Software Engineering Week 5

      This week I delved into creating a Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document where I needed to learn how to write requirements as well as create a use case diagram to explain how users and secondary actors interact with our system. I learned how to use Luicdchart to create a diagram and watched tutorial videos from Lucidchart about how to create a proper use case diagram to best describe to a reader the functionality our system provides. One thing in particular that was interesting to learn about was that when designing a use case diagram, primary actors such as users logging into a website should be placed on the left, while secondary actors, such as a database that reacts to changes initiated by primary actors, should be placed on the right. After following this procedure and viewing my resulting diagram, it made sense to me why you would want to lay out the diagram in such a manner due to how seamless it was to read and understand what was going on at a glance.