COMP398 – Final Year Project II Fastfood e-Order System 2Fi Business

COMP398 – Final Year Project II Fastfood e-Order System 2Fi Business Solutions Limited Project Advisor: Professor Frederick H. Lochovsky Team Member: Chuang Hon Kuen, Jason Lau Hon Kwan, Kwan Ling Yuk Yan, Bennett Date: 26th April, 2006

Overview Background and motivation Sponsor and project introduction Application description Hardware/software Database design Implementation issues Testing Problems encountered Lessons learnt Conclusion Demo Q & A Session Presenter: Ling Yuk Yan, Bennett

Background and motivation Hong Kong Fast food culture Take-away orders (Phone) – Time-consuming and error-prone method New way of making fast food orders (E-Commerce) – More ways to make an order, the more business can be covered Therefore, a web-based fast food electronic ordering system has been developed Presenter: Ling Yuk Yan, Bennett

Sponsor Our sponsor - 2Fi Business Solutions Limited – A company that provides IT solutions to other organizations – President: Raymond Woo Presenter: Ling Yuk Yan, Bennett

Project introduction Objective of the system – Provide an effective way accept online orders, manage information (food items and orders) and provide post-sales analysis reports for managers – Attract people to try and increase efficiency of the ordering process – Display different languages on user interface Use the system globally Presenter: Ling Yuk Yan, Bennett

Application description Customer – View menu with food items and set meals – Make order (Or use the quick order list) Food items has food options and swap fixed items to other food items at a price – Maintain personal information Manager – Generate the Sales & Profit report and view the rating analysis of food items and set meals Decision making for purchasing Presenter: Ling Yuk Yan, Bennett

Application description Restaurant staff – Maintain customer, staff, banner and branch information – Maintain food items, set meals, orders, food item options and menu information – Maintain promotion (Two strategies) Buy a certain quantities of food items or set meals at a price Buy a certain quantities of food items or set meals to have food items with discount. Presenter: Ling Yuk Yan, Bennett

Hardware/Software Software: Operating System Fedora 5 Web Server Tomcat 5.5 Database Server MySQL 5.0 Runtime Environment Java Runtime Environment 5.0 Development tools Eclipse Web Browser Internet Explorer 6.0 Hardware: CPU Pentium 4 3GHz Main Memory 1GBytes Storage 100GBytes (Database Server only) 40GBytes (Application Server & Client Machine) Network 100Mb Ethernet connection and leased line Presenter: Ling Yuk Yan, Bennett

Database Design Delivery Customer Order Food Presenter: Chuang Hon Kuen, Jason

Database Design - Customer Preference stores system environment for Customer - such as default language of the user interface Presenter: Chuang Hon Kuen, Jason

Database Design - Food Presenter: Chuang Hon Kuen, Jason

Database Design - Delivery Implementation issues - Framework used - i18n, UI dynamically - Mapping Presenter: Chuang Hon Kuen, Jason

Database Design - Order Presenter: Chuang Hon Kuen, Jason

System Implementation Java as programming language MVC Model – HTML view by JSP – Logic control by WebWork Framework – Data storage and retrieval Management by Spring Framework – Mapping Java Object in RDBMS by Hibernate Benefits – Debug & Maintain the system systematically Presenter: Chuang Hon Kuen, Jason

System Implementation (cont.) Internationalization – supports multiple language of user interface. – new language file can be added to support new language of user interface. Dynamic form generation & validation – by JavaScript from user browsers – Without refreshing page to provide user-friendly user interface for data input. Presenter: Chuang Hon Kuen, Jason

Testing The following tests is applicable to our system – Unit Testing – Performance Testing – User Interface Testing – Security and Access Control Testing – Installation Testing – Acceptance Testing Presenter: Lau Hon Kwan, Kwan

Problems encountered Internationalization (i18n) – Different language, different encoding, even different format Calculating the correct price of orders – Many factors affecting the price Generating JavaScript dynamically – User Interface – Validation Presenter: Lau Hon Kwan, Kwan

Lessons learnt Capturing requirement without a real application domain – This is a project for a software house, not a restaurant Communication skills – Help us to do the right thing Organization skills – Help us to do the things with efficiency Presenter: Lau Hon Kwan, Kwan

Conclusion We have discussed – The background of the project Sponsor Application description Hardware / Software – The database and the implementation of the system Framework Mapping i18n Dynamic UI – Testing – Problems encountered – Lessons learnt Presenter: Lau Hon Kwan, Kwan

Demo Overview Management Side – Maintain Customer Info. – Maintain Restaurant Info. – Maintain Food and Set Meal – Analysis and Reporting Customer Side – Maintain Account – Order Process

COMP398 – Final Year Project II Q&A Session

COMP398 – Final Year Project II Thank You! End of presentation