CherryAuctions: Official SRS Checklist

1. Guest Role

1.1. Menu System

• Display all categories
• Categories have at least 2 levels

1.2. Home Page

• Top 5 ending soon products
• Top 5 products with most bids
• Top 5 products with highest bids

1.3. Products Catalog

• Pagination
• From categories

1.4. Products Searching

• Full-text Search
• Search by name
• Search by category
• Paginated results
• Ordered results
  • Ending time
  • Price
• New products (within some minutes) have emphasis
• Product Display on Catalog
  • Thumbnail
  • Name
  • Current Price
  • Current Highest Bid
  • BIN price
  • Posted date
  • Remaining time
  • Number of bids

1.5. Products Details

• All content of the product
  • Thumbnail
  • Other images
  • Product name
  • Current price
  • BIN price
  • Seller info & rating
  • Highest bidder info & rating
  • Posted date
  • Expired at
  • Relative expired in if less than 3 days
  • Description
• Questions and Answers
• Similar products

1.6. Registration

• reCaptcha
• Passwords are hashed
• Information
  • OTP
  • Email
  • Name
  • Address

2. Bidder Role

2.1. Watch List

• Can add/remove from catalog
• Can add/remove at details page

2.2. Bid

• At details page
• Allowed only if product allows it, or rating is 80% or greater.
• System enforces a reasonable bid (current bid + bid step at least)
• Confirmation dialog for bidding

2.3. Bidding History

• All bids are masked
• Needs to show price and time, and a masked name

2.4. Question

• At details page
• Seller receives email when someone asks a question

2.5. Profile Management

• Change email, name
• Change password (requires old password)
• View total rating and all ratings
• View favorites / watch list
• View current bids
• View won auctions
  • Rate the product’s seller (+1) or (-1), with a feedback

2.6. Request Seller privileges

• Bidder can request to be a seller
• Admin can approve or reject

3. Seller Role

3.1. Post an Auction

• Product name
• At least 3 images
• Starting bid
• Bid step
• BIN price (optional)
• Description
  • WYSIWYG
• Auto extends

3.2. Editing a Description

• Modify the description of a posted product
• New changes are appended to the old description, but can’t replace them

3.3. Deny a Bidder

• At details page
• A denied bidder can no longer bid on a product
• If the bidder gets denied, the highest bid is moved to the second highest

3.4. Answer a User

• At details page

3.5. Profile Management

• View my auctions
• View expired auctions
  • Can rate or feedback on the highest bidder
  • Can cancel the auction and automatically mark as -1 with a description “Bidder did not follow through”

4. Admin Role

4.1. Categories

• Can’t delete a category with a product
• View all
• View details
• Add
• Delete
• Edit

4.2. Products

• Can remove an auction

4.3. Users

• Basic management tools
• View bidders requesting privileges
• Can approve

4.4. Dashboard

• Charts on auctions, pricing, new users, new sellers

5. General Role

5.1. Login

• Login
• (Optional) add Oauth

5.2. Update Profile

• Name
• Email

5.3. Change password

• Both passwords are hashed with bcrypt or scrypt or similar

5.4. Forgot password

• OTP code

6. System

6.1. Mailing System

• New bid, to seller, to bidder, to previous bidder
• When bidder is denied the bid to bidder
• Auction expired to seller
• Auction ended to seller and winner
• User questions, to the bidder
• Seller answers, to the questioner, and all current bidders, or questioned

6.2. Automated bidding (Optional)

• Bidder sets a maximum price
• The product will kept getting bidded on if possible
• If 2 bidders have the same price, then the one who bidded first wins.

6.3. Payment System

• When auction ends, the detail page can lead to the “checkout”
• Other bidders just see: Auction ended
• Checkout flow:
  • Through Stripe
  • Winner sends the address
  • Seller confirms delivery
  • Winner confirms received
  • Transaction over, and the two rate each other
• The seller can cancel, and automatically mark the winner as -1.
• Chat interface for completing the product

7. Others

These requirements are non-negotiable.

7.1. Technical

• Web App with Client-side rendering
• Backend is RESTful
• Backend Requirements
  • Swagger
  • Validation on all routes
  • Logging and monitoring (ELK stack or similar)
  • Security with JWT key pair
• Frontend
  • Client-side router
  • Form processing and Validation
  • State management
  • Same design system for entire website

7.2. Data

• At least 20 products, with descriptions and images
• Products need at least some bids

7.3. Source Management

• Github (non-negotiable, course fail if not checked)