Individual Diaries(Yenn Yenn Tan, 4095133)

Name: Yenn Yenn Tan

Student ID: 4095133

3/8/2013

Spent an hour to looking through the requirement needed to manage a mall system in Google and make a research regarding the requirements needed for a mall system based on the notes below.

4/8/2013

Spent twenty minutes to prepare a rough sketch of email to request for an informational interview of a mall.

5/8/2013

Spent an hour in doing research on the shopping mall in Wollongong by looking through their websites and research on how a mall system goes.

6/8/2013

Spend an hour in doing research on the design methodologies. My decision is to apply RAD, because what we want is iterative, user feedback driven and early risk detection. I have looked through prototype, however, prototype will confuse the customer as the prototype intended to be thrown is the final system. it will misunderstand the user's objective. In RAD, it needs the customer and development commitment in order to complete the project, which suits our requirement. It reduce risk by breaking to smaller segments and also an iterative production software. It is also flexible and adaptive. All these characteristic suits our requirement.

7/8/2013

We had a meeting with new member, Joshua. We were discussing about the design methodologies that each of us had looked through, and thought RAD and prototype might not be suitable because it is best suited for large projects. Therefore, we are assigned to do more research on the design methodology. I spent an hour to look through the methodologies in the net.

8/8/2013

I spent roughly an hour to research on functional requirements for a mall management. Not only that, I have also created a blog named www.projectcsci321.blogspot.com for individual diaries and has also updated the 'about us' section description. We had a meeting with the supervisor and Joshua raised an opinion about using QT. So, I spent a couple of hours downloading the software and viewing videos in Youtube for assistance in using Qt. Once the software is downloaded, I spent a couple of minutes to use the software and found difficulties in using QT Creator as the video I have viewed is an older version of the software. So, I spent another few hours in looking out for other videos.

10/8/2013

I have just sent an email to the supervisor for checking of the email regarding the interview request.

11/8/2013

I spent an hour to do some research on malls(manage a mall). I have sent the mail to Westfield(Figtree) and Crown Street Mall after the approval of email from Dr. Luke.

13/8/2013

I have spent an hour to do a research on the design methodology again and the purpose of a mall management. I have configured QT in NetBeans and explore the use again.

14/8/2013

We just had another group meeting with new team member, Ace.

We have discussed the design methodology and decided to use iterative and incremental development.

I have spent a couple of minutes to write team meeting diaries, and an hour and a half to gather information on functional requirements needed for a mall manager.

16/8/2013

I did some research regarding the iterative and incremental development and found out that it is similar to RUP and RUP is an improved version of iterative and incremental development.

So, we have decided to implement the system using RUP method.

18/8/2013

We had the first online meeting using Google Hangout, as it is convenient for all of us to communicate. not only that, we also uses Google Drive to upload any files in a folder named CSCI321. We have listed out all the requirements needed for the first presentation.

This is the folder, CSCI321 in Google Drive.

This was a screenshot of the chat we had.

19/8/2013

I spent a few minutes to write team meeting diaries. Also, I have spent an hour to do a research on the purpose of a mall manager system.

24/8/2013

We had another meeting through Google Hangout to make a preparation for presentation slides in Google Drive together.

28/8/2013

I spent a few minutes to write team meeting diaries for meeting held on 24/8/2013. Not only that, I have also done some research on the design of the system whether to have server in the sketch.

29/8/2013

We had a group meeting before the meeting with the supervisor. We have made some amendment on the presentation slides. I have done some review on the statistics of the most used browsers and some research on the overview of a mall manager system.

31/8/2013

I have wrote team meeting diaries for meeting held on 29/8/2013.

1/9/2013

I have updated my individual diaries on the blog all at once.