PointofSale Software Product Requirements

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Point-of-Sale Software Product Requirements
Team 5 Rondell Warren Joshua Sanders Brad
Ray Jerry Higgs Misty Herring
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Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC)

• Problem Statement
• Analysis
• Design
• Implementation (of the Design/Solution)
• Coding
• Testing
• Integration

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Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC)
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SDLC forPoint-of-Sale System

• Phase I ( Problem Statement)
• Process Description
• A point-of-sale system that allows Web-based
  (e-commerce) transactions.
• This software needs to have integration
  capabilities over a wide-range of point-of-sale
  systems.

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SDLC forPoint-of-Sale System

• Phase I (Problem Statement)
• Product (Requirements)
• Integration of the software with the billing
  process.
• Integration of the software with the shipping
  process .
• Building and maintaining a customer database.
• Building and maintaining a vendor database.
• Building and maintaining an inventory database.
• Integration of the software with the purchasing
  process (to replenish the inventory as needed).
• Obtaining management data regarding sales trends.
• Web-based (e-commerce) version.
• Data validation.

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SDLC forPoint-of-Sale System

• Phase II (Analysis)
• Process Description
• Billing Process
• Softcart Technologies provided by an ISP.
• Shipping Process
• Softcart captures customer information and UPS
  on-line to make shipments.
• Customer/Inventory/Vendor Database
• Access, Oracle or DB2
• Mail order manager (MOM)
• Inventory and vendor databases are going to to
  be pre-loaded manually or loaded using a
  flat-file.

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SDLC forPoint-of-Sale System

• Phase II (Analysis)
• Process Description
• Software with the Purchasing Process
• Daily database query performed and automatic
  reorder is initiated when quantity is low.
  (Manager decides) .
• Management data regarding Sales Trends
• Database queries with information from each of
  the three database tables(Inventory, Vendor,
  Customer).
• The query information will be used to produce
  graphs and charts along with spreadsheets.

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SDLC forPoint-of-Sale System

• Phase II (Analysis)
• Process Description
• Web-based (e-commerce) version.
• Web page design specifications.
• Data validation.
• Updates customer/vendor/inventory information
  each time an order is placed
• so that information remains up to date.

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SDLC forPoint-of-Sale System

• Phase II (Analysis)
• Products
• A more detailed specification of the
  requirements.
• Definition of input(s), output(s), and process
  flow in a structured format.
• Special conditions.
• Range of values for input(s).
• Expected range for output(s).
• Special processing conditions.

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SDLC forPoint-of-Sale System

• Phase III (Design)
• Process Description
• A solution will be developed based on the
  previously gathered information.
• Products
• Two solutions should be provided. A main solution
  and an alternative solution.
• Flowchart implementation of the solution.
• Pseudocode (optional).

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SDLC forPoint-of-Sale System

• Phase IV (Implementation of the Design/Solution)
• Process Description
• Coding
• Products
• Source
• Compiled module (.OBJ).
• Error free linked and executable module (.EXE).

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SDLC forPoint-of-Sale System

• Phase V (Testing)
• Process Description
• Verification of code programming against
  requirements.
• Products
• Several runs of the program using input data.
• Use of extraneous cases.

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SDLC forPoint-of-Sale System

• Phase VI (Integration)
• Process Description
• The system is packaged together with all needed
  components.