Quick notes on a Bicycle reseller web service use case.
Cast
- BikeWeb
- A bicycle and component resaler with only a web interface. This is a mom and pop opperation but everyone assumes they are a union-busting, meglomaniac with monopolistic intent.
BikeWeb also has a reputation for building solid wheels quickly and inexpensively. Competitors assume BikeWeb violates some child labour laws somewhere.
- Zippy
- The final customer in our business (unless you count the folks who use his courier service).
- Tubes and Joints
- Colorado frame-building company with a welding and Zen.
- Marbles Co.
- Roller, ball and needle bearings wholesaler.
- Distinto
- This company manufactures parts that roll, slide or spin. Everybody who knows bicycles dreams of impressing their friends with a Distinto Groupo.
- Érudit
- Another brand name company, specializing in non-moving parts, like seatpost, bars, stem.
- Bike Warehouse
- This wharehouse resells components from most known brands. They wholesale their stock back out to catalog and store front companies.
- frame
- wheel
- hub
- tire
- rim
- spoke
- spoke nipple
- frameset
- headset
- bottom bracket
- seatpost
- set
- bars
- stem
- breaks
- calipers
- pads
- break cables
- cranks
- pedals
- chainrings
- derailleurs
- shifters
- shifter cables
- Zippy is working as a bicycle courier when his bicycle is run over by a city bus. He escapes with minor road rash and and refuses ambulance assistance.
- Zippy borrows a bicycle from a friend for a week and sets down to order a new bike from BikeWeb.
- Zippy fills out an online order form with a delivery time of one week and clicks the Check Availability button.
- BikeWeb's back end processing examines his order with the purpose of data validation and refinement.
Eric Prud'hommeaux
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