1. Web-based Query & Reporting System for Software User Consultant Richard Knowles Rutgers University Electrical & Computer Engineering Mentors: Amy Chen & Elizabeth Rye Section 388: Instrument Software and Science Data Systems

2. Outline  Introduction  Problem  Project Goals  Design  Demo  Milestones  Future Work  Questions

3. Introduction  Multimission Ground System Services (MGSS)  Software dissemination and documentation for Instrument Operations Subsystem (IOS)  Manages the Advancement Multi-Mission Operations Systems (AMMOS)  Provides enhanced tools and services to consumers on NASA’s space missions  Software User Consultants  Provide single point of contact to coordinate, manage and maintain all software dissemination and documentation

4. Problem  Software dissemination is tracked  Done manually  Data is stored in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets  Accessible to a single person at a time  Difficult to search and retrieve  Manually intensive to update and maintain

5. Problem  Spreadsheet video

6. Project Goals  Make Software User Consultant’s job easier  Easy access to data  Easy to search and retrieve data  Easy to maintain the data  More organized

7. Project Goals  Relate to Google Search Engine

8. Design  Migrated data from Excel spreadsheets into a relational (MySQL) database  MySQL Server  Accessible via web-based user interface  Developed a Software Web Application  Access to the MySQL database  PHP programming  Enhance security  Add features to the system  Improve the user-interface

9. Design  Database Schema  7 Tables  Contact Info  Contributor  Document Review  License  Members  NTR (New Technological Report)  Project

10. Design Database Schema NTR (New Technological Report)

11. Design Database Schema

12. Design Database Schema

13. Design Contributor Database Schema

14. Design Database Schema

15. Design Database Schema

16. Design Members Database Schema

17. Design  Web Services  Used to create a software web application on a server  Allows clients to access the web application on the network  Apache  Web server  MySQL  Database server  PHP, HTML  Allow interactions between the database and the server

18. Design Client-Server Model

19. Design Centralized Location

20. Design Use Case Diagram

21. Demo  `Excel Spreadsheets `Excel Spreadsheets  http://localhost/~knowles/ http://localhost/~knowles/

22. Milestones  Complete Web Service  Authentication  Queries and Data Retrieval  Friendly User Interface

23. Future Work  Make system more dynamic  Port to the Multi-mission Instrument Processing Laboratory (MIPL) server  Backup/Recovery

24. Acknowledgements  Amy Chen  Elizabeth Rye  Elias Sayfi  Alex Leung  Janet Fung  Jenny Tieu

25. Thank You  Questions? Email: Knowles3@Eden.Rutgers.edu