Trainplanet

The Development of an Online
Booking Software Case Study

Client needs

Since 2002, when the company was founded, they have been gaining experience in train travel. They built several systems that were offering their customers different travel services.

However, the decision was made to redesign services and build them on a single platform for a better user experience. The goal was to gather all their products and services in the same place, to offer their customers the best experience possible.

Technology

Backend:

Java 11
Spring (Boot, Security, Data)
JSON RESTful WebServices
JPA
Liquibase
Cucumber
Spock
Pact
Gradle
ElasticSearch
PostgreSQL
ActiveMQ

Frontend:

Angular 8
TypeScript
RxJS
Akita
SASS

Infrastructure & monitoring:

Ansible
Jenkins
Sonar
Docker
AWS

The solution

Inspeerity team built an online booking system for the Trainplanet portal, that enables booking trains across the whole of Europe. As a result, were involved from the very beginning and throughout the project lifecycle. To sum up our role included:

Requirements gathering & analysis
Design of the system architecture
Preparation of UX/UI
Implementation & tests
Environment preparation & deployment
After deployment support

Our tasks included building a system which would give the possibility of booking both domestic and international train tickets directly via the web as well as buy Interrail Passes.

Meanwhile our team has successfully finished the first stage of the project and installed it on the production. You can see the result here.

Find out how our team has prepared for the rollout day in our blog article: 7 Steps to Avoid Nightmares After Go-live .

The goal was to gather all their products and services in the same place, to offer their customers the best experience possible.

During cooperation with the customers, Inspeerity created a very complex yet easy to use and transparent online booking system.

Our tasks included building a system which would give the possibility of booking both domestic and international train tickets directly via the web as well as buy Interrail Passes.