Task 6: Price Comparison via Auth Bot and Web Scraping #62
Description
Priority: P2 - Medium
Estimate: 7 days
Dependencies: #61
Product Acceptance Criteria (Customer Value)
User Story: As a manager, I want to see where items are cheaper across vendors, so that I can make cost-effective purchasing decisions automatically.
Acceptance Scenarios:
- Price Comparison:
Given multiple vendors with item pricing available,
When viewing an inventory item,
Then the system displays vendor prices and highlights the cheapest option. - Auth Bot & Scraping:
Given vendor websites requiring login,
When comparing prices,
Then the system authenticates and scrapes the pricing data securely.
Technical Implementation Checklist (Developer Tasks)
Description:
Build price comparison feature using web scraping and authentication bot to gather vendor prices for inventory items.
Technical Acceptance Criteria:
- Auth bot implementation for vendor site login
- Web scraping logic for price data
- Price display and selection UI
- Secure storage of credentials
- Error and edge-case handling
- Security: ensure safe credential management
- Full test coverage
Phase: 6 - Price Comparison (7d)
Epic: Vendor Price Intelligence
Definition of Done:
- Product acceptance scenarios validated
- All technical acceptance criteria completed
- Unit tests written and passing
- Integration tests written and passing
- Code reviewed and approved
- Documentation updated
- Deployed to staging and tested
- Performance benchmarks met
- Security review completed
Additional Notes:
Our mission: create a set of features to help chefs stay in the kitchen and not have to go to a computer to do their job.
This will be designed MOBILE FIRST! Two apps: chef mobile interface and CostFX manager laptop interface.