CSC 330 Stock Market Simulator

Stock Market Simulator is a single-player game that provides an educational exploration of how the US stock market works.

Software Development Lifecycle

We are going to adhere to the Agile philosophy and scrum. See Agile Manifesto and Why Scrum.

The development will be broken down into these 5 phases:

1. Requirements analysis

   • What is a stock?
   • How do we simulate the basic behavior of a stock market?
   • What should be the main components of the application?
   • What are different types of stocks?
   • What is the scope of the project?

2. System Design

   • User interface
   • Class hierarchy to represent the stock market, types of stocks, and their behaviors
   • Basic mathematical and financial foundations of the stock market

3. Implementation and Unit Testing

   • In this part, the actual code is written and tested
   • As the code is implemented, the system design and requirements may change

4. Integration Testing

   • The modules are combined and tested as a group
   • Changes to the system design are done as needed

5. Quality Assurance/Presentation

   • Final testing of the product
   • PowerPoint/Keynote presentation of the product to the class

Roadmap

See our Trello group for the roadmap.

Code Philosophy

• Always use String.equalsIgnoreCase() when comparing strings (unless otherwise necessary).
• Defer exception handling to the object that is most responsible for the exception.