Web application for local agricultural products in Addis Ababa

Aleazar Doda Gobena, BA

Master's thesis

Abstract:

In this age of technological transformation, it is inevitable for organizations to adjust and adopt new information technologies and systems rather than traditional ones. Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) are the backbones for all small to high-level organizations. IT primarily denotes the hardware, software, and telecommunications services and IS refers to the way by which individuals in an organization use technology to gather, process, communicate and store data and information. To cope up with the existing technology, organizations need to design and model a robust information system. One of the vital parts in the process of information systems is designing. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one of the major designing tools for information systems. In this document, the basic components and terminologies of UML are defined. The latest version of UML is used to explain the comprehensive structure and workflow of a web-based application system. Additionally, the theoretical part discusses in depth the concepts of the software development process and the basic definition of database types and structures. Designing the web application for local agricultural products is used to clarify these theoretical concepts. The application is a web-based application to be implemented to support local farmers in the suburbs of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for a smooth transaction of their agricultural produces thereby creating an opportunity for their potential buyers to get these products with a relatively cheaper price and with higher quality. The primary focus of the application is to match the minimum price of a product that a farmer requires and the maximum price that the potential buyer is willing to pay for a certain quantity of the product. The system design is analyzed using the class model, the interaction model, and the state model and their respective UML diagrams. A prototype web application is developed to demonstrate the effect of modeling in the development process.

Keywords

UML, Web-based Application, Object-Oriented Design, Unified Modeling Language, Organic Product, Local Farmers, MySQL, Database

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 30. 3. 2019

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Vojtěch Merunka, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme / field:
Systems Engineering and Informatics / Informatics