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This is the Sablime® home page. It has access to all the functionality

of the Sablime® Configuration Management System.

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Before we get going, though, let’s have a short update of what Sablime® is all about.

Sablime® is a Software Configuration Management System.

Sablime® uses documents called MRs (Modification Requests) to track all proposed and actual changes to a software system.

The MRs are linked to the underlying Version Control system, so that all changes to artifacts (usually software source files) have MR authorization.

Thus all changes are traceable to their initiating request.

Sablime® manages the changes made by the MRs, and manages the advancement of the MRs from creation through development, testing, and

approval.

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The Sablime® MR takes the idea from concept to customer. The Sablime® MR takes the idea from concept to customer.

deliveryconcept

analysis

implementation

verification

assign

accept

create approve

ST pass

IT pass

submit

Simplified Sablime® MR

Lifecycle

The animations on the next few slides highlight parts of the MR process, as represented in this “Simplified Sablime® MR Lifecycle” diagram.

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create

accept

assign

accept

create approve

ST pass

IT pass

submit

Simplified Sablime® MR

Lifecycle

kill

study

propose

MRs get created by engineers, managers, or customers.

If it isn’t obvious what to do with the MR, you might need to study it.

Or you might conclude it was a bad idea, and kill it.

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assign submit

assign

accept

create approve

ST pass

IT pass

submit

Simplified Sablime® MR

Lifecycle

edit

getput

This is the developer’s world.

Once an MR is assigned, the developer can extract files from the database and

make changes.

Eventually, the developer finishes changing files with the MR, and

presumably does some Unit testing, and then submits the MR.

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assign

accept

create approve

ST pass

IT pass

submit

Simplified Sablime® MR

Lifecycle

submit

approve

pre-IT passIT pass

pre-ST passST pass

pre-approve

Once an MR is submitted, it can proceed through any of 5 test states, where testers determine whether the change was correctly implemented.

If an MR fails testing, it can be rejected to an earlier state or all the way back to assigned, where the developer then

makes further changes.

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Now, returning to the actual Sablime® screen, we’ll show how

some of these things are done. And show some other interesting

features of Sablime®.

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As you move your mouse into a particular segment of the lifecycle arc, the segment becomes highlighted, and it shows the segment name.

The boxes along the arc (“create”, “accept”, etc.) are some of the Sablime® commands.

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If you move your mouse further out in the segment, other Sablime® commands appear - commands that work with MRs in

that part of the lifecycle.

All of these are really links to the command pages.

For example, then, lets click on “create”.

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“Click”

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This shows what a Sablime® command screen looks like.

If you wanted to create a new MR, you’d fill out the form and click the

“Create” button.

By the way, the, field labels and contents are customizable

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Another feature of the Sablime® home screen:

If you move your mouse over the highlighted segment’s name, it

changes to “MyMRs”

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Clicking on “My MRs” will give you a list of your MRs.

The different segments generate different lists.

Here, we’ll get a list of development MRs.

“Click”

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Here, you see the MRs assigned to you.

You can click on an MR name to begin working with that MR.

“Click”

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This is the “MR Details” page for the MR we clicked.

We can click on the “files” tab to see what has already been

done with this MR.

“Click”

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Here, we see that this MR has already changed a couple files.

We could click on “Browse Files” to select other files to

change with this MR…

Or on “Add New Source” if we wanted to add a new file to the

Sablime® system…

Or “Add File to Generic” to bring a file from forward from an older release into this one.

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Instead of doing any of those things, let’s make some further changes to “things.c”.

We click on the “Action” menu…

“Click”

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… and select “Edget this file…”

“Click”

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On the “Edget” screen, select or enter a directory

to place the file into…

Then click “Edget” to check out the file.

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edget Completed Successfully/opt/sablime/bin/interix/edget dir=“/Users/priffle/Documents” mr=“smp850007” g=“smp1.0” rm=“n” srf=“things.c” prompt=n

The file is now available for editing on your local

machine.

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You don’t use Sablime® to make the actual file changes.

Here, we’ve used “Vim” (a nice little text editor available on nearly all platforms) to

add a line to the “things.c” file.

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To check the file back in, you can return to the “edget” screen and select “Edput this file” from the

“Next Operation” menu…

… or you could return to the “files” tab of the “MR Details” page, and select “Edput this

file…”

… or you can even return to the Sablime® home screen and select

“edput” from there.

In any case, you will arrive next at the edput screen…

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… and then press “Edput”

As with “edget”, you use the Browse button to locate your

changed copy of the file…

“Click”

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Back on the MR Details page, we can now see that there are two changes

(deltas) to the “things.c” file.

We can view the “History” of the file…

“Click”

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The file History page shows each delta that has been made against this file (by any MR).

You can select any two deltas, and ask for the Difference.

Here, we’ll select the two most recent versions, and show the Difference between them.

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… and, sure enough, there’s the change we made to the file.

It’s marked with the MR number and line number.

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At this point, if we were done changing files with smp850007, we might return to the MR Details page and “submit” the MR.

As with edput, there are multiple ways to get to the submit command.

This isn’t intended to confuse people, but to acknowledge that users go about things

differently.

“Click”

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If at any time, you aren’t sure what goes in a particular field, or - for example - whether there’s a default value, you can click on a

field label to get help…

Resolution Code

Resolution Code - as proposed, or other.

Defaults to “as proposed”.

Categorizes the resolution. The entries in this menu are often customized to provide finer categorization.

“Click”

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If you need general or more thorough help with the command, you can click on the

Help Button “?”, and Sablime® will display the Usage Guide, open to the relevant

page…

“Click”

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This will come up in your PDF file viewer (usually Adobe Reader or an Adobe Reader plugin to

your browser)

You can click on the many links to follow your own chain of information; or on the page titles in

the Index.

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OK, we’re nearly 10 minutes into this, so it’s time to wrap up.

We plan to put up some more demonstrations in the near future, showing such things as the Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Visual Studio integrations with Sablime®.

We hope that this presentation helped to show you about Sablime®, a powerful, comprehensive, and easy to use Software Configuration Management System. We’ll leave you with a few more words of

Marketing:

Sablime’s tightly integrated change control maintains linkage and traceability

between the changes and the reason for the changes. The most elaborate, expensive, exhaustive change control system is of little value if you don’t know WHY files are changing.

The MR is the basic unit of feature implementation, building, testing, delivery. Because you don’t deliver files to a customer, you deliver features.

The MR set, then, defines the feature set for a release. Because real Configuration Management isn’t about keeping track of changes to files. It’s about keeping track of changes to the

system.

Thanks for your attention! Sablime® and the six delta symbol are registered trademarks of Lucent

Technologies. Contents copyright© 2004, Lucent Technologies.