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Software Requirements Specification 25th jan,2012
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ONLINE COLLEGE
MAGAZINE
Software Requirements Specification

Version 1.0

Team Guide: Er. Vanita Rani

Members:
1. Alok Singh
2. Arun Singh

College Name: Indo Global College of Engg.,Abhipur

Department: CSE

State: PUNJAB

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Table of Contents
Sr. No. Description Page No.

1.0 Introduction 4-5

1.1 Purpose 6
1.2 Scope 7
1.3 Definition, Acronyms, and Abbreviations 7
1.4 References 8
1.5 Technologies to be used 9
1.6 Overview 10
2.0 Overall Description 11
2.1 Product Perspective 11
2.2 Software Interface 12
2.3 Hardware Interface 12
2.4 Product Function 13
2.5 User Characteristics 13
2.6 Constraints 14
2.7 Architecture Design 14
2.8 Use Case Model Description 15
2.9 Class Diagram 16
Sequence Diagrams
2.10 Database Design 17-20
2.11.1 ER Diagram 21-22
2.11.2 Schema
2.12 Assumptions 23
and
Dependencies
3.0 Specific Requirements 23
3.1 Use Case Reports 23-25
3.2 Supplementary Requirements 26

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1.0 Introduction:

Creating and managing an Online College Magazine where college students and faculties can post and read
various articles, thus promoting literary insight. Articles can be searched by anybody in the world.

When a project is started an initial investigation is carried out. During this phase of study users need
has recognized and other requirements are determined. Once the problem has been defined a study is
carried out to select the best system i.e. a feasible system that meets performance requirements. So
Feasibility is the determination of whether or not a project is worth doing and the process followed in
making this determination is called a Feasibility Study. In order to conduct the feasibility study we
have seven distinct, but inter-related types of feasibility, these are Technical feasibility, Operational
feasibility, Economical feasibility, Social feasibility, Management feasibility, Legal feasibility and
Time feasibility.
Out of these seven three are key feasibilities to consider, those are:

 Technical Feasibility
 Economical Feasibility
 Operational feasibility

TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY:
This is concerned with specifying equipment (hardware) and software that will successfully satisfy
the user requirement. It considers the following facts:

 The facility to produce outputs in a given time.

 Response time under certain conditions.

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 Ability to process a certain volume of transaction at a particular speed.

 Facility to communicate data to distant location.
While examining technical feasibility, huge importance is given to the configuration of the proposed system.
The configuration should give the complete picture about the system’s requirement such that what kind of
hardware is required and how these units are interconnected so that they could operate and communicate
smoothly.

Configurations will be pursued that satisfies the key technical requirements but represent different
levels of ambition and cost.
ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY:
Since cost plays quite an important role in deciding the new system, it must be identified and estimated
properly. So economic analysis is the most frequently used technique for evaluating the effectiveness
(economical feasibility) of a proposed system. To determine the economical feasibility of the system a
cost/benefit analysis is to make. This procedure is to determine the benefits and savings that are expected from
a proposed system and compare them with costs. Four facts that play an important role in deciding economical
feasibility of the proposed system are as follows:

 Cost-saving benefits
 Cost-avoidance benefits
 Improved-performance benefits
 Improved - information benefits.
Hence the proposed system is economically feasible.

OPERATIONAL FEASIBILITY:
It is mainly related to human organizational aspects. The points to be considered are:
 What changes will be brought with the system?
 What organizational structures are disturbed?
 What new skills will be required?

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 Do the existing Employees members have these skills if not, can they be trained?

EXISTING SYSTEM:

The existing systems of Online College Magazine of various colleges provides lots of features but all these
Websites are public. Anyone can have an account on these. Such Websites are not secured for updation of
critical information about college. Due to this, a private Website for College has been established. Only
Administrator can post Article earlier but now student can also share ideas.

PROPOSED SYSTEM:

Online college Magazine website has various benefits with which we all are quite familiar. The proposed
system has been established for college students, faculty and guests. In this Website, only the authorized users
can login. Many features like all other Websites has been tried to be implemented. The flexibility of this system
will definitely help Students to communicate with each other very easily.

1.1 Purpose:

Creating and managing an Online College Magazine where college students and faculties can post and read
various articles, thus promoting literary insight. Articles can be searched by anybody in the world. Factors
behind the motivation of this system are:

1. Not all students make it to the printed magazine.

2. Creativity of students needs to be nurtured.

Creating a user-friendly interactive place where students/faculties can share their ideas.

1.2 Scope:

The Scope of the ONLINE COLLEGE MAGAZINE includes:

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 User must have a valid User Id and password to login to the system.
 If a wrong password is given thrice in succession, that account will be locked and the
customer will not be able to use it. When an invalid password is entered a warning is given
to the user that his account is going to get locked.
 Search Engine for all the articles posted till date. Accessible by anybody.
 Essential steps to be taken to prevent authenticity infringement.
 Articles to be distributed in categories. Can overlap 2 or more categories. Articles to be associated
with suitable tags by the registered users at the time of posting, so that they are searchable.
 The home page to consist of attractive essential features like: most read articles, editor’s pick,
recently posted articles, highest rated articles, article of the month, college news, etc.
 Archives to be maintained.
 Interactive feedback to be supported to enhance the user experience.
 Guests can read articles, rate them and comment on them. They can also access other optional
features (amenities like Word of the day, etc.) but can’t post articles unless they sign in as registered
users.
 Automatic commenting on articles by spammers/automatic bots to be defied.
 College Students/Faculties can only register as members (through unique IDs).
 Alumni registration to be supported.
 Registered members, Moderators and Administrators are allowed to post articles.
 Articles can be downloaded in various formats.
 Registered users, Moderators, and Admins will have their own profile, where they can edit info for
the world to see. Useful “updated” info related to their activities to be available at their profiles.

1.3 Definitions, Acronyms, and Abbreviations:

• HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language): It is used to create static web pages.

• JSP (Java Server Pages): It is used to create dynamic web content.

• J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition): It is a programming platform, belonging to the

Java platform, which is used for developing and running distributed java applications.

• WASCE (WebSphere Application Server Community Edition): It is an application

server that runs and supports the J2EE and the web service applications.

• WSAD (WebSphere Studio Application Developer ): It is a designer toolkit

which is designed to develop more complex projects by providing a complete dynamic web

service.

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• DB2 (IBM Database 2): It is a database management system that provides a flexible and

efficient database platform to raise a strong "on demand" business applications.

• HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol): It is a transaction oriented client/ server

protocol between a web browser and a web server.

• XML (Extensible Markup Language): It is a markup language that was designed

to transport and store data.

• Ajax (Asynchronous Java Script and XML): It is a technique used in java script to

create dynamic web pages.

• Web 2.0: It is commonly associated with web applications which facilitate

interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design and collaboration on the

World Wide Web.

1.4 References:

 SRS (IEEE SRS Format and Format provided by TGMC).

 Project specification requirement (provided by TGMC).
 Problem Definition (provided by TGMC)

1.5 Technologies to be used:

• J2EE: (Servlet, JSP, JAXP, Java Beans) Application

architecture.

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• JAVA: Application • DB2: IBM Database.

architecture.
• Ajax: Asynchronous Java Script and XML.
• WASCE:
(WebSphere • XML: Extension Markup Language.
Application Server
Community
Edition) Web Server • RAD 7.0: Development tool.

• Localization: English

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 1.6Overview: The SRS will include two sections, namely:

 Overall Description: This section will describe major components of the system,
interconnections, and external interfaces.
 Specific Requirements: This section will describe the functions of actors, their roles
in the system and the constraints faced by the system.

2.0 Overall Description:

2.1 Product Perspective:
The client will have client interface in which he can interact with the banking system.
It is a web based interface which will be the web page of the banking application.
Starting a page is displayed asking the type of customer he is whether ordinary or a
corporate customer. Then the page is redirected to login page where the user can enter
the login details. If the login particulars are valid then the user is taken to a home page
where he has the entire transaction list that he can perform with the bank. All the
above activities come under the client interface.
The administrator will have an administrative interface which is a GUI so that he can
view the entire system. He will also have a login page where he can enter the login
particulars so that he can perform all his actions. This administrative interface provides
different environment such that he can maintain database & provide backups for the
information in the database. He can register the users by providing them
withusername, password & by creating account in the database. He can view the
cheque book request & perform action to issue the cheque books to the clients.
 2.2 Software Interface:
 User on Internet : Web Browser, Operating System (any).
 Application Server : WAS
 Data Base Server : DB2
 Network : Internet
 Development Tools : WSAD (J2EE,Java,Servlets,HTML), DB2, OS(Windows),
Application Server.

2.3 Hardware Interface:

CLIENT SIDE

Processor Ram Disc Space

Internet Explorer Pentium II at 64 MB 1 GB

7.0 500 MHz
SERVER SIDE
Web sphere Pentium III at 512 MB 2 GB
application server 1 GHz
V5.0
DB2 V8.1 Pentium III at 512 MB 1GB
1 GHz (Excluding data
size)

2.4 Product Functions:

 Search Engine for all the articles posted till date. Accessible by anybody.

 Essential steps to be taken to prevent authenticity infringement.

 Articles to be distributed in categories. Can overlap 2 or more categories. Articles to

be associated with suitable tags by the registered users at the time of posting, so that
they are searchable.

 The home page to consist of attractive essential features like: most read articles,
editor’s pick, recently posted articles, highest rated articles, article of the month,
college news, etc.

 Archives to be maintained.

 Interactive feedback to be supported to enhance the user experience.

 Guests can read articles, and comment on them. They can also access other optional
features (amenities like Word of the day, etc.) but can’t post articles unless they sign
in as registered users.

 College Students/Faculties can only register as members (through unique IDs).

 Alumni registration to be supported.

 Registered members and Administrators are allowed to post articles.

 Articles can be downloaded.

 Registered users, and Admins will have their own profile, where they can edit info for the
world to see. Useful “updated” info related to their activities to be available at their profiles.

 Moderators will have associated categories, according to which to-be-validated-articles will

be posted to them on their profiles. On rejection, he will have to provide a reason for the
same, which will be forwarded to the concerned user.
  Mails to be sent on rejection/acceptance of articles.

2.5 User Characteristics:

User should be of particular college. He/she should be student or faculty

Of that college. They can post articles,download articles,etc.

2.6 Constraints:
o Login and password is used for identification of customer’s account and there is no
facility for non users to login.
o This system works only on a single server.
o GUI is only in English
o Limited to HTTP/HTTPS protocols

2.8 Use Case Diagram :

Description and the priority of this system

When we consider the online college magazine in this we provide the details of how to
access the magazine without going to the bank through internet.
When we consider the priority of this project it is mainly of medium cost, efficient to
user access data, provides the required data, safe and secure one .we can know the
details of our account
 LOGIN

account list
initialises

Student Download article

start sessions

Upload artice
Data Backup
PERFORMS

update profile administrator

Crash recovery

Feedback

End sessions
Guest
Comment

shutdowns
help

log out
 ACTIVITY DIAGRAM FOR OVERALL SYSTEM

START

Username and

valid user no

yes

UPLOAD DOWNLOAD COMMENT FEEDBACK

update profile
ARTICLE ARTICLE

SUCCESSFULL SUCCESSFULL
: .

Log out

STOP
 2.10 Sequence Diagrams:

2.10.1 Database Design:

. Following Tables are created in first module:

Login

Field Name DataType Size Key Description

Username Varchar 20 Primary key User name

Password Varchar 20 password

Field Name DataType Size Key Description

Name Char 20 Name of user

Category Char 20 category

Username Varchar 100 Primary Key Full name Register

Password Varchar 20 Password

Email Varchar 30 Email Id

News
Phone_no bigint 11 Phone number
 Thought

Field Name DataType Size Key Description

Num int 4 Serial number

Wiseword char 50 Thought of the

day

Writer char 18 Writer

 Feedback

Field Name DataType Size Key Description

Name Char 20 Name

Email varchar 30 Primary key Email-id

Subject Char 20 Subject

Message varchar 400 Message

 2.10.2 ER Diagram:

E-R DIAGRAM
 password
Student id address
use
Admin id password r
Phone no

manages Student
administrator

manages
Works in

Org_name User

College
Grant
reques
Feedback
Accounts_types t

Upload Article Download Comment Rate Article

manage

Generate Grant Perform Checks

the request the
accounts Action available
Grant request Perform action

Internal_admin

Admin id

password

displays

.
2.11 Assumptions and Dependencies:

 The details of customers such as username, password, account type and their corresponding
authority details should be manually entered by the administrator before using this system.
 Every user should be comfortable of working with computer and net browsing.
 He should be aware of the banking system.
 He must have basic knowledge of English too.

3. Specific Requirements:

3.1 Use Case Reports:

i) Administrator: He is the super user responsible for managing clients of the system, taking
system backup, generating reports, maintaining organization details.
 Manage Clients: The Administrator assigns new users when a new client joins the
online magazine. Also he can delete an account when any of the clients leave the college
organization.
 Maintain Organization Details: The Administrator maintains entire details of the
organization that includes details of the clients, entrepreneur details etc.
 Take System Backup: The Administrator Backup the database in order to prevent
loss of data on system crashes. He can backup entire database or a particular section..
 Generate Reports: : Responsible for checking the logs of different system users for
and maintaining the integrity of the system.

Manage Clients

 Name Of Use-Case: Manage clients.

 Description:
The Administrator assigns new users when a new client joins the online
bank. Also he can delete an account when any of the clients leave the bank organization.
 Preconditions:
Administrator is already logged in.

Create account

Manage client

Delete account
  Name Of Use-Case: Maintain organizational details
 Description: The Administrator should maintain all the organizational details.
 Preconditions:
Administrator is already logged in.

Entrepreneur_details

details

client_details

 Name Of Use-Case: Take System backup.

 Description: The Administrator Backup the database in order to prevent loss of data
on system crashes. He can backup entire database or a particular section.
 Preconditions:
Administrator is already logged in.

 Name Of Use-Case: Generate Reports.

 Description: The Administrator is responsible for checking the logs of different clients
for auditing and maintaining the integrity of the system.
 Preconditions:
Administrator is already
logged in.

ii) Customer :
Ordinary customers have a user name & password with which they can login into their account.

 Name Of Use-Case: Login.

 Description: Customer must provide a valid User Id and password to login to the
System
 Preconditions:
Customer must have a valid User Id and password to login to the system.

success

Access account

LOGIN

failure
 warning message

3.2 Supplementary Requirements:

1) Performance Requirements

System can withstand even though many no. of customers request the desired
service. Access is given to only valid users of college who requires the services such as
upload article, download article, newsletters, thoughts of day,etc.

2) Safety Requirements

By incorporating a robust and proven DB2 UDB into the system, reliable performance and
integrity of data is ensured. There must be a power backup for server system. Since the product is
of 24x7 availability there should be power backup for server which provides the information
.Every day the data should be backup even when the operation of an user is not successful i.e.,
while performing the operation power failure occurs then data should be backup.