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| Over the past decades the Software Engineering community has proposed (and later rejected) numerous methods to tackle essential problems of software development. In this talk we summarize which of these methods and techniques to our understanding contribute to successful development projects. A special emphasis will be given to so called "agile development methods". We will outline how these methods, in particular extreme Programming and Scrum, help to identify problems of development projects at early points of time. In addition the talk will try to summarize which architectural and programming guidelines have proven successful to implement maintainable software, for example design by contract. WPS Workplace Solutions GmbH is a spin off of the University of Hamburg, Department of Informatics. WPS manages and implements medium size to large software projects. WPS's experience covers the whole range of Software Engineering methods and techniques from code analysis of legacy software and software requirements elicitation to software design and implementation - in long term projects and in big teams. | ||
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| TCO101 | Benefits, Drawbacks and Challenges During a Collaborative Development of a Settings Management System for CERN and GSI | 126 |
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| The settings management system LSA (LHC Software Architecture) was originally developed for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). For FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) a renovation of the GSI control system was necessary. When it was decided in 2008 to use the LSA system for settings management for FAIR, the middle management of the two institutes agreed on a collaborative development. This paper highlights the insights gained during the collaboration, from three different perspectives: organizational aspects of the collaboration, like roles that have been established, planned procedures, the preparation of a formal contract and social aspects to keep people working as a team across institutes. It also shows technical benefits and drawbacks that arise from the collaboration for both institutes as well as challenges that are encountered during development. Furthermore, it provides an insight into aspects of the collaboration which were easy to establish and which still take time. | ||
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| TCO102 | Eplanner Software for Machine Activities Management | 129 |
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| For Indus-2, a 2.5 GeV Synchrotron Radiation Source, operational at Indore, India, the need was felt for software for easily managing various related activities for avoiding communication gaps among the crew members and clearly bringing out the important communications for machine operation. Typical requirements were to have the facility to enter and display daily, weekly and longer operational calendars, to convey system specific and machine operation related standing instructions, to log and track the faults occurring during the operations and follow up actions on the faults logged etc. Overall, the need was for a system to easily manage the number of jobs related to planning the day to day operations of a national facility. The paper describes such a web based system developed and in use regular use and found extremely useful. | ||
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| TCO103 | Recent Highlights from Cosylab | 132 |
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| Cosylab was established 13 years ago by a group of regular visitors of the PCaPAC. In the meantime, it has grown to a company of 90 employees that covers the majority of accelerator control projects. In this talk, I will present the most interesting developments that we have done in the past two years on a very different range of projects and I will show how we had to get organized in order to be able to manage them all. The developments were made for labs like KIT, ITER, PSI, EBG-MedAustron, European Spallation Source, Maxlab, SLAC, ORNL, GSI/FAIR but also generally for community software like EPICS, TANGO, Control System Studio, White Rabbit, etc. And they range from electronics development to high level software: electric signal conditioning and interfacing, timing system, machine protection system, fibre-optic communication, linux driver development, core EPICS development, packaging, high performance networks, medical device integration, database development, all the way up to turnkey systems. Efficient organisation comprises a matrix structure of teams and groups versus projects and accounts, supported by rigorous reporting, measurements and drill-down analyses. | ||
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| FPO034 | Beamline Data Management at the Synchrotron ANKA | 231 |
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| We present an architecture consisting of measurement devices, beamline data management and data repository to enable data management at the synchrotron facility ANKA. The operators perform some data management tasks manually and individually for each measurement method. In order to provide the functionality of a data repository it is necessary to collect the data, aggregate metadata and to perform the ingests into the data repository. The data management layer between the measurement devices and the data repository is referred to beamline data management (BLDM), which performs data collection, metadata aggregation and data ingest. Shared libraries contain functionality like migration, ingest or metadata aggregation and form the basis of the BLDM. The workflows and the current state of execution are persisted to enable monitoring and error handling. After data ingest into the data repository, implemented with the KIT Data Manager, archiving, content preservation or bit preservation services are provided for the ingested data. BLDM can connect the existing infrastructure with the data repository without major changes of routine processes to build a data repository for a synchrotron. | ||