Functional requirements

ID Requirement Description
FR-01 Credential Loading The library must allow users to authenticate using a Google Cloud service account JSON file.
FR-02 Collection Retrieval The library must retrieve all documents from a specified Firestore collection.
FR3-03 Document Conversion Retrieved Firestore documents must be converted into Python dictionaries.
FR3-04 DataFrame Output The library must provide a method to convert Firestore data into a pandas DataFrame.
FR3-05 Error Handling The system must raise user-friendly, custom exceptions for credential errors, connection issues, or invalid input.
FR3-06 Input Validation The library must validate required parameters.
FR3-07 Example Usage Code The project must include example scripts demonstrating typical usage patterns.
FR3-08 Efficient Data Fetching The library must support a high-level functions that return Firestore data with minimal amount of calls.

Non-functional requirements

ID Requirement Description
NFR-01 Programming Language Library will be written in Python programming language.
NFR-02 Code Quality The library must follow Python best practices, clean code standards, and type annotations.
NFR-03 Python Version Compatibility The library must support Python 3.9+ or higher.
NFR-04 Performance Efficiency Data retrieval and conversion must perform efficiently for small-to-medium datasets.
NFR-05 Usability & Simplicity The library must be intuitive, minimal, and easy for developers to integrate.
NFR-06 Maintainability Code must be modular, well-documented, and easy to extend or refactor.
NFR-07 Security Sensitive credentials must not be stored internally; the library must handle only user-provided file paths.
NFR-08 Reliability The library must be able to connect to Firestore as long as credentials and network conditions are valid.
NFR-09 Dependency Stability Official Google Cloud libraries must be used in the library to minimize breaking changes.
NFR-10 Test Coverage Core components must be covered by unit tests to ensure reliability.
NFR-11 Documentation Quality All functions, modules, and usage examples must be clearly documented.
NFR-12 Portability The library must run on Windows operating systems.
NFR-13 Minimal External Requirements The library must function with only the required dependencies, without any external libraries.