SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
SPECIFICATION
FOR
LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
CREATED BY : PRIYANKA
KHURANA
ITB(G1)
9 MAY 2014
Table of Contents
Table of Contents............................................................................................... ii
1. Introduction.................................................................................................. 1
1.1 Purpose............................................................................................................ 1
1.2 Scope............................................................................................................... 1
1.3 Definition, Aggregation and Abbreviation.........................................................1
1.4 References........................................................................................................ 1
1.5 Overview.......................................................................................................... 2
2. Overall Description.......................................................................................2
2.1 Product Perspective.......................................................................................... 2
2.2 Product Function............................................................................................... 2
2.3 User Characterstics.......................................................................................... 2
2.4 Assumption and Analysis.................................................................................. 2
3. Specific Requirements...................................................................................3
3.1 External Diagram............................................................................................. 3
3.2 Diagrams.......................................................................................................... 3
INTRODUCTION
PURPOSE
The library management system maintains the information about various books available in
the library. The LMS also maintains records of all the students, faculty and employees in the
university. These records are maintained in order to provide membership to them.
SCOPE
The proposed LMS must be able to perform the following functions
Issue of login ID and password to system operators
Maintain details of books available in the library
Maintain details of the student in the university to provide student membership
Issue books
Reserve books
Generate reports
The donts of LMS are:
Periodical section is not covered
Book bank is not covered
Records of digital books are not available
Benefits of LMS are:
Easy searching of books
Efficient issue and return of books
Printing of reports
DEFINITION,
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
SRS: Software Requirement Specification
LMS: Library Management System
RAM: Random Access Memory
Student: any candidate admitted in a program offered by a school
REFERENCES
IEEE standard for software test documentation
Software Engineering book by Genius publications
OVERVIEW
The subsection of the SRS gives the overview of the software system. Explains what the rest of
SRS contains and also gives details about the organization of the SRS document
OVERALL DESCRIPTION
The LMS maintains records of books in the library and membership detail of students, faculty
and employees in the university. It is assumed that approved books have already been
purchased by acquisition section. It is also assumed that the student has already been
admitted in the university for a specific program.
The administrator will have to maintain the following information:
Bok details
Student membership details
Faculty and employee membership details
PRODUCT PERSPECTIVE
The LMs shall be developed using client/ server architecture and will be compatible with Microsoft
windows OS. The front end of the system will be developed using visual basic 2010 and the back
end wil be developed using Ms SQL server
Front
end
client
application(isu
ue,return and
reporting
facility)
Back
end
database
2.1.1USER INTERFACE
The LMs will have the following user friendly and menu driven interfaves:
Login: to allow the entry of only authorized user
Book details
Student membership details
Issue and return books
Reserve books
queries
2.1.2 HARDWARE INTERFACES
Proper screen resolution
printer support
computer system will be in the network environment
2.1.3 SOFTWARE
INTERFACE
MS window operating system
Microsoft visual basic
SQL server
2.1.4C OMMUNICATION INTERFACES
This subsection specifies the various interfaces to communicate such as LAN , Protocol etc.
2.1.5 MEMORY CONSTRAINTS
Any constraints related to primary and secondary memories are specified. at least 512 Mb
memory RAM and 500 MB space of hard disk will be required to run the software.
PRODUCT FUNCTION
A summary of major functions that the LMS shall perform includes:
A login facility for enabling only authorized user
The system DEO will be able to add, modify, delete or view book, student, faculty and
login information
The system administrator will be able to issue, bring back, and reserve books
The library staff will be able to generate various reports from the LMS.
USER CHARACTERISTICS
Qualification: at least matriculation and comfortable with English.
Experience: should be well versed about the processes of university library
Technically qualified
ASSUMPTIONS
AND ANALYSIS
The acquisition section of the library will provide the list of books purchased by the library.
The academic section will provide the list of admitted student.
The login ID and password must be created by the system administrator
3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
EXTERNAL
INTERFACES
This section contains the software requirements in detail along with the various forms to be
developed
Issue book
This form will be accessible only to the system administrator and library staff
