Weblog: Week 3


June 2nd, 2003 17:15

Today is my mom's and aunt's birthday.

Worked at State today. Finished up tutorial 2 (about the Class Diagrams). I also worked on updating this site so I can get my next paycheck. After finishing with that stuff I worked on writing a Perl script to get ahead with some of my work at Nortel. The first thing that I'm doing there is writing scripts to help automate the insertion of testing results into the database. So by working on the script today I was able to work out how exactly they want all the scripts to tie together and refresh myself on how to use Perl.


June 3, 2003 21:30

Worked at Nortel today. The script that I wrote on Monday was good practice, but not completely practical with the changed idea of the problem. However, by the end of the day I was able to get a stand alone script working that should work properly given a specific output of the testing results information.


June 4, 2003 23:10

Worked at Nortel today. Spent more time on the script that I worked on yesterday and started writing a new one. Changed the specifications of the problem again. Decided that each test case needs to be named so that the database can then spit out an ID number for each test case. But currently, none of the test scripts are named so Jason and I spent some time changing the test scripts to contain the names of the test cases with a certain pattern. I brought home a copy of the testing framework to try and get it running on my laptop.

I do think that we should be able to finish with the automation of the testing results on Tuesday. There is only a little bit of tweaking left to do on some of the test scripts themselves in order to get things to work and one more script that will need to be written to get the test case ID information out of the database.

Went bowling tonight after work with Hema and Lynn, and a bunch of other people from the SE (Software Engineering) office. Was a lot of fun. We were able to play 2 games and rent shoes for under $5. I scored 103 on the first game and 83 on the second and made 3 strikes overall.


June 5th, 2003 22:45

Worked at State today. One of the things that I'm supposed to be learning about this summer is SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) and SWTUnit for Eclipse. I spent most of today learning about SWT from The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse by Shavor et. all. I read through the section on Eclipse and worked on some of the examples in the book.


June 6th, 2003

State again today. Worked on tutorial 4. It's about state diagrams and how to make them in Rational XDE. Unfortunately, they don't allow for code generation. Also spent time on SWT.