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Managing On the Road Eclipse(OTRE) project, using the RTC

tools


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We are talking about.

Otre Project

Collaboration Tools

Time Mamagement

What we learned


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About OTRE

OTRE - On The Road Eclipse project aims to create a collaborative learningplatform, to be used in university courses, but more general in anycomparison session that requires the use of shared tools such as chat,video conferencing, document sharing ...

Based on these considerations, the Project OTRE can be described as anexperiment in the realization of a collaborative project centered around theEclipse community.

The project was launched in November 2010 and involved about 30 students ofprogramming and software engineering courses for about 10 months. TheTeam Leaders are students of the course, while project managers are anacademic and a 3rd year student


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OTRE sub projectsThe OTRE project consists of a series of subprojects, which is entrusted the task of

contributing to the realization of the retail platform. There are two kind of sub project:

TECNICAL Projects

SSIN (Single Sign IN)

RC (Reporting Center)

AVC (Audio e Video Conference) CST (Conference Sharing Tools)

IT (Interaction Tools)

MSC (Managing scientific contribution)

DOCUMENTAL Projects

RAM (Rational Asset Management)

RRPro (Rational Requisite Pro) OTRE Test (Rational Quality Manager)

ETC (Enhanced Team Concert)


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OTRE architecture

RED5

RED5 Virtual Board

WIKIMEDIA

JOOMLA

OFFICESIPVoip

OFFICESIPChat

PHPBB

ALFRESCO

LDAPJasig CAS

INTERNET

OTRE-IT

OTRE-AVC

OTRE-SSIN

OTRE-CST

OTRE-MSC

OTRE-RC


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Collaboration tools

The project management was performed using the support tools that haveallowed to facilitate the interaction between the working groups, to shareknowledge between team members and track the evolution of projects. Toachieve the goals we used some software that are part of the IBM Rational

platform.

Rational Team Concert, to manage the software versioning and project

management

Rational Requisite Pro, to create and sharing projects requisites

Rational Asset Management, to track the projects Asset

Rational Quality Manager, to create TestCase


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Rational Team Concert (RTC)

RTC has been used to manage the versioning software, with the intent to allowa modular and collaborative software development. Moreover its used to

manage the project with Scrum development methodology, its a part of

Agile development methodology.


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Rational Requisite Pro (RRPro)

RRPro, used to organize and document user requirements and applicationspecifications, controlling the evolution


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Rational Asset Management (RAM)

RAM for the census and the management of the assets acquired during theprojecy development of the project, it allows you to identify, manage andgovern the design, development and consumption of resources. Its wasintegrated in Eclipse


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Rational Quality Manager (RQM)

RQM is used to design the Test Cases for Otre sub projects, starting fromrequirements. Users create requirements directly from Rational RequisitePro and through a dynamic link, the RQM users can develop test cases.

Crossconnection

between RQMand RRpro

RQM

RRPro


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Start Up

Requisitedefinition

Installation and configuration inLAB

SystemIntegration

Test Case

Production

Softwarediscovery

Monthly trend of time spent


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StartUp Requisite Discovery Installation Integration Test Production

RTC

RRPro

RAM

RQM

Jazz Tools used


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Most widely communication used

To communicate during theproject we used Voip, Chat,Mail and presence meeting.In startup phase we performsome cobrowsing session topromote familiarity with Jazztools.

Support activities: Documents review

Technical support

Resources allocation

Project management


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What we learnedThis project has taught us many things, this is what we learned:

Pros

Students are happy to apply what they study

Students can touch with hand the issues a collaborative development and identify the bestsolutions to solve them

Students can work in a team as if they were in a company

Cos

Poor communication between students belonging to other groups

The student often does not has the feeling of working in a shared environment (via RTC), soconsiders the his project as a thing in itself, without entering into a view that his work is part of a

broader project RTC and more generally Jazz tools, was not understood and metabolized as useful tool to

facilitate the work of development and integration