CPE 308/309
Time Log Activity Codes

These are recommended activity codes to enter in your time logs.   Your team may modify these as appropriate.

Note: Log only time you spend on the team project, not lecture or homework problems. 

• Analysis
  Requirements analysis activities including writing specifications, customer interviews, and user interface prototyping.
  
  
• Design
  Software design activities - class diagrams,  writing javadocs,  pseudocode ... anything except writing source code implementations.
  
  
• Implementation
  Creating source code, database schema, HTML pages, or any artifact that is part of the deliverable software product.

• QA
  Quality assurance activities - primarily reviews, walkthroughs, and inspections.
  Also, software release preparation activities.
  
  
• Test
  Writing test cases, writing drivers/fakes/unit tests or any test script.
  Performing tests or analyzing test results. All debugging time is recorded in this category.
  
  
• Admin
  Any type of administrative work unrelated to the other codes.  Project managment activities, such as writing a status report, updating the team web site, etc.
  

• Research
  Studies or investigations to learn something related to the project.

• Meet
  Status meetings with 1 or more other people; include laboratory time meetings.

• Other
  Use this for project work that doesn't fit in another category.

• Rework
  Use this code when you are redoing something that was done incorrectly OR you are redoing something that resulted from a formal change request.