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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