Space Charity: a real-time web auction application

Space-charity is a (fake) real-time auction application. It was developed as an academical project in the 2nd year of my bachelor’s degree.

Project instructions

Develop a collaborative, real-time client-server auction application for individuals (B2C or C2C). Auctions may involve personal property or real estate.

Some more details:

There are different auction mechanisms. We needed to explore them, choose one, and analyze the specific features that would impact our requirements.
We also needed to clearly define the type of assets that would be put into auction, and verify that there are no restrictive regulations applying to them

Why “Space Charity”

We had the idea of using objects that should not be able to be put to auction: planets and stars.

Our idea for this project was then to host a charity event, where people would auction for planets and stars (a bit like NFTs), and then the money would be donated to charities.

Application development

We went through the following phases:

Project scope (objectives, context analysis, state of the art, identification of constraints and risks, risk management analysis)
Requirements specification (business processes, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, software quality criteria, usability criteria)
Implementation (planning, team organization, approach, site infrastructure, file directory infrastructure, database definition and implementation)

Here is the 40 pages report that contains everything about the app and was used to track each criteria defined above: 📁 Space Charity design report (in french only).