HKSoftwareDesignExam

<PG3302 23H> - [Software Design Exam 2023]

Description

A program that simulates an online store.

Instructions

• A user is presented with a console based menu that they navigate by entering the number corresponding to the action they wish to take.
• A user can register as a user by choosing Sign up in the main menu.
• A registered user can add products to their shopping cart by choosing either See all wares or Search for item when logged in.
• When See all wares or Search for item is chosen the user is asked to enter the id corresponding to the product they want, followed by the ammount they want.
• A registered user can view their cart by choosing View Cart from the menu.
• A registered user can place their order by choosing Checkout in the menu.
• To exit the store there are two ways. If you are :
  • Signed in you choose Log out from the menu and then Exit.
  • signed out you choose Exit from the menu.
• To populate the database with dummy data uncomment the StoreController storeController = new();, TestRunner testRunner = new(); and testRunner.Run(storeController); methods from Main().

Information on the program

• The program persists users and items in a SqLite database and keeps a log of the users purchase history.
• The method responsible for handeling the checkout is multithreaded with parallel.foreach in order to mitigate conflicting changes made to the database.
• The creation of shopping carts and items are handled by factory methods.
• The database layer follows the Dependency Inversion Principle and can therefor be changed for other databases.