The Acceptance test (7 marks) B1. Google Research facilitates the publishing of academic papers for their research and development staff. As part of this they have a system to allow on-line checking of paper submissions to detect possible plagiarism. The system must track submission time and dates and provide an analysis of the matches found in other peoples work, in Internet documents and in paper-based publications such as books and magazines. The analysis will be available to the staff member who submitted the paper and the academic reviewer.

The plagiarism detection and matching must be configurable providing for:

Optional checking of bibliographies

Allow proper quotations to be excluded

Allow setting a minimum number of matching words

Allow resubmission of papers up to a given date/time

Outline an acceptance test for the above system as described by generating scenarios of each requirement. In the study guide, this is steps 1, 2 and 3 of the acceptance test criteria. Most of step 1 is in the above system description but you can refine and expand if you wish. These scenarios will not count to the total word count. You must research and nominate an approach that can automate the acceptance test and show an example of a simple automated acceptance test script. A failure to do so will result in loss of marks. Remember that acceptance tests can be designed without access to the actual product. Detailed testing of the product is for the next part of this assignment (detailed black-box testing). You can enhance the requirements above if you wish or clarify them based on your own knowledge. If you do adjust the requirements your plan will be assessed against your new specification.