Contributions
My contributions to the project for the requirements portion include meeting with
the client and gathering requirements. Lizzie and I met with Tim Owens and tried to
come up with as many requirements as possible. Thomas was not able to come with us
that day because he had a class the only time Tim could meet. Thomas made all the
team meeting reports during that time. I offered to do it, but he said he was fine with
doing it. I also contributed to writing the requirements document. I wrote roughly one
third of the document or less. I fleshed out the requirements from Tim as much as
possible. I did the non-requirements as well. I also made user stories for the document.
Everybody from the team was at team meetings and the meetings were productive. Also
this group was more responsive with communication than my implementation team. I
think this was a good team to work with.
My contributions for the implementation portion of this project include making the
team meeting reports every week. They also include contacting the client. I was the
only member of our group that had any contact with the client. We didn’t actually meet
in person, my team mates said they didn’t think we needed to meet with him. It didn’t
seem necessary initially but in hindsight I wish we would have met with him. I tried to
schedule meeting times to program together but neither Desiree nor Elisabeth ever
seemed to be able to meet up. I wrote the majority of the project plan document,
because my teammates did not start working on it until the night before it was due. I
was panicking that it would not get done so that is why I worked on it so much. I put less
effort into the test plan document because I thought they would procrastinate until the
last night again (which both of them did). I still ended up writing approximately half of it
though.
The last group I was in was the testing team. There wasn’t a whole lot of work to
do with this team. I tested the biology test bank software trying to do as many tests from
the test plan I was able to perform at the time ( since the software was incomplete) that
Patrick Mullen had not already done.