Assignment 1 Submit one document on cuLearn with your answers to the THREE questions below Total: [40 marks] Description of a Web Banking System The Bank of Convenience wishes to extend its existing array of banking services already offered to customers at the branch or ATMs (basic branch banking, inter-bank transfers, automatically scheduled deductions, etc.) to support web-banking whereby its customers may pay bills from their bank accounts over the Internet. A customer is able to set up (and remove) connections between their existing accounts and the utilities for which they must pay bills (cable, phone, property taxes). Once established, the customer is able to make payments to the utility. Payments may either be done immediately, or can be scheduled for automatic payment at some future date. If scheduled, the customer may cancel it at any time before the payment date Bill payments to utilities are only possible if the utilities themselves provide some support. A utility must be registered with the bank and provide a portal server that will provide information about account numbers as well as the banking information for that utility Security is of course necessary. When a customer opens an account at a bank branch, a username and password will be setup for the customer's web account. The customer will login in each time, before any access to their accounts. Security also requires the tracking of transactions, with customers provided confirmation numbers for all bill payments. The purpose of this assignment-its use cases, use case descriptions, and use case diagram-is to only specify the added functionalities related to the bill payments Question 1 [8 marks] Glossary The system description is deliberately imprecise and casual in its nature. In particular, the word "account" is overused and overloaded. Explain the problem with this word and then resolve the problem by adding suitable entry(ies) to the glossary below Bank: Represents the existing banking system for the financial institution with which the web-banking system will interact to access its suite of existing financial services (monthly reports, bank transfers, automatic deductions) via the Internet. Customer: Is a person who has money in the bank and requires services to access that money. Each customer is uniquely identified by a customer (eg.card) number * * Add your own glossary entries. Assignment 1 Submit one document on cuLearn with your answers to the THREE questions below Total: [40 marks] Description of a Web Banking System The Bank of Convenience wishes to extend its existing array of banking services already offered to customers at the branch or ATMs (basic branch banking, inter-bank transfers, automatically scheduled deductions, etc.) to support web-banking whereby its customers may pay bills from their bank accounts over the Internet. A customer is able to set up (and remove) connections between their existing accounts and the utilities for which they must pay bills (cable, phone, property taxes). Once established, the customer is able to make payments to the utility. Payments may either be done immediately, or can be scheduled for automatic payment at some future date. If scheduled, the customer may cancel it at any time before the payment date Bill payments to utilities are only possible if the utilities themselves provide some support. A utility must be registered with the bank and provide a portal server that will provide information about account numbers as well as the banking information for that utility Security is of course necessary. When a customer opens an account at a bank branch, a username and password will be setup for the customer's web account. The customer will login in each time, before any access to their accounts. Security also requires the tracking of transactions, with customers provided confirmation numbers for all bill payments. The purpose of this assignment-its use cases, use case descriptions, and use case diagram-is to only specify the added functionalities related to the bill payments Question 1 [8 marks] Glossary The system description is deliberately imprecise and casual in its nature. In particular, the word "account" is overused and overloaded. Explain the problem with this word and then resolve the problem by adding suitable entry(ies) to the glossary below Bank: Represents the existing banking system for the financial institution with which the web-banking system will interact to access its suite of existing financial services (monthly reports, bank transfers, automatic deductions) via the Internet. Customer: Is a person who has money in the bank and requires services to access that money. Each customer is uniquely identified by a customer (eg.card) number * * Add your own glossary entries
