Web Application Experience: Ekolugical Carbonometer 1.0

Moving on to the first Webapp project in ICS613, I was assigned to the same group. My teammates are BJ Peter Delacruz and Wahib Hanani. We name the system "Ekolugical Carbonometer". Our goal is to build a web application that displays carbon emission information for the Oahu power grid. The information displays with a color: red, yellow, and green to indicate the carbon intensity level high, medium or low. Additional detailed about the system can be found here. Check the download section, for the appropriate package.

Activity Overview

On the first day, we met in BJ's office to start on the project. I created the Google Project Hosting for the project and updated the build.xml files to reflect the new project. BJ and Wahib both were working on configuring Hudson and Hackystat. During the week, we met three times: twice during the class hour and another standup meeting. We also had one long meeting over the weekend to review and refactor the system. Beside meeting in-person, we also communicate via Skype. Before I started involve in implementing the system, I spent about two days studying Wicket. We don't use the issue tracker very often. One of the reason due to the project period which isn't that long. Instead of waiting for another member to fix issues that we've found, we just fix it right away.

System Overview

Our implementation goal is to give a reasonable result to the users. We don't want users to defer electricy for three days straight or can always use the electricy anytime. For version 1.0, the system computates dynamic threshold for carbon intensity. The threshold for each day derives from the threshold of the previous two days. The system also check to make sure that the red flag will not stay over 12 hours period. The system still need a lot of improvements as some major issues are listed below:

the output still sometime remain green for the whole day which mean the threshold does not quitely accurate

the system needs to refactor

the system needs more tests

Hopefully, the next release will at least address thes issues.

Group Overview

Overall, everyone works really hard on this project. Each member shares idea and participate actively in the project. We have worked really hard to verify the system and ensure that the distribution package will work for the other users. However, due to the complexity of Wicket and time constraint for the project, the delivered product at this stage is not fully satisfied the goal.

Software ICU

Below is the screenshot of software ICU for our system. From the screenshot above, there are two red flags on churn and test. It's because the system doesn't fully test. The coverage, complexity, and coupling look pretty good.

To join the project, feel free to contact one of the project administrator from the project owner list.