Bug Juice

The team has now come out with a public Google Code Repository that we are using to track our progress as well as the bugs we find and the features/enhancements that we want in the software. Our new timeline is to have all the functionality and bugs mostly done (if not completely done) by POSSCON. This is going to require a lot of effort from the group, especially if we need all the documentation done at the same time. That is why the plan is for Hunter (the main developer currently) to continue to integrate the enhancements while Micah, Laryea, Joanna, and I fix bugs. During the bug fixing we are also assigned secondary tasks. These tasks include adding new bugs and features that we find/want in the issue tracker, as well as working on documentation. Hunter and Laryea are creating a new logo and website, Joanna is extracting the information from the academic paper and putting it into the documentation, Micah (self dubbed King Wiki) is adding what we know about Obsidian and how it runs into the Wiki, while I'll be working on creating guides for how to work on the project with different IDE's and OS's.

The issues that I have been assigned are fixing the generated PackageEqualityMethod's and what they import, as well as implementing the Null and Primitive equality methods at the global level. The first one that I want to tackle is the import issue with PackageEqualityMethod. This task is going to involve finding out how Obsidian currently gathers the required imports, finding common missing import statements and figuring out why Obsidian misses the common missing imports. I'll be spending a good amount of time finding other open source projects written in Java to throw Obsidian at so I can have sufficient data about the missing import statements. Hopefully I'll be able to see common trends with missing imports (an example being that it misses every import statement from com's but not org's) and then quickly come up with a patch.

The other teams all seem to be working hard on their respective projects. I'm really interested in how this class succeeds in reaching their personal goals for this semester. Some teams have picked to work on a lot of bugs while a few will be working on primarily enhancements for their project. I can't wait to see what happens in the next few months.