If your team needs an online platform for task communication and discussion, if you want to share knowledge or daily insights, or if you are looking for experience-based solutions to problems, then Smart Forum Manager (SFM) is the ideal choice.
SFM is a web-based intelligent information management system designed to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication for university courses, project teams, businesses, and specialized groups. It aims to improve both individual and team productivity, enhance problem-solving efficiency, and promote knowledge sharing. The platform supports topic posting, real-time comments, task management, intelligent recommendations, voting, and likes. Our goal is to create a reliable and effective tool that allows users to share and exchange information seamlessly.
Name: Jinming Liu
Student number: s4906109
The system is mainly composed of three parts: client mobile application, web interface and backend management system. It mainly provides users with a platform for topic discussion and knowledge search and sharing, and provides solutions to users who encounter problems.
The system includes the following key functionalities:
The scope for the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) of this system will include the features:
Security refers to the system’s ability to protect user information and data from malicious attacks, and to ensure the safety of user passwords even if the database is stolen. In SFM, we enhance system security by implementing strict password policies and advanced encryption technology. Specific measures include the following requirements.
Availability refers to the system’s ability to provide users with stable services around the clock and across platforms. By ensuring 24-hour access support and efficient response speed, users can access SFM anytime and anywhere through desktop browsers or mobile applications. Key performance indicators include system uptime (target 99.9% or more), mean time between failures and mean time to repair, as well as response time and throughput.
In addition, the system design focuses on user experience feedback and continuously optimizes services through online surveys and analysis of user comments. These measures jointly ensure the system’s usability strength, allowing users to use functions and enjoy services without obstacles in any situation. This not only improves user satisfaction, but also ensures the stability and reliability of the system.
Scalability refers to the ability of a system to easily add new features or expand existing features. Through reserved interfaces and modular design, new features such as improved recommendation services and diversified payment functions can be added without affecting existing functions. This design ensures that the system can flexibly respond to changes in business needs during its life cycle.
In addition, the system adopts a horizontal expansion strategy to dynamically support the growth of the number of users by increasing the number of running nodes, ensuring high performance under high concurrency. Use stress testing tools such as K6 to evaluate the performance of the system under high load to ensure stable performance and efficient resource utilization. This can not only ensure user experience, but also avoid resource waste.
Password Compliance: Ensuring passwords meet strength criteria (uppercase, lowercase, numbers, special characters). Brute force attack simulation test: Use tools to simulate brute force attacks to verify the security of SFM. Access control monitoring: Login attempts are monitored through log analysis and intrusion detection systems (IDS), and the account is automatically locked after more than 10 incorrect attempts.
Uptime Monitoring: Use tools such as Nagios to track system uptime in real time to ensure an availability rate of more than 99.9%. Performance Testing: Using Apache JMeter to simulate high traffic and measure response times and request handling efficiency. User experience feedback: Collect online surveys and user reviews to understand user satisfaction with system performance and make optimizations accordingly.
Horizontal expansion test: By increasing the number of running nodes and using stress testing tools such as K6 to simulate high load conditions, the system’s dynamic expansion capabilities and performance stability can be evaluated.
Efficiency of implementing new functions: Use nginx proxy forwarding when adding new functions and new interfaces to detect and evaluate whether they affect other cloud service nodes.