UNIVERSITY OF OSLO

RESEARCH PROPOSAL FOR THE MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATICS DEGREE BY COURSE WORK AND DISSERTATION

1.0. NAME OF CANDIDATE: LUNGO, JUMA H. Reg.No: 17117431320 B.Sc. (Comp.) (Hons.) (DAR)

2. NAME OF SUPERVISOR:

3. DEPARTMENT AND FACULTY: DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS – FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCE.

4. PROPOSED DEGREE: M. Sc. (INFORMATIC SCIENCE)

5. TITLE: Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design: a case of District Health Information System, Mozambique.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT i
INTRODUCTION 1
RELEVANT FINDINGS (LITERATURE REVIEW) 2
OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 2
THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND WHY THIS PROBLEM AREA 5
THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS 5
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 6
TARGET GROUP 7
PERSONAL MOTIVATION 7
METHODOLOGY 7
BIBLIOGRAPHY: 13

ABSTRACT

Many organisations are relying on software systems. Thus these organisations spend a lot of money on software systems and, to get a return on that investment, the software must be usable for a number of years. For many organisations, introducing new software implementation from scratch is a risk. This is because their requirements are not well defined or they don’t have enough expertise to understand and identifies software that can fit their problems. So, many organisations adopt software. That means they take analogy software (software developed for another organisation with the some similarities) and adopt it to fit their needs.

In my research, I want to address the problems of adopting systems developed in the functional-oriented methodology and propose object-oriented systems analysis and design methodology. Mainly I would like to assess the flexibility of the structure of software and the development and implementation platforms to be adapted to new environments different from where it