1. What did you personally accomplish this week on the project?
This week I focused on research and documentation for the test cases we’ll use in our demo. I made sure our demo can clearly and convincingly show what our system can do with different types of corruption by surveying common USB failure modes and data-loss scenarios (e.g., partial corruption, boot sector corruption) and organized them into a structured set of demo-oriented test cases. For each case, I documented the expected drive behavior, what our imaging and recovery pipeline should demonstrate, and what metrics (recovery success, error logs, time to recover) we want to highlight during the demo.
I also started folding this work into our project documentation and final report draft, outlining a “Testing & Demo Scenarios” section that explains how our test cases map to real-world user problems. In parallel, I aligned the existing simulated test scripts with these documented scenarios so they can be reused as soon as Mars finishes initial board bring-up.
2. Is your progress on schedule or behind? If you are behind, what actions will be taken to catch up to the project schedule?
I am on schedule for the documentation and test-case preparation work. While Mars has been focused on the new software architecture and PCB delivery, I’ve used this time to ensure that our demo scenarios are well thought out and that we have a clear mapping between real-world failure modes and what we’ll show in the demo. Once the boards arrive and Mars completes initial bring-up, I’ll adapt these documented test cases to the actual hardware results and help integrate them into our final evaluation and report.
3. What deliverables do you hope to complete in the next week?
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Review the interim demo results and identify any issues or improvements needed for the hardware–software workflow.
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Compile a list of changes or fixes required before final integration and validation.
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Begin refining and restructuring the final report, especially the testing methodology and demo results sections.
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Integrate the documented test cases into the final report draft.