Phase 1 Complete: on to Phase 2 - Blog 08

Hi! Its been two weeks since the last update on the project, as most of our team members were on vacation last week during Wentworth’s spring break. The last time we met In class, the back end of phase 1 was completely done and ready to present, however the front end was barely started. This week, we were able to complete Phase 1 in its entirety. The user is now able to successfully add speakers, rooms, timeslots, and sessions to the database. They are also able to edit and delete existing entries from the database. We were able to present the working application with its functioning interface and found only two bugs that 3 people from the front end team will be assigned to fix while the rest of put all our effort into implementing Phase 2 of the system.

Now that the user can successfully enter the data for the speakers, rooms, and time slots in order to create sessions, Phase 2 will involve adding the ability to add data resembling the counts of the number of people in each session at the beginning, middle, and end of each session. To do this, Adam designed a user interface that will first let volunteers log in to the app with a name and password, to ensure no one is messing with the data that shouldn’t be. After successfully logging in, the user can select the session they want to add counts for from a scroll-able list of sessions. Once a session is selected, the user is taken to another page that allows them to enter 3 numbers (a count of people in attendance at the beginning, middle, and end of the session), which will be stamped with the name they logged in with.

Over the last week, the back-end team was able to create the new table in the database that we need to store this new count data. From here, we now had the task of assigning work to each person so that everyone could be working on something. Charles and Adam are going to be working on the front end, Andrew will be helping fix the front-end bugs as well supporting the whole team with code reviews and configuration fixes in the back end. Brad and I will be working on the new back-end facade for Phase 2, which will include the new API calls that will need to be made to add/edit/delete counts for each session.

For next week, our goal is to have the back-end facade up and working for Phase 2, as well as the UI complete. This way come next week, the whole team will be able to focus on the front-end facade along with various bug fixes and code cleaning that is left over from Phases 1 and 2. Stay tuned till then!