Component Specifications
(due Sunday night, as individual sakai assignments submission)

• P3A.1 Phase 3 Plan (per person)
  • Which component(s) will you design?
  • What is your plan for negotiating its interface specifications with the other members of your team?
  • What problems to you expect to be most difficult, and what will you need (beyond time) to address them?
  • When will you have your first draft specifications, design, and test plans available for review?
  • Who will review your specifications, design, and test plan? When?
• P3A.2 Component Specifications (per person)
  • Do you know what language your component(s) will be implemented in, and have you settled on appropriate interface definition languages (e.g. JavaDoc, PyDoc, Doxygen)?
  • Can you, today, enumerate (w/o complete interface specifications), all of your public entry points?
  • Which of your public interfaces are obvious, and which need to be discussed?
  • Can you, today, enumerate (w/o complete interface specifications), all of the requests you will need to make from other components and external services?
  • Do you understand (and have you already written code that uses) all of the external services you require?
  • Have you started negotiating interfaces with the other components you have to call? If so, do you have any concerns about their adequacy?
  • Given the above, do you see any other problems associated with writing detailed interface specifications for all of your public methods?
• P3B Moving Forward
  • Do you already understand (at a high level) how you plan to implement each of your public methods?
  • Do those implementations have sufficient observability and controlability to give you confidence that you will be able to thoroughly test them?
  • Is it clear to you how you will use what testing framework to perform that testing?