Engineering Notebook: Samantha Shultz - AVanDeBrook/citation-graph GitHub Wiki

Engineering Notebook: Samantha Shultz

Met with team in person to discuss initial design
Figured out our initial designs and goals
- The product to be produced is a web-based tool with which a user can input research papers, view graphs of the citations, and add necessary info
- Some issues deciding whether or not we will use a database
- Deciding whether to put GUI work in more towards the end of the project

Team met to work on SRS document
- Made future plans to start assigning tasks
Met with Liu to talk about any concerns he has with the project
- Making sure we are all on page for what the end product will look like, and we are
Plan to meet again before Thursday to finish the SRS
- SRS due date is Thursday the 11th

Worked on finishing the SRS
- Worked on requirements together and talked about UML diagram
- Completed the document
I assigned some tasks to group members on the scrum board
- We need to further discuss more of the tasks and need to assign them all to members

Worked on the SDS
- Using the SDS from last semester and Dr. Akbas' example as a reference on how to fill out each part
- This is due Thursday (the 18th)
Once all of this documentation is done, we can really start going hard on the project
- Tasks have been split up
- Did some research on how to work with a GUI and Doxygen
- Need to start research on other citation graphs
Started the Test Plan outline

SDS due today
- Filled out some sections
- Went over some sections that other members worked on
Found some citation graph projects
- https://lanstonchu.wordpress.com/2020/08/10/automatic-generation-of-academic-citation-graph-java-version/
  - This looks a bit similar to what the group had in mind for the project
  - Still need to document findings on this
  - Need to do a compare/contrast with our own project

SDS is complete
- Went over the entire document to edit
  - Made lots of edits and rewrote some sections
Research paper almost complete
- Finished my portion of the paper 2/22
  - Received Sultan's on 2/23 and combined ours into one paper
- Draft is made, just need to edit
Now preparing for Sprint Demo on Thursday

Research paper is complete
- Added paper into the Wiki folder on Github
All documents are up-to-date
Worked on Sprint Demo
- Split up with team who will be talking about which points
- Working with team to create a video
Need to fill out peer evals when they become ready
Now that this sprint is over, we can refine our Product Backlog and move things into the Sprint Backlog
- Need to assign tasks for new sprint and created a plan of what we want to get accomplished

Sprint 2 Kickoff
Created and finalized story cards
- Assigned tasks to team members
Once we get feedback from Product Owner and the Costumer we can:
- Update SRS
- Update SDS

Updated SRS
- Went off of David's comments
- Had to add more requirements that we said we would do this sprint
Got together with the team and we went over HTML/CSS/JS
- Need to draw out website design to present to team
  - Once done, I can start working on the HTML and CSS
  - Working with Luis on this
- Useful links for this work:

Drew sketches for website design
- Sent them to the group to get feedback
- Made some changes
- Plan to start working on implementing these designs with Luis
Started work on HTML/CSS and pushed some code
- Struggled a little bit connecting the HTML and CSS that Luis is going to look at
- Designed a potential logo and was able to get some basic design on the website
Need to look at working on Test Plan V1
- Due Thursday 3/11/2021

More HTML/CSS
- Luis worked on the code I sent him, and he sent it back
- Reviewed his changes, and am still working on more design, plan to push more code by tonight
- Need to finish up the design so that we can start implementing the back end work into the front end
- https://fonts.google.com/ (for font search)
Test Plan V1 due today

SDS V2 due today
- Made minor changes
Pushed some code at the beginning of the week for Luis to look over
- He is going to look at it and add to it
Need to finish the input page by this weekend
- Need to ensure this gets done on time so we don't halt back-end

Designed Pages
- About Page done
- Contact Page done
- Just need to add styling to Input Papers and Look Up Papers pages
Sprint Demo on Thursday
- Need to create demo and slides

Preliminary design complete for every page on website
- Worked with Aaron to ensure our branches worked together with no conflicts
- Worked closely with Luis this sprint to design the website
- Next sprint can make better designs, and coding conventions
Met with team to complete Sprint Demo
- Ensured all documents were up to date
- Created presentation
Need to discuss with team tasks for Sprint 3
- Need to clean up backlog and create more tasks

Met with Aaron and completed story card
- The front-end now works with the database
  - Papers that are input are now saved and can be accessed
Cleaned up scrum board
- Moved tasks around so it is up-to-date
Reviewed Corrina's pull-request on the database
- She merged to master

Edit website design
- change look of look up paper page
- fix button alignment on input paper page
- change look of about apge
New dependency graph table look
- edit the information tables

Prepping for IEEE meeting
- working and completing slides
- presentation is tonight
Continued work on web page redesign

Further worked on developing website design
- Redesigned completely some of the pages
- Better alignment
- Table look could still be improved, potentially if this project is adapted
  - Room for improvement in all areas of design for future project work
Completed demo slides
- Presenting today
Ensured all documentation was up-to-date with given notes from TA and prof
- Also edited slides to Prof comments, most comments were on slides that got deleted from IEEE conference though
Now we graduate!