Abstract:
The National Science Foundation awarding grants for scientific and technological
researches in Sri Lanka. These grants are intended to provide the assistance to
supplement the financial, physical and manpower resources available for scientific
research in the scientist’s own institutions. The research grants are handled by the
research division, one of the key divisions in the National Science Foundation and all
financial matters are recorded by the financial division while National Science library and
resource center is maintaining the information related to all research grants.
The aim of this project was to develop a user friendly software system to handle all the
information related to the research grants in a computer system.
Initially the feasibility study was carried out to find out the feasible way to implement the
system. After that the functional requirements were collected by interviewing the
Accountant, Management people and some potential users of the system. Also sampling
of existing documentation and forms. Then the database was developed using MS SQL
2000 Server to meet the functional requirements. All User Interfaces in the system were
designed using MS Visual Basic (VB6.0).Finally the database and interfaces were
connected using ADO Data Control. There After the system subjected to both unit testing
and system testing.
The final system was more user friendly and efficient to handle all the information related
to the research grants. The system contains eight forms and one database with three
tables.
