Online Bidding System

1. Online Bidding System Group 8

2. Planned activities for week 2 • Initial setups, documentation, installations • Feasibilities of different systems (nHibernate, WinCVS with Visual Studio 2005) • Use cases implementation: • Manage user (including login/log out) • Manage Categories • Manage Countries • Selling items • Searching items • Bidding on an item • Managing watch-lists • Concluding bidding • Browsing for items • Creating working screens

3. Actual Work • Setup complete • Feasabilities: using nHibernate. WinCVS not compatible • Implemented use cases: • Manage users (and login/log out) • Manage Categories • Manage Countries • Selling items • Searching items • Bidding on an item • Working screens mostly working

4. Delta • Use cases: • Managing watch-lists • Concluding bidding • Browsing for items

5. Reasons • Conclude bidding: heavy dependency on almost all other use cases • Browsing for items: difficulty in using joins in nHibernate. Workarounds made • Generally: A LOT of time spent in understanding nHibernate (helped by lousy documentation) • Before nHibernate, stubs were made using SQL queries. Later replaced stubs with nHibernate • Heavy contribution by our group towards understanding of nHibernate and associated tools. Information disseminated to other groups

6. Planned activities (very tentative) • Completing all delta activities • Interface modification • Use cases: • Autobidding • Close auction • Manage brand • Give rating to buyer/seller • Retract bid • Internal message handling • Buy Now feature