Week 2015/04/27 - 2015/04/30

Weekly report

What we did

• Wrote a shell script to automate diagram generation from AMZ files.
• Meet our Chalmers supervisor.
• Contacted other thesis students to attend their presentation. (June 8th)
• Registered for mandatory seminar. (May 12th)
• Read on UML component diagram standards.
• Finalized our planning report.
• Gathered preliminary ideas on diagram improvements.
• Researched papers on the topic of "component placement".
• Read Graphviz documentation to get familiar with the tools and options : dot, neato, smyrna, lefty, dotty and Cgraph.
• Read the research paper and placement algorithm on which graphviz dot is based.

Next week's goals

• Continue gathering information about component placement algorithms and graph generation tools.
• Start playing around with graphviz librairy.
• Fix the planning report if it needs it.
• Read up on what is "human readable", "what is a useful and readable diagram", "what factors are important and ease readability". Possibly contact experts in this domain.