USS (URL Shortening System) Design

Overview

• The USS (URL Shortening System) is a web application that provides the functionality to shorten long URLs, making them easier to share and manage.
• This project provide a detailed process of software design example for the USS system.

SubSystems

• URL Shortening
• Redirection
• Analytics
• User Management
• System Administration
• Database Management
• Caching Mechanism

Content of Specification

• USS introduction

  • requirements, capabilities, benefits, audiences

• Context Flow Structured Modeling

• Functional Requirements

  • Use cases, use case diagrams, user stories

• UML Domain Class Diagram

• ERD Database (Non-UML)

• UML Systems Sequence Diagrams

• UML State Diagrams

• Overview Model

  • Architectural Context Diagram

• Modularization

  • Partition of the Analysis Model
  • Class Responsibility Collaboration (CRC)

• Framework M(odel) V(iew) C(ontroller)

  • MVC
  • Full Sequence Diagrams
  • State Machine Diagrams

• Data Layer

  • Database Schema

• Software Design Patterns

  • Façade Pattern – Short URL Redirection
  • State Pattern & Adapter Pattern–UrlPair
  • Factory Pattern – Short URL Generation

• UI/UX Design

• High Level Component/Deployment Diagram

• Gantt Chart

Tools, Skills, and Platforms

• Visual Paradigm
  • online
  • desktop
• MS Visio
• Figma
• MS Teams
• MS SharePoint
• MS Office