Jožef StefanInstitute

Developing a Control System from a Divan Bed

PCaPAC 2002, Frascati October 2002

Grega Milcinski (grega.milcinski@cosylab.com)M. Centrih, J. Dovc, M. Plesko, G. TkacikJ. Stefan Institute and Cosylab Limited

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Agenda

• working at home is effective

• project management tools

• sample project flow

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Office vs. home

reappearing questions

coffee-breaks

fixed workday Can’t you feel the

reason?

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E-Mails

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Request Tracker

User

SQL

E-Mail

Web page

Perl

E-Mail

Apache

User

Projectmanager

Watchers

Others

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CVS• Sources

• Manuals (in XML)

• Resources

eManagement Cycle

CS User

Project definition

Internal Pages•open project

•select project manager

•select project members

Request Tracker•To-Do

•Activity list

•Bugs

Actual work•Code

•XML Docs

Testing

Bug report

Scripts

Project Web•Sources

•Manuals

•…

ANT

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All Data in MySQL

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Best of Breed Tools

• all open source !– Apache Web server, PHP scripts– sympa mailing lists:

• list@<project>.cosylab.com

– eclipse: Java IDE with integrated CVS support– RT: to-do tickets and support/bug tracking

• Web interface or bug@<project>.cosylab.com

– ant: makefile in Java & XML (nightly build)– XML source –(XSL)–> html

• CosyXML: no more MS-Word?• generated project pages

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XML Documentation

Source Result

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En

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New

Tic

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Internal Project Pages

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RT Analyzer

• ticket creation

• advanced searches

• activity log

• advanced to-do lists

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Customer Area Web Pages

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Conclusion

• every action is recorded

• well structured

• easy accessible

• side effects