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Exercise No. 29: Start an auction

Transfer the following verbal description into an EPC

a) A customer wants to start an auction. Therefore, he must login in the auction system with his username and his password. If he enters this combination wrong three times, the system blocks the login for half an hour.

b) If the login is correct, the system verifies whether the account is activated or not, using the account information. If the account has not yet been activated, the system forwards the user to the activating window and ends the start-process.

c) If the account has been activated, the system verifies if the account is blocked. If a block exists, the customer will be informed, and the system ends the start-process.

d) If the customer is not blocked, the system forwards him in his account. There he can create an auction with the management software (MS). At the beginning, the customer has to choose one category.

e) After that, he has to enter the title of the auction and he can upload one or more images. There is a maximum size for the images, so the system will verify this automatically. If the picture is too big, the customer has to choose another one.

f) Following this, the seller has to enter some product-specific information and an individual description.

g) After entering both, the customer has to input: end time, payment details and transport information.

h) When the seller has entered all these information, he can see a preview. The seller can decide if he is satisfied or if he wants to change some entries. Therefore the system goes back to the first step, where the customer has to choose a category.

i) When the customer is satisfied, he posts the auction on the website, the process is over.