Requirements Document for the VirtualArtViewer.docVIP

Requirements Document for the VirtualArtViewer Introduction Over the past few years, “Apogee Arts, Inc.” slowly but surely has taken the market lead in providing art lovers all over the world access to artistic paintings over a wide range of themes. To do so, “Apogee Arts, Inc.” each year painstakingly draws out several expensive and rare paintings all over the world and publishes those paintings in an annual magazine. After recognizing the potential of the Internet as an advertising medium for its paintings, “Apogee Arts, Inc.” plans to develop a web site that hosts a number of paintings and allows people to electronically view the paintings. To that effect it commissioned a study to determine whether such an application that uses a hypermedia framework to provide users links to various kinds of information would be successful. The study concluded that it would, and “Apogee Arts, Inc.” now has decided to produce as a first step, the “VirtualArtViewer”, a desktop application that offers a friendly interface for anyone to view paintings and all related descriptions. Not surprisingly, “Apogee Arts, Inc.” lacks expertise in designing and building software systems. Therefore, they have hired Paragon Software to develop this requirements specification and the subsequent design and implementation of the VirtualArtViewer. This document is based on extensive interviews that the software engineers at Paragon Software conducted with the board of directors and concerned parties at “Apogee Arts, Inc.” All information in this document has been determined to be accurate at the time of this writing. This document contains the detailed requirements for the VirtualArtViewer that is being developed for “Apogee Arts, Inc.” The document should serve as the official basis for any further development of the VirtualArtViewer. The document contains the following sections: Executive Summary Application Context Functional Requirements Environmental Requirements Other Requirements Software Qu