1. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 1 EPICS Office next Steps Matthias Clausen

2. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 2 How do we proceed? Collect comments from you (stay tuned for the following discussion) Collect requirements Write specifications Implementation

3. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 3 Collect Requirements For the workbench itself For the applications Define the necessary interfaces (Eclipse extension points) upfront Prototype interfaces in an early stage to enable application programmers to use these interfaces from the very beginning

4. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 4 Eclipse Application-Plugs and Interface-Plugs (Examples) Office Management Controls Applications Configuration Management Controls Data High Level Applications Record/ Playback Archive Data Alarm Server cmlog … more provides extension point requires extension point … Name Server

5. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 5 Collecting Requirements with (Rational) Requisite Pro http://ipprmsprd.desy.de/ReqWeb/

6. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 6 Distributed Requirements Collection using Word Documents 1.Take Word document offline. 2.Upload document to your PC 3.Add your requirements 4.Download file 5.Take file back online

7. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 7 Contents of resulting Requirements Document Fundamental requirements for the workbench itself A list of application plugs Basic functionality Necessary interfaces A list of ‘service’ plugs Full specification of interface As a result: a list of necessary interfaces

8. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 8 Collaborative Software Development Eclipse cvs (in the future: Subversion) CodeBeamer CB plugin remote ssh

9. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 9 Eclipse / CodeBeamer Plug http://elogbook.desy.de:8081/cb/proj/doc.do?doc_id=1037

10. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 10 CodeBeamer: Tracker

11. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 11 CodeBeamer: Source Code

12. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 12 CodeBeamer: Class Usage

13. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 13 CodeBeamer: Source Code

14. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 14 CodeBeamer: Class Referred by

15. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 15 Join the Interest Group CodeBeamer: http://elogbook.desy.de:8081 Register your account online. Send me an email: Matthias.Clausen@desy.deMatthias.Clausen@desy.de Requisite pro: http://ipprmsprd.desy.de/ReqWebhttp://ipprmsprd.desy.de/ReqWeb (will be changed) guest/ guest

16. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 16 Schedule Collecting Requirements From: NOW To: July Writing Specfication (Cosylab) From: June To: September First prototype EPICS meeting in October @ CERN

17. 29. April 2005EPICS Office - Next Steps 17 Feedback: What do you think about it?