SoccerSeek⚽
Abstract
SoccerSeek aims to revolutionize the way people engage in recreational sports by providing a convenient platform for finding pickup soccer groups and various sports activities in their local communities. By leveraging technology to connect sports enthusiasts of all skill levels and backgrounds, the app fosters social interaction, promotes physical activity, and enhances overall well-being. Through increased accessibility and ease of use, the app encourages individuals to participate in sports regularly, leading to improved physical fitness, mental health, and social connections. Additionally, by facilitating the formation of sports groups and fostering community engagement, the app contributes to the development of stronger, more cohesive communities. Overall, the app has the potential to positively impact individuals’ lives by providing opportunities for active recreation, social interaction, and community building through sports. SoccerSeek’s strengths in scalability are evident as it can accommodate a large number of users while remaining economical to deliver, ensuring that it can handle varying user loads seamlessly. Its availability is guaranteed through its accessibility anytime and anywhere, allowing users to engage in sports activities at their convenience. Additionally, its interoperability enables seamless integration with other systems and components, enhancing the overall user experience and facilitating the exchange of data and information within the sports community
Author
Name: Norman Teik Wei Yap
Student number: 47787717
Functionality
User Registration:
- Users can create accounts and profiles with personal information, including skill level, preferred playing positions, and location.
Search and Discovery:
- Users can search for pickup soccer groups and sports activities based on location, date, time, skill level, and specific sports preferences.
Group Creation and Joining:
- Users can create pickup soccer groups or join existing ones, enabling them to organize games and events with other members.
Event Management:
- Group organizers can schedule games, practices, and tournaments, set location and time details, and invite members to participate.
Notifications:
- Users receive notifications about upcoming games, new group invitations, and updates on group activities.
Messaging and Communication:
- Users can communicate with other group members through in-app messaging, allowing for coordination and discussion of game logistics.
Feedback and Ratings:
- Users can provide feedback and ratings for group organizers and participants, helping to maintain a positive and respectful community environment.
Social Integration:
- Users can share their participation in games and events on social media platforms, encouraging friends to join and increasing community engagement.
Resource Sharing:
- The app provides resources such as field location maps, equipment rental options, and safety guidelines to support users in organizing and participating in sports activities.
Scope
For the scope of this project, SoccerSeek will remain purely web-based, with no IOS or Android app.
Search and Discovery:
- Users can search for pickup soccer groups and sports activities based on location, date, time, and skill level
Group Creation and Joining:
- Users can create pickup soccer groups or join existing ones
Event Management:
- Group organizers can schedule games, practices, and tournaments, set location and time details, and invite members to participate.
Notifications:
- Users receive notifications about upcoming games, new group invitations, and updates on group activities.
Messaging and Communication:
- Users can communicate with other group members through in-app messaging, allowing for coordination and discussion of game logistics.
Quality Attributes
- Scalability:
- SoccerSeek is designed to handle increasing user demands without compromising performance or user experience. SoccerSeek users should be able to join groups, make groups, and be recommended groups without much latency.
- The application should also be able to scale vertically by improving hardware capabilities, such as increasing CPU power or memory capacity, to handle spikes in user activity.
- Availability:
- SoccerSeek ensures uninterrupted access to its services, allowing users to engage in sports activities anytime, anywhere.
- SoccerSeek will establish disaster recovery protocols to ensure that it can quickly recover from catastrophic events, such as server outages, and resume normal operations with minimal disruption to users.
- Interoperability:
- SoccerSeek seamlessly integrates with other systems and components, facilitating data exchange and enhancing the overall user experience within the sports community. SoccerSeek should be able to operate with various notable health and fitness applications exchanging data between them to analyze a User’s soccer and fitness progress.
- SoccerSeek should expose standardized APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that allow seamless integration with third-party systems and services, enabling data exchange and interoperability.
- Implementing robust authentication and authorization mechanisms ensures secure access to SoccerSeek’s APIs and data, maintaining data integrity and privacy while enabling seamless integration with external systems
Evaluation
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Scalability:
- Conduct load testing to simulate increasing user loads and measure the system’s performance under different levels of traffic.
- Monitor system resource utilization (e.g., CPU usage, memory usage, network bandwidth) during peak usage periods to assess scalability.
- Evaluate the system’s ability to dynamically scale resources based on demand, such as auto-scaling of server instances or cloud resources.
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Availability:
- Track system uptime and downtime using monitoring tools.
- Perform failover and disaster recovery tests to ensure the system can recover quickly from failures and maintain continuous availability.
- Monitor response times and error rates to identify potential availability issues and address them proactively.
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Interoperability:
- Test integration with third-party systems and services using standardized protocols and APIs.
- Validate data exchange and communication between SoccerSeek and external systems, ensuring compatibility and consistency.
- Conduct interoperability testing with different devices, platforms, and browsers to confirm seamless interaction across various environments.