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This is the official wiki for the LMU CMSI 401 Software Engineering Laboratory course for 2013.

The wiki functions as the traditional project notebook. All design notes, documents, reports, discussion, and other artifacts related to the course are kept here.

Project Summary

Chuzr is a social ranking application where users give opinions on products, ideas, or similar things, by voting, ranking, rating, or tagging. Users can gain reputation for their actions, and acquire coupons and random prizes. Users can login via facebook or twitter, and even post their activities and rewards to these social networks. The application also performs offline analysis of user activity to process user opinions, providing reports useful to marketing or advertising agencies.

Table of Contents

• Research and Analysis
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Use Cases
  • Similar Applications
• Planning
  • Milestones
  • Status Reports
• Architecture
  • Architecture Notes
• Design and Implementation
  • Subsystems
  • Components
  • Storage
  • Models
  • Ingestion
  • Server
    • REST Endpoints
    • Storage Abstraction Layer
  • Clients
    • Paperframes
    • Wireframes
  • Views
• Testing
  • Unit Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • REST API Testing
    • The Test Environment
    • Synchronizing Datastore Updates for API Testing
  • Acceptance Testing
• Development and Deployment
  • Configuration
  • Deployment
  • Errors?
• User Guide
• Final Presentation
• Appendices
  • Meeting Notes
  • References
  • Brainstorming Notes
  • Developer Quotes
  • Future Work

For information about the course for which this project was written, including the syllabus and the course notes, see the LMU course web page. This wiki is strictly for the coursework and collaboration, not for dissemination of course announcements and requirements.

The Team

The Chuzr Team consists of (in alphabetical order):

• Andrew Kowalczyk
• Britain Southwick
• Danny Gibson
• Haley Young
• Jasmine Dahilig
• Joe Crawley
• Jon Piatos
• Kaitlyn Higa
• Lisa Rosenbaum
• Quin Thames
• Terran Moore
• Thomas Costello

Ray Toal was the course advisor.

The senior class gratefully acknowledges support from Shopzilla. The course for which this project was designed is flagged for Engaged Learning in LMU's core curriculum, and thus requires a relationship with an outside entity. Zac Propersi, a senior engineer at Shopzilla, served as our industry contact.

Some professors and alumni registered as committers, or provided insight, help, advice, or pestering. Thanks to Dondi Dionisio, B.J. Johnson, Caskey Dickson, and Masao Kitamura.