Information System Design For Artisans Cooperative Using Object Oriented Methodology, Essay.

Requirements gathering

Tasks 

You need to analyse (as a preliminary to designing) an information system for the Artisans Cooperative using the Object Oriented methodology. Your tasks encompass the following steps:

I.   Requirements Gathering 

1. Create an owner’s view for the system that you can show to stakeholders for feedback. 
You can make any reasonable assumptions if any details that you think are important are not clearly mentioned in the case description. 

2.Identify the users of the system. List these under subheadings for business and information systems users.

II. Domain Analysis

3. Write domain definitions and, from there, proceed to establish the domain scope for the system and each subsystem. The following table provides a template for your answer.

4.    Identify the domain concepts from the domain definition and scopes. Categorise the concepts into processes, functions, roles, objects, and business rules. You need to list them in a domain dictionary table using the following template:

III. Behavioural Modelling 

After completing the domain analysis, you are ready to start use case modelling. Please make sure that you use the domain concepts identified during the domain analysis activity as the basis for behavioural modelling. 

5.  Identify stakeholders of the whole system. List them with descriptions using the following table template.

6.    Create a Use Case Summary for both the Online Ordering and Inventory Management subsystems of the Artisans Cooperative.

7.    Complete a use case template for a use case that relates to the online inventory being manually updated after a market stall. Use the blank template below.

8. Create a use case diagram for the Inventory Management subsystem, complete with “include and “extend”, where appropriate.

9. Create an activity diagram for the Online Ordering subsystem.  

IV.  Structural and Dynamic Modelling 

After completing the behavioural modelling, you will continue with structural and dynamic modelling.

10. Identify classes for both the Online Ordering and Inventory Management subsystems. List each class, along with responsibilities and the use cases they are associated with, using the following table templates.
 

11.    Create a complete class diagram with associations and multiplicity information for the Online Ordering subsystem. Is there any relationship in this case study that can be described by aggregation/composition? Are there classes that can be generalized/specialized?
 

12.    Create a sequence diagram for the process of a customer selecting products and completing an online order on the Artisans Cooperative website. 

Owner’s view of the system is how the owner of the system generally sees the system in term of functionalities that the system is supposed to deliver to the different users. The owner’s view of the system can be used for requirements gathering. The following points show an owners view of the system;

• The system should hold details of all the members of the cooperative. The members include the painters, potters, jewelers and other arts and crafts people.
• The system should be able to hold details of the products produced by its members so that an online catalogue is created for every member.
• The system should be able to allow customers to view all the products for sale by different members.
• The system should allow the potential customers to order items for sale and pay for them through PayPal or visa.
• When a customer orders an item in the system, the member selling that item should be sent a notification of the order through email.
• The system should allow should allow members who are non-managers to manually update their online inventory after doing market stalls.
• The system should also allow the members to see all orders made through the system so that they can arrange for deliveries.
• The system should allow the managers to lodge a request to the website service provider to set up a new account.
• The system should allow cooperative members to maintain their profile after their accounts have been set up.
• The system should allow managers to record upcoming events.’
• The system should allow managers to utilize a cooperative member’s account to fulfil online orders and update the inventory following a market stall sales if the member is not available
• The system should allow a customer to raise a query about an order.
• The system should allow cooperative members to see queries raised about their products and respond to them.
• The system should generate sales report on a weekly basis and emailed to managers who combine them with markets stall figures and pay the cooperative members the money less the commission.
• The system should allow managers to send sales record to accountants and help the accountants to view the records.

• Cooperative members
• Accountant
• Customers

• Managers
• Web service provider