Selected Topics of Software Engineering - Distributed Software Development

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Student Companion - Project Current State
Achievements
Members in Croatia Ante Radman Bruno
Samardžic Gabrijel Smoljkic
Members in Sweden Andreas Drake Asad
Saleem Muhammad Usman Ghani Robert
Lundquist Vasilis Odontidis
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Agenda

• Current project status
• Workload and cost
• Problems and challenges
• Detailed component status
• Demonstration
• Backup Component
• Language Component
• Multithreaded Search
• Search Component

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PROJECT STATUS
DONE
DONE
DONE
BEHIND SCHEDULE
ALMOST ON TRACK
ALMOST ON TRACK
LATER
LATER
LATER
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Workload
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Cost
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Problems and Challenges

• Problems with WinCVS
• Some components are behind schedule due to
  unbalance in programming skills
• Problems with the PDA

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Backup Component

• Features
• Use of Microsoft Cabinet Files (.cab)
• Ability to separate the data into chunks (CDs,
  DVDs)
• Restore backups
• Selective backup

• Challenges
• Burning feature had to be skipped

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• Status

Developer Robert
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Language and Filehandler Component

• Features (Language Component)
• Handling of multiple language files

100

• Status

• Features (Filehandler Component)
• Storing file information
• Abstraction layer for the file system
• Event-based methods to provide functionality for
  progress information

95

• Status

Developer Andreas
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Search Component

• Features
• Search for files, inside files and information
  stored in information handler
• Customizable search method
• Multithreaded search

50

• Status

Developer Vasilis
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Course Component

• Features
• Other components eventnote, notes, grade and file
  are interlink with courses
• Click on the menu bar for different options like
  (add, view)
• By Clicking on view you can view data like course
  detail, note, events note and grade
• By clicking on add you can all the details like
  add course, add file, add notes and grades

Developer Asad
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Almanac Component

• Status
• Searching for almanac component.
• Looked at different component third party
  component (like code project)
• The general idea is
• Showing calendar
• On a date box show the schedule for the
  particular date.
• Add notes
• Add Events
• Add File

Developer Usman
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Almanac Component

• Preview

Developer Usman
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Communication and Synchronization

• Features
• Connecting to other devices and synchronizing
  users data
• developed a specialized data exchange protocol
  using XML
• enabled both one-to-one and many-to-one
  connections
• developed a special testing mechanisms which
  simulate many users synchronizing data
• Next step
• integration with database and file handling
  components

80

• Status

Developers Ante and Gabrijel
2015-12-30
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Other Components

• Installer
• Planning to start implementing next week
• Main Program
• Already started (20 complete)
• Presented prototypes approved

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Demo Time
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Thank you

• Now your questions, please.