Glossary
Process impact: This is a
glossary of terms defined as they are used in this project.
Writing out the definitions of terms and acronyms here helps keep
other documents more concise and precise. A shared glossary helps
prevent misunderstandings and makes it easier for new team members to
be productive.
Project-specific Terms
TODO: Define the terms that you use in other documents. Note any
customer-supplied definitions, links to outside definitions,
deprecated meanings (e.g.,
bug),
or questions about term meanings. Don't define standard textbook
terms here, instead put them under the "Standard terms" tab.
TIP: This glossary can serve as simple domain model or data
dictionary. You can define important data objects by describing
their meaning and key attributes. For example, see
order-line and
registered user.
- ACR
- n. Average Customer Rating. The
mathematical mean of all product ratings for a given product. It is
a floating point value ranging from 1 to 5. The value 0.00 is used
when there are no ratings.
- AVSI
- n. The Address Verification System
Interface: a component that interfaces our shipping and billing
logic to the credit card processor's server for verification of
card-holder addresses.
- Order-line
- n. One line on a customer order, consisting of a
product name, price, and quantity.
- Product
- n. An item from the product catalog offered for sale on a shopping
site. Each product has a unique SKU number, name, description, and
regular price.
- Product catalog
- n. A database of all products offered for sale on a
shopping site.
- Registered user
- n. A person who has registered with us in the past.
Attributes include real name, user name, encrypted password, billing
information, recent ship-to address, recent orders, and corporate
account authorizations. See visitor.
- Reviewer standing
- Computed attribute of user based on
meta-moderation of product reviews written by this user. Used to
determine priority in product review comments. Only the "Top 100"
reviewer standing is ever displayed to any end-users.
- Real-world meaning of values:
| Newbie | Less than 10 people liked his/her reviews |
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| Critic | Between 11 and 200 liked them |
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| Pundit | More than 201 liked them |
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| Top 100 | User is in the top 100 when sorted by
number of positive meta-moderation points |
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- Subscription product
- n. A special type of product that has a certain number of recurring
fulfillments between the purchase date and the expiration date.
QUESTION: how shall we represent publication frequency?
- Subscribe
- v. A special type of purchase where the
product is a subscription
product, and there is no existing subscription.
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- Visitor
- n. A person who is visiting our e-commerce website but
has not yet logged in. Each visitor creates a session on our
server, some of these sessions will become associated with a registered user, but most
will not.