The Salesmen development team presented these slides at VUB-SE 2009. The three competing Software Engineering projects at VUB presented their achievements since the inception of their projects.

1. Software Engineering
Conference 1
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2. Overview
1. Project information
2. Innovation and requirements
3. Tools and configuration
4. Quality Assurance
5. Why choose Salesmen?
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3. Project informatie
Salesmen
salesman |ˈsālzmən|
noun ( pl. -men)
a man whose job involves selling or promoting commercial products.
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4. Project information
Salesmen
Professional Fast
Smooth Smart
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5. Project information
Team
‣ Nick De Cooman ‣ Bart Maes
‣ Jonathan Jeurissen ‣ Patrick Provinciael
‣ Sina Khakbaz Heshmati ‣ Wouter Van Rossem
‣ Jorne Laton
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6. Project information
Team
Nick De Cooman
‣ Project manager
‣ Assistant Design manager
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7. Project information
Team
Jonathan Jeurissen
‣ Project secretary
‣ Assistant Requirement manager
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8. Project information
Team
Sina Khakbaz Heshmati
‣ Webmaster
‣ Implementation Manager
‣ Assistant Configuration manager
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9. Project information
Team
Jorne Laton
‣ Configuration Manager
‣ Assistant Implementation manager
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10. Project information
Team
Bart Maes
‣ Design Manager
‣ Assistant QA manager
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11. Project information
Team
Patrick Provinciael
‣ Quality Assurance Manager
‣ Assistant Project Manager
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12. Project information
Team
Wouter Van Rossem
‣ Requirement Manager
‣ Assistant Webmaster
‣ Assistant Project Secretary
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13. Project information
Statistics
Total amount of hours/week
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14. Project information
Statistics
Average number of hours/week
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15. Project information
Statistics
Total amount of hours/week/team member
27,0
21,6
Nick
Jonathan
16,2 Sina
Jorne
Bart
10,8 Patrick
Wouter
5,4
0
42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
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16. Project information
Statistics
Total amount of hours: 494 h
Average amount of hours/week: 55 h
Average amount of hours/week/person: 7,8 h
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17. Project information
Costs
Start wage: € 2200 / month gross
152 hours to work / month €14,5
per hour
Total amount of working hours: 494 hours
Current cost: €7.163,00
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18. Project information
Costs
Average number of hours/week: 55 hours
Expected number of weeks: 27 weeks
Total estimation of costs: €21.530
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19. Project information
Planning
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20. Project information
Open-source
Communication online available for anyone
http://groups.google.com/group/salesmen
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21. Overview
1. Project information
2. Innovation and requirements
3. Tools and configuration
4. Quality Assurance
5. Why choose Salesmen?
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22. Innovation and requirements
Introduction
Advantages for
‣ Buyers
‣ Sellers
‣ Owners
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23. Innovation and requirements
Advantages for buyers
Smooth interface
Smooth
‣ Minimize page refreshes
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24. Innovation and requirements
Advantages for buyers
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25. Innovation and requirements
Advantages for buyers
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26. Innovation and requirements
Advantages for buyers
Smooth interface
Smooth
‣ Minimize page refreshes
Finding auctions
‣ Recommended auctions
Smart
‣ Tags (user defined) -> Tag Cloud
‣ Buyers assistant
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27. Innovation and requirements
Advantages for buyers
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28. Innovation and requirements
Advantages for buyers
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29. Innovation and requirements
Advantages for buyers
Smooth interface
Smooth
‣ Minimize page refreshes
Finding auctions
‣ Recommended auctions
Smart
‣ Tags (user defined) -> Tag Cloud
‣ Buyers assistant
Instant payment possible
‣ Salespal Fast
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30. Innovation and requirements
Advantages for buyers
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31. Innovation and requirements
Advantages for sellers
Instant payment possible
‣ Salespal Fast
Maximized exposure of auctions
‣ Favorite seller
‣ Recommended auctions Professional
‣ Hot Deals
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32. Innovation and requirements
Advantages for sellers
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33. Innovation and requirements
For those who need more
Salesmen Pro
‣ Paying subscription
‣ Discount on placing auctions
‣ No advertising
‣ Auctions faster considered as Hot Deal
‣ Higher ranking of auctions in searches
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34. Innovation and requirements
Advantages for owner
How to make money?
Salespal % of auction to site
Advertising Salesmen Pro
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35. Innovation and requirements
System architecture
Three-tier architecture
‣ Presentation: website (xHTML + CSS)
‣ Business logic: Java Beans & action classes
‣ Data: Hibernate & PostgreSQL
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36. Innovation and requirements
Proof of concept
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37. Overview
1. Project information
2. Innovation and requirements
3. Tools and configuration
4. Quality Assurance
5. Why choose Salesmen?
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38. Tools and configuration
Why JBoss?
Reliable Mainstream
Flexible Comprehensive
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39. Tools and configuration
Why Seam?
Rich State
Open Standards
Management
JSF-based AJAX Goodbye Noisy XML
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40. Tools and configuration
Timesheets
XSLT
Processor
bart.xml TimeTrack
Grammar
SilkPage
nick.xml
Xinclude
XML
HTML
sina.xml
TimeTrack
XSLT
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41. Tools and configuration
Subversion
Flexible
‣ Refactor early, refactor often!
‣ Remove and rename anything (CVS++)
Revisions
‣ Single revision number
‣ Tags not necessary
Branch/Merge
‣ Centralized is ideal for our dev model
‣ Branches for QA, bleeding-edge dev and releases
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42. Tools and configuration
Google Code
Visual SVN
‣ Repository browser
‣ Human-friendly diffs
‣ Each revision has a page
Wiki: Agile documentation for developers
Issue Tracker
‣ Bugs, enhancements and tasks
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43. Tools and configuration
SVN Browse
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44. Tools and configuration
SVN Diff
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45. Tools and configuration
SVN Revision
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46. Overview
1. Project information
2. Innovation and requirements
3. Tools and configuration
4. Quality Assurance
5. Why choose Salesmen?
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47. Quality Assurance
Why Quality Assurance?
Company 1 Company 2
Has no QA Has QA
$$$ $$$
☹
customer
☺
customer
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48. Quality Assurance
How Quality Assurance?
Quality Assured Repository
JUnit Testing
Team Performance
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49. Overview
1. Project information
2. Innovation and requirements
3. Tools and configuration
4. Quality Assurance
5. Why choose Salesmen?
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50. Salesmen