Introduction
The aim of this report is to provide an analysis of the necessary steps to produce software, being in this case a House Inventory System for the Software House PLC.
The production of the House Inventory System has been achieved through many stages and steps that are explained and demonstrated in this report, starting with the analysis of the user and company requirements, the analyse of the techniques that should be used, the reasons for using those same techniques without disrespecting the company requirements and finishing with analysis of the produced prototype.
This report for the House Inventory System program also explains the process of designing the software and mentions the changes made all over the creation process, in order to create a good program that works for every user.
Very important information is attached to this report in the appendix, being most of that information the customer requirements; the user classification and the identification of the task scenarios.
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