In: Computer Science
Case Study:
The Healthy Food Exchange (HFX) is a type of e-business exchange that does business entirely on the Internet. The company acts as a clearing exchange for both buyers and sellers of organic food.
For a person to offer food item for sale, he/she must register with HealthyFood. The person must provide a current physical address and telephone number as well as a current e-mail address. The system will then maintain an open account for this person. Access to the system as a seller is through a secure, authenticated portal.
A seller can list food items on the system through a special Internet form. Information required includes all the pertinent information about the food, its category, its general condition, and the asking price. A seller may list as many food items as desired. The system maintains an item ID of all food items in the system so that buyers can use the search engine to search for food item. The search engine allows searches by category, name, location, condition or keyword.
People wanting to buy food items come to the site and search for the item they want. When they decide to buy, they must open an account with a credit card to pay for the item. The system maintains all this information on secure servers.
When a request to purchase is made, along with the payment, The HealthyFood sends an e-mail notice to the seller of the item that was chosen. It also marks the item as pending. The system maintains this as an open order until it receives notice that the item have been shipped and mark it as sold. After the seller receives notice that a listed item has been sold, he/she must notify the buyer via e-mail within 12 hours that the purchase is noted. Shipment of the order must be made within 12 hours after the seller sends the
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notification e-mail. The seller sends a notification to both the buyer and HealthyFood when the shipment is made.
After receiving notice of shipment, HealtyFood maintains the order in a shipped status. At the end of each month, a check is mailed to each seller for the food item orders that have been in a shipped status for 7 days. The 7-day waiting period is to allow the buyer to notify HealthyFood if the shipment does not arrive for some reason, or if the food item is not in the same condition as advertised.
The buyers can, if they want, enter a service rating for the seller. The service rating is an indication of how well the seller is servicing food purchases. Some sellers are very active and use HealthyFood as a major outlet for selling food items. So, a service rating is an important indicator to potential buyers.
Tasks and Deliverables:
Answer all the following tasks in the form of a report:
1. You are working as a Software Engineer at VITSoft Pvt Ltd. company in Sydney. Your manager asked you to develop a software specification analysing feasibility, functional, and non-functional requirements for above case study. As the first task, you should develop the requirements specification for the proposed system. In your report you should clearly indicate the assumptions and any constraints. The specification should have the following sections. However, you could add other topics based on your assumptions.
1. Introduction
a. Purpose
b. Scope
a. Definitions, Acronyms
2. Constraints
3. Assumptions
4. Requirements
a. Functional Requirements
b. Non-functional Requirements
c. Others
5. Stake holders
6. Project Management
a. Time
b. Deliverables and Milestones
c. Quality
d. Risk
e. Cost
7. References
8. Appendices
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2. Draw Use Case diagram and clearly indicate actors and use cases. You can use Ms Visio, Ms Word, or any online tool.
3. Select FOUR Use Cases and write Use Case scenarios with preconditions and post conditions.
4. Draw Class diagram for the above system. Clearly indicate classes, possible methods, and message calls.
5. Select FOUR functionalities and design User Interfaces. You could use some wireframe designing tools such as Balsamiq (use trial version) or Invision. Include your wireframes in the report.
6. Design at least FIVE test cases for each for the above scenarios.
7. Discuss the software techniques you will use to support configuration
management and the tools to manage change request by customer
Can anyone do the project management part.
Project Management:
The Health Food Exchange(HFX) is an online platform for buyers and sellers of Healthy food. It is an online market place for both buyers and sellers. It is a wast platform which consists of mainly two functional interfaces Buyer's Portal and Seller's Portal and it also compries of a backend which is controlled by Health Food Exchange(HFX) .To develop this platform we must start with listing the components, implementaions, functionalities of all the components.
Seller's Portal:
-components:
-functionalities and implementaions:
Backend:
A backend must be developed which provides the seller with an open acoount acces after the registration on the seller portal. The backend must generate an item ID to each food items listed by the seller in the internet from.
Buyer:'s Portal:
-Components:
functionalities and implementaions:
Backend:
A backend must be implemented which collects the buyers details during login and stores it in a secure server.After a purchase is made on the buyers platform the backend must send a notification mail that the following item has been choosen. The backend must mark the item as pending and keeps the open order status until item is notified shipped by seller. After the item is shipped the backend assigns shipped status to the item for 7 days until a feedback is recieved by the buyer. The backend also stores feedbacks,transaction history and order Id of the order which can be accessed by the buyer in buyer interface.