SE401:33:Meeting Minutes Semester 1
Inter Semester Break - 21st June
Present: James, Lauren, Gill
- Discuss our progress with our tool
- Demonstrated our application so far
- Looks like good progress
- Discuss what to do next
- Continue with Iteration 3 and perhaps look at doing Yahoo Maps as well
- Good to try Google and Yahoo maps and then compare pros/cons of each
- Could do regular expression support
- Could try think of a new original application
- IR feedback
- Mostly good
- Robert likes evaluations of work done
Exams Week 2 - 14th June
- Cancelled this week - exams
Exams Week 1 - 7th June
- Cancelled this week - exams
Week 12 - 31st May
Present: James, Lauren, Gill
- Discuss our progress with our tool
- Discussed the new buttons, side bar and successful dummy code insertion
- Discuss future meetings during exam time
- No meetings until after last exam - 15th June
- Discuss what to do next
- Inter semester break is time to finish implementation
- Need to get RSS importing and Google maps implemented
- Yahoo pipes - similar work to ours, need to have differences and reasons for our tool
- Finish iteration 2
Week 11 - 24th May
- Cancelled this week - project on hold
Week 10 - 17th May
- Cancelled this week - updated via email
Week 9 - 10th May
Present: James, Lauren, Gill
- Discuss our progress with our tool
- Discussed the Open Source tool "Kafenio" that we found
- -Sounds like a good idea to proceed with
- -Will read code and gain good understanding
- -Should try to edit it and see if we can work with it
- Discussed what we plan to do
- -Future iterations not planned yet
- -Should do this soon as time is running out
- -Will try to get a Google Maps object working in the WYSIWYG view and code generation
Week 8 - 3rd May
- Cancelled this week - Gill double booked, updated via email
Week 8 - 2nd May - Second Examiner
Present: James, Lauren, Robert
- Discuss what we have done so far for the whole project
- Told Robert about the project in general
- We can report our future progress by emailing Robert when we reach significant milestones or demonstrations
- Discuss the Interim Report
- Discuss our Interim report contents page
- - Robert would prefer more focus on the Project Specification, Architecture Research
- - and less focus on the Project Approach and Iterations/Implementation
- - Give an overall context for our XP Stories - add an extra section?
- Need to sort out a way to measure our finished system
- - Usability testing with people needs to be sorted out soon as processing can take a while
- - Other methods such as heuristics and expert evaluations
Week 7 - 26th April
Present: James, Lauren, Gill
- Discuss what we have done so far
- Mid-semester break progress update
- Keep it simple - don't use the complicated open source software we found
- Could use Java since it's familiar and we have to remember it's only a prototype
- Discuss our Interim Report contents page
- Happy with what we've got
- Should discuss risk analysis somewhere
- Could plan that each team member focuses on different aspects and refer to each others reports
- Don't use same diagrams
- Discuss work separation
- Working together for implementation is fine
- But try to have some separate parts - to show individual work
- Should state who did what
- Discuss if summer research is enough for the report
- Have a few good references
- Summer report is good
- Should mention the example tools from the summer report - RoboMaker and MapBuilder
Week 6 - 5th April
Present: James, Lauren, Gill
- Discuss what we have done so far
- Gill is happy with stories and plans for mid-semester break
- Discuss what to do next
- Try find open source html editor we can extend
- If not start framework from scratch
- We can email contents page for Interim report to Gill to check
- Should ask Robert if he would mind too
Week 5 - 29th March
- Cancelled this week - Gill out of town
Week 4 - 22nd March
Present: James, Lauren, Gill
- Discuss what we have done so far
- New content looks good.
- Need to change our unit testing measure.
- Plugin architecture would be good for extensability
- Mashup categories can be used to show the scope of our project
- Discuss what to do next
- Create more detailed user stories.
- Research how difficult a plugin based architecture would be.
- Decide on what architecture we should use (may not need to decide this week, may be able to make a offline based tool and make it plugin based later).
- Organise Mashup catergories further.
- Make sure we don't encounter too many technical problems straight off
Week 3 - 15th March
Present: James, Lauren, Gill
- Discuss what we have done so far
- Project Aims look good
- But we need to define how we will measure the genericness of our tool
- Discuss what to do next
- Compare what architectures we could use
- - Online vs Offline tool?
- - Generic framework vs Application specific?
- Work out pros and cons of each method
- Determine the project style we wish to use (RUP, XP or a hybrid?)
- Look at ways to categorize mashups
- - By application or technologies etc
- - What things limit or prevent genericness?
Week 2 - 6th March
Present: James, Lauren, Gill
- Discuss where to begin with the project
- Find what we are aiming for - what question are we trying to solve
- Make a list of requirements for the system
Week 1 - 1st March
Present: James, Lauren, Gill
- Discuss weekly meeting times
- Week 2 meeting will be Tuesday 5:00pm
- Week 3 and onwards will be Thursday 2:00pm-3:00pm