2.3 Development Approach 
A great deal of effort in the early part of the project was to 
understand the Romania land registry law (Romanian Law 
7/1996) so that the appropriate processes could be implemented 
within the land/cadastre registry system. It was critical that this 
foundational understanding be absorbed by the team so as to 
implement not only a functioning system, but one that would 
also stand up to legal scrutiny. This legal understanding was 
significant in our design and development, as it impacted each 
of the following: 
1. The purpose and objective of the system 
2. The Institutional framework in which the system will 
be implemented 
3. The processes specific to the Romanian system 
4. The workflow and re-engineering of the processes 
unique to Romania 
5. The report generation and ad-hoc requirements 
6. The necessary network scheme required to completely 
integrate the various components of the system 
2.4 Life Cycle Development 
For the development of the project Stewart/Landata used a life- 
cycle based methodology to develop this comprehensive 
solution. A key component for our team’s success was the 
significant involvement of the owners and users of the 
cadastre/land registry system. It will be through this successful 
participation of the Cadastre and Land Book teams that we will 
be able to provide a comprehensive land registry system. 
direction of the flows for each of the processes. It should be 
noted that the user interaction is a bi-directional flow. 
2.5 Quality Control Overview 
During the development and implementation of the application, 
a robust quality control program has been instituted from 
project kick-off to project sign-off. Program libraries, 
databases, and a repository are being employed for the efficient 
and successful development of the application. Various 
versions of the software and other documentation are kept in the 
Program Library to assure complete control during the 
application development, installation, testing, and maintenance 
period. 
2.6 Testing 
Our approach to testing has been to complete normal software 
walk-throughs followed by integration testing of the all of the 
modules of software. As the Stewart/Landata team conducted 
the integration testing, informal evaluation testing by the end 
users of the applications were also being completed, so as to 
insure that our functional tests would proceed smoothly. The 
functional testing was completed using pre-approved test cases. 
These test cases were developed in concert between the client 
and the Stewart/Landata team. Upon completion of the 
functional testing, acceptance testing begins at the first two pilot 
sites (2 Judets). 
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Figure 1 details our life cycle development approach. The solid 
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a key component of any application development effort is the 
transfer of knowledge to all levels of users on the specific 
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