railpad

Lifecycle Architecture Overview

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Scenario: Lon & Brian Lon and Brian are software developers in a successful technology

company. Their manager makes them write extensive collaborative

documents for all of the projects that they work on. They hate writing. Fortunately for them, they have Railpad. Rather than spending all of their time emailing word documents

back and forth, they use Railpad to write it. With Railpad at the core, all of their content is in one central

location that they can both access at the same time. In addition, all of their revisions that they make along the way are

logged, just in case they want to go back to something they had before.

Railpad also gives them the ability to comment on each other’s work as they write a new document, and although Lon and Brian don’t necessarily like it, their boss can comment too.

Overall, Lon and Brian end up with professional and complete documents with a minimal amount of overhead.

What is Railpad? Web-based, collaborative text editor based

upon the Wiki model. Railpad differs from a Wiki in the breadth

and power of tools it offers users. Intuitive document editor allows:

Presenting Editing Commenting Tracking revisions

Rich text editor

Flowchart

How will we build it?

Ruby on Rails Apache MySQL AJAX Rails Modules

Team Structure Model/Control Group

Tim Prouty, Brian Steadman View Group

Omar Ghishan, Dana Fujimoto, Lon Smith, Kevin Chiu Project Manager

Taj Campbell Lead Architect

Brian Steadman Lead Designers

Lon Smith, Omar Ghishan Lead Tester

Dana Fujimoto Source Manager

Kevin Chiu

Timeline

Risk Assessment

Scheduling & Team Collaboration Revision Log Complexity Privacy & Security User Interface Organization Data Loss/Corruption

Testing Methodology

Ruby classes must be accompanied by a test case when submitted to the source repository.

Each test case will be added to a system-wide functionality test suite.

The test suite will be run on a daily schedule.

Developer Environment

Ruby on Rails RDoc & Rake RadRails SourceForge

Documentation Administrator Guide

Installation instructions Maintenance instructions Backend functionality guide

User Guide Comprehensive user guide FAQ

Additional Documentation Screencasts (video tutorials) Quick usage guides

Questions?