Summary: Designing a Hotel Management System

Now that you’ve completed the hotel management system case study, let’s take a moment to reflect on and consolidate what we’ve learned. We’ll revisit the key system requirements, identify the core classes along with their responsibilities and relationships, and highlight the major design principles applied. We’ll also examine how objects interact within the system and walk through the overall workflow to understand how the components come together to achieve the desired functionality.

Key requirements

This section outlines the primary functional requirements that guided the design of the Hotel Management system.

1. The system must support different user accounts: guest, receptionist, and housekeeper.

2. Rooms must be classifiable by different styles, such as standard, deluxe, family suite, or business suite.

3. Guests must be able to search for and book available rooms.

4. The booking process requires a check-in date, duration of stay, and an advance payment.

5. Bookings can be canceled with a full refund if done more than 24 hours before check-in.

6. The system needs to notify customers regarding their booking status.

7. All maintenance activities for each room must be logged and managed.

8. Guests should be able to add extra services like room service or amenities to their booking.

9. Each room must have a unique key, with a master key available for specific rooms.

10. The system must support multiple hotel ...