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Use Cases Iteration 2 Readme

Terminology


ONA stands for "ODIN Network Activity". ONA files are basically logs of all communication traffic on the overlay (i.e. peer-to-peer) network. ONA files are generated by our preprocessor and consumed by our visualization GUI.


Why we only have two new first-level use cases


These are our coding tasks for this iteration:

  1. Implement the preprocessor (a small command-line tool).
  2. In the visualization GUI, color the graph edges based on the amount of traffic going across the communication links they represent. (Currently all the links are the same color, basically.)
  3. Extend our logging within ODIN so that search terms are recorded in the ONA file.
  4. Possibly implement an additional layout.

The third task will only result in the user seeing additional information on their screen - it will not change how they control the visualization GUI or other components of our application. The fourth task will only result in a new option in a pull-down menu for the user. The use of that menu was described in a use case for the previous iteration. So as far as we can tell, only the first two tasks lend themselves to use cases.

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