Project

The current system that the Real Estate Institution of New Zealand (REINZ) uses to collect process and publish data on property listings and statistics is inefficient. The majority of the processes are manually done i.e. real estate agents have to fill out forms and post them to the institute. Therefore it is slow, prone to error thus affecting the accuracy and timeliness of information produced.

Realising the need to improve the current system, Clearfield Knowledge Solutions (CKS) have proposed the Property Listings and Statistics (PLS) system that will improve the efficiency greatly. This system will not be implemented within REINZ but the services will potentially be provided by CKS to the Real Estate industry vertical.

The PLS system will have a web-based data entry interface, supported by a core services component that comprises of interconnected databases so varies business applications can be plugged into the core services and use the data contained within. This will speed up the data collection process and will minimize the data duplication. Therefore it will improve the data accuracy and timeliness of reports produced by the system.

This project comprises of the following development stages:

• Analysis

Requirements are documented using use case models and the most important use cases are describes with the use case specifications.

Logical data flow of important processes are modelled with Data Flow Diagrams.

• Design
We designed the classes that required supporting the system. The design of the system is divided into major parts including

		PLS Data Entry Application

		PLS Administration Application

		Membership Administration Application

		Reporting

		System Security

					  

Important forms are designed to show their layouts. They will be refined and redesigned if required.
• Implementation

The system will be developed within the Eclipse integrate development environment using tools J2EE Enterprise Java Bean technology.

Test plan and testing strategy are produced to ensure it matches the requirements and that it works efficiently.

We are following Clearfield’s standard practice for documentation control and will use CVS for source code control.