1. e-Infrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software
Alberto Di Meglio
CERN, INFN, Engineering, 4D Soft, University of Wisconsin

2. Overview The ETICS Consortium The ETICS Principles
Operations
Information
Certification
EGEE2 and Other Collaborations
Training and Dissemination
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3. ETICS in a Nutshell
ETICS stands for e-Infrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software
It’s an SSA
It has been granted 1.4 M€ (TBC)
It has a duration of two years
The planned starting date is January 1st, 2006
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4. The ETICS Consortium
Build system, software configuration, service infrastructure, dissemination, EGEE, gLite, project coord.
Software configuration, service infrastructure, dissemination
Web portals and tools, quality process, dissemination, DILIGENT
Test methods and metrics, unit testing tools, EBIT
The Condor batch system, distributed testing tools, service infrastructure, NMI
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5. ETICS Organization
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6. The ETICS Principles
Operations ETICS will run a comprehensive software engineering service for other projects to use it. All services are accessible from a web portal and can run locally or remotely
Information ETICS will collect and share information about the software it hosts, its characteristics, configuration, requirements to help users and developers make informed, interoperable choices
Certification ETICS will conduct a feasibility study on a QA process for distributed software that will lead to a future Certification Process
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7. Software Configuration Distributed Test System
I - Operations
CLI / Web Portal
Reporting
Services
Software Configuration
and Repository
Build System
Distributed Test System
Infrastructure
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8. II - Information Benchmarks and test results Interoperability
Package repository
Guidelines, how-to’s and best-practice recipes
Software configuration, requirements and dependencies
Quality Assurance and metrics
Standards compliance
Tools
Projects managers, integrators, testers
Application developers
Certification process
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9. III - Certification Standards, QA, interoperability, … ETICS ETICS PAB
User communities
In what sense software is “good”?
The software adheres to agreed standards, it executes in the expected way, satisfied a number of qualitative and quantitative requirements, etc, etc, etc
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10. EGEE2 and Other Collaborations
The ETICS services are intended to provide from the start the integration, testing and QA tools for EGEE/EGEE2, Diligent and other partner projects
Part of the infrastructure and tools, the NMI infrastructure, are the same already used by project like Condor and VDT at the UoW. It also provides a direct bridge between EGEE2 and OSG
Other projects developing software and in particular applications providers are more than welcome to use the services and tests their products with ETICS
One of the major goals of ETICS is to strengthen the interoperability and quality of middleware and applications developed for the Grid and other complex distributed environments. Everybody’s collaboration is welcome and needed.
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11. Dissemination and Training
ETICS has an explicit mandate to provide training and promote dissemination activities related to the ETICS services, but also to software processes and quality assurance in general
A detailed dissemination plan is foreseen as an early deliverable of the project
We plan to organize a dedicated conference/workshop on software processes and quality assurance in year 2 and training events
The ETICS dissemination and training events should be prepared in close collaboration with other dissemination projects (ICEAGE, EGEE2 dissemination activities).
We want to participate in defining or improving standards in this subject with the relevant bodies
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