March 23 - 27

We began reading the Refactoring text this week. It seems like the techniques in the text will be very helpful, especially as the TA matching projects progress.

My group made our first submission for the TA project this Wednesday. Luckily the deadline was extended an extra three days because of spring break. In spite of the extension, my group ended up spending the majority of Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the Taylor basement lab trying to finish all of the requirements. The objectives of this phase were to:

• convert the informal description into a formal specification


• create a series of web forms to collect the required input


• create a series of unit tests of each field of every form


• pick a member of the group to give a demo in class of your forms and their validation

By the way, every group's webapp will be developed on the Google App Engine platform using Python. Here's a pointer to my team's app.