Nit5120 Software Engineering-Develop A Website Assessment Answers

Answer:

In this paper, we are going to develop a website for the book store which is named as “Buy Your Books”. The development of the online bookstore helps the student to order book of their choice from the company. The development of the virtual book store provides the facility to the students and customers to search into the available catalogue to order books according to their requirement by sitting in their house only (Kumar, 2014). The renovation of the book store can be done with the development of the interactive online website for the store. They do not have to waste their time in search of the book in the local market. The owner of the book store had decided to increase their marketing with the implementation of the online book store with the name “Buy your books”.

Project objectives:

The objective of the project is to design a website for the ordering of the books through the medium of internet. This documentation helps in providing the technical specification of the website to give the clear idea about the construction of website pages. It helps in providing interactive website through which customers can directly order their books to be delivered at their door steps.

Deliverables of the project:

The project is designed to deliver the feasibility analysis of the proposed design, specification for establishing requirement of the owner of the book store, risks associated with the project development and others (Hu, 2014). The renovation of the book store can be done with the development of the interactive online website for the store (Johnsons, 2013). The organization of the processes should be done in the efficient manner of the effective deployment of the processes involved in the construction of the website.

Literature Review:

We have analysed that the development of the website involves the use of graphics and other visualization techniques for attracting customer towards their business for increasing the sale of the online book store (Kodali, 2007). From the research, it has been concluded that the in the world of digital innovation customers are getting attracted towards the online shopping. It has been searched that about 60% of the marketing stores have improved their turnover with the development of the online store (Hulagabali, 2012). The development of the online book store depends on the following factors:

• Maintaining the database for the shopping cart of the user
• Facility of navigation to move around on the different web pages of the website (Muzumdar, 2014)
• Zooming facility of the book details
• Availability of the menus on the website pages to make it user friendly
• Effective linking of the pages
• The navigation should be start and end up with the home page
• Authentic emails and notification should be sent to the user accounts
• Detail information about the books
• The books should be delivered in the minimum amount of time

Technical feasibility analysis: The PHP programming language is used for constructing the online web portal for the book store. The MySQL database is used for designing relational table for the website.

Operational Feasibility: The efficiency of the book store can be improved with the designing of the online website of the enterprise (Mummaneni, 2011). The information of the system can be controlled by accessing the information from the database. The strong password should be developed by using the password policies to make the privacy of the data. The handling of the order can be efficiently done with the development of the relational table for storing details of the order in the database.

Business requirement specification:

The ordering of the books can be efficiently done with the help of online book store by sitting in the house only. The students do not have to spend their precious time in searching for the books in the local market. The orders delivered to the door step of the student. The development of the website is designed for solving the following purposes:

• A customer for ordering books online by making use of phone number, email, and online booking
• The orders delivered to the door step of the student.
• The slip of the invoice is delivered to the user account automatically
• The customers and the dealer can analyse and view the details of the order placed
• Changing the status of the order placed by the customer
• Analysis of the financial report for determining the profitability and the turnover of the book store with the name “Buy your books”.

The project is developed with the key idea to provide an online application for the owner of the book store to manage the details of the order placed and maintaining the accurate financial information. The functionality provided by the web application are categorised as admin information, menu option, user details, profile detail, cart management system, databases, and others.

Features: 

• The user can create their online account by filling their personal details to get login credentials.
• Automatic calculation of finding the increase in the turnover of the book store
• Online booking of order
• Reviewing the order placed on the cart by the customers

Assumptions:

• The clear requirement of the book store owner in the requirement specification plan
• The activities will be completed within the time schedule.

Constraints:

• Budget
• Time required for completing the activities

Functional Requirement of the website:

• Creation of the user module

• Creation of the Admin module:

Non Functional Requirement:

• Performance: The notification send to the user for ordering the books from online portal
• Requirements associated with the security and control: The information of the system can be controlled by accessing the information from the database. The strong password should be developed by using the password policies to make the privacy of the data.
• Attributes of the software quality: The interactive website for booking of the order. The user friendly environment can be created with the help of menu option
• Robustness of the activities

Design of the project:

The development of the online book store depends on the effective utilization of the relational database for storing the required information of the customers and the books (Agal, 2013). The relational tables are developed for storing the data on the relational database.

Risks Identification Table:

Representation of the data model

The storage of required data is represented with the use of entity relationship diagram. The development of the ERD helps in demonstrating the clear perception of the relational database which is used for storing the information (Gopal, 2013). The following is the entity relationship diagram for the online book store

Representation of the process model

The process model is used for defining and representing the flow of data between different participating units for maintaining the completion of processes involved (Clay, 2013). The representation of the data flow is shown with the help of Data flow diagram. The DFD is composed of four symbols which are used for representing the flow of information which are categorised as Rectangles used for representing entities associated with the system, eclipses are used for admitting input and delivering output, arrows are sued for representing the data flow, and open ended rectangles are used for representing the data store (Atmojo, 2013).

Database Design

Categorise:

Editorial Categories:

Book Details:

Member Detail:

Order Details:

Project limitation: 

There is a scope for future development in the proposed website. The linking and validation of the card type is not done with the bank at the development of this stage. We are looking forward to add more functionality to the admin portal to make the website more interactive. The multiple shopping of the books can be done.

Conclusion:

The development of the virtual book store provides the facility to the students and customers to search into the available catalogue to order books according to their requirement by sitting in their house only. The inefficiency of the traditional book store can be resolved with the development of online web portal for the book store. The financial report generation helps in determining the turnover of the book store.

References:

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Atmojo, R. (2013). Recommendation for development of online bookstore in Indonesia. 1st ed. [ebook]. https://thescipub.com/PDF/jcssp.2014.1522.1530.pdf [Accessed 26 Sep. 2017].

Clay, K. (2013). Price and non-price competition in the online book industry. 1st ed. [ebook]. https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~kclay/papers/retail.pdf [Accessed 26 Sep. 2017].

Gopal, R. (2013). An study of factors affecting on online shopping behaviour of consumers. 1st ed. [ebook]. https://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0613/ijsrp-p1853.pdf [Accessed 26 Sep. 2017].

Hu, Y. (2014). Estimating the value of increased product variety at online booksellers. 1st ed. [ebook]. https://ebusiness.mit.edu/research/papers/176_ErikB_OnlineBooksellers2.pdf [Accessed 26 Sep. 2017].

Hulagabali, S. (2012). E-commerce: A study on selected Indian online bookstores. 1st ed. [ebook]. https://www.nkc.ac.in/uploaded_files/E-Commerce-Santosh%20C%20Hulagabali-Flipkart-Bookstores.pdf [Accessed 26 Sep. 2017].

Johnsons, E. (2013). A report on opening a new book shop. 1st ed. [ebook]. https://www.slideshare.net/ChocoLash/example-report-2 [Accessed 26 Sep. 2017].

Kodali, S. (2007). The design and implementation of  an E-commerce site for online book sale. 1st ed. [ebook]. https://www.cs.iusb.edu/thesis/SKhodali_thesis.pdf [Accessed 26 Sep. 2017].

Kumar, S. (2014). Status and scope of online shopping. 1st ed. [ebook]. https://www.ijarcsms.com/docs/paper/volume2/issue12/V2I12-0036.pdf [Accessed 26 Sep. 2017].

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