Delphi Diamondback Sneak Peek

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Delphi (Diamondback) Sneak Peek

• John Kaster, Senior Manager
• Borland Developer Relations

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Diamondback sneak peek

• Multi-personality IDE
• Delphi for Win32
• Delphi for Microsoft .NET
• C

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Diamondback sneak peek

• New IDE features shown
• Welcome page with news feeds
• Multi-personality IDE for Delphi/Win32,
  Delphi/NET and C projects
• Project groups with Delphi/Win32, Delphi/NET, and
  C projects
• Error Insight
• Help Insight
• Refactoring for Delphi and C
• History view

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Diamondback sneak peek

• New Delphi language feature
• For .. in do enumerator
• Supported in Delphi/Win32
• Supported in Delphi/.NET

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3042 ALM for Microsoft.NET

• John Kaster (johnk_at_borland.com)
• Senior Manager, Borland Developer Relations

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Agenda

• StarTeam
• CaliberRM
• J2EE Interoperability
• OptimizeIt
• Deployment Manager
• XMLDoc
• .NET Managed Database
• Unit Testing and Refactoring
• QA

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StarTeam Is The M In ALM

• Software Configuration and Change Management
  (SCM)
• Integrations are vital to success

JBuilder CBuilder CBuilder Delphi
Together
StarTeam
OptimizeitSuite
CaliberRM
Enterprise Server Janeva Interbase
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StarTeam

• What is SCM?

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What is SCM ?

• Software Configuration Management (SCM)
• A discipline that supports and controls
  modifications to all key assets within a software
  development lifecycle
• Integrates with all other lifecycle stages and
  tools
• The primary components of an effective SCM
  solution include ALL of the following
• Version Control Process Management
• Audit and Security Build Management
• Change Management Release Management
• Task Management

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Common SCM Tasks

• Version Control
• Check out/check in
• Revision history
• Branching and merging
• Project views
• Change Management
• Defect tracking
• Enhancement lists
• Requirement specification
• Linking/traceability
• Task Management
• Task creation/status
• Recording work

• Process Management
• Workflow definition
• Entry/exit criteria
• Notifications
• Approval tracking
• Security enforcement
• Build Management
• Compilation
• Identifying dependencies
• Release Management
• Labeling
• Promotion States
• Deployment

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Why Care About SCM ?

• Meta Group
• To increase relevance and cut costs, Global
  2000 organizations must consider coordination of
  key life-cycle phases, such as requirements
  analysis, testing and version control, and
  best-of-breed functionality when making vendor
  choices, to better and more efficiently manage
  application programs and projects.
• Hurwitz Group
• One of the most important pieces of application
  development is the management of the actual
  software development process, and CM is a method
  by which companies can keep track of that
  process.

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StarTeam

• What is StarTeam?

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What is StarTeam ?

• StarTeam is
• a comprehensive software configuration
  management system to support the definition and
  control of all assets and life cycle tasks from
  within a single repository
• Unified repository for all enterprise assets
• Highly optimized client-server interaction
• Customizable workflow and process rules

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What is StarTeam ?

• Requirement Publication
• Change Management
• Team Discussion
• Task Allocation Tracking
• File Management
• Customizable Workflow
• Customizable Forms
• Automatic Linking
• Open Customizable Platform
• Web-Centric Architecture
• Secure

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StarTeam Functionality Matrix
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What Makes StarTeam Unique ?

• StarTeam provides
• Unified repository for all enterprise assets
• Integrates all key lifecycle assets in one
  repository
• Supports full lifecycle traceability and impact
  analysis
• Highly optimized client-server interaction
• Enables scalable, highly efficient communication
• Supports true multi-cast and event-based
  transactions
• Customizable workflow and forms
• Requires little, if any, programming skill
• Managed at the server so no client deployment
  issues
• Workflow objects are versioned with all other
  assets
• Enables workflow and forms definition for all
  asset types

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Benefits of An Integrated Repository
Client Desktops
ALM Apps

• StarTeam UI
• JBuilder
• CBuilder
• CBuilder
• Delphi
• Eclipse/WSAD
• MS Visual Studio, .NET
• Oracle Developer
• Web Browser
• SDK

Windows
StarTeam Server

• CaliberRM
• Together
• MS Project
• TestDirector
• Remedy
• etc.

Linux

• Version Management
• Change/Defect Management
• Requirements Management
• Task Management
• Electronic discussion

Unix
SCMArchives
Java Enabled

• StarTeam
• PVCS
• VSS

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Current StarTeam Integrations

• Application-Specific
• Borland CBuilder
• Versions 5, 6
• Borland Delphi
• Versions 6, 7, 8.NET, Diamondback
• Borland JBuilder
• Versions 8, 9, X
• Eclipse Framework
• Versions 1, 2.1
• IBM WSAD
• Versions 4.0, 5.1
• Mercury TestDirector
• Versions 7.5, 7.6, 8.0
• Microsoft Project
• Versions 2000, 2002
• Microsoft Visual Studio (Web Projects)
• Versions 6, .NET, .NET 2003
• Oracle Developer
• Versions 6, 2000

• SCC Integrations
• Borland CaliberRM
• Versions 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 5.1
• Borland CodeWright
• Versions 6.6, 7.0
• Borland Together
• Versions 5.5, 6.0, 6.1
• Microsoft Access
• Versions 2000, 2002
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Versions 6.0, .NET, .NET 2003
• Rational ROSE
• Versions 2001, 2002 release 2
• Sybase PowerBuilder
• Versions 8.0, 9.0

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Web-Centric Architecture
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StarTeam MPX True Multi-Cast Support
Client
Client
Client
Client
Client
Client
Dedicated Connections
Starbase Server
ServerDatabase
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StarTeam

• Product Functionality

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Unified Repository For All Assets
StarTeams unique Project and View definitions
provide unlimited flexibility for
sharing/restricting assets
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Automated File Status Tracking
Group By options let developers perform bulk
operations quickly
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Flexible Branching and Merging
Powerful branching and merging capabilities make
parallel development easy, no matter what the
size of the team or the number of concurrent
releases
Viewing branches or performing time travel is
just a matter of a few mouse clicks
Graphical wizards quickly create branches and
provide prompting merging when necessary
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Customizable Filters and Queries
Options include sorting, grouping, queries,
context, and column order and membership
Filter definitions are defined graphically,
without the need for programming experience
These filters and queries can either be
user-specific or public objects that any other
StarTeam user can select
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Multi-Level Labels and Promotion States
StarTeam includes a unique 2-level labeling
ability that allows for both component and build
labels
Promotion states provide an additional level of
abstraction so that dynamic views can easily be
defined for lifecycle stages
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Integrated Change Management
Change requests record defects, enhancements,
suggestions, etc.
Change requests are native objects that the
StarTeam Server understands
Change requests definitions can easily be
customized with custom fields and forms
Change requests can be entered in StarTeam or
synchronized from other defect tracking sources
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Integrated Requirements Management
Requirements are native objects that the StarTeam
Server understands
Requirements can be entered in StarTeam or
synchronized from CaliberRM
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Integrated Task Management
Tasks are native objects that the StarTeam Server
understands
Tasks can be entered in StarTeam or synchronized
from Microsoft Project
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Customizable Workflow Forms
Graphical workflow definition allows
customization of StarTeam process rules and
enforces standards
Alternate Property Editors provide custom user
interface and can be setup for all object types
Make the process fit your environment - not the
other way around!
Alternate Property Editors are also stored in
StarTeam Server as configuration items
Workflow definition stored in StarTeam Server as
configuration items so client deployment is
automatic
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StarTeam Demonstration

• StarTeam User Interface
• Version Control functionality
• Change management functionality
• Process Items Automated Linking
• Requirements Integration
• Task Integration
• Custom Workflow Design
• Workflow Designer
• Custom Forms definition
• Decision Support Analysis
• StarTeam DataMart

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Diamondback integration

• Multi-level backups with History view
• StarTeam integration
• Main menu item
• StarTeam Project management
• Create
• Check in/out
• create directories
• File renames are tracked
• Embedded client
• External client launching
• Project Manager
• Project groups
• Manage associations for project groups
• Structure pane folder view
• Items pane files open in IDE
• History view is StarTeam aware
• locking/unlocking/merging
• Change requests

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Setting the stage What is Requirements
Management?
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What is Requirements Management?
A continuous process of managing requirements
from their inception to implementation and
maintenance.

• Requirements Management
• Ensures a project meets end-user needs that are
  feasible and within approved project scope.
• Establishes a common understanding of
• Business Requirements
• User Requirements
• Functional Requirements
• Nonfunctional Requirements
• Manages changes to those requirements.

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What the Customer Needs
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Different Interpretations
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The Source of Software Defects
Requirements Errors (56)
Design Errors (27)
Other Errors (10)
Coding Errors (7)
Source James Martin, An Information Systems
Manifesto
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The Cost to Fix Software Defects
Requirements Errors (82)
Design Errors (13)
Other Errors (4)
Coding Errors (1)
Source James Martin, An Information Systems
Manifesto
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Sources of Defects
Note Most Studies have shown that requirement
errors typically constitute between 40 and 60 of
the total number of errors, while design and code
defects combined attribute to only a third of the
errors. Thats a pretty significant difference.
From a U.S. Air Force Project, F. Sheldon,
1992 Reliability Measurement from Theory to
Practice
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Software as Problem Solving
Linear Method Designer Process
Gather Data
Problem
Analyze Data
Formulate Solution
Implement Solution
Solution
Time
Pattern of Cognitive Activity of One Designer
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The Quality Lever
- This data from Boehm Software Engineering
Economics
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Approaches to Requirements
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Three approaches to requirements automation

• Document-centric requirements
• CaliberRM 6.0 provides many benefits in a very
  easy to use GUI. Through the use of HTML, and
  improvements in editing and document production,
  CaliberRM is leading the way. CaliberRM is now
  the momentum leader in this space.
• Developer-centric requirements
• CaliberRM integrations into CB, TCC, TJB,
  VS.NET, and Delphi (C, JB and Eclipse coming
  soon) ensure that the developers are always and
  easily kept in the know. If the developer
  isnt made aware of the requirements, why bother
  doing them? CaliberRM is the clear leader in
  this space.
• Infrastructure-centric requirements
• CaliberRM has an open API and the ability to
  amplify the Voice of the Customer throughout the
  ALM. Live link integration without the need for
  import / export is also a clear technical
  advantage. CaliberRM is the clear leader in this
  space.

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Building a requirements community

• Begin with requirements expertswho understand
  the importance of requirements automation
• Add subject matter expertswho want to express
  requirements in the ways that make sense to them
• Support the management of additional definition
  artifactsUse Cases, Scenarios, Storyboards,
  Requests, User stories, etc.
• Provide a variety of output formats targeted at
  various demographics
• Use change notificationto ensure everyone stays
  in the loop
• Integrate with other key ALM technologiesand
  customize to fit your process

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Metcalfes Law

• Metcalfe's Law the value of a network grows by
  the square of the size of the network.
• Originally referring to network theory, it can
  also be extended to the network of subject
  matter experts and stakeholders defining a system
  (or building an ALM project) a network of
  people or capability network
• Due of Metcalfe's Law, the largest network
  always wins over smaller networks, even if the
  smaller network has some larger initial value due
  to some special-purpose feature or benefit.
• As the size of the network increases, the value
  accelerates

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Augmentation and aggregation are key
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Borland ALMAnd CaliberRM
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ALM Fundamentals

• Attention is the scarce resource solutions must
  help clients manage signal-to-noise ratio
• Unfiltered information must be available
  solutions which require summary translation from
  medium-to-medium change the message
• Context switching must be minimized solutions
  which force users to continually change contexts
  steal productivity
• Member aggregation is more important than the
  amount or type of resource owned
• Value increases exponentially as stakeholders are
  engaged in the process

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Connecting disciplinary super-hubs to your ALM
ALM
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Metcalfe's Law - accelerating benefits
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Metcalfe's Law The ALM Power Curve
Manage
Definition
Design
Deploy
Develop
Test
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What happens without integration?

• Cutting the value network into pieces
• The law is usually quoted in terms of growth of
  the network, but we can run Metcalfe's Law in
  reverse and use it to characterize the effect of
  cutting a network into pieces
• The value of partitioning a network into N
  isolated components is 1/N'th the value of the
  original network.
• Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, (http//www.useit.com/al
  ertbox/990725.html)

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Metcalfe in Reverse Non-integrated Power
Curve(s)
Manage
Definition
Design
Deploy
Develop
Test
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So, what does that mean?

• With tight integration momentum, velocity and
  synergy help deliver value

Poorly Integrated

• Without tight integration, potential value lies
  untapped
• Momentum from each discipline is self contained
• No cross-project synergies

Tightly Integrated
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CaliberRM 6.0
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CaliberRM 6.0 - New Features

• Rich Requirement Editing
• Delivered with dramatic improvements to Import,
  GUI, Document Generation, and usability
• Tables, Images, rich text and expanded hyperlink
  support
• Fit-to-Process Customization MPX event-driven
  Agents
• Rule-based attribute calculations
• Multi-tier communication/notification strategies
• Automated approval processes
• Strong inheritance models, including between
  types
• only limited by your imagination!.
• Phase I Use Case Automation with TCC
• TestDirector 8.0 Support and IDE integration with
  Delphi Eclipse integration on the way
• Stackable licensing
• Miscellaneous productivity enhancements

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Demonstration
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J2EE/EJB interop with Janeva for Diamondback

• Delphi and C support
• Select individual or all EJBs from a J2EE archive
  (EAR or JAR) to generate the client for
• Automatically parses vendor-specific (BES,
  Weblogic and Websphere) Deployment Descriptors
  for the correct JNDI name to bind to
• Generates a ServiceLocator for easy, one step,
  EJB binding and home interface access
• Generates assemblies (instead of .cs) for .NET
  language transparency
• Automatically creates an app.config file with the
  required Janeva parameters
• It has cool About box and Splash screen icons

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J2EE and .NET Interoperability

• Anders Ohlsson

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OptimizeIt for .NET

• OptimizeIt profiler
• CLR information
• Memory profiling
• CPU usage profiling

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OptimizeIt for .NET

• Anders Ohlsson

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Deployment manager

• XCopy deployment
• FTP deployment
• Pluggable architecture
• Comparison engine

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XMLDoc tool (unsupported)

• Requirements
• Instant Saxon http//saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.
  5.2/instant.html
• Python http//www.python.org/ftp/python/2.3.4/Pyth
  on-2.3.4.exe
• JDK 1.4
• Comment formats
• Single line
• ///
• Multiline
• !
• ! ..
• Use compiler switch to generate XML
• Build HTML Help 2 input files from XML output

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Quick tour

• XMLDoc tool by Aleatha Parker

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New! Pure .NET Database

• Managed Code Database Advantages
• Fast, small, easy to use and deploy
• Room J4, Monday 200 - 315
• Writing Managed Code Database Apps
• Use Delphi, C, VB to write database triggers,
  stored procedures and UDFs
• Room J4, Monday 500 - 615

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Unit Testing and Refactoring

• NUnit (.NET) support
• DUnit (Delphi/Win32) support
• New test case (Delphi C)
• New test project (Delphi C)

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Unit testing and refactoring

• Charlie Calvert

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Questions?

• John Kaster (johnk_at_borland.com)

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Thank You

• Please fill out the speaker evaluation
• You can contact me further at johnk_at_borland.com