments

2

Modularisation

2

Write min of 4 test cases for the above programme developed

2

Total

20

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Content for Assessment Task papers should incorporate a formal introduction, main points and conclusion.
Appropriate academic writing and referencing are inevitable academic skills that you must develop and
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refer to the Academic Learning Support Workshop materials available on the Kent Learning Management System
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GENERAL NOTES FOR REFERENCING

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