Question

Q:Make a requirements document highlighting all functional and non-functional requirements as per the case above. Your requirements must be validated for conciseness, completeness, non-ambiguity, verifiability, feasibility, and traceability:

• Register for the system by providing their name, Student ID and email address and a password

• Log in to the system by entering their Student ID and password

• Search for textbooks (by title or ISBN number or author) and scroll through the results of their search. The results of their search should include the price and condition of the book.

• Note that more than one of the same textbook may be returned by the search due to multiple students listing the same book. In this case the user should be presented with a list of results showing the different prices and conditions.

• Purchase textbooks (by sending an email to the textbook buyer and owner indicating an intent to purchase)

• Sell textbooks

• The user will need to enter the title and ISBN number, price and condition of the book

• Remove user's posted textbooks from the system (once the student has completed a sale, or if the user decides to not sell the textbook)

• Display additional information about textbook search results, provided directly from Amazon, including an image of the textbook cover, price, authors, and the book description

Answer 1

1. Introduction
   1. Purpose:

The purpose of this system is to build a system which can help the students to purchase and sale the book online along with providing the book price and sale conditions.

2. Intended End Users:

The end users for the system will be the students. The students will be able to register to the system and later they will be able to login with valid credentials.

3. Scope:

The scope of the project is within the educational organization only. All the students from the organisation will be able to sell and buy the text books online. The student’s database will be referred to get the Student ID which will be required for registration on this system.

2. Overall Description

The overall system will make a student capable of buying and selling the textbooks online.

Below is a descriptive diagram which describes the milestones in the system:

2.1 When student wants to Purchase a book:

2.2 When student wants to sell a book:

3. System Functional Requirements

The system will have below functional requirements in it:

1. User registration: The students will be able to register in the system with below details:

Name

Student ID

Email Address

Password

The Student ID will be unique for all the students.

0. 2. Setting Password Requirement: The user password should have below conditions:
1. Minimum password length should be 8 characters
2. Password should contain at least one special character
3. It should contain at least one numeric number
4. It should start with alphabet character only

3. User login Requirement: The registered user should be able to login to the system with the correct Student ID and Password.

4. Incorrect Login attempts: The user will get only 4 invalid attempts. If user makes4 invalid attempts, lock the user account for next 24 hours. The account will get unlock automatically after 24 hours.

5. Search book functionality: Any user logged into the application will be able to search the book by:

Book Title

ISBN Number

Description

Price

6. Handling Books with same name: The books with same name can exist in the list as multiple students can add same book for sale. In the same case, whenever the book is searched in the system, return all the matching books along with the price and condition.

7. Adding book for sale: The registered user will be able to add the book for sale. The book to be sold will have below details:

Book Title

ISBN Number

Condition

Price

Any other detail

8. Selecting the book for purchase: The logged in user should be able to search the book and purchase the required book. When the user search the book and select the book for purchase, an email will be sent to buyer and owner of the book to confirm the purchase.
9. Remove sold books: Once the books has been purchased by someone on the system, the same needs to get removed from the search list. The owner of the book can stop the post when he does not want to sell the book.
10. Integration with Amazon as a search result: When the book is searched by the student, the resultant records should list the book availability on amazon website as well. These books will have its cover, price, authors, and the book description.

4. External Interface Requirements

Software Requirements:

The system will have below software requirements:

OS: Windows

Database: Oracle

Platform: Java MVC framework

Browser: Chrome, Firefox

Hardware Requirements:

RAM: 2GB

Hard Disk: 300 MB to store files

5. Non-Functional Requirements: Along with the Functional requirements, the system will have below non-functional requirements:

5.1 Performance Requirements: The system should be able to take load of millions of books at a time. The response time should be quick to the end user.

1. 5.2 Security Requirements: The system needs to develop as per the security standards defined by IEEE.

5.3 Concurrency Requirements: The system should be able to handle the requests from multiple users at the same time.