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Hello there, dear friend. So here we are, in our final blog post. Somewhat sad, isn’t it? I mean, in the beginning, this was just a project that we had to do in the course of a lecture. Sure, we had something big in mind. Choosing sides against amazon, the biggest online shop in the … Read more

We would suggest running at least the backend in linux (or via wsl under windows) in order to prevent issues with npm under windows. Install mariaDB: TutorialBe sure to leave the port set to 3306. Also, we assume the username and password to be root. If you choose to use a different username or password, … Read more

Hello again! This week, we had a look at the code metrics from codacy. As we already integrated codacy in our workflow, it makes sense to look at the change proposals so we also have a more stable and more secure application. The following screenshots show you the issue dashboard as well as a detailed … Read more

This week, it was time for another retrospective, evaluating our sprints for this semester. You can also read our last retrospective here. This time, we did our retrospective together with TaskHub. You can read their blog post about the retrospective here. We began by noting the things we found positive, negative, confusing and not-so-good. After … Read more

In the end, it all comes down to 0 and 1 Vineet Goel But a good developer should care about other software developers and not about machines. Since we, software developers, are used to be very lazy it is a good idea to get acquainted with design patterns. Wait, what?! New information again (Figure 1)? … Read more

Hello and welcome back, fellas! This week, it was all about learning how to properly refactor existing code. Therefor, we worked through chapter one of Martin Fowler’s book “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”. In this chapter, he starts with some example code and explains the first steps he takes when refactoring code. We … Read more

Hey guys and gals, this week we worked on our testing. Since it’s close to impossible to get full test coverage in just on week, we worked on testing our Frontend. We used Jasmine for Unit Tests and Karma to execute these tests. Below you can see a screenshot of our test coverage: The tests … Read more

This week we are going to calculate function points both for already existing and for the upcoming Use Cases. These FPs will help us to create a diagram for better time asigning. Here is an example of it: Function Point 0.o “What are those function points?” would be a reasonable first question. Here is a … Read more

As part of our weekly chores, we assessed the risks to our project. While we thought of those, we became aware of some risks that we weren’t prepared for. We didn’t have a regular database backup in place for example. Below you can see our finished table of risks. Name Description Probability Impact Risk Factor … Read more

Today, besides us being back from our practical stage, we got some exiting news for you!As our website grew bigger and bigger with an average visitor count of almost 10 per day, we got an amazing offer from our friends at Amazon. Jeff Bezos contacted us personally a few weeks ago and offered to buy … Read more

We’re back! Three months have passed since you last heard from us, and we’re happy to say that we are back with new energy. A fresh start into the new semester, full of energy and ideas. Today we regrouped and planned our first sprint for this semester. We made sure that everybody is able to … Read more

Welcome back to the last blog post for this year. In this post, we will give you an overview over what we did this semester. If you’re interested in our midterm presentation, you can have a look at it here: Presentation. You can also find the handout for the presentation here: Handout. Now, we are … Read more

Hi there, this week we want to give you an overview over our Architecture. For the Frontend we decided to use Angular 14 and the Backend is implemented with Typescript in NodeJS with ExpressJS. The Backend serves a REST-like API to interact with our MariaDB Database. Since we use Angular as our Frontend Framework, we … Read more

Howdy! This week, we don’t have too much to tell you as we did a so-called “retrospective” last week. A retrospective is sort of a team-meeting that you do from time to time to talk about the past sprints. The purpose is for the team to know how other team members feel and to get … Read more

Hello there! This week it gets visual at Betterzon. We got together and thought about ways to share our ideas about the structure of some parts of the project in a visual way. Since our codebase is not very large at the moment, we thought that our ERM might be interesting for you. Our database … Read more

Howdy there and welcome to week 6! This weeks task was to get familiar with Scrum. To put it short, Scrum is a way to manage agile projects, mostly, but not only used in software engineering. In Scrum, at the beginning of a project, all work packages are documented and put in the so-called “backlog”. … Read more

Hello there, We hope you had an exciting week! Now it is time to lean back and relax. Relax of course means to read our blog 😉. Well, so this week we started with writing our first tests. The test tool we went for is Cucumber. In short this is a tool, which supports the … Read more

Tasks for this week The fourth week of the Betterzon project has begun. This time the first task was to create an Activity Diagram for two use cases: “searching a product” and “crawler”. The second one was to make a CRUD Diagram. And last but not least we had to create a Mockup. 1.1 Searching … Read more

This week at Betterzon we are going to tell you about the progress we made with our infrastructure and defining our requirments. We’re using the Software Requirements Specification template for the Rational Unified Process. The Document is part of the wiki section in our GitHub repository. After we specified our requirements, we were able to … Read more

Roles Last week, we introduced you to our project. Now that we had more time to discuss it in detail, in this weeks blog-post, we’d like to introduce you to the RUP Roles defined by IBM and our final decision on technologies. RUP is short for Rational Unified Process and it basically defines, who is … Read more