DPS945 Week 7 Notes

Week of August 12, in Aarhus, Denmark.

Topics

There are few new topics this week, because the teams will be working on their project.

Useful links

Repeated from last week…

The course programming project

Background information

General specifications

Here is a link to the groups/teams

Here is a link to the schedule

Monday 12 August notes

Half-way presentations are scheduled for the first hour or so in the morning. Then, the teams continue work on their apps.

Tuesday 13 August notes

One of the topics today is a peer review. This kind of task is frequently done in workplaces, and enables a team to get feedback on progress, share their design and thought process, and maybe get help on challenging issues.

Team A will work with Team D.
Team C will work with Team E.
Team B will work with Torill and Peter.

The plan is to do the following:

1. One team will interview the other team for about 10 to 15 minutes
2. Each of the major features will be reviewed (the three core features and the one custom feature); use the work task and code checklist below
3. Record the results in a paper or digital document
4. Then, switch around and repeat steps 1 to 3

Allow about a half-hour. Use the following as a checklist to review the progress of the other team’s work.

Peer review checklist

The document can be edited. Click the first input field at the top, “name” and edit (e.g. “Team X review of Team Y progress”). Use tab (and shift-tab) to navigate to the next (or previous) input field.

After completing the checklist, print to PDF, and email the PDF to Torill and Peter.

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Another topic is authentication. Rafi Ungar is sharing the procedure and code that he created to handle login and token handling. It is a component that you can use in your app. The code is posted in the code repo.

Wednesday 14 August notes

Two brief topic presentations today:

Testing and quality assurance

Performance considerations

Thursday 15 August notes

Rasmus Klatt delivered a presentation on project management techniques, observations, and suggestions.

Friday 16 August notes

Today, each group will present their work. Here is a link to the presentation schedule. We will begin at 08:30, so Team A should be ready to go then. Sofie will attend, and Anders (teacher of Rasmus) will attend for Team E’s presentation.

Update - The presentations will be to Torill, Peter, and Sofie only (plus Anders for Team E). The other teams will not be in the audience. Please return at 11:45 for the wrap-up before lunch.

Each timeslot will be about 40 minutes in length. That should allow a few minutes setup and completion time between each team’s presentation.

Make sure that at least two team computers have the Airtame software, and that you have tested the system.

Also, practice your team’s presentation before delivering it on Friday morning.

For each timeslot, plan on the following:

• Presentation - each team member participates - total length will be about 10 minutes
• Don’t worry about creating a lengthy slide set - the presentation is brief, and we’re more interested in your thoughts and words, and in a demonstration
• Demonstrate the app, and show some of the code (reminder, white background)
• Be prepared to answer questions about the app, the development process, the team work process, and so on
• Be honest, don’t hide problems or difficulties
• Talk about an example of a problem, and how it was resolved