Developing a Control System from a Divan Bed

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Developing a Control System from a Divan Bed
Grega Milcinski (grega.milcinski_at_cosylab.com) M.
Centrih, J. Dovc, M. Plesko, G. Tkacik J. Stefan
Institute and Cosylab Limited

• PCaPAC 2002, Frascati October 2002

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Agenda

• working at home is effective
• project management tools
• sample project flow

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Office vs. home
reappearing questions
coffee-breaks
fixed workday
Cant you feel the reason?
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E-Mails
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Request Tracker
Web page
Apache
User
Perl
User
E-Mail
E-Mail
Watchers
SQL
Project manager
Others
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eManagement Cycle

• Project Web
• Sources
• Manuals

Project definition

• Internal Pages
• open project
• select project manager
• select project members

Scripts
Testing
CS User

• Request Tracker
• To-Do
• Activity list
• Bugs

Bug report
ANT

• CVS
• Sources
• Manuals (in XML)
• Resources

• Actual work
• Code
• XML Docs

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All Data in MySQL
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Best of Breed Tools

• all open source !
• Apache Web server, PHP scripts
• sympa mailing lists
• list_at_ltprojectgt.cosylab.com
• eclipse Java IDE with integrated CVS support
• RT to-do tickets and support/bug tracking
• Web interface or bug_at_ltprojectgt.cosylab.com
• ant makefile in Java XML (nightly build)
• XML source (XSL)gt html
• CosyXML no more MS-Word?
• generated project pages

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XML Documentation
Source
Result
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Enter New Ticket
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Internal Project Pages
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RT Analyzer

• ticket creation
• advanced searches
• activity log
• advanced to-do lists

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Customer Area Web Pages
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Conclusion

• every action is recorded
• well structured
• easy accessible

• side effects