Fair Cakes for All Online Order Management System - Case Study Example

This System Design Document (SDD) is created with the principle of describing the system design and architecture for the Cakes for All online management system. This document will be a tool for developers to use as a guide to meeting the systems requirements efficiently and effectively. The SDD document provides a general overview and guides to understanding the variables that are contained in the new system.

The Cakes for All software design document will act as a comprehensive technical guide on how the website design will be completed with embedded functional and non-functional inclusive requirements captured within the software requirements specifications (SRS). The document also contains high-level programmer decisions due to the components of architectural interfaces, database designs, subsystems, and algorithms. The programmer’s decisions will be achieved through the system architecture, design patterns, relational models, and sequence diagrams of user interfaces.

This is the module responsible for creating security for the entire system. It identifies and authenticates all users who want to interact with the system. It acts as the entry point for the system after the user interface.

Home interface – This is the place where all users of this system interact with the system. It gives a general view of the Cakes for All Website. The section contains some images of activities that are carried on the company, customers, and a brief description of the firm. It also has links to services offered, contacts of the company, about the firm, and a login and registration link.

Customer interface – this interface, enables the customers to register and create their profiles where their data is stored in the site’s database. In this interface, the customers are registered and once their membership is accepted, they will view their details, check for their current and previous orders, and check the amount of money they have spent on the site. The customer interface also allows them to cancel orders or add orders. In general, the customer interface assists customers to manage their profiles within the company’s database.

Staff interface – This allows the company’s staff to interact with the system so that they can assist clients with technical and customer service issues. The staff can also assist customers with registration, access their records during data mining and check individual customer requests and all other requests that are made to the site.

Management interface - This part enables the management to oversee all the activities in the company. This includes checking customers and staff activities, checking customers’ requests, and new visitors who are not customers, registering clerks, viewing registered clerks, checking all products available to customers, checking other resources that can be added to the firm’s website, and monitoring the company’s customer data.