Tasks for this week
The fourth week of the Betterzon project has begun. This time the first task was to create an Activity Diagram for two use cases: “searching a product” and “crawler”. The second one was to make a CRUD Diagram. And last but not least we had to create a Mockup.
1.1 Searching for a product
Well, the first and the most significant feature at such websites is to search for things. The Activity Diagram bellow shows you how we are going to implement it.
As you can see in order to search for a product one has to enter a product’s name and click on the “Search” button or press “Enter”. If you are lucky and there is a match then you can can click on the resulting product and, in case you are signed in, set a price alarm. If you are not registered yet then don’t miss your chance to use the price alarm and spend 60 seconds to create an account. If you just forgot to sign in then move your mouse to the top right corner of your monitor and do it.
1.2 The Web Crawler
Crawler is another significant component in our project, if not the most significant one. That is because its task is to fill the database with prices. Once our database is big enough you will be able both to compare more products and shops. Moreover we are going to configure our crawler so, that every night the prices of every product in our database will be updated. How will it work? Figure 2 shows you the Activity Diagram of the crawler in order to easy understand it.
2 Searching a product
In the following you will see the CRUD diagram for editing a product.
3 Possible Mockups
The mockups in the following are going to show you how your Betterzon could look like.
As always guys, we are open for your suggestions and have a good week!
Hello Team Betterzon,
First of all: very nice and detailed work regarding the Activity Diagrams and MockUps!
I also like the fact that you linked important explanations to the individual diagrams.
I have two critical points that caught my attention:
1. your use case descriptions don’t follow a template (as intended by Prof. Berk) and don’t have version control (unless you forgot to link your GitHub or something similar).
2. in “searching for a product” you could have just written what you want to check if the user is signed in instead of just writing “Condition”. For example: User signed in? yes, no.
All in all these are well elaborated use cases!
With best regards,
Team Out-Of-Memory
Sorry, there was a typo in my second critique point:
“you could have just written that you want to check…”
Dear Betterzon team,
thank you for sharing the current progress of your project!
All your diagrams and mock ups are easy to read and understand. It is also nice that in your blog post you described your work in a very detailed way so it is easier to get the context of your use cases.
However in the second paragraph instead of the “such a website” without any context, you could have shortly described your project in one sentence. Additionally maybe you could have gone a bit more into detail in the use case for searching a product. For some aspects such as the condition you also need to read the text in order to understand what is meant.
Maybe your team could agree on someone to proofread your blog post to get rid of some language mistakes such as “yout” or “write” instead of “right”, though that is obviously only a minor complaint.
For the version control of your documentation it would be great if you also uploaded your use case documentations on your github page with the actual template.
All in all your project seems to be on a good way and our team is excited to see where you will be going next!
Best regards,
BFFL