1. RNG Implementation
Release 1

2. Agenda Current state of project Demo Unresolved Issues and planning
Scheduling
Design work
Test planning
Implementation
Demo
Unresolved Issues and planning
Rollout
Alpha test

3. Old Schedule Had to be reworked Two releases instead of three
Delays obtaining and setting up development machine
Code dependency problems
Normal extraordinary circumstances
Two releases instead of three
Release 1 demo today
Release 2 scheduled for 5/5/03

4. New Schedule Increase Rollout time Decrease Beta test time
Instead of 2 weeks, 4
Decrease Beta test time
Instead of an entire release, 1 week Alpha test
No anticipated change in team test time

5. Timeline
4/7-4/11: continue development on R2 use cases, get in touch with testing departments, work on a basic set of documents.
4/14-4/18: alpha test, continued development on R2, begin rollout process with ITS
4/21-5/2: develop, test, and documentation time. Continue making transition to ITS systems.
5/5: Release 2, containing full functionality, well tested.
5/5-5/16: take application "live" on ITS servers, complete and distribute documentation, offer training to departments and helpdesk.
5/12-5/16: final project presentations for SE department.

6. Design Largely unchanged Low-level design complete for both releases
Last unknown: Automatic expiration
Have written Executioner class which removes articles from feed based on expiration date
Need to figure out how to run it daily

7. Testing Test Scripts complete Reviewed at last phase gate
Available on team website (
Unit testing proceeding with development
Have set up bug tracking utility (roundup)

8. Implementation Current functionality: Add news items to feed
Exercises all modules of design
LDAP lookup
Database Access
File system management
News Item and RSS generation

9. Unresolved Issues Various bugs
Month-related errors
Apostrophes in database strings
Location of configuration file
Scheduling: how to handle additional delays
Quota management
Should be easy to add quota management into config file
May be more difficult to integrate with OS quotas

10. Demo