VDK-RIT
InserterVision Report System
Presented By
Adam Beck
Greg Dicheck
Kassidy Gerber
Mike Young
Agenda
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Project Sponsor
Problem
Our Solution
1st Quarter
2nd Quarter
Design and Implementation
Reflection
Future Plans
Demo
Our Team
Team Leader
Greg Dicheck
Process Manager
Kassidy Gerber
Development Manager
Adam Beck
Testing Manager
Mike Young
Notables
Videk Representative
Chris Haidvogel
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Stephanie Ludi
Alternate Advisor
Prof. Mike Lutz
Project Sponsor - Videk
• 15-year track record of innovation in the field of
process control
• Industry leader in factory automation
• Real-time vision inspection solutions
– OCR software with the industry’s fastest read rate and
processing power
– InserterVision: Single all-in-one solution for input
scanning for machine control
Videk’s InserterVision
TM
• Cameras scan mail jobs for data integrity
– Reads names and addresses for verification
– Diverts misprinted or incorrectly processed mail pieces
• High-speed solution reduces costly and errorprone manual checking
• Absolute quality assurance and reduced
document liability
Problem
• Anticipating customer needs
– Increased traceability
– Storage of mailing job results
• Proposed add-on to InserterVision
– Increase marketability of InserterVision
– Generate revenue from sales of training
• Videk approached RIT for a Senior Project
Our Solution
• InserterVision Report System (IVRS)
• Low-cost DBMS and reporting solution
• Client-server architecture
– Display, format, and print reports
– Access over a company intranet
– Uses data collected from the Videk camera system
• Meant to be deployed with InserterVision
• Implemented as a functional proof-of-concept
Project Deliverables
• Functional program including source
• System Documentation
– User Manual
– Installation Manual
– Quick Start Card
• Project Documentation
– Project Vision & Scope
– Software Requirements Specification
– Software Design Specification
Project Process
• Responsibilities assigned by task
– Leveraged individual strengths of team members
– Revisited task list weekly
• All documents reviewed by the team
– Formal Inspections
– Inspection Checklists
• Elicitation Sessions
– Meetings between customer contact and the team
– Email for clarifications
Project Process (2)
• Coding Standards
– Set forth in the Configuration Management Plan
• Defect Tracking
– Defects stored in the Issue Tracker spreadsheet
– Quality Manager maintained the Issue Tracker
– Test Manager closed the resolved defects
Project Process (3)
• Change Control
– All changes formally approved by the team according to
the Change Control Process
• Traceability
– Requirements traced through the entire project using a
Requirements Traceability Matrix
Project Process Tools
• Task Plan
– Used to assign and schedule team tasks
• Issue Tracker
– Used to file and track system defects and
changes
• Requirements Traceability Matrix
– Used to trace project requirements through
the project
1st Quarter Schedule
Week Date
Milestones
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December 1
Introduction to product & sponsor
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December 8
Draft process & assign roles
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December 15
Produce synopsis, refine process, meet with sponsor
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January 5
Review progress & prepare initial SRS draft
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January 12
Prototype GUI v1.0
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January 19
Complete SRS draft
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January 26
Inspect & deliver SRS v1.0
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February 2
Prepare Software Design Specification (SDS) Draft
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February 9
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February 16
Refine SRS v2.0 and draft documents SDS v1.0,
Quality Plan v1.0, and Test Plan v1.0
1st Quarter Deliverables
• Project Vision & Scope
• Software Requirements Specification
• Risk Management Plan
• Configuration Management Plan
• Software Quality Plan
• Draft Acceptance Test Plan
1st Quarter Decisions
• Authentication
– Levels of access for different Users
• System Administrator (All functionality)
• Manager (Import/ Export/ Delete Data Sets)
• User (View/ Save Reports)
– Different Permissions given
• Permission to create/ edit/ delete Templates
• Adaptable to include more permission types
1st Quarter Decisions (2)
• Configurable system logging
– Administrator sets criteria
– System records only log statements that
match established criteria
• Editors for customizing
– Template Editors
– User Account Editor
1st Quarter Decisions (3)
• Templates for End-User Extensibility
– Standard: Pre-defined, selectable filters
– Advanced: Open-ended SQL filtering
– Specialty: Missing Sequence, Combined,
and Duplicates
• Template Filters
– Standard for data filtering on a specific field
– Special (Count, Sum, Average)
2nd Quarter Schedule
Week Date
Milestones
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March 8
Draft Requirements Traceability Matrix
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March 15
Refine Test Plan v1.0, acquire test data sets from Videk
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March 22
Begin Implementation and finalize Test Plan v1.0
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March 29
Finalize SDS v2.0
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April 5
Deploy re-manufactured VDK-RIT website
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April 12
Begin Test Plan Execution
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April 19
Finalize SDS v3.0
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April 26
Finalize User Manual and Quick Start card
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May 3
Demo Acceptance Tests, deliver User Manual v1.0, finalize
team poster board, draft Final Presentation
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May 10
Final Presentation, Write summary paper, re-deploy latest
VDK-RIT website
2nd Quarter Deliverables
• Software Design Specification
• Alpha, Beta, and Gamma code builds
• Project Documentation
– User Manual
– Installation Manual
– Quick Start Card
• Final Acceptance Test Plan
• Senior Project Poster
• Technical Paper
Implementation Decisions
• Selected object-oriented PHP4 technology
• Advantages
– Familiarity with object-oriented (OO) languages
– Inheritance
– Modular design
– PHP moving toward OO practices
– Free development tools
Implementation Decisions (2)
• Disadvantages
– Lack of strong variable typing goes against
some OO principles
– More difficult error handling
– No function overloading
IVRS Major Features
• Store Data Sets for completed mailing jobs
• Display selected Data Sets
– Format data display according to templates
– Sort display according to multiple sort keys
• Printer-friendly reports
IVRS Major Features (2)
• Accessible from web browsers
• Controlled user access
• Multiple levels of access
• Editors for creating and modifying templates
IVRS Design
Legend
Account
DBHandler
Authenticator
DBMS
Data Entity
Recorder
FileSystem
View
VDKSession
Page
PageRegular
PageReportStandard
Boundary
Service
EditorStandard
DataSet
Resource
ObjectFactory
Template
IVRS Implementation
• Implemented in three incremental builds
• Alpha Build
– User to select and display a single data set
• Beta Build
– Added ability for user to create, modify, and
delete report templates
– Fixed defects found in Alpha Build
IVRS Implementation (2)
• Gamma Build
– Implemented user permissions
– Added all administrator functionality including system
logging, user account creation and manipulation, and
company header creation and manipulation
– Fixed defects in the report template creation and
modification
– Added user help pages
• Commented code to generate PHP Docs
automatically
IVRS Quality
• Unit Testing done informally by the
developers
• Integration Testing done informally by the
Development Manager
• System Tests performed by all developers
and led by the Test Manager
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Deployment
Web Browsers
File
System
Local Intranet
DBMS
Report System
InserterVision
Camera System
Reflections - Positive
• Team adapted well to changes in
requirements and scheduling
• Team leveraged abilities to complete tasks
efficiently
• Team created a well-documented system
that will help in transition to Videk
Reflections - Negative
• Document overhead
• Scheduling conflicts
• Less formal process in the 2nd Quarter
• Not enough time to complete the
Import/Export Data Sets feature
Future Plans
• The IVRS system will be deployed with
InserterVision
• Maintenance and any future enhancements
will be provided by Videk
Acknowledgements
• Videk and Chris Haidvogel
• Dr. Stephanie Ludi
• Cohber