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Lecture No.

18
CASE STUDY: Connie’s Convenience Store - A point of
Sale System
The System
Identify the purpose of the system
 develop an overall purpose statement in 25 words or less. Why this system?
Why now?
 Keep the overall goal, the critical success factor, always before you.
 “To support, to help, to facilitate, ...”

Connie’s Wish List


 scan items and automatically price them
 know whether an item is on sale
 automatically total the sale and calculate tax
 handle purcahses and returns
 handle payments with cash, check, or charge
 authorize checks and cards
 calculate change when working with cash or checks
 record all of the information about a customer transaction

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 balance the cash in the drawer with the amount recorded by the point-of-sale
system.

Why ?
 speed up checkout time
 reduce the number of pricing errors
 reduce the labour required to ticket the item with a price, originally and when
prices change.

Summary
to help each cashier work more effectively during checkout, to keep good records
of each sale, and to store more efficient store operations.

Identify system features


Be certain to include features that cover the following
1. log important information
2. conduct business
3. analyze business results
4. interact with other systems

Identify features for logging important information


 to maintain prices based upon UPC
 to maintain tax categories (categories, rates, and effective dates)
 to maintain the authorized cashiers
 to maintain what items we sell in a store
 to log the results of each sale in a store

Identify features for conducting business


 to price each item, based upon its UPC
 to subtotal, calculate tax, and total
 to accept payment by cash, check, or charge

Identify features for analyzing business results


 to count how many of each item sold
 to count how much we received in cash, check, or credit card sales
 to assess how each cashier is performing
 to assess how each store is performing

Identify features for working with interacting systems


 to obtain authorization from one or more credit (or check) authorization
system

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SELECTING OBJECTS
Select Actors
the actor is:
 person

Select Participants
the Participants are:
 cashier
 head cashier
 customer

Cashier and Head Cashier


Is there a difference between head cashier and cashier in terms of their behavior
and knowledge?. If no then we don not need a separate class for head cashier.
Customer
customer. You must have a way to know about customer objects; otherwise it
should not be put in the domain model.

Select Places
The places are:
 store
 shelf

Shelf
The system does not keep track of the shelves.

Select Transactions
Significant Transactions are:
 sale
 every sale is a collection of sale line items
 return
 payment
 session

Select Container Classes


The store is a container class.
a store contains
 cashiers
 registers
 items

Select Tangible Things


Tangible things in store:

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 item
 register
 cash drawer
 Tax Category (Descriptive things)

Session
Is it important? It is important in order to evaluate a cashier’s performance.

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