Wattdepot: A Smart Consumer's Tool

Last week, our class was introduced to the Wattdepot project. Wattdepot is a system that lets us store and analyze our power consumption by reading the meters. It's a great tool that gives smart consumers the ability to monitor their power consumption.

My partner for this project is Paul Galiza. Paul worked on the early parts of the system. I think Paul and I did pretty well as a team. He was always available for help whenever I'm stuck on some parts of the system.

I believe that we achieved most of the goals of this system. We were able to create all of the ten commands listed in the CommandSpecification page. A lot of time and effort were put in to getting our system done. Some of us stayed at Sinclair library overnight trying to finish our project. Paul and I pretty much just picked the next parts that was needed to be finished while helping each other out.

The biggest issue we had was creating our test cases. Our system didn't implement interfaces so we had one giant class that includes all of our commands. It was difficult to create test cases for one giant class. We will most likely modify our system later on to fix this problem. We would have done the changes but we didn't have enough time before the deadline. Click here to download our ekahi wattdepot system.

-David Joel Lazaro