e-Advisor

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e-Advisor

• Anand Srinivasan
• Chandna Bhatnagar
• Naveen Koorakula
• Praveen Patnala
• Sriram Sellappa
• Vibhor Jain

COMP 145 Team Software Engineering Department of
Computer Science University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
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System Architecture

• Automate the current advising process by
  providing separate online choice-entry for the
  student and advisor.
• Maintains a lot of information about past,
  current and future semesters.
• Five main components - Class diagram
• GUI
• Collaborator
• Rules Module
• Access Control
• Database

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Demo
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Technical issues

• Rules in advising system
• set of boolean expressions
• e.g. (CS gt 3) AND ((CSNONCS) gt 4)
• XML Javabeans
• Access control
• Collaboration
• notification, chat sessions
• ability to view peers choices

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Pitfalls and Roadblocks

• Job interviews
• 2 week backlog in schedule
• covered up later by working extra
• Large software
• involved interaction amongst different modules -
  written by different team members

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Successes

• Good team work by all members
• good interaction
• Proper division of labor
• depending on the skills of each person
• Successful brainstorming sessions
• for designing the software

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