Airline Flight and Reservation System

Software Design Document

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Date: 15.01.2011
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 3
1.1 Purpose.........................................................................................................................................3
1.2 Scope............................................................................................................................................3
1.3 Overview......................................................................................................................................3
2. System Overview ..................................................................................................................... 4
3. System Architecture ................................................................................................................ 5
3.1 Architecture Design .....................................................................................................................5
3.2 Decomposition Description..........................................................................................................7
3.3 Design Rationale..........................................................................................................................8
4. Data Design .............................................................................................................................. 8
4.1 Data Description ..........................................................................................................................9
5. Human Interface Design ....................................................................................................... 10
5.1 Overview of User Interface........................................................................................................10
5.2 Screen Images ............................................................................................................................10
6. Requirements Matrix ............................................................................................................ 13
1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose
The aim of this software is to develop a systematic analysis of the procedure involved
in the reservation of ticket for railway travel. This should be used in an effective way so that
various advantages are obtained from the software. Software means establishment of sound
and in-depth development of a task using high-level language that results in well-equipped,
economical software, which is reliable. The introduction may be divided into various steps
based on the developer and also depending upon the operation to be performed using the
particular software. The “AIRLINE RESERVATION SYSTEM” undertakes as a project I
based on relevant technologies. The main aim of this project is to develop the software for the
process of reserving airway ticket should lead to increased efficiency and reduced drawbacks
which were present in the previous procedure of airline reservation. The software should be,
error controlled both logically as well as in syntactic manner. The features deal with the
different operations involved in the process of AIRLINE RESERVATION. Business people
don’t have any planned air travel. They just receive the invitation for some international
exhibition at the last minute, which they should or can attend to improve their ability both in
the skilled manpower and also in the machinery importing. Tickets can now be booked online.
Some agents or the organization with the idea of eyeing increased profit through the extra
taxes for the comfort they give to buy the ticket just by a single click of the mouse.

1.2 Scope
This project designs and implements AFRS to fulfill all the vision statements.
Supported by a well designed database, all available air flight information is integrated
together and can be accessed easily through a single point. A friendly user interface is
provided so that various combinations of search criteria can be fetched from user and
generates corresponding database search statements. AFRS provided both customer and
administration interfaces with the latter used for administration purposes. If time permits,
AFRS will support frequent user registration and personal information management.

1.3 Overview
AFRS is an Internet-based application executing on a Web server and connected to
enterprise databases. AFRS accepts and processes requests from two patrons: end users
(customers) and system administrators. Besides the local server database (for storing
reservation records), AFRS also integrates databases from airlines and airports.
The system is expected to have a Web user interface for customers and an
authorization based Web interface for administrators. Its final release has merits of being
efficient and precise in flight searching, consistent in booking transaction processing and
secure in credential data transmission.
2. System Overview
REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS
Requirements are prone to issues of the ambiguity, incompleteness and inconsistency
techniques such as rigorous inspection have been shown to help deal with these issues.
Ambiguity, incompleteness and inconsistencies that can be resolved in the requirement phase
typically cost orders of the magnitude less to correct than when these same issues are found in
later stages of product development. The purpose of developing the specified software is to
describe the analysis involved in the reservation of air ticket.

• FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS

Input: Collecting the information of the person who is going to travel.

Output: The issue of ticket on the particular date specified by the traveler.

• PROCESS

Enter the details of the traveler.

Check for availability of tickets.

Inform the traveler the position of the available seat.

Ask his/her decision whether to reserve the ticket or not.

Positive reply-book ticket after receiving the amount for the cost of ticket.

Issue the ticket.

Ask the traveler to check in time so that he/she doesn’t miss the plan because of delay.

Update the database before the next booking is to be done.

• EXISTING SYSTEM

In the existing system there is no provision for senior citizen concession and there is
no facility for viewing single passenger record.

• PROPOSED SYSTEM

The main implementation requirements for this project are

 The client tier must not be changed, which means that the format of all the
communication messages have to be preserved.
 Some functionality, like check digit validation, time, stamps etc.
 Are supplied by already existing routines which we are obliged to use.
 The format of communication in modules are fixed and non changeable.
 All the technical documentation formats are also fixed and have to be followed.
 Some customer implementation techniques have to be followed.
 A facility for viewing the single passenger record is made available.
 We have made concession in ticket fair for senior citizens.
• REPORT MODULE
The tickets issued should have the details such as plane number, ticket number, seat number,
traveler’s name, time of departure. The traveler should be informed about the check-in
time.The names of the fields involved in the airline reservation system are
 FLIGHT DETAILS
 CHECK AVAILABILITY
 BOOK TICKET
 VIEW SINGLE PASSENGER RECORD(by taking the ticket number)
 EXIT

• MODULE 1:FLIGHT DETAILS

This module is used to view the flight details with ease and it tends the passenger to book
tickets without much difficulty.

• MODULE 2:CHECK AVAILABILITY

This module is used to check the availability of the flights and the information of the seats
in that flight.

• MODULE 3:SINGLE PASSENGER RECORD

This module is used to view the single passenger details with the help of the ticket number
issued after booking with input support information.

• MODULE 4:BOOK TICKET

This module is used to book the ticket after checking the availability of tickets I the
flights. A ticket can be booked to a maximum of five just by entering the passenger name, age
and their details.
• MODULE 5:EXIT
This module is used to exit from the reservation form.

3. System Architecture
3.1 Architecture Design

• ERD (Entity Relationship Diagram)

The object relationship pair can be graphically represented by a diagram called Entity
Relationship Diagram. It is mainly used in database applications but now it is more commonly
used in data design. The primary purpose of ERD is to represent the relationship between data
objects.
Various components of ERD are:
1. Entity 2. Relationship 3. Attribute.

• DFD (DATA FLOW DIAGRAM)

Data Flow Diagram is one of the Functional Model which are used to represent the
flow of information in any computer based system. Three Generic Functionalities:
1. Input 2. Process 3. Output
The data flow diagram depicts the information flow and the transforms that are applied
on the data as it moves from input to output.
• ENTITY RELATIONSHIP DIAGRAM
3.2 Decomposition Description

DATA FLOW DIAGRAM:

LEVEL 0: CONTEXT DIAGRAM

Reservation
Passenger System Booking
System

LEVEL 1
LEVEL2

3.3 Design Rationale

The algorithm is developed as flow chart and the data flow diagrams, to describe the
step-wise procedure of the application. The basic requirements, which are got from the
customer, should all be covered in this algorithm developed. Most components described in
the system architecture section will require a more detailed discussion. Other lower-level
components may need to be described as well. The kind of component, such as a subsystem
like delete, insert, module like student detail, class like library, package, function, file etc.The
specific purpose and semantic meaning of the component describe this. This may need to refer
back to the requirement specification.

4. Data Design

This section describes the category of data required by the system. Because there is no
actual complete data set available for use we will produce the needed data synthetically. This
data will be more formally represented in our entity relational design data model.
4.1 Data Description

• A List of Airports including:

o Airport Name
o Abbreviation
o Location
 City
 State
 zip code (If possible)
 Time zone
• The information about several Flights, more specifically:
o Flight id
o Airline
o Flight number
o Departure/Arrival Date/Time
o Departure/Destination Airport
o Seats
o Total / Vacant
o Seat Number
o First Seats
o Coach Seats
o Type plane
o Fare
• Information of Reservations made:
o Flights id
o Email
o Passenger names
o Credit card type/number
o Address
o Total Price
• User Information, most importantly containing:
o Email
o Password
o Reservations
5. Human Interface Design
5.1 Overview of User Interface
In software engineering the software maintenance is the process of enhancing and
optimizing deployed software as well as remedying defects.
Software maintenance is one of the phases in the software development process and
follows deployment of the software into the field. The software maintenance phase involves
changes to the software in order to correct defects and deficiencies found during the field
usage as well as the addition of new functionality to improve the software usability and
applicability.

5.2 Screen Images

VIEW FLIGHT DETAIL

CHECK AVAILABILITY
BOOK TICKET

VIEW SINGLE PASSENGER RECORD

6. Requirements Matrix
Req # Description
REQ-SR1 The database backend system in text file.
REQ-SR2 The Front-end and middle logic will be written using C.