team-hamming

Inception :

A group project for COSC 340 - Software Engineering. A visual File Browser that will size icons by usage. Members include : Cody, Cara, Manny, Nathan, and Hayden. The construction phase will last 5 sprints with intermittent demos to Dr. Henley.

Elaboration:

• Detailed requirements

  • Supports Mac, Windows, and Linux operating systems
  • Saves file usage counts
  • Pulls Icons through OS for files
  • Sizes Icons based on usage (large for more frequently used)
  • Different Visual Layouts
  • Use Cases???
  • Risks:
    • ■■Requirements risks:
      • Supporting different OS's may bring unforeseeable challenges.
    • ■■Technological Risks:
      • Memory usage for saving file counts
      • Resizing GUI with icons
    • ■■Skills Risks:
      • GUI N00bs
      • Soft Skills / Time management on a group project
      • Github / Subversion control
    • ■■Political Risks:
      • "Are there political forces that can get in the way and seriously affect your project?"

• High-level analysis

• • How to deal with Technological Risks?
    • ■■"Pre Optimization is the root of all evil in programming" We can build prototypes and try out pieces of technology we are thinking of using
  • How to deal with Skills Risk?
    • ■■GUI training
    • ■■Maintaining code that is readable and Refactoring
    • ■■Comments and communication is key

• Baseline architecture

  • Object Oriented Programming (https://python.swaroopch.com/oop.html)
  • Checks OS, Loads Config files / Makes config file
  • Opens or asks for desktop directory

• Plan for construction

Construction :

"Scrum, the most popular agile framework in software development , is an iterative approach that has at its core the sprint — the scrum term for iteration. Scrum teams use inspection throughout an agile project to ensure that the team meets the goals of each part of the process."

Sprints every 2 weeks:

Sprint 1:

** CMD line working program**

• Supports and handles multiple OS's
• Saves file usage in dictionary, Can save path to file + usage in hashmap
• Graveyard

Sprint 2:

** GUI Phase 1:**

• Plum together Cmd program to Filebrowser GUI

Sprint 3:

** GUI Phase 2 & Layouts Phase 1:**

• Icon resizing based on saved usage + some form of graphical layout

Sprint 4:

** Layouts Phase 2:**

• Implementing better and more visual layouts

Sprint 5:

** Layouts Phase 3:**

• Improving layouts

Transition :

• Beta Testing
• Performance tuning
• User training