project-proposal-2024

ContentCraft

Abstract

Finding a platform that resonates with your voice and connects you with like-minded readers can be difficult in today’s digital world, with overpopulated social media and complicated content management systems. Enter “ContentCraft,” a basic but effective blogging tool that aims to break down these boundaries. ContentCraft is an easy, user-friendly platform for both aspiring and seasoned bloggers to express their ideas, stories, and skills. ContentCraft has the tools you need without the clutter and complexity of traditional blogging platforms.

Author

Name: Aman Gupta

Student number: 47606993

Functionality

ContentCraft is an intuitive blogging platform designed to make content creation, administration, and engagement easier for both writers and readers.

  1. Blog Management: Users may easily create, modify, and publish blog content. A powerful text editor offers basic formatting options such as bold, italic, and underline, making content creation easy and adaptable. Authors may categorise their posts by categories and tags, making it easier for users to find relevant content. Posts may be grouped by categories and tags, allowing writers to manage their content and readers to easily locate topics of interest.

  2. Engagement and community - Each blog post includes a comments section where readers can interact with the author and other readers to enhance the community experience. A built-in search feature allows users to find postings by keywords, categories, or tags, making content more accessible.

  3. User Experience - The platform is interoperable with desktop, tablet, and mobile devices, ensuring a consistent and fluid experience across several displays. Bloggers are notified of interactions on their posts, such as new comments, allowing them to stay in touch with their audience.
  4. Account management - Users can easily join the ContentCraft community by creating an account using their email or social network credentials.Bloggers can control their privacy settings, such as what information is published and who can comment on their posts.

Scope

Scope - MVP

  1. Blog Management: Users can compose, publish, and manage blog articles using important formatting tools.
  2. Engagement: Basic commenting feature that encourages community participation.
  3. User Experience: Responsive design allows for easy access on any device, with easier account creation and administration.
  4. Notification System: Basic alerts for writers on engagement with their posts.

    Quality Attributes

  5. Availability - ContentCraft offers constant accessibility, reducing downtime and letting users to interact with their content and community at any time, resulting in a stable and consistent user experience.

  6. protection - ContentCraft prioritises user data protection by implementing secure authentication, data encryption, and regular security audits to protect against cyber threats.

  7. Usability - ContentCraft is built for ease of use, with simple navigation and a user-friendly interface that makes blogging accessible to anybody, regardless of technical knowledge.

  8. Interoperability - ContentCraft supports seamless content sharing and multimedia embedding from a wide range of sources, boosting the adaptability and reach of user-generated material.

  9. Reliability - ContentCraft’s auto-save and error handling ensure users may produce and share material without fear of data loss.

  10. Scalability - The platform’s scalable architecture allows it to efficiently handle growing user numbers and data volumes while maintaining optimal performance.

Evaluation

  1. Availability - The availability assessment will focus on uptime metrics and response times in both regular and high-usage scenarios. Tools like as Pingdom and UptimeRobot will monitor the application’s accessibility and notify you of any downtime, with the purpose of increasing availability. Response time consistency will also be assessed to ensure reliability throughout different periods and usage patterns.

  2. Security - Security assessments will comprise both automated and manual testing methods, such as vulnerability scans using tools like OWASP ZAP and code reviews to uncover security flaws.

  3. Usability - We can assess usability by user testing and feedback. The key KPIs will be navigation ease, user interface clarity, and content production satisfaction. A/B testing can also be used to compare different UI designs and functionalities.

  4. Interoperability - Interoperability can be tested by evaluating integration capabilities with other platforms and services, such as social media sharing and multimedia content embedding.

  5. Reliability testing will use CI/CD approaches to automate testing of new code releases. Stress testing with simulated peak loads will also assess system stability and error management.

  6. Scalability - To assess scalability, load testing tools such as Apache JMeter or Locust are used to simulate various levels of user traffic and interaction.