Umass Access

An application that uses crowd-sourced information to inform the campus community of potential obstructions.

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Don't you hate it when there are things in your way? So do we! So we made an app so we can help you help your fellow students help you again.

UMass Access

An application that uses crowd-sourced information to inform the campus community and visitors of potential obstructions or changes to areas of campus.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

The list of software you need to install is: Android Studio, Django, Apache, PHP, and MySQL.

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you have to get a development env running.

To download Android Studio, you can get it from their website download page at https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html To download Django, you follow the official documentation at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/install/ To download Apache, PHP, and MySQL, follow the guide at https://jason.pureconcepts.net/2015/10/install-apache-php-mysql-mac-os-x-el-capitan/

Running the tests

You can run tests on this system by testing to see whether the app is able to inform the campus community and visitors of potential obstructions or changes to areas of campus.

Break down into end to end tests

Test to see whether the app is able to create different kinds of obstructions.

Test to see whether the app is able to maintain real-time updates for different markers of obstructions.

Test to see whether the app is able to have functions for routes and navigation.

Test to see whether the app is able to save different profiles of different users of varying disabilities to be better tailored to each and individual user.

Test to see whether the app is able to provide different paths for users of varying disabilities.

Deployment

In the end, the mobile app, the Django server, and the MySQL database will be hosted on Amazon's AWS cloud services. This allows the app and servers to be very accessible to developers and collaborators of this project.

Built With

Authors

Kirs Imsong Jason Zhuo Billy Borkofsky Jack Kenney

License

This project is licensed under no License

Acknowledgments

  • Hat tip to anyone who's code was used
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