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Cinema Booking System

Course: Modelling and Design (fall 2007) Course responsible: Thomas Hildebrandt

Submitted by: Toomas Kutt(toomas@itu.dk),

Fraz Tabassam(tabassam@itu.dk)

Jens kaae Christensen(jenschr@itu.dk)

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Contents System Introduction: ........................................................................................................... 3 System definition ................................................................................................................ 4

Factor Analysis: .................................................................................................................. 4 Problem Domain overview ................................................................................................. 4 Application domain overview ............................................................................................. 5 The problem domain ........................................................................................................... 5

Structure ........................................................................................................................... 5 Classes: ........................................................................................................................... 5 Events:............................................................................................................................. 7

Behavior: ......................................................................................................................... 8 The Application Domain: ................................................................................................... 9

Usage............................................................................................................................... 9 Actors: ........................................................................................................................... 11

Use Cases: ......................................................................................................................... 11

Search ............................................................................................................................ 11 Booking ......................................................................................................................... 11

Payment......................................................................................................................... 12 TicketPrint..................................................................................................................... 12 SessionEditing............................................................................................................... 12

CinemaEditing .............................................................................................................. 12

Functions: .......................................................................................................................... 14 Design Document.............................................................................................................. 21

Purpose:......................................................................................................................... 21

Correction to the analysis: ............................................................................................ 21 Quality Goals: ............................................................................................................... 21

Technical Platform: ........................................................................................................... 22

Equipment: .................................................................................................................... 22 System Software: .......................................................................................................... 22

Design Language: ......................................................................................................... 22 Architecture: ..................................................................................................................... 22

Component Architecture: .............................................................................................. 22

Process Architecture: .................................................................................................... 23 Model Component: ....................................................................................................... 24

Function Component:.................................................................................................... 26 Conclusion: ....................................................................................................................... 27 References: ........................................................................................................................ 27

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Cinema Booking System

System Introduction:

The system covers all cinemas in a country, but depending upon needs, it can integrate

cinemas of other countries as well. Any cinema has one or more rooms, and each room

contains a set of seats. A room can be built and integrated in the system through a room

Designer interface, managed through a web based cinema manager interface. In future

releases, this system will provide an interface allowing existing cinema management

systems to easily adapt to communicate with our system.

People should use our system to find particular movie-sessions by various search criteria

like country, area, city, time, cinema or movie title. When entering the web-page the

system automatically sets the search conditions to the local area, and a time interval

spanning the rest of the current day. When the user has entered search criteria he or she

will be presented with a list of session-links that fulfill the criteria or an empty list.

Clicking a session link returns a graphical presentation of the room of the session, at

which seats can be selected/deselected, a total prize displayed and a booking-commit

button. A booking number will be displayed at the screen. The user can bring along this

booking number and have the tickets printed later. Also, this booking number is essential

if the user should have his/her money back due to session-cancellation, disease or other

problems. If a user does not pay before some time limit, specified by the local cinema,

before the session begins, the reservation will automatically be cancelled and the

corresponding set of seats becomes available for other users. When the movie has been

on for some time-span, which is also set by the cinema manager, booking or buying a

ticket for that particular session is no longer possible. However, the session information

is kept for some time to handle any customer-requests or -complaints. Upon payment,

printing the corresponding tickets is possible at any computer connected to the internet

and a printer, or at any cinema covered by the system. It is the user’s responsibility to

take care of the tickets because a given ticket, representing a seat, can only be printed

once.

The system provides functionality for a cinema manager to schedule future movies at

his/her own cinema, i.e., entering sessions into the database, as well as changing the

scheduling and correcting errors in scheduling (If any bookings have been made this

becomes a bit more tricky!).

Thus, the system has two kinds of clients,

1- User: (Searching, Booking, Paying)

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2- Cinema manager (persons who use the system for their cinema)

If some cinema wants to be part of the system, someone responsible for managing the

cinema must contact the system administration. The system administration will grant

permission to the cinema so scheduling of movies at the particular cinema can be

performed.

System definition People can use this system to search movies and cinemas in any area specified by the

user. Cinemas consists of rooms and seats. Users of the system can search for cinemas

or movies. They should be able to narrow down the search to any area and time interval.

Booking, payment and printing tickets is possible from any computer on-line. The central

class is the session class that have information about movie, cinema, room, time, seats

and bookings. Cinema managers can schedule, reschedule and correct movie session

scheduling. Session information is collected in timetable-objects for making searching

more efficient.

Factor Analysis: Functionality – searching, booking, buying, scheduling

Appl. domain - serving cinema customers, clerks.

Conditions - Cooperation with cinema clerks, other similar booking systems,

(Multilingual system. Non skilled users. 99.99% uptime, almost unlimited ressources.)

Technology - client-server, replicated server farms, incrementally built upon need, 1.000-

1.000.000 concurrent users.

Objects – Cinema, Room, Seat, Session, Movie, Booking, TimeTable.

Responsibility - reliably searching movies and cinemas and booking and buying.

Problem Domain overview

The target system should provide facilities for clients and cinema clerks to search for

vacant seats at particular movie-sessions using various criteria like city, cinema, movie

title, movie category etc.. When users have identified a particular session, the session

screen is displayed, at which, depending on the color of the seat-symbols, it is possible to

choose a number of seats to book or reserve. A reservation can either be followed directly

by payment or a reservation number can be brought to another computer and used as

login or to the cinema and in both cases payment can be made and tickets printed. If a

cinema burns down or for any other reason a session is cancelled, it is announced on the

web page. It is crucial that users keep his/her reservation number if, for any reason,

money for bought tickets should be refunded. Thus, sessions are kept in some session

storage for some time to make it possible to track any relevant information in any cases

of complaint.

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Application domain overview The system should sustain all tasks necessary for any customer to make the cinema

experience nice and easy. Whether a cinema wants to have clerks employed at the

cinema, is a matter of choice of the cinema owner. This system is supposed to work in a

way that all necessary tasks can be done solely by the user. The whole spectrum from

searching a movie and location to having bought and printed a set of tickets is managed

by the system and controlled by the user. Cancellation and handling of erratic scenarios

or use-cases is covered by keeping past session information stored for some limited time.

The system contains all movies that any cinema manager has bothered to enter into the

system. So, if an old or new movie has not been entered and a cinema manager wants to

schedule the movie at his/her cinema in the near future, he or she has to enter it – with all

required fields. This is done through the cinema manager interface.

The problem domain

Structure

Clusters Figure 1 show the class diagram and the only cluster we have in our system is indicated:

Cinemas have rooms which have seats. Cinemas aggregate rooms which aggregates seats.

A description of classes and events follows.

Classes:

Time table

Time table is container class in current system. It contains list of all sessions, list of all

movies and cinemas. Time table class is selected for searching point of view. As it

contains complete information about cinema’s, movies and session, user can search all

the sessions available for movie or can search all the cinemas registered with cinema

booking system.

Attributes: timeTableID, cinemaList, movieList, sessionList.

Session

A session object uniquely holds together time, room, seat, booking and movie. Session

is the central class that coordinates this information, thus it holds the data model read to

present a screen of vacant and reserved seats. It also keeps track of booking and payment

information.

Attributes: time, session ID

Booking

Information on a set of seats at a session – a user can be identified through a reservation

number.

Attributes: booking ID.

Movie

Movie contains information about the movies in general. For example it carries

information about the tiltel of movie, actors, category (action, comedy, etc.).

Attributes: title, category, abstract, author, year.

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Cinema

Cinema class carries general informatin about a cinema i.e. name of cinema, location, and

contact information.

Attributes: name, address, municipal, telephone, fax, manager.

Room

A room has a number and contains a seat plan (set of seats). Room is aggregation of

cinema. A cinema can have one or many rooms.

Attributes: room ID, seat plan.

Seat

Seat class is a template for all seats and every seat object knows whether it is free. Seat

class is aggregation of room class. A room can have several numbers of seats.

Attributes: seat ID, reserved, and paid.

Booking

The booking class has information about the session and a set of seats.

Attributes: Booking ID, seat List.

Figure 1: Class Diagram.

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Events:

seatSelected/seatDeselected

A customer selects and deselects seats while choosing the appropriate seats at the session

screen.

seatPaid

A seat has been paid for.

Book

If a seat was selected at the time of committing the booking it becomes reserved.

bookCancelled

A customer may enter the booking ID and cancel the reservations.

bookTimeOut

Before session-start, before some time-interval set by the cinema manager, all non-paid

reservations are set free automatically for other customers to book.

ticketPrinted

Tickets, representing single seats

When the cinema manager enters can be printed only once.

sessionScheduled/sessionCancelled session data to the database a number of sessions get

scheduled, like pressing a “commit session schedule” button. Sessions can be cancelled.

sessionTimeOut

A number of minutes into a movie session, the number is decided by the cinema

manager, the seats of a session become unavailable for buying. The session is then stored

for later use in case of any inquiries or complaints.

searchTermsEntered

The customer has pressed the “search button”, search-criteria being valid or not.

roomUpdated(created/deleted)

Rooms can be designed, relating to number and arrangement of seats, in the system using

the room-designer interface available for cinema managers. Also rooms can be renovated

and changed.

cinemaUpdated(entered/exited)

Cinemas may enter or exit the system. This information is fed to the system by the

cinema managers.

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movieUpdated(entered)

When a new movie has been produced it should be entered into the system, with all

relevant descriptive fields, so that cinema managers can pick the title from a ListBox and

schedule it at his/her cinema.

Classes

Events Cinema Seat Room Session Movie Timetable Booking

seatSelected *

seatDeselected *

seatPayed + + +

selectionBooked + + +

bookCancelled + + +

bookTimeOut + + +

roomCreated + + +

roomDeleted + + +

cinemaEntered + + +

cinemaExited + + +

sessionScheduled + + + + +

sessionTimeOut + +

sessionCancelled + + +

ticketPrinted +

movieEntered + +

Table 1: Event table.

Behavior: Problem domain dynamics is mainly associated with session, booking and seat classes.

Booking:

On committing a request for a booking of a selected set of seats, a booking object is

created that hold the relevant information. It is destroyed when it is cancelled, paid for or

timed out.

Figure 2: Behavioral pattern, state chart, for the class Booking.

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Session: A session is created by the cinema manger when he schedules it. It then becomes

available for booking and so on. When the session has begun it is no longer available for

any booking or buying and is thus destroyed. (It is stored on disc for accommodating

possible complaints).

Figure 3: Behavioral pattern for the class Session.

Seat: Seats are created in connection to the creation of session objects. When a session is

scheduled the seats are active in the sense that they can be booked and cancelled until

close to session beginning.

Figure 4: Behavioral pattern for the class Seat.

The Application Domain:

Usage

Overview: Two actors have been identified, Enduser and Cinema Manager and six use cases

associated with these actors. Figure 5 shows both actors and use cases.

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Actors

Use Cases Enduser Cinema Manager

Search X

Booking X

Payment X

Ticket print X

Sesseion editing X

Cinema editing X

Figure 5: Actors and use cases

Figure 6: Use case diagram

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Actors: Figure 7 explains the details of two actors of the system.

Enduser Cinema Manager

Purpose: A person who uses current Purpose: A person who can edit session and

system to search movie, cinema or cinema information.

make booking of seat.

Characterization: The person perfor- Characterization: The person perforim this

ming this work does not need some work need some administritive experience.

special experience.

Examples: Any person who want to Examples: A person who administrate the

Watch movie or want to get informat- cinema. It could be the cinema owner.

ion about cinema. A cinema clerk

also uses this system.

Figure 7: Definition of the actors.

Use Cases: Six use cases of current system are described in detail as follow.

Search

When a visitor of the web-site enters the main page the three listboxes named Continent,

Country and region are prefilled according to the location of the visitor. Also two sets of

list boxes specifying date and time are prefilled to define a time period corresponding to

the rest of the present day, which is most likely the relevant interval for the user. Any

search can not proceed before the user has accepted these search criteria. This is to limit

the content of the listboxes that follow; city, city area, cinema, movie-title. The user can

press the search button after entering any combination of criteria and an SQL query will

be generated accordingly so as for the system to return a result list. Alternatively, a

message stating the search result be the empty list, or an error message is generated and

displayed so the user is assured that the system “understood” the criteria entered but

deemed it meaningless.

Booking The potential customer clicks a session from the list that results from the search. A screen

representation of a room with seats appears. Seats already booked and paid for will be

red, booked but not paid seats are yellow, whereas vacant are green. The customer can

now select and deselect green seats and press the book button to commit a booking. The

customer can also appear half an hour before the beginning of a session and hope that

some of the yellow seats have not been paid for. When committing a booking, a message

about possible rescheduling are announced at the site and that money can be refunded

using proper identification.

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Payment When a booking has been committed, the user is presented with a choice of paying

immediately or later. If immediately is chosen the user is presented with a standard

procedure from PayPal or other third-party Payment-service.

TicketPrint When Payment for a set of seats has been performed either outside or at the cinema, the

individual tickets can be printed. This is done by the user identifying him-/herself with

either a stripe-code printed at home or elsewhere – which can be interpreted by a machine

at cinema, or identification through the card used for payment. If payment is performed at

the cinema, identification is not necessary.

SessionEditing Cinema managers schedule movie sessions through an interface. Sessions can be entered

into and deleted from the system. Sessions can also be edited. All this is done through the

cinema manager interface. If, for some reason a movie-session must be cancelled or

rescheduled, this is straight forward while there are no bookings for the session – it

becomes a more complex task if bookings have already been made for the session. Then

announcements must be made on the site. Because users are anonymous, they cannot be

notified directly. However, users of the system are made aware of this risk when making

a booking.

CinemaEditing Cinema managers can be allowed to register their cinema with the system, at which point

the rooms should be built and become available to the system. The use case is best

described as a “how to” use the cinema manager’s room designer. New rooms can be

built, new seats added and so on. These tasks are performed through the cinema manager

interface.

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Figure 8: The state-chart diagram defines different ways the system can change state.

The booking use-case is the central use-case of our system.

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Functions: Table 2 shows list of function, associated with the system. Table also shows type of each

function and complexity level.

Function Update Read Signal Compute Complexity

Search GetContinentList + +

GetCountryList + +

GetRegionList + +

GetSessionList + ++

GetCinemaList + ++

GetMovieTitleList + ++

SetTimeInterval + +

Booking DisplaySessionSeats + +++

SelectSeat + ++

DeselectSeat + ++

BookSelectedSeats + ++

Payment CalculatePrice + +

CreateReceipt + +

PrintReceipt + +

CreateTickets + +

PrintTickets + ++

Cinema

manager

GetSessions + +

HasAnyBookings + ++

EditSession + +

StoreSessionInfo + +

GetCinema + +

GetRoomPlan + +

GetSeatList + +

SetPayTimeOut + +

SetBuyTimeOut + +

EditCinema + +

EditSeatList + +

Table 2: Function list.

Probably the most complex of all the functions in this system is the DisplaySessionSeats

function. It reads the SeatList contained in the Session object and displays it on the client

screen with seat information encoded by color.

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User Interface: System has in total ten user interface forms. These forms are divided in to three parts.

1- End user

2- Cinema clerk

3- Cinema manager

English is the language for all the user interface forms.

Figure 9: Navigation diagram for user interface forms.

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We decided to make different user interface forms for cinema clerk. Cinema clerk is also

enduser of the system, as clerk is standing at local cinema and he does not need all the

forms with searching and other criterias. He can directly view all the seats for particular

session and able to book any of the avaialble seat. Cinema manager also has separete

user interface forms. For cinema managers a special form with administrative login has

been added.

Figure 10: Enduser form1.

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Figure 11: Enduser form2.

Figure 12: Enduser form3.

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Figure 13: Enduser form4.

Figure 14: Enduser form 5.

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Figure 15: Enduser form 6.

Figure 16: Cinema clerk form1.

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Figure 17: Cinema clerk form2.

Figure 18: Cinema manager form1.

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Figure 19: Cinema manager form2.

Design Document

Purpose: The target system should be able to search for movie or cinema. It should also be able to

book or buy a ticket for a movie. By using the target system customer should be able to

cancel the booking. The current system should be integrated with another system that

takes the responsibility of secure payment system.

Correction to the analysis: Some corrections were made to analysis document. New attributes added to classes in

order to capture the information of events.

Quality Goals: Figure 19 shows priority of design criteria. Special emphasis was put on the usability,

security and reliability. Customers of the current system are going to use their credit

cards that are why security and reliability are of greater concern. We made secure

connection with another system which takes the responsibility of secure payment system.

Correction is also important because it target system is not interacting with other systems

correctly then there may be chances of wrong payments.

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Criterion Very

Important

Important Less

Important

Irrelevant Easily

fulfilled

Usable X

Secure X

Efficient X

Correct X

Reliable X

Maintainable X X

Testable X

Flexible X

Comprehensible X

Reusable X

Portable X

Interoperable X

Figure 20: Priority of design criteria

Technical Platform:

Equipment: The system is for all the web browsers running on regular PC’s.

System Software: Design of our system based on implementing the system in C# (C Sharp) language.

Design Language: The design document is based on the UML notation.

Architecture:

Component Architecture: The Current application is basically a web application and user can get all the relavent

information by using any web borwoser from any where. Keeping this scenario we

selected the client-server arcitecture for current system. It consists of two layers, a client

and a server layer. Serve interacts with several clients at the same time. Figure 21 shows

the systems’s architecture.

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Figure 21: Diagram showing the system’s component architecture.[1]

Process Architecture: The system is executed on a central server and all clients communicate with it. A client

handles user interface while server handles function and model component. Central

server provides common data to all clients. This central server has the ability to interact

with several clients at the same time, so running several processes concurrently. One

reason for keeping all data on central server is to make data consistent among all clients.

Keeping data consisten among all clients is one of the key issues in current system. If

data is consisten then there are chances of dublicate booking for the same seat which is

ofcourse idication of system failure. Figure 22 shows the typical structure of client-

server architecture with central server and associated clients.

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:Client User

user interface

system interface

:Client Clerk

user interface

system interface

:Server

user interface system interface

function

model

Other system

Figure 22: Diagram showing the System’s process architecture.[1]

Model Component: The model component implements model and contains all the classes of the current

system.

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Structure:

Few changes were made to class diagram in relation to analysis document. New

attributes added to classes. Figure 23 shows new class diagram. Now we describe

classes with more detail.

Classes

Cinema

Purpose: Register the basic information about cinemas

Attributes: name, address, tlf no, muncipality.

Operations: GetCinemaName, EditCinema, GetRoomList.

Room

Purpose: Register information of room within specific cinema.

Attributes: roomName, roomScheduledDate, roomEnteredDate, roomExitedDate

Operations: GetSeatList,GetRoomName

Seat

Purpose: Register basic information of seat within specific room.

Attributes: seatNumber, seatState, seatBookedDate, seatPaidDate

Operations: CreateSeat, GetSeatNumber, GetSeatState, SelectSeat, DeselectSeat

TimeTable

Purpose: Register all the information about sessions, movies and cinemas.

Attributes: timetableScheduledDate, timetableEnteredDate, timetableExitedDate

Operations: GetSessionList, GetCinemaList, GetMovieList

Session

Purpose: Register information of movie and its associated room and seat

Attribute: sessionStartedDate, sessionEnteredDate, sessionId, sessionStartedTime

Operations: DisplaySessionSeats, GetSeatList, GetRoomList

Movie

Purpose: Register basic information about movie

Attributes: title, movieCategory , movieScheduledDate

Operations: GetMovieTitleList,

Booking

Purpose: Register information of booking for movie at specific time, specific seat in

room and at specific cinema. It also keeps the information about payment.

Attributes: bookingId, bookingState, bookingPaymentState, bookingPaymentDate

Operations: BookSelectedSeats, PaySelectedSeats

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Figure 23: Class diagram for model component.[1]

Function Component: Three new classes were created and placed in the function component. The purpose of

these classes is to carry out some of the functions. The search class takes care of

returning geographical information, to narrow down the amount of data to search.

PrintTicket is in the function component because it does not belong anywhere else. Last,

the payment interface is exposed in the function component.

Figure 24: Class in the function component.

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Conclusion: We believe to have created an overview of a cinema booking system that may be

developed over time. We prove that understanding only the modeling concepts and not

the underlying technologies makes a result that may not be proper. We have drawn a

framework that may serve as a template for programmers to start out from. Whether a

completely different approach should have been used we are unable to judge. We

expected to have obtained such knowledge either through this course or the basic

programming courses of ITU.

References: [1] Lars Mathiassen et.al 2000. Object oriented analysis & design. Marko, Aalborg. Dk.