Presentación de la Universidad de Extremadura en el SFIC 2009

1. Key Technologies and solutions for
software factories
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2. • In 2004, SGAE had great technological challenges to overcome.
• They needed an increase of their workforce to cover all of them
• With the objective of an efficient increase, they implemented a software
factory
• And, they decided to open it in Cáceres
• The relationship between SGAE and UEX began in 2005
• Professors were involved in management and control of the factory
• Project leaders realized that time spent on these tasks were too
much
• Zentipede: process management and monitoring tool
• JACA: technology for increasing the development efficiency
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3. Index
• SGAE-UEX experience
• Collaboration SGAE-UEX
• Factory Management Process
• Needs and Problems
• Lessons Learned and Key Success
• Zentipede: process management and monitoring tool.
• JACA: technology for increasing the development efficiency.
• Conclusions
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4. SGAE-UEX experience. Collaboration
• SGAE was developing an application to manage authors rights (TESEO)
• It was developed internally
• With the latest and greatest technological advances
• In 2004, they detected the necessity of increase their workforce
• Outsourcing
• Business complexity
• Project leaders, designers, developers, were already involve in the project
• Software factory
• Business needs were easier to transmit
• Workforce could be increased easier
• The factory was created in Cáceres, beginning the collaboration
between SGAE and UEX, which lasted from 2005 to 2007
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5. SGAE-UEX experience. Collaboration
• This relationship began with the signature of a contract between
SGAE and a UEX research group
• Under this contract was established that:
• SGAE contributed with 30 grants
• UEX contributed with installations for the factory
• In this sense both obtained some benefits:
• SGAE achieved a group of developer trained in their business and needs
• UEX achieved:
• On research, attracting real problems
• On teaching, giving the possibility of real and practical training
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6. SGAE-UEX experience. Factory Management Process
• First step, hiring developers
• Students, from Computer Science, were selected
• Second step, organizing working teams
• 4+1 teams
• Highly flexible and reconfigurable
• Third step, projects were assigned to teams.
• They were usually designed in Madrid and developed in Cáceres
• In order to keep a perfect control of project:
• One face to face meeting per week, between project leaders and SGAE staff
• Electronic applications were used to monitor projects
• Another internal meeting per week, between project leaders and team leaders.
• Analyzing problems detected in other meetings
• Analyzing work done during the week
• Showing documents with use cases completed or productivity per project
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7. SGAE-UEX experience. Needs and Problems
• Needs:
• Total transparency from the factory to SGAE.
• Generating weekly reports with use cases sent to the factory, completed use cases,
pending use cases, productivity of each worker, etc.
• Problem:
• Time wasted by each team leader on the generation of these reports
• Solution:
• Generating these reports automatically.  Zentipede
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8. SGAE-UEX experience. Lessons Learned and key success
• Lessons Learned
• Fruitful relationship for both
• SGAE:
• Improving its image in Extremadura
• Developing applications at lower costs
• University:
• Educating a highly skilled group of engineers
• The research group was strengthened by real problems
• Other companies are collaborating with the university
(Communi.tv,Indra,Insa,etc)
• Key success:
• The transparency and control of the factory
• Definition of clear communication protocols
• The effort of each people from University and SGAE
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9. Technologies and solutions for software factories
• Result of this
experience:
• R+D of new
technologies that
can be applied to
these environments
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10. Zentipede. Motivations
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11. Zentipede. Technical proposal
Software Process
Modelling
Software Process
Execution
Software Process
Management
Case Tools Documentation
ENTERPRISE SERVICE BUS
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12. Zentipede. Process Management
• It is a web application that represents the core of Zentipede
• It is responsible for:
• Managing projects
• Controlling the participation of developers in projects
• Managing developers and their daily work
• Generating reports and statistics
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13. Zentipede. Process Management
• Managing Projects and developers
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14. Zentipede. Process Management
• Generating reports and statistics
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Nº Recursos
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15. Zentipede. Eclipse Plugin
• Plugin that help developers to know pending tasks
• At the end of each task, it automatically stores time spent,
progress made and source code changes.
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16. Zentipede. Documentation Center
• It helps developers to reduce duplication of effort and risks of
inconsistencies
• Reusing data stored in Zentipede Process Mangement
• Keeping documentation in sync with the state of projects
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17. Zentipede. Benefits
1. General Objectives
• Reducing efforts and automating a part of the process
• It must be adapted to the software process used by each factory but, at
the same time, it has to be flexible enough to allow modifications on it
• Optimizing the use of resources
1. Specific objectives
• Automating as many tasks as possible.
• Generating a huge amount of reports
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18. JACA. Motivations
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19. USEFUL
ZONE
JACA. Motivations
+ Reliability
+ Strength
+ Maintainability
+ Adaptability
BENEFITS
- Dependencies
- Learning
- Develpment cost
LIABILITIES
LENGTH
PRODUCTIVITY
UserInterface
Business
Logic
Data
Persistence
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20. USEFUL
ZONE
USEFUL
ZONE
JACA. Motivations
PRODUCTIVIDADPRODUCTIVITY
DURABILIDADDURABILIDADLENGTH + Reliability
+ Strength
+ Maintainability
+ Adaptability
BENEFITS
- Dependencies
- Learning
- Develpment cost
LIABILITIES
UserInterface
Business
Logic
Data
Persistence
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21. JACA. Technical proposal
UserInterface
Business
Logic
Data
Persistence
TechnologicalIndependenceManager
DevelopmentAssistant
Manager to
connect with
the service
bus
Components
Repository
Development
Rules
Repository
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22. JACA. Benefits
1. General Objectives
• Improvement of JEE corporate developments
• Unified platform and architecture for corporate developments
• Standard development practices
1. Specific objectives
• Implementing guides for the use of the unified platform and architecture
• Implementing repositories of commons used components
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23. Conclusion
• A real case of collaboration between university and industry
generating R+D technology.
• Zentipede
• Improving process performance and quality
• JACA
• Improving developers reliabilities and efficiency
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24. http://www.zentipede.org
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