Question

Choose a most appropriate software architecture model for your assigned project(online bus ticket booking system) (we have discussed 3 different models in class; Repository model, layered architecture, client/server architecture). Justify your selection that why you have chosen the particular architecture model with proper reasoning.

Answer 1

Solution: Since an online bus ticket booking system is a real-time software application and the people would be using it to book their bus tickets online, therefore, it is mandatory for you to develop the software application by employing the client-server architecture. The reason for the choice of the client-server architecture is that when the users would be running the program application on their computer system they would try to access the server to request the booking services, and on the server, a program would be running that would manage the information associated with the database containing all the information regarding these bus tickets.

So, the server system would actually receive the requests from these multiple clients all across the world and process them according to the business logic that is running over the server system and once that is processed and the booking is confirmed, then the same is actually updated into the database by the server application. If the booking is unsuccessful due to the unavailability of the seats, then the user is notified through the message or a notification. This is the reason why, the client-server architecture is best suited for the software application that is mentioned above in the question.