Software Requirements Specification

November 8, 2016

Railway Reservation System

-Akash Gupta
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1.0. Introduction
1.1. Purpose

Overall aim of this document is to present a detailed description of the Railway Reservation System.

This document will try to explain the purpose and features of the system and will also describe the constraints

under which it might operate and how the system will react to stimuli.

1.2. Scope of Project

This software system will be enable a digital revolution in Railway Reservation System. This system

will be designed to maximize the Indian Railway’s efficiency by providing tools to make reservation system

aster and reliable.

More specifically, this system is designed to allow Indian Railways to manage and communicate across

their network so that it will enable ticket reservation in any train from any railway station or internet available

device. The software will facilitate communication between ticket makers, reviewers, availability checkers via

live adaptation.

1.4. References

IEEE. IEEE Std 830-1998 IEEE Recommended Practice for Software Requirements Specifications. IEEE

Computer Society, 1998.

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[Link] Description
2.1 System Environment

Figure 1 - System Environment

The Railway reservation System has one active and 2 passive actors and one cooperating system.

The ticket checker, maker, or Reviewer can access the Online Journal through the Internet. The Server is main

access granter and makes and save all the changes made in a database and maintains a database for reserved and

unreserved seats directly.

Assumption: For payment, we assume availability of a different server to handle the same.

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2.2 Functional Requirements Specification

This section outlines the use cases for each of the active readers separately. The passenger is the main

and active actor.

2.2.1 Passenger Use Case

Use case: Search, Reserve, cancel, purchase, view and pay

Diagram:

SearchTrain

Reserve

Ck Status

Passenger

Cancel

Pay

Figure 2 - Passenger Use Cases

Brief Description
The Passenger can search trains, reserve a seat, cancel a ticket, purchase a ticket, view details, pay the money.

2.2.2 Database Use Case

In case of Queries for availability of seat or piece of journey, database replies with corresponding answer to the
query.

Use case: Forward message, respond

Diagram:

Forward/respond

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Database
Brief Description
The database is a passive actor which ca either respond or take a forward message.

2.2.3 Ticket Clerk Use Case

Use case: Respond

Diagram:

Search

Reserve

Cancel

Clerk

Payment

Availability

Brief Description
The ticket clerk here acts as a server system to manage every request from verifying login credentials to
generating unique session id for a session with user to maintain the database of reserved and unreserved seats
and also allows communication between passenger and bank for enabling online payment service.

2.3 User Characteristics

The Passenger is expected to be computer and Internet literate and be able to use an e-commerce

website. The main screen of the Online reservation system Website will have the login function. Passenger must

have credit/debit card or internet banking account for making an online purchase of ticket. However, Passenger

is only required an account in the official website to check the trains availability and seats or reservation/PNR

status. The passenger should also have a web browser installed in is desktop and a reliable internet connection.

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2.4 Non-Functional Requirements

The Online Reservation System will be on a server named as Ticket Clerk with high speed Internet

capability. A separate server is required for making payments and that should be maintained by banks. The

server is a web based server and is therefore accessible to all. The server will use required services and source

coed to maintain the database for any update is database for seat availability as well as train availability between

stations.

3.0. Requirements Specification

3.1 External Interface Requirements

The website will be the link to the reservation system. The login credentials will be verified by the

server and then it will allow the access to his/her account and then Passenger may describe about his journey for

checking trains between stations and checking the seat availability. The server will then process the request and

book the desired ticket only after making the payment which is made by making another query to the bank

server for making a purchase. The Passenger/user may then see any ticket booked or its status or can cancel

his/her ticket any time before 2 hours of departure of train from its source station.

3.2 Functional Requirements

The Logical Structure of the Data is contained in Section 3.3.1.

3.2.1 Search Train

Use Case Name Search Train
Trigger The Passenger makes a request for searching train between
stations in Online reservation website.
Precondition The page is displayed with respective text boxes to fill required
information.
Basic Path The Passenger fills the details and then database is invoked for
getting results for the query
Postcondition The passenger receives list of trains with availability.
Exception Paths The Reader may logout his session at any time.

3.2.2 Reserve
Use Case Name Reserve
Trigger The user reserves a seat in desired train with desired source and
destination.
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 Precondition The page is displayed with list of trains and seats availability
status.
Basic Path Website will ask the user to fill the details of passenger travelling
and then after confirmation of the details, link to the payment
page will be generated.
Postcondition The seat is reserved with a unique PNR number and ticket
generated.
Exception Paths The Passenger can return and change the plan for train selection
only before confirmation to payment portal page.

3.2.3 Purchase
Use Case Name Purchase
Trigger The user clicks make payment for reserving the desired seat in
desired train with desired source and destination.
Precondition The user is on the Payment page linked from the Reservation
platform and bank’s server.
Basic Path The page asks for respective details for mode of payment and
then payment is processed. If successful, ticket is generated else
error message will be prompted.
Postcondition The payment status is returned to the website’s server.
Exception Paths If at any time page is refreshed or request is made twice,
payment is rejected and session expires.

3.2.4 Cancel

Use Case Name Cancel

Trigger The user clicks on cancel a reserved ticket button.
Precondition The user in on the reserved tickets page
Basic Path The Passenger selects the ticket and request to cancel the ticket.
Postcondition The clerk cancels the ticket and generates the confirmation
receipt
Exception Paths If train has already departed, ticket cannot be cancelled

3.2.5 View Schedule

Use Case Name View Schedule

Trigger The user clicks on any train/train number
Precondition Passenger is on search result page on website.
Basic Path The Passenger clicks on the train and website shows its schedule
Postcondition Schedule of the respective train appears in a dialogue box.
Exception Paths None.

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3.2.6 Forward

Use Case Name forward

Trigger Clerk forwards the message to database.
Precondition Any reservation or cancellation request be updated in data base.
Basic Path The Passenger makes a reservation or cancels his ticket and clerk
forwards the request to update the database
Postcondition The clerk gets the response confirming the update.
Exception Paths Any discrepancy makes the updating process to fail and error
message is generated accordingly.

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