ict-cpm4 20-21 november 2014 alma integrated computing team coordination & planning meeting #4...

ICT-CPM4 20-21 November 2014

ALMA Integrated Computing Team

Coordination & Planning Meeting #4 Santiago, 20-21 November 2014

Software Engineering and Quality ManagementActivities/Planning

Erik Allaert


2014 JIRA:

• Statistics • Activities: inactive issues / workflow changes etc / version upgrade /

SCIREQ projectALMA Computing at ESO-GarchingRHEL 6.5 upgradeQM: acceptances SVN upgradeMakefile

2015: the same … and more?

SEQM status & activities


ICT-project (since 2014-01-01): ~40 new issues/week (2013: ~75 new issues/week)

• Type: bugs: almost 50%, improvements: ~25% - new features + sub-features: ~10% (↔ 2013: ~40%, 25% resp. ~15%)

• Components: ObsIF: 27% (OT: 8%) - Control/Corr: 22%• Priority: ~75% medium, 15% high, 10% low, <1% blocker ( = 2013)

~17 issues/week end up in “inactive” list Policy for inactive issues: defined in Q1 2014

March: 456 issues; May: 72 issues closed; 2 re-opened September: 458 issues; November: 59 closed; 7 re-opened

Overal (2013-2014): 60% closed, 6% resolved (↔ 2013: ~25% resp ~20%)

SEQM status & activities 2014: JIRA


ICT-project: Phase I/II/III/IV/V → Phase A/B/C Added SVN-plugin Timestamp format more like ISO-standard No commenting via e-mail (no watertight solution) ‘From:’ header format for JIRA-notifications modified Changed Branches field Check creation of sub-tasks depending on parent issue Support for definition/creation of SCIREQ project –

1 document, ~120 e-mails, ~100 new users Prepare for upgrade to 6.3.x on jiradev01



Upgrade to 6.3.10 on ictjiraNew JIRA look and feel (Atlassian Design Guidelines)Detail view and view issue improvements JIRA mobile Improved search performanceHTML5 attachment supportAdministration:

• Usernames now editable• Enhanced workflow designer• Improved issue type and custom field configuration• JIRA password policy• auditing



Jenkins: 4 virtual servers in clusters, running RHEL 6.5 32- and 64-bits, building non-RT ALMA SW and running tests

NRI updates (following ACS requests) Extended virtual infrastructure (2nd part of 3-year plan):

RAM, 2 extra blades, additional SAN server, VMware vSphere licenses

Reconfigured network (anticipating relocation) Security patches Hand-over of sysadmin activities to outsourcers: started

in September – ongoing

SEQM status & activities 2014: ESO


Installation procedure for RHEL 6.5 Updated images and repository a.o. to deal with

fix configuration issues security vulnerabilities (OpenSSL: heartbleed; bash:

shellshock)updates provided by RedHat

SEQM activities 2014: RHEL


201403-CYCLE2-OFF 201404-CYCLE2-ON 201404-CYCLE2-ON Total Power 201405-CYCLE2-OFF 201406-CYCLE2-OFF 201411-CYCLE2-OFF Use of Kanban Retrospective meetings

SEQM activities 2014: Acceptances


Several server security improvements (also thanks to NAOJ), e.g. SSLv3 vulnerability

Updated SVN server and client software to 1.8.10 (better performance, improved merging)

New license installed – OK up to 14 January 2016 At ESO-Garching: relocated virtual server to machine

with more disk space and better I/O performance New SVN R/O mirror for ACS hosted at ESO New version of WANdisco installed (correcting various

issues reported by a.o. Moreno (15))

SEQM activities 2014: SVN/WANdisco


Addressed/identified several issues:Error detection during Python compilation + repeated

installation of Python pkg during make install (ICT-1643) Problems with creation of symlinks (ICT-1358 , ICT-2525);

remove support for LINK_FILES variable (ICT-3855) javac calls must use -endorseddirs flag (ICT-2303) and

fix acsMakeJavaClassPath - endorsed (ICT-3095) Support for plain Linux kernel module compilation (ICT-2680) Doxygen segmentation fault (ICT-2712)Remove vltMake* files (ICT-3707) Makefile must create man/manN subdirs (ICT-3851) and

remove generated pages with a make clean (ICT-3853)

SEQM activities 2014: Makefile


JIRA: global settings (priorities, resolutions, …) block merge of 2 JIRA servers; fixed by upcoming upgrade?

ESO: relocation of computer room – disruptive for ICT-EU replace physical HW by VMs

SVN: support transition to centralized SVN serverRestructure location for licensed/proprietary software

SEQM Plans 2015


Jenkins: Complete documentation (Twiki)Use of static/dynamic analysis tools to generate reportsTest execution plus analysis (may require some build-script

changes) Software Quality: CPM2 →

SEQM Plans 2015


Software Quality Assurance/Management: does not come for free - requires commitment & support from ALMA management

Activities to be coordinated with a.o. Release and Acceptance Managers:Metrication JIRA workflow: phase A/B/C testing ↔ insufficient testing Special incremental releases (e.g. code refactoring related to

operating system upgrade)Documentation…

Configuration control

SEQM Plans 2015


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