Monday, 5 August 2013

Group Diary 5


Title: CSCI321 Project Group Meeting 5
Time: Monday 05 Aug 2013 9:45 AM
Location: Room 205, Library, UOW
Attendees: Guangqiao Huang, Xing Pan, Qing Ren, Hong Wi Yew
Recorder: Qing Ren

Objectives:
1. New member joined
2. Discusses some details

New member joined
We have a new group member joined in our project. We exchanged our contact number of each other. Make sure the time of the group meeting.
Hong Wi Yew: grezzyjack@hotmail.com
We introduced the knowledge of the hash function and something we have planned previous about the project to our new member.
He introduced his major and which side he is good at. We reallocated the job in the end of meeting.

Discusses some details
At first, we discussed whether it should have an input by the user or we using default input data. Moreover, for comparing some data, it will need a big size of input or it will need more than one time for inputting, maybe it is not convenient for user to apply the data. However, the tool should have interaction with users. If there is no input from users at all, how can the user participate in the software in actually? So we finally decided to ask users’ input according to functionality of testing.
Then we searched for some materials on Internet to have a better understand about how to transfer a .exe file into binary, and then transfer binary into string.(What we want to get is a input for the hash)
At last, we started to discuss the first test case that we can design is about the time test. We can compare the time that spend on for hashing between different hash functions with the same string size. We have an argument whether we should use time of testing once or we should use the average time of testing (test several times). Finally, we decided to let the user to choose it. The user need to enter the number of times they want to run for testing the time. And we planned to design a test about the collision probability, but there are some difficulties we need to solve in the future. Thus, we will discuss this topic in the next meeting.