TEAMMATES Developer Web Site

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TEAMMATES is a free online tool for managing peer evaluations and other feedback paths of your students. It is provided as a cloud-based service for educators/students and is currently used by hundreds of universities across the world. This is the developer web site for TEAMMATES. Click here to go to the TEAMMATES product website

Interested to join TEAMMATES developer team?

We welcome contributions from developers, especially students. Here are some resources:

• Contributor Orientation Guide : This document describes what you need to know/do to become a contributor. This is a MUST READ for new contributors.
• [Project ideas page] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fAvYvQr0E93OsZgyneaXGX0jaMA-zptTIxqLn83xwN0/pub?embedded=true) : These are for those who would like to do a relatively bigger projects with TEAMMATES (e.g., summer internships).
• [Instructions for Google Summer of Code applicants] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iu63WRIw8uz8liEW089IQHDQTRbh-QoOLMyfTPXNOa0/pub?embedded=true) : Read this before you apply to work for TEAMMATES under GSoC.

Documentation For Developers

Here are some documents important for TEAMMATES developers:

Main documents

• Specification (short name: Spec) : Product specification, written from the developers point of view. The user's point of view is here.
• The project vision, challenges, and principles from a developer's perspective.
• Software Design - Architecture, APIs, etc.
• How to set up the developer environment- e.g., tools and libraries used.
• The development process.

Supplementary documents

• Resources bin : Learning resources for the use of developers (tutorials, cheat sheets etc).

• Decision analysis : Analysis of problems encountered, solutions considered, rationale for selection etc.

• The glossary of terms used in the project.

• Coding standards for : Java, JSP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML

• Developer Troubleshooting Guide

• Best practices for : UI design, Coding, Testing

• Version History

• Project stats

• Technical reports about TEAMMATES : In-depth descriptions about various aspects of the project

  • An Analysis of Question Types - by Low Weilin
  • Measuring Scalability and Performance - by James Dam Tuan Long
  • Improving Scalability and Performance - by James Dam Tuan Long
  • Data Backup and Disaster Recovery - by Lee Shaw Wei Shawn
  • Dealing with Eventual Consistency - by Lee Shaw Wei Shawn
  • Dealing with Intermittent Null Pointer Exceptions - by Lee Shaw Wei Shawn
  • Using Task Queues - by Hunar Khanna, Lee Shaw Wei Shawn
  • [Using AJAX for dynamic page updates] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GjTlIgoZg-vWKGG2b6Bh7ipL9_rV9syymOl93O0iqM4/pub?embedded=true) - by Hunar Khanna
  • Dealing with character sets - by Oo Theong Siang
  • Modifying entity classes with legacy data - by Oo Theong Siang
  • [Notes on the 'comments' feature] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YsgDySCOQbLl7Wc5JYPtKqd_hNvGMwea4OqtVOb0HBM/pub?embedded=true) - by Xie Kai, Ju Junchao
  • [Notes on 'access control'] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g-1YhhYMCwO4NGJzn26HVzLxzm5PI6JAFxUNtHEEGDc/pub?embedded=true) - by Gu Junchao
  • [Notes on 'profiles' feature] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TGVkdu6JlOFX_2dJoeZu1avkiKj8ZqFcpBREJhKK78c/pub?embedded=true) - by Thyagesh Manikandan

Acknowledgements

TEAMMATES team wishes to thank the following invaluable contributions.

• School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS), for providing us with the infrastructure support to run the project.
• Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning (CDTL) of NUS, for supporting us with several Teaching Enhancement Grants over the years.
• Learning Innovation Fund-Technology (LIF-T) initiative of NUS, for funding us for the 2015-2018 period.
• Google Summer of Code Program, for including TEAMMATES as a mentor organization in GSoC2014, GSoC2015 and GSoC2016 editions.
• Facebook Open Academy Program, for including TEAMMATES as a mentor organization in FBOA 2016.
• YourKit LLC, for providing us with free licenses for the YourKit Java Profiler (an industry leading profiler tool for Java applications).

License

TEAMMATES is released under GPLv2

Contact

The best way for potential contributors to contact us is by posting a message in our issue tracker (yes, we use the issue tracker as a discussion forum too).

Alternatively (less preferred), you can email teammates [at] comp.nus.edu.sg