Requirements and Data Flow Diagrams

Ocean Sound College

Ocean Sound College is a liberal arts college in need of new system to manage housing opportunities for students, faculty and staff. Presently, they are using an outdated method of storing and managing this information. With this new system, Ocean Sound will ultimately save time and money. This system will implement an application that is able to accept, sort and display available housing options based on the user’s needs. The user will be able to select from a variety of options, including but not limited to: type of housing, size of living space, bedrooms, bathrooms, pets, utilities, and student/staff housing. In addition, this system will be capable of allowing the owner of the listing to edit or delete their post as needed. This will assist in the maintenance of the system as it will negate the previous need for private landlords to call once a property is rented. This system will also be capable of regularly checking postings for age and status. Once a listing from a private landlord is over 2 months old, the system will recognize it and delete it. Additionally, users will be able to flag if they have found a listing that is still posted when it has already been rented. This information will be forwarded on to the housing office staff along with contact information for the poster so that they can contact them to verify.

Structured English Statements for OLD LISTINGS process:

Input data flows: LISTING, LISTING OWNER, LISTING AGE
Output data flows: DELETE LISTING, KEEP LISTING

For each LISTING
If LISTING OWNER = PRIVATE and if LISTING AGE >= 2 MONTHS
Output DELETE LISTING Else Output KEEP LISTING

Decision Table:

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 2 Months or older | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | N | Private listing | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | N | Flagged by users as rented | Y | N | Y | N | Y | N | Y | N | Keep listing | | | | X | | X | | X | Remove listing | X | X | | | | | | | Notify to call owner of listing | | | X | | X | | X | |

Updated Decision Table (With Rules Marked for Combination):

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 2 Months or older | Y | Y | - | Y | - | N | - | N | Private listing | Y | Y | - | N | - | - | - | N | Flagged by users as rented | - | - | Y | N | Y | N | Y | N | Keep listing | | | | X | | X | | X | Remove listing | X | X | | | | | | | Notify to call owner of listing | | | X | | X | | X | |

Simplified Decision Table: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 Months or older | Y | - | Y | N | N | Private listing | Y | - | N | - | N | Flagged by users as rented | - | Y | N | N | N | Keep listing | | | X | X | X | Remove listing | X | | | | | Notify to call owner of listing | | X | | | |