Team Spider Interim Presentation

Team Spider Members Sponsor  Telecom Consulting Group N.E. Corp. (TCN) Advisor  Professor Raghu Reddy Students  Adam Kreiss  James Gehring-Anders  Ted Wilson

Outline Background information Process Requirements Design Test Plan Project Status Metrics Sample of Output Risks Encountered Questions

Telecom Consulting Group N.E. Corp KnowledgeTrac™ system  A custom search engine, indexing, and dynamic contact manager  Allows information from web sites, documents, and files to be dynamically linked to a specific point of contact so that when a search is performed the contact information is displayed with the results KnowledgeTrac™ Spider  Crawls and indexes web sites or client provided materials to place into databases for use in the KnowledgeTrac™ System  Limited indexing abilities of “electronic documents” found while crawling

Project Proposal Create a tool to be integrated into the KnowledgeTrac™ Spider  Parse a number of popular document formats Office Documents PDF Others  Return readable text to KnowledgeTrac™Spider to be indexed

Two Phase Process Approach Waterfall (Phase I)  Startup planning Project Plan Risk Management Change Management  Requirements  High-level design

Two Phase Process Approach Iterative Implementation (Phase II)  Initial System Implementation Interface to KnowledgeTrac™ Spider tool Framework around plug-ins  Iteration ties to plug-ins  Design each plug-in from template  Test each plug-in separately  Receive feedback and review after each iteration  Revise as needed

Requirements Elicitation  Face to Face Meetings  Initial Project Proposal Specification  Our Formalized Requirements Based on the Elicitation Feedback  Reviewed and Approved by Sponsors

Requirements Technical Constraints  Run on Microsoft™ Windows™  Programmed in VB.net  Able to Detect Document Type Regardless of Extension

System Architecture Model-View- Controller Focused on Modifiability  Adding of Additional Parsers

Design Concerns Parser Modules  Designed to abstract the underlying parsing from rest of the system. Dynamic Loader  Runtime addition of parsers

Test Plan Unit Testing  NUnit Integration Testing  Testing Each Parser’s Interaction with the System System Testing  Testing the Tool’s Integration with the KnowledgeTrac™System

Project Status Phase I  Planning  Requirements  Design  Core Components Phase II  PDF Parser  Other Parsers

Metrics – Estimation Accuracy

Metrics - Slippage

Metrics – Defect Density

Sample Output

Risks Encountered Difficult File Formats  Mitigation: Use of Libraries Inexperienced with Programming Language (VB.NET)  Mitigation: Familiarity with Object Oriented Programming Made Learning Curve Easier

Questions?