Michael Wales

Mag7Rule@aol.com

EEL 5881: Software Engineering, Fall 2000 - Project Information

Project Name: Informal Science Education 2

Team Web site: Informal Science Education 2 Team Page

Web Pages for Other Team Members:

• Jeffrey Miller: E-mail and Jeff's project page.

Contents of this Document

Individual Weekly Time and Activity Log
Weekly statement of individual progress and status
Log of individual technical or management issues and their resolution
Defect log
Notes and lessons learned

Week #1:

• Thursday, September 21, 2000 (3:00pm - 3:30pm): Worked on project's webpage. Have contacted client and arranged an appointment to discuss the project specification and requirements.
• Friday, September 22, 2000 (8:00am - 8:45am): Met with Chris Stapleton and Michael Moshell to discuss project. Discussed a good bit of background information and some areas that they are interested in for the project's direction. I intend to research some information about programming IST's Mirage system, OpenGL, and Cellular Automata.
• Friday, September 22, 2000 (12:30pm - 3:30pm): Updated the webpage. Wrote the minutes for the meeting this morning and sent out to those who attended.

Week #2:

• Wednesday, September 27, 2000 (3:00pm - 3:30pm): Met with Dr. Moshell and discussed project requirements. Made decesions on the direction of the project, the development environment, and the initial requirements.
• Thursday, September 28, 2000 (2:00pm - 3:00pm): Started working on creating the Concept of Operations page. Finished meeting minutes, and uploaded the webpage files to Pegasus.
• Thursday, September 28, 2000 (8:30pm - 9:30pm): Continued work on the Concept of Operations page.
• Friday, September 29, 2000 (3:00pm - 4:00pm): Continued work on the Concept of Operations page. Also updated my personal web page, and uploaded all the files to Pegasus.

Week #3:

• Thursday, October 5, 2000 (2:30pm - 3:30pm): Worked on Concept of Operations.
• Thursday, October 5, 2000 (7:00pm - 8:00pm): Finished the Concept of Operations document. Updated webpages and uploaded the files to Pegasus.
• Sunday, October 8, 2000 (1:00pm - 3:00pm): Downloaded the Java 2 V1.3 JDK and installed on my home computer. Also downloaded the JDK documentation and the Java tutorial. Printed out and read many of the tutorials relating to Java's Swing GUI components.
• Monday, October 9, 2000 (3:00pm - 5:00pm): Further self-training Java's Swing GUI classes. Made a very simple frame window that will be the building block of the transition editing window. I intend to expand on this initial version and add functionality to over the next few weeks.

Week #4:

• Wednesday, October 11, 2000 (9:00pm - 10:20pm): Started writing the Project Management Plan. Also did some for self-training on the Java Swing GUI components. Updated my personal webpage.
• Saturday, October 14, 2000 (1:00pm - 3:00pm): Worked on writing the Project Management Plan.
• Sunday, October 15, 2000 (1:00pm - 3:00pm): Continued work on the Project Management Plan.
• Monday, October 16, 2000 (3:00pm - 5:00pm): Worked on creating the Pert chart and finished the Project Management Plan

Week #5:

• Friday, October 20, 2000 (9:00pm - Midnight): Started working on the Software Requirements Specifications document. Created the UML use case diagram, use case scenarios, and the event table.
• Saturday, October 21, 2000 (1:00pm - 5:00pm): Continued work on the SRS document.
• Sunday, October 22, 2000 (11:00am - 5:00pm): Finished the SRS documents first draft. Sent email to Jeff. Posted the draft to the website on Pegasus. Updated my personal webpage. Worked on creating some class diagrams. My diagrams were very low-level and should be exact descriptions of the classes we will use in the final product. Also started to do some coding for the GUI and the transition classes.
• Sunday, October 22, 2000 (8:00pm - 9:00pm): Wrote some Java code for the transition classes. Noticed that I will need to make significant changes to the UML diagrams.
• Monday, October 23, 2000 (5:00pm - 5:30pm): Spellchecked the SRS with Microsoft Word. Updated my personal page. Saved everything to a floppy. Printed out our personal copies of the SRS.

Week #6:

• Friday, October 27, 2000 (10:30pm - 2:00am): Built a computer for code development that I could use. Built a 486DX-120 for use when I'm not at my house.
• Saturday, October 28, 2000 (2:00pm - 8:00pm): Developed lots of code. Formed intial GUI for the transition modification GUI. I was able to create the transition classes, and the GUI classes. I would estimate that about 1/3 of the GUI for that window is finished. Programmed about 10kb of Java source code.
• Sunday, October 29, 2000 (9:00am - 5:30pm): Came to UCF (from my home in Palm Bay) to meet up with Jeff and code some more Java. Did alot more user interface programming. Added buttons, and a pop up dialog for incorrect user inputs. Programmed about 10kb of Java source code today, total is around 22kb.
• Sunday, October 29, 2000 (8:00pm - 10:00pm): Added a menu bar to the transition editing window. Created the shell for the button listener class and got it working. Created about 4k of code, and the total is 26kb of code that I have created so far.

Week #7:

• Friday, November 3, 2000 (3:00pm - 5:30pm): Worked on more coding of the transition window. The GUI seems to be complete, and now I am just adding the functionality to the buttons. The amount of Java source code I have completed is 32kb. I suspect that the code for the transition window will be complete around 50kb.
• Sunday, November 5, 2000 (12:30pm - 3:30pm): Created the high level design webpage. Update my personal webpage.
• Monday, November 6, 2000 (12:00pm - 4:30pm): Finished the high level design webpage.

Week #8:

• Wednesday, November 8, 2000 (3:30pm - 5:30pm): Worked on more Java code for the project. Concentrated on creating the StateList and it's methods. Had a hard time loading images and checking the size of the image. Finally got it working around 5:00pm.
• Thursday, November 9, 2000 (12:15pm - 3:30pm): Worked more on Java code. Created the methods that handle the creation of new states. Creation of new states was one of the more complicated user events. Code size is around 42kb. Updated my personal webpage.
• Friday, November 10, 2000 (3:00pm - 5:30pm): Continued coding on project.
• Saturday, November 11, 2000 (2:00pm - 8:00pm): Continued coding. The program can now create states, load the images for the state, and the state's precedence can be changed.
• Sunday, November 12, 2000 (11:30pm - 1:00am): Worked on the test plan webpage.
• Monday, November 13, 2000 (3:00pm - 4:30pm): Worked on updating the webpages for the teampage and my individual page

Week #9:

• Saturday, November 18, 2000 (11:00am - 1:30pm): Worked on updating my webpage and the project management report.
• Sunday, November 19, 2000 (2:00pm - 4:00pm): Created UML diagrams to be used in that horribly long Detailed Design document. Added the emails Dr. Moshell and I exchanged to our meetings page since we didn't get the chance to meet with him in person.
• Sunday, November 19, 2000 (8:00pm - 12:00pm): Worked on the Detailed Design document some more UML. Updated many of the webpages.
• Monday, November 20, 2000 (10:30am - 1:00pm): Continued frantically work on the detailed design page. Spoke with Dr. Franceschini about some issues that are coming up. Wrote an email to Jeff for him to add some diagrams for his part of the program, and some information on the classes he will be developing.
• Monday, November 20, 2000 (2:30pm - 5:30pm): Worked on finishing up the detailed design document. Update my personal webpage. Started to also work on modifications to the SRS document.

Week #10

• Wednesday, November 22, 2000 (7:00pm - 10:00pm): Continued coding on the project.
• Thursday, November 23, 2000 (3:00pm - 7:00pm): Continued coding on the project.
• Saturday, November 25, 2000 (8:00am - 5:00pm): Arranged for a meeting with Jeff so we could work on the presentation. Continued coding my module.
• Sunday, November 26, 2000 (10:00am - Midnight): Finished the rough version of the project. Worked out many bugs. Performed lots of integration testing. Started to create some of the transition rules. Also started working on our presentation.
• Monday, November 27, 2000 (Midnight - 3:00am): Finished working on our presentation. Burned a copy of it for CD for preliminary evaluation by Dr. Franceschini.
• Monday November 27, 2000 (10:30am - 5:30pm): Finished our presentation and performed all our final preperations and rehearsals.

Week #11: Vacation

Week #12

• Tuesday, December 5, 2000 (1:00pm - 9:00pm): Worked on finishing the code for the project and doing all the debugging. Also worked on creating the User Manual.
• Wednesday, December 6, 2000 (9:00am - 1:00pm): Worked on printing out the User Manual to give to Dr. Moshell. Did some final debugging and testing. Burned the final product to CD. Also created the CD label and inserts for the product to give it that nice professional store-bought look.
• Sunday, December 10, 2000 (1:00pm - 2:00pm): Worked on personal webpage.
• Sunday, December 10, 2000 (8:00pm - 10:00pm): Updated the Concept of Operations, Software Requirement Specifications, and the Lessons Learned webpages.
• Monday, December 11, 2000 (9:00am - 1:00pm): Worked on completing all the delivearble documents and burning the entire project onto a CD for final delivery.

• Week #1: Did some good research on the topics discussed at our meeting with Dr. Moshell and Mr. Stapleton. Have a good idea on the direction we would like to take our project. Webpage is setup and uploaded for public access.
• Week #2: Met with Dr. Moshell and got initial requirements for our project. Started working on the Concept of Operations webpage. Didn't get to start any coding, but me and Jeff discussed the program's structure.
• Week #3: Finished writing the Concept of Operations document. We decided which version of Java to use (Java 2 V1.3) and installed that on my computer. Also downloaded resource materials to aid myself in the code development. Started coding some very basic shells for the program.
• Week #4: Wrote the Project Management Plan.
• Week #5: Wrote the Software Requirement Specification document. Emailed Dr. Moshell the Concept of Operations and updated him on our progress. The whole week has kind of been destroyed by assignments that were due in other classes and has left us no free time to really do any coding on the project except for the weekend.
• Week #6: Programmed over 20kb of code this week. GUI is looking good and I will start adding some functions to it next week.
• Week #7: Continued developing code and documentation. The GUI for the transition window seems to complete, and I'm working on adding all the functionality to the buttons. Code is over 32kb in size.
• Week #8: Continued programming Java code and developed the test plan. Now I have programmed over 55k in Java code. Program is progressing nicely
• Week #9: Worked mostly on webpage stuff. I'm extremely disappointed at the progress I've made on the project this weekend. In working on the Detailed Design document I've really started to become aware of the many things that need to be developed before the product is finished, and time is quickly running out.
• Week #10: Worked on finishing the code and getting prepared for our final presentations. Longest week ever.
• Week #11: Didn't do anything. To much other stuff going on.
• Week #12: Finished the product. Presented to Dr. Moshell for acceptance. Completed all final deliverables.

• Week #1: No issues
• Week #2: No issues
• Week #3: No issues
• Week #4: No issues
• Week #5: No issues
• Week #6: No issues
• Week #7: No issues
• Week #8: No issues
• Week #9: Conflicts everywhere. Life outside school is conflicting with schools desires to rid me of life and sleep. Other classes are conflicting with the project by forcing me to do their homework also. I need rest.
• Week #10: No issues
• Week #11: No issues
• Week #12: No issues

• I now know why it can be difficult to communicate with customers. Some customers don't really have alot of free time in their schedule's for the developers!
• HTML that is generated by a word processor comes out a big horrible mess and I will never again accept a template like it. Raw HTML that is created with a simple text editor is ten times cleaner and more understandable
• Compiling Java code on a 486 machine takes a very, very, very, long time
• Power Point will not save movies with the presentation. It saves the actual full path of the movie instead. A complete pain when you plan on presenting on a different computer than where you created the presentation.
• Microsoft Word 97 is a horrible mess for making a nice user manual filled with pictures.

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