Background
The purpose of the Edge project was to build a database for the careers section of Edinburgh University which would enable them to store and advertise career/job opportunities.
The system would allow administrative use for admin staff (ie they are able to alter reference data and approve submissions), general use for internal users or those with EASE credentials so no editing data and a read only section for everybody else.
Foreground
This project is easily two years old now and appears to have been a difficult one from the start, it hasn't followed the typical development procedure we have and is subject to various pressures such as a minimal budget, generous specification for that budget and apparent political influence.
The project was abandoned due to procrastination from the client on specifying requirements, during this the budget ran out and it lay dormant for a year.
Just before it was abandoned the previous placement student had written a design specification and started the build according to the spec, unfortunately the spec wasn't signed off and the application was built to what the project manager thought was 85-90% completion and was passed onto me as such. The task for me was to make up the remaining 10-15%.
The Task
The Task
- Finish off remaining pages
- test application
- deploy application
Initial testing
On first glance the application appeared to work correctly, once I had sat down and gone through it with the requirements document it became apparent that it didn't work as well as first though and in order to complete the build which now was alot less the 85% there would need to be some heavy rework.
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