Requirements for the Amazon Online Shopping System

In this lesson, we’ll list the requirements of our Amazon online shopping system. This is a very crucial step as requirements define the scope of a problem. Therefore, getting them right from the interviewer and understanding them well will make the design of the rest of the system smooth and easy.

We’ll use the notational convention to identify each requirement with a unique label "Rn", where "R" is short for Requirement and "n" is a natural number.

Requirement collection

The requirements for the Amazon online shopping system design problem are defined below: