ExceedVoting

Voting for ExceedVote

We are going to vote on the class projects using ExceedVote!

• There are 2 rounds of voting: Preliminary and Finals.
• In the Preliminary Round, teams are divided into 2 divisions. In the Final Round, the top 2 teams from each division (based on preliminary voting) will compete.
• Before voting there will be a "Preview Period" so everyone can try out the apps. Everyone should login and try each of the 4 apps you will be voting/rating.
• During Voting, login to each of the 4 apps (URLs are posted here) and submit your votes/ratings. Make exactly the same votes/ratings on all 4 sites, so that the results reported by each app should be identical.
• Help each other by reporting bugs and problems. Report bugs as issues on the team's Github repo, and report problems, experience, impressions on https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ssd2015 (Google Group).

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Finalists

The final 4 are: FatCat, Manat, GG, and Malee.

Thanks to everyone who voted, and who actively worked to improve their projects.

Voting Criteria for Final Round

These are all rating type criteria:

1. Suitability for use at eXceedCamp
   • without any more development, how suitable do you think this app is for eXceedCamp?
2. Ease of Voting and Rating
   • how easy to login and vote/rate without any prior knowledge of how to use the app?
3. Reliability
   • if you disconnect before completing all votes, can you login again and continue?
   • does the app appear to faithfully record votes/ratings?
4. Quality of UI, navigation, and feedback
   • is it clear that your vote is submitted? (if you come back to the same item again, does it show what you selected previously?)
   • is there always navigation between screens? (not using browser "back" button)
   • does the first screen after login show what you can do?
5. Ease of configuration
   • we'll let the teams demo that themselves by having a mini vote in class, topic TBA.

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Contestants and Voters for Preliminary Round

Division	Contestants	Voters
Division 1	Saint4	Everyone in GG, TheFrank, Malee, JDED,
	Manat	and Saran, Thai, Keeratipong, Jim.
	2Big2Slim
	FatCat
Division 2	GG	Everyone in Saint4, Manat, 2Big2Slim, FatCat,
	TheFrank	and Saran, Thai, Keeratipong, Jim.
	Malee
	JDED

Please see the Google Group and your email for login credentials to use in voting. Email Jim for a file containing logins and passwords.

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Schedule for Voting for ExceedVote

Dates	Activity	Description
before 18 Apr	Prepare app for try-out.	Configure your application. Add contestants, voters, and voting criteria (see below). OK to deploy now.
18-19 April	Preview	All apps are up and running with mock voting. Voters login to each app and try them. Report problems.
19 April 17:00	End of Preview	End preview voting. Post the "results" so people can see how well results are reported. Let teams login and view their ratings.
20 April	Prepare for Prelim Voting	Leave "preview" results online while preparing and testing bug fixes.
21 April AM	Deploy for Preliminary Round	Reset vote counts, deploy any bug fixes.
21 April 12:00	Start of Preliminary Round of Voting	Voting by Division. Everyone votes for 4 contestants, and you have to vote (identically) 4 times! Report bugs and problems.
21 April 18:00	End of Prelim Voting	Voting is closed. Results are available on each of the apps. Compare results for all 4 apps in same division (should be same). Send voting logs to instructor and TAs.
21 April 19:00	Finalists Announced	Finalists from each division announced.
21 April	Prepare for Final Voting	Finalists configure your applications. Add contestants, voters, and criteria for final round.
22 April 9:00	Final Preview	Finalist Apps are up and running with mock voting. Voters login to each app and try them.
23 April (Lab)	Demo	Demo admin interface in lab. Optional demo mobile version of your app.
23 April (Lab)	Final Voting	Vote for finalists during lab.
23 April 10:00	Final Voting Closed	Voting closed. Results compared across the 4 finalist apps.
23 April	Retrospective	Discuss and record experience in using ExceedVote, to help improve actual ExceedCamp voting.

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1. Prepare Preview

Each team, prepare your application for the preliminary voting.

1. Add contestants (4 ExceedVote teams), voters, and voting criteria.
   • Use the table above for what contestants (Teams) and voters you need to add.
2. Test that you can deploy your application. Test that people can login.
3. Please keep a log of all logins and votes. You can do this by configuring the Logback tool included with by Play.
4. Post your application URL and how to contact a "sysadmin" (for login problems) on class wiki. Be careful about posting email addresses.

Voting Criterion

1. Best app for use at ExceedCamp.

Contestant Rating Criteria

1. Ease of use - how easy is to understand how to vote and actually vote? How easy is navigation? Is there clear feedback on what you have done so far?
2. Reliability/Stability - can you smoothly login and complete voting? Does app prevent submission of invalid data?
3. Completeness - does it have the features required by customer?
4. Security - does application prevent unauthorized access? Can you logout of application? Hint: Look at the project's routes file on Github. Try to directly access the URLs without logging in.
5. Quality of UI - does it have consistent look? Can use on different size screens? Is important info clearly displayed? Is navigation clearly provided (not using browser "back" button)?

2. Preview Period (everyone)

The Preview Period is like viewing/trying projects at ExceedCamp.

Contestants:

1. Deploy your applications and enable login & voting.

Everyone:

1. Login to each app you will be voting for. Navigate around and try voting/rating. These are mock votes, they won't count toward preliminaries.
2. If you find a bug, open an issue on the team's Github project.
3. If you can't login/vote, report it on the Google SSD2015 Group and also contact the team's "sysadmin". Email jim and TAs if the team doesn't fix the problem.
4. Try to break the app. Access URLs without logging in, enter invalid data, vote after the preview period is over. (Hint: look at the project's conf/routes file to find what URLs is uses.)

After the Preview

Teams:
Post the results of mock voting.

Everyone:
Check the results. Are they the same on all 4 sites in same division? Are they complete?

3. Preliminary Round of Voting

Contestants:

1. Remove mock votes from the preview period, so everyone can vote again.
2. If necessary, deploy bug fixes from the preview period.
3. Keep a log (log file or database entries) of who logs in and who votes.
4. Don't deploy any bug fixes after voting starts, unless people really can't login/vote.

Everyone:

1. Please login to each of the 4 apps in division where you are a voter, and make the same votes/rating on each app. This is so we can compare results.
2. Example: login to ExceedVote A and vote for A, B, C, and D. Then login to ExceedVote B and vote for A, B, C, and D, casting the same votes/ratings as you did on the previous site (ExceedVote A). Repeat this process for ExceedVote C and D.
3. Please record your votes and ratings on paper, in case we need to check the accuracy later.
4. Report bugs as issues on the team's Github project. Report problems and feedback to Google Group.

4. Preliminary Results (after voting)

Each team

1. Post the voting results. You should have a URL for this.
2. Send a summary of the login data (log file or data from database) showing who logged in/voted to TAs.
3. Archive the Results. Create an archive (backup) of the voting results (database) and record of logins. This is one of the customer's requirements.

4. Prepare for Final Round

1. The top 2 contestants from each division will be posted for final round.
   • In case of a tie, the instructor and TA votes will be used to break the tie.

Finalist Contestants:

1. Add the final 4 contestants to your app.
2. Add the entire class and TA/instructor as voters, reset the voting criteria.
3. Update your application URL and "sysadmin" contact information on wiki.

5. Final Round Preview

Contestants:

1. Start you apps. Allow logins and mock voting.

Everyone:

1. Login to the final 4 apps and try them out.
   • Even if you have used the app before, the finalists may have fixed bugs, so you should try each app again.
2. Report bugs as issues on team's Github project. Give feedback on Google Group.

6. Final Round of Voting

This will be done in lab on 23 April.

1. Teams can demo the administrative interface to class. This is an important feature we couldn't test before.
   • If you have a mobile interface, you can demo that, too.
2. Everyone login to all 4 finalist apps and vote.
3. Please cast the same vote using each of the 4 finalists' ExceedVote apps.

7. Final Results and Review

1. Review the results in class.
2. Discuss experience and how to make actual voting at ExceedCamp smooth and efficient.
3. Incorporate ideas into your next (and last) round of software development.