Appendix A: Requirements

Data Requirements

• The ability to store information about:
  • person
  • family
  • locations
  • dates
  • relationships
    • Generations
    • parents
    • siblings
    • birth (biological, social adopted,foster,assimilated)
  • media
    • relate that media to:
      • people
      • events
      • families
  • events
    • relate events to:
      • people
      • media
      • families

Input Requirements

• Data
  • Import data
    • GEDCOM
    • JSON
    • CSV

Output Requirements

• Data
  • Generate a Family Tree data structure from a designated entry
    • Ancestors
    • Descendant
  • Export data
    • GEDCOM
    • JSON
    • CSV
• Hardcopy
  • Generate Family History Book

Process Requirements

• Perform CRUD¹ processing on all stored data
• Maintain and access data exclusively via REST API based services

Operational Requirements

• Dynamically resizable
• Self-healing
• Auto-configuration based upon load

Technical Requirements

• Cloud Deployable
• Deployable on multiple cloud service providers
• Easily scalable

Security Requirements

• Unauthenticated users may Retrieve data.
• Only authenticated user’s may Create, Update, and/or Delete data.