Post-exam period update
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve managed to put a good amount of work into my thesis. I wrote this post to give an update on my activities. From now on, I will post more often (and shorter).
My last update was the presentation at the end of last semester. At that point I was far advanced in the design and I had evaluated it several times. Since then I’ve only made minor changes to the design. Something else I’ve been doing is reading some articles on metrics in order to get a better understanding of this field and its most important concepts. After my presentation in December Prof. Berendt suggested she could point me into the right direction for materials on metrics and the references she provided were very useful.
Two weeks ago I started learning Ruby on Rails. I wanted to develop in a language/framework that is well suited for agile programming. Two frameworks that are usually linked to this quality are Ruby on Rails and Django (for Python). I’ve compared the two and didn’t find a clear reason to choose one over the other. I had limited experience in Ruby on Rails already and this is why I decided on RoR. A decision I haven’t regretted so far. Ruby on Rails provides a lot of useful things to the developer, it feels “right” so far.
After an extensive tutorial (the book Agile Web Development On Rails) I started implementing my design. It is hard to say how far into development of the first version I currently am but if I had to make a guess it would be about 30-40%. There is a good base to work from and I’ve implemented some of the most important components already. I’m very satisfied with the work I’ve been able to do considering a lot of time was spent on exams (obviously). I want to get the first version done as soon as possible. After that I want to evaluate it thoroughly.
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