Assessment on the Milestones 2000

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Assessment on the Milestones 2000

• Maria Grazia Pia

Geant4 Workshop Paris, 16-20 October
2000 http//www.ge.infn.it/lowE/
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Physics and SPI

• Assessment and improvements of the current
  physics implementation (mandatory)
• Implementation of the Auger effect (mandatory)
• Low energy extensions for positrons (mandatory)
• Extensions to lower energies of protons and ions
  and simulation of straggling (mandatory)
• Extension to lower energies of antiprotons
  (mandatory)
• Low energy extensions for negative ions
  (desirable)
• Extensions to lower energies of electrons and
  photons (optional)

• Explicit definition and documentation of
  procedures (mandatory)
• Major improvement of the design (mandatory)
• Major improvement of the software quality
  (desirable)
• Improvement of performance in critical areas
  (desirable)
• Set-up of a full testing suite and thorough
  testing of the software and physics (mandatory)
• Defect analysis and prevention (desirable)
• Complete and accurate documentation coverage
  (desirable)
• Internal training (desirable)

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Publications and design

• Preprint on antiprotons (mandatory)
• Preprint on negative ions (desirable)
• Preprint on positrons (desirable)
• Preprints on further extensions and updates
  (desirable)
• Preprint on design (desirable)
• Preprint on software process (desirable)
• Paper on refereed journal on electrons,
  positrons, photons (mandatory)
• Paper on refereed journal on hadrons (mandatory)
• Paper on refereed journal on ions (mandatory)

• OO design iteration in the data domain
  (mandatory)
• OO design iteration in the electron-photon domain
  (desirable)
• OO design iteration in the hadron-ion domain
  (mandatory)
• OO design iteration at the top level of
  electromagnetic processes to remove Standard and
  Low Energy cross-dependencies (desirable)
• Reorganisation of the physical design of the
  electromagnetic package (desirable)

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Testing

• Clear separation of the testing from the examples
  (mandatory)
• Distinction of debugging, software testing and
  physics testing (desirable)
• Definition and documentation of testing
  requirements (mandatory)
• Definition and documentation of testing
  procedures (mandatory)
• Integration of testing into the software
  lifecycle (desirable)
• Test planning (mandatory)
• Clear assignment of responsibilities for testing
  tools developments and testing execution
  (mandatory)
• Development of unit testing tools (mandatory)

• Development of integration testing tools
  (optional)
• Improvement of system testing tools (desirable)
• Improvement of physics testing tools (desirable)
• Verification of compliance with requirements
  (optional)
• Documentation of testing tools and reference test
  results (desirable)
• Creation and maintenance of a test case
  repository (desirable)
• Collaboration with users in the testing process
  (optional)
• Continuous improvement of the testing system,
  based on defect analysis and contacts with users
  (optional)