Team SoftwareEngineering.Ca

• Olivier Clift-Noël
• Jean-Philippe Daigle
• Jason Kealey
• Jordan McManus
• Étienne Tremblay

• Tracing a path through a system of objects to explain a causal sequence

• Goal: Usability
• Goal: Maintainability
• Goal: Better documentation

Goals

• Generic
• Guide our vision
• Make client happy

Requirements

• Specific
• Define functionality

• Following Eclipse UI guidelines
  
  
• Formal usability testing is not required
  
  
• Evaluating usability: for first version, testing by a few users (Personas: programmers that may or may not know Eclipse / UCMs) and the client.
  

• Eclipse framework: forces us into a few highly-maintainable patterns & coding standards.
• Evaluating maintainability: code reviews and a few metrics
  • Time between assignment of an enhancement task -> resolution
  • Repository stats for modifications: problem areas

• Our client provides feedback allowing us to be assured that documentation meets quality requirements.
• We use TWiki to foster conversation between developers and the client
• Documents changes / history
• Place to put dev documentation / easy to maintain
• JavaDoc coding standards

• Testing that requirements are met
• Question to answer: Can system support creation of existing UCMs with the new tool?
• We're lucky to have existing UCMs as a reference

• Diagram elements
  • Manipulating the model
  • JUnit tests are possible / a bit of scripting

• Editor commands
  • Manual testing
  • Some automated unit tests possible
  • Model serialization will help us with automated testing
    • Guard against regressions
    • Test undo / redo functionality

• View aspects
  • Mostly manual verification

Help & Documentation

• Manual review by client, who provides timely feedback
• Quality is somewhat subjective

• Java version
  • Building on J2 SE? 1.5 (Java 5.0)
  • Other tests passing implies it works under this platform target.

Reporting

• Remember we get automated notifications of tests having passed / failed on each build.

• Business analyst, Jason: Requirements validation
• QA Manager, Olivier: Overall QA + Documentation
• UI Expert, J-P: Use Case verification
• Architect, Etienne: Ensure guidelines are followed.
• Programmer, Jordan: Ensure coding standards are followed.

• As of today, our prototypes have covered 24/43 of our requirements.
• We've also implemented 7/50 of the optional and future requirements.
• No tests have been implemented as our particular application requires deep knowledge of the architecture.