The impact of ICT on Society (1)

Online Shopping

1- Define online shopping.

A: Its an electronic commerce application that:

1- Businesses use with each other.

2- Business offers services or goods directly to the customers.

2- Identify Pros and cons for Business and customers.

For Customers:

Pros: 1- They can use it anytime, since its available 24 hours per a day.

2- There are different and many options for goods and services which may be not available in the customer country.

3- They can use it in home, since there is no need to go to the shop and buy from it. 

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Cons: 1- You cannot check the quality of the product.

2- You may need to provide more money for the delivery and shipping. 

3- The item may look different in the online website to what the actual item look like. 

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3- Identify Pros and cons for Business.

Pros: 1- Less stuffs needed

2- Can quickly change prices when needed.

3- Can highlight and show the most wanted products.

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Cons: 1- It costs a lot of money to design an attractive and easy-to-use website.

2- If the website goes down, the business stops.

3- A lot of online fraud, risk of losing money of sales. 

4- Online shopping process.
A) Explanation: 

1- Purchasing goods: 

There are four main steps for purchasing goods:

A- Decide which online shop to use: 

The most important thing is to choose a trusted website which sells what you need.

B- Browsing product categories: 

Choose the category that you want. For example if you wanna a computer, click on " Electronics " 

C- Using the virtual shopping basket: 

He can record or keep all his wanted items in the basket or cart, and he can add or remove from it too.

When the customer finishes, he goes to check-out stage.

D- Going to check out: 

He has to register and then choose the method of payment. 

Then he choose how the goods will be delivered and confirm the order.

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5- Identify security issues.

In order to protect the customers from the hackers, personal data and payment details are encrypted when they are transferred over the internet.

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Done by: Mohammed Al-Qubtan

Class: 12/A

References: 

1- Teach-ict

2- Applied ICT book 

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Program flowchart exercise 2

 

 

 

 

 



Development and testing

The three main stages occurring development and testing are:

1- Create the system

2- Testing the system

3- Improving the system

Testing and improving the system in happening continuously till the system codes are 100% correct. 

  

Testing strategies:

Its about comparing the expected results and the actual ones.

The testing types:

1-Test data:

There are three types of the test data:

Normal: valid data

Abnormal: not valid

Extreme: The maximum or minimum data value

Example: The students marks must be >0 and <100

A- Normal data: The marks of the students is 90

B- Abnormal data: His mark is 120

C- Extreme data: His mark is 100

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2- Live data: The existing system data, the real ones.

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Evaluation

Evaluation stage

 

 

Evaluation is used to detect the quality of the system.

Its evaluate the system using some ways:

1- Testing the results of a solution

2- Feedbacks from users

3- Making improvements to the system

4- Identifying limitations of the system



Documetation

Documentation

 

Documentation means the guideline, the tips and instructions given to both the user and programmer

 

There are two documentation types

 

1- Technical: It produced especially for the programmer and analyst to get rid of the errors occurring in the system, and if it needs more upgrading and development.

 

2- User: Its provided to the user to operate the system, like a tutorial.

 



SLC: System analysis

System analysis

 

Its the examining of the existing system

 

The four methods are:

1- Examining of documents

2- Interview

3- Observation

4- Questioners