Software Integration and Distribution: Overview

This section documents all the procedures and tools used for the gCube System releases. It is meant to be the central access point for gCube developers, software testers, release managers, and whoever involved in gCube development, for knowing any information about integration, validation and distribution of the gCube System.

Given the large size of the gCube system, its high degree of modularity and the number of developers involved in the implementation, the Work Package 7, responsible for the distribution of gCube, defined a set of procedures that formalize and make it easy integrate, test, document and distribute the software by coordinating the different actors involved in the release process. Section Release Procedures provides a detailed description of each procedure by listing actors and their responsibilities for each step of each procedure.

Activities in release procedures are highly automated and supported by several tools. The tools offer support in the:

• configuration of gCube source code (SCM tools);
• release preparation phase (Trac);
• software integration phase (ETICS, BTRT, the Building Infrastructure)
• the testing phase (Checkstyle, Findbugs, ETICS, the Testing Infrastructure)
• the documentation of the system (Wikimedia);
• the distribution of the system (gCube Distribution Site).

Section Testing Plan provides documentation for the support to gCube software testing carried out during integration of system's releases and in continuous integration builds.

Release Roles

• Release Manager
• Subsystem Manager
• Developer
• Tester
• Documentation Editor
• Documentation Author

Release Tools

• SCM Tools
  • gCube Subversion Repository
• Building tools
  • ETICS
  • BTRT
  • Building Infrastructure
• Tracking System - Trac
• Testing Infrastructure
• Documentation
• Distribution Site

Release Procedures

• Continuous Integration
• Major/Minor Release Cycle
• Maintenance Release Cycle
• Documentation Writing guidelines
  • Changelog Generation procedure
• Documentation Validation procedure
• Distribution procedure

Test Plan

• Static Code Analysis
• Unit Testing
• Functional Testing
• Deployment Testing
• Performance Testing