Elections ACT
Upgrade of eVACS® for the 2020
ACT Legislative Assembly Election
Interface Specification – Telephone Voting
Document Status: Final
Version 1.2
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Al hardcopy versions are uncontrolled.
Modifications
Date of this
Version Comment
Author
Reviewer Release
Revision
2019-11-24
0.1
Initial Draft
CJB
AS
2020-02-10
0.2
Incorporation of comments from AS
CJB
AS
2020-03-04
0.3
Additional comments incorporated
CJB
AS
2020-06-20
0.4
Inclusion of cross referenced requirements
CJB
AS
2020-06-26
1.0
Minor edits
CJB
2020-06-30
2020-08-24
1.1
Updated documentation tree
CJB
2020-12-30
1.2
Removal of Data Entry details from documentation
CJB
2021-02-15
tree
Distribution
Name and Appointment
Document Name
Date of Issue
Version
Jiv Sekhon, eVACS Project Manager, EACT
IS Telephone Voting
2021-02-15
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Contents
COPYRIGHT NOTICE ................................................................................................................................................. 2
Disclaimer ........................................................................................................................................................ 2
eVACS®............................................................................................................................................................. 2
eVACS® Upgraded documentation Tree ........................................................................................................... 2
DOCUMENT CONTROL INFORMATION .................................................................................................................... 3
Modifications ................................................................................................................................................... 3
Distribution ...................................................................................................................................................... 3
CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................................... 4
1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1
Document Purpose ............................................................................................................................... 5
1.2
Referenced documents ......................................................................................................................... 5
1.3
Acronyms .............................................................................................................................................. 5
1.4
Definitions ............................................................................................................................................ 6
2. REQUIREMENTS ............................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1
Interface identification and diagram ..................................................................................................... 7
2.2
I-IVRS-TVS ............................................................................................................................................. 7
2.3
Precedence and criticality of requirements ......................................................................................... 11
3. QUALIFICATION PROVISIONS ......................................................................................................................... 12
APPENDIX 1 – LIST OF INTERFACE REQUIREMENTS FOR TELEPHONE VOTING ...................................................... 13
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1. Introduction
1.1 Document Purpose
This ‘Interface Specification – Telephone Voting’ specifies the requirements to achieve the interface
between the IVR server and the Telephone Voting Server components of eVACS®. The Interface
Specification supplements the System Specification, and the System Design and Software
Specification documents.
The intended audience of the Documentation Guide is Elections ACT and the eVACS® Upgraded
Project Team.
1.2 Referenced documents
In the remainder of the document, a citation of the form [i] is a reference to document i listed in this
section.
1. Department of Defence, United State of America, Software Development and Documentation, MIL-
STD-498, 1994
2. Software Improvements Pty Ltd, eVACS® Systems Specification Parts 1 and 2, 2019
3. Software Improvements Pty Ltd, eVACS® System Design and Software Specification, 2019
4. Software Improvements Pty Ltd, eVACS® Interface specification – Voting, 2020
1.3 Acronyms
AS
Alex Smyth
CJB
Carol Boughton
DTMF
Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency
eVACS/ eVACS®
electronic Voting and Counting System
I
Interface or Inspection if a QM
IRS
Interface Requirements Specification
IVRS
Interactive Voice Response Server
QM
Qualification Method (s)
SDSS
System Design and Software Specification
SSS
System Specification
TVS
Telephone Voting Server
VS
Voting Server
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1.4 Definitions
Schedule 2.2(a)(xi)
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3. Qualification provisions
The QM column in Table 1 assigns the qualification methods to each requirement to be used to
ensure that the requirement has been met.
Qualifications methods used are:
• Demonstration (D): The operation of interfacing entities that relies on observable functional
operation not requiring the use of instrumentation, special test equipment, or subsequent
analysis.
• Inspection (I): The visual examination of interfacing entities, documentation, etc.
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Appendix 1 – List of interface requirements for
telephone voting
See Table (section 2.2) for data associated with each interface requirement
Schedule 2.2(a)(xi)
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