Smart phone and tablet starter stores use cases

During a customization project, you must perform architectural design even when you use a WebSphere Commerce starter store. To reduce the time required to document use cases for your store, a modifiable use case document is provided that clearly describes the functionality provided with a starter store.

Smart phone and tablet starter stores use cases apply to the following storefronts:

Madisons
Aurora

To modify the smart phone and tablet starter stores use cases to reflect changes that you want to make to the store, download and extract the appropriate version of the file. For more information, see Downloading the IBM WebSphere Commerce Starter Store Companion Assets package.

The file contains use case documents for the following platforms:

Mobile Web for smart phone devices

Use-cases that are accessed using a smart phone's Web browser, including location-based services.

Mobile Web for tablet devices

Use-cases that are accessed using a tablet's Web browser, including location-based services.

Feature Pack 6 or later The Aurora starter store is the default storefront for tablet devices.

Hybrid application for smart phone devices

Use-cases that are accessed using an application installed on smart phones, including location-based services and device-specific functions.

Feature Pack 4 Feature Pack 5 This document contains use cases for Android and iPhone.

Feature Pack 6 or later This document contains use cases for Android only.

Hybrid application for tablet devices (iPad)

Use-cases that are accessed using an application installed on tablets, including location-based services and device-specific functions.

Native application for smart phone devices (Android)

Use-cases that are accessed using an application installed on Android smart phones, including location-based services and device-specific functions using REST services.

Example of customizing use case documentation

The following example shows an update to the Madisons use case document to include use cases for the features added in the Tutorial: Adding support for a Management Center tool to the Madisons starter store tutorial.

The customization adds two use cases:

Use Case: Shopper views a product's recipes (313)
Use Case: Shopper browses to find a recipe (314)

It also adds an alternate flow to an existing use case:

Use Case: Shopper adds an item to the Shopping Cart (1101)Alternate Flow I: Shopper adds one or more items to shopping cart from Recipe Details page.