Activity Monitor for Mac Outsource Project

Activity Monitor for Mac Overview

Project’s goal was to create a client-server system for monitoring PC on the system level for Mac OS X (Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard).
Project was developed with low-level programming utilizing: C/C++ and Objective C.

Technical features:

Target platform:	Mac Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard.
System services:	Deamons developed using cross-platform C++.
GUI:	Cocoa framework, objective C.
Data sources:	Binary data storage.
Communications:	TCP sockets, named pipes.
Setup:	PackageMaker.

Business-logic features:

Hidden monitoring of user activity on the system level.
Analyzing of the digital content.
Logging user activity history to the server side.

Managements and resources:

Time line: 2009 - 2010
Resources: 1 Manager, 4 Developers and 2 testers
Development methodology: adopted RUP