Pictures

Hi everyone,
Everyone took tons of pictures on Friday
I set up a flickr account

www.flickr.com

we can upload over there, even integrate it with the blog

So the account name is
id: rtbteampics
password: 123456

we can all upload there so there won't be any troubles with it.
Thanks!

Congratulations!

Hi eveyone,

Yesterday was the end of a long journey that we have finished with all our pride sucessfully.

I want to thank all of you for being such amazing designers, coders, managers and testers.

We have worked really hard and I think we impressed Professor Fawcett because I think we are the best team ever been alive :)

All the team members: Thank you for all the building blocks that has built this entire system
All the team leaders: Thanks for your great designs, your mindstorming sessions and your work ethics.
All the testers and the test manager: Thanks for you to qualify this system over and over again and discovering all the bugs beforehand. And amazing test procs which were more than Prof asked for.
The architect: Thanks for this great design, your effort to cater to all the team members and leaders.


I can say that I have learned a lot from this experience and you guys. I am inspired by your passion and efforts to make this project usable.

Congratulations again!

"a late night qual test is the best qual test"
-Aristotle

Schedule Fall 2005

5 December

Bugs and Test Procedure Discussion: Sriram Ramamurthy
Team Meetings

9 DECEMBER
Qualification Test !!!!!!!!
yaaay!

12 December
Final Product Delivery

Schedule Fall 2005



28 November

A Spec changes: Vijay Appadurai

Test Readiness Review and Integration Summary +
Bugs and Test Procedure Discussion: Sriram Ramamurthy
Team Meetings

5 December
Qualification Test

12 December
Final Product Delivery

Last weekend's review

http://web.syr.edu/~nustunda/rtb/Requirement.htm

We can do much better.

Schedule Fall 2005


21 November
Discussion of current situation+opening remarks: Gulru Ustundag
Changes in Design/Specs: Vijay Appadurai
Bugs and Test Procedure Discussion: Sriram Ramamurthy

Team Meetings

28 November
Test Readiness Review and Integration Summary

5 December
Qualification Test

12 December
Final Product Delivery

the schedule

Schedule Fall 2005

3 October	A spec Review-Architecture
10 October	Prototypes, Meeting with Team Leaders, Team Members Issue 1: message passing, object passing? Issue 2: Questions with the architecture and Design and Discussion of Designs of Teams.
17 October	B-Spec Review
24 October	BSpecs DUE!
31 October	Design Review Test Plans
7 November	Status Report: 5-10 mins of talk about the status of the teams, work and discussion+issues resolved, integration.
14 November	Status Report: 5-10 mins of talk about the status of the teams, work and discussion+issues resolved, integration. Project Manager: Nezahat Gulru Ustundag Component Management and Communication System Team: Pushkar Pathak Repository Server Team: Jeetendra Kukreja Test Bed Server Team: Jiaqi Yu Repository and Test Bed Server Client Team: Pooja Desai Test Team: Sriram Ramamurthy Team Meetings
21 November	Test Readiness Review and Integration Summary
28 November	Final Test Meetings & Reviews
2 December	Qualification Test
12 December	Final Product Delivery

Code uploading

everyone please upload your code to the class share.

thanks,

Schedule Fall 2005



7 November
Customer Review of Specs and Design

Status Report: 5-10 mins of talk about the status of the teams, work and discussion+issues resolved, integration.
Project Manager: Nezahat Gulru Ustundag
Component Management and Communication System Team: Pushkar Pathak
Repository Server Team: Jeetendra Kukreja
Test Bed Server Team: Jiaqi Yu
Repository and Test Bed Server Client Team: Pooja Desai
Test Team: Sriram Ramamurthy

Integration Status Report
RT Client-Communication-> Pushkar Pathak
Repository Server-Communication-> Atanu Panda

Team Meetings

14 November
Integration Report
RT Client-Communication-> Kevin Alden
TestBed Server-Communication -> Pooja Desai

21 November
Test Readiness Review and Integration Summary

28 November
Final Test Meetings & Reviews
2 December
Qualification Test

12 December
Final Product Delivery

great news about cspecs

We don't have to submit the document c-specs this week, we can take our time, it's just the presentations that Prof Fawcett is looking for. So everyone keep coding and may the integration be with you.

Revised BSpecs and CSpecs

are here in this directory

http://web.syr.edu/~nustunda/rtb/

Thanks to the RT Client and the Repository Team for all of them sending their presentations

testbed:
Vijay
Nikhil
communication:
Gautam
test team:
Pooja
Atanu

Revised XML Format is also there
Prof Fawcett will review these presentations, so please send them immediately.

today's meeting at 6

In Madlab as usual, then moving to studio break for snacks and heated discussion.

be calm test team

Dear Sriram,

I wasn't saying you guys weren't working, I was trying to make everyone work faster so your work can flow better; just writing it in a better way than you but saying the same thing. Don't take it personal, and please before criticizing the other team's leads, keep your tone a bit down. Everyone is working on this with their hearts on and the least we need is another team leader publicly criticising the other's work.

Please be considerate the others' work and appreciate it as much as you do yours. I don't want to make discussion go further so if you have any doubts or anything, please reply to me by mail.

cheers and love to all my members and leaders.

Today's meeting

Was really good to solve the issues, we will meet again at the same time, first in Madlab and then move to studio break.

So now Vijay tonight will post the XML format, and everything should be clear.

Base64 encoding will be done in Repository and RT Client for files.

Testbed's meeting with Prof Fawcett will resolve some issues too.

And we discussed some other internal issues.

and for everyone:

We are still discussing designs here, team leaders should talk to their team members and make them, help them to finish the coding phase! Test Team and the whole project is stalling and you know that CSpecs should have been ready for Friday, but it doesn't seem like so.

So everyone please with any problems, come to the meetings, discuss the issues and keep working on the problems; after the xml format being clear, everyone should work in speed of light. We have an integration to catch!!!!

good luck and see you.

issues

I am already planning to make a meeting this week, because I feel like VJ is going from one place to another, and there are too many issues around that keep on getting discussed. I am planning to talk to vijay too and want to get a meeting where all of us can discuss and resolve the issues

Team Leaders please write a combination of resolved/unresolved issues IMMEDIATELY to the blog. Prof Fawcett wants to see them here.

Last issues raised in the review:

Comm team:
-base64 2 times? not so ok.
ravi:what to do with cache? lru maybe?
Repository:
-backup?
-directory issue-> resolved. will be left as is.
-closed=readonly

RT client:
-routing issue
-registry is not such a good idea
-right click-> move to local cache

Test:
-grouping of test so that we won't do same things(SRIRAM please sit with your team member about this)
-Repository should check out comm team's tests, might overlap both.

Please get your cspecs ready for Friday, and I will post the ppt's today, ANYONE WHO DIDN"T SEND PPTS I am promising to come and get it from your house at 2 am in the morning.


So my plan is meeting tomorrow at 6; any questions and concerns about the meetings or suggestions _should_ be sent to the listserv since this blog is to discuss mostly design issues and project related discussions.

problem with the blog, i think i got it.

people having syr.edu addresses, i will remove you from the group and invite again, this is because of when we first added the e mails we didnt put mailbox.syr.edu. will be solved soon

test blog

post

The Schedule.

Schedule Fall 2005



3 October
A spec Review-Architecture

10 October

Prototypes, Meeting with Team Leaders, Team Members
Issue 1: message passing, object passing?
Issue 2: Questions with the architecture and Design and Discussion of Designs of Teams.

17 October
B-Spec Review

24 October

Status Report: 5-10 mins of talk about the status of the teams, work and discussion+issues resolved


31 October
(Today)
Design Review: Team leaders prsent action items, remark about preperation for testing. Team Members present sample test descriptions and roughed in test descriptions.

Project Manager: Nezahat Gulru Ustundag
Software Architect: Vijay Appadurai
Component Management and Communication System Team
Repository Server Team
Test Bed Server Team
Repository and Test Bed Server Client Team
Test Team

(Integration Starts soon!)

7 November
Integration Report
RT Client-Communication-> Pushkar Pathak
Repository Server-Communication-> Atanu Panda

14 November
Integration Report
RT Client-Communication-> Kevin Alden
TestBed Server-Communication -> Pooja Desai

21 November
Test Readiness Review and Integration Summary

28 November
Final Test Meetings & Reviews

2 December
Qualification Test

12 December
Final Product Delivery

BSpecs

Hi everyone,

These are the B-Specs of all the teams, so that all of you guys can review and check.

Communications Team
Repository Team
Testbed Server Team
RT Client Team

and your Test Plan Document


-gu:lru

The Schedule

Schedule Fall 2005



3 October
A spec Review-Architecture

10 October

Prototypes, Meeting with Team Leaders, Team Members
Issue 1: message passing, object passing?
Issue 2: Questions with the architecture and Design and Discussion of Designs of Teams.

17 October
B-Spec Review

24 October
(Today)
Status Report: 5-10 mins of talk about the status of the teams, work and discussion+issues resolved
Component Management and Communication System Team: Pushkar Pathak
Repository Server Team: Jeetendra Kukreja
Test Bed Server Team: Jiaqi Yu
Repository and Test Bed Server Client Team: Pooja Desai
Test Team: Sriram Ramamurthy
BSpecs DUE!


31 October
Design Review
Test Plans

7 November
Integration Report
RT Client-Communication-> Pushkar Pathak
Repository Server-Communication-> Atanu Panda

14 November
Integration Report
RT Client-Communication-> Kevin Alden
TestBed Server-Communication -> Pooja Desai

21 November
Test Readiness Review and Integration Summary

28 November
Final Test Meetings & Reviews

2 December
Qualification Test

12 December
Final Product Delivery

Presentations

Here are the presentations of the Bspecs (in doc and zip format)

Communications Team

Repository Team

Testbed Server Team

RT Client Team

Test Team


enjoy!!!

-gulru

Congratulations!

Thanks a lot to all the team leaders for their presentations, and everyone who was involved during the process.

I will post the team leaders+Prof Fawcett the changes, and then will post the links to the Presentations here.

Xml message passing

I second the view that Xml messages should be passed between processes than bulky objects. Processing of Xml is far simpler than serializing objects and sending them. A number of Sri's points seem valid in this case. It would also improve the speed of communication...take google maps for example...nothing but Xml messages being passed over as the user drags a map in a certain directions...will make for a slicker interface as well.

Just my view....glad to see a number of ideas popping in so rapidly.

Cheers.
Avin

i am sure

that all of you guys tried to understand the project and came up with questions to ask vijay today, so that in your free time you guys are thinking about tshirts logos and stuff. I hope your efforts for the project will be as enthusiastic as the naming process.

real meaning of this post: stop playing and get to work!!!

love you all,

^_^

yeah right