Hi guys,
The project is almost up to the final stage. We are still adding the finishing touches of building it. At the same time, we’re testing the already completed parts of the database. These included the GUI and functionality testing for the Asset Module. User manuals are at the very preliminary stage and we cannot do anymore until Aaron and Tari have finished building.
The major problem for us now seems to be getting the coding finished on time. This seems rather difficult at this stage. So far, the coders have been meeting up every single day, but when they hit problems, they tell me that it takes a long time to overcome them. So worse comes to worse, we will hand in the test documentation on time (on as much as we have tested) and the User manuals will be developed with regards to the most likely way the system will be implemented.
The major reason for our time constraint was the 4-week delay we encountered at the start of semester 2, when it took 4 weeks for My-SQL to be set up in the K block labs. This held us back significantly and we are way behind other groups in terms of building. Despite our early requests for it to be set up, it was quite disappointing that it took 4 weeks to be finally set up. Therefore, we could not start coding till after those 4 weeks. I’m confident that if we even had 2 more extra weeks (instead of 4), we would be well on our way to finishing the project by now.
The biggest challenge within the next week or so will be getting the client sign-off based on what we have managed to code so far. Hopefully, we can convince them that ‘this is what the end system will be like’. However, we do have some of the major functionality working now. It is only a few more things we have to do. So hopefully by this Friday (when our next client meeting is), we will have something to present to the client.
Fingers crossed.
It’s 2.17am now so I’m off to sleep
Nite
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
2 weeks of uni left!
Hey there peeps,
Omg, we have juz 2 weeks of uni left!
Well, last week was the mid-sem break so I had an excuse not to blog…lol. Anyways, the building and testing is running simultaneously at the moment, with Tar and Aaron working tirelessly night and day to get the database up and running as ‘streamlined’ and ‘efficiently’ as initially promised at the start of the year! Thusiya and Ishara and myself have been involved in creating test cases over the past week or so and we have managed to come up with multiple likely scenarios that the typical users will encounter. Based on these, we have developed appropriate test cases to test every single possible implicit assertion that was integrated into our system. These scenarios have also been helpful for us in considering the types of ‘Help’ functions to create. Other than that, I feel pretty confident in delivering the system on time with a significant standard of quality assurance.
Other than IE, I’ve been studying for exams already coz I got 2 exams on the same day on the first week! I kno it sux….but gona have to deal wit it.
Also, it's hard to believe that I'll be finishing uni in two weeks time. Thinking back to my first day at uni back in first year (2004), it seems like yesterday. It's kinda sad in a way, but on the other hand I cant wait to finish, which would eventually bring some closure to all this study and exams and assignments. It would be awesome juz to get the feeling that there will be no more tests or exams in 2 or 3 weeks time. But of course then we gota look for work....but i'm desperately in need of a vacation first of all...LOL.
At the moment it's 1.55am and I'm so tired from catchin up on some previous tute work for accounting. So I think I shud head off and snooze now.....so catch ya later. :)
Nite
Omg, we have juz 2 weeks of uni left!
Well, last week was the mid-sem break so I had an excuse not to blog…lol. Anyways, the building and testing is running simultaneously at the moment, with Tar and Aaron working tirelessly night and day to get the database up and running as ‘streamlined’ and ‘efficiently’ as initially promised at the start of the year! Thusiya and Ishara and myself have been involved in creating test cases over the past week or so and we have managed to come up with multiple likely scenarios that the typical users will encounter. Based on these, we have developed appropriate test cases to test every single possible implicit assertion that was integrated into our system. These scenarios have also been helpful for us in considering the types of ‘Help’ functions to create. Other than that, I feel pretty confident in delivering the system on time with a significant standard of quality assurance.
Other than IE, I’ve been studying for exams already coz I got 2 exams on the same day on the first week! I kno it sux….but gona have to deal wit it.
Also, it's hard to believe that I'll be finishing uni in two weeks time. Thinking back to my first day at uni back in first year (2004), it seems like yesterday. It's kinda sad in a way, but on the other hand I cant wait to finish, which would eventually bring some closure to all this study and exams and assignments. It would be awesome juz to get the feeling that there will be no more tests or exams in 2 or 3 weeks time. But of course then we gota look for work....but i'm desperately in need of a vacation first of all...LOL.
At the moment it's 1.55am and I'm so tired from catchin up on some previous tute work for accounting. So I think I shud head off and snooze now.....so catch ya later. :)
Nite
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