The preliminary system design of a discrepancy reporting (DR) system is presented. A customer desires a softcopy discrepancy reporting system for the tracking and storage of these documents. The system would replace the need for an eight to ten-person group to track and store these documents in hardcopy form. The preliminary design includes the Conceptual Design with a feasibility study where operational and maintenance requirements have been established and the Preliminary Design where requirements have been further defined through the use of flow diagrams.

The system is designed to be accessible by a user to generate discrepancy reports against software, hardware, or database problems at the user’s location. The discrepancy reports are stored in a relational database with a client/server architecture. The DR administrator has the same capabilities as the user, plus the ability to edit the database.