A publication of the Office of Advanced Simulation & Computing, NA-114, NNSA Defense Programs
March 2008
NA-ASC-500-07—Issue 6
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New Development Tool Enables Automatic Data Collection
The ALE3D Code Team has completed a migration of its software development processes to the SourceForge Enterprise Edition (SFEE) collaborative development tool. SFEE, a commercial tool from CollabNet, is installed locally on Lawrence Livermore's yellow-net and is a secure, centralized, enterprise solution for optimizing and managing distributed software development.
SFEE’s implementation will improve quality and productivity of software and software development processes by providing centralized tools within a common framework. The SFEE tools being used by ALE3D include Task Manager, Trackers, Wiki, Discussion Forums, Document Manager, interface to Source Code Repositories, File Release, Notification, Monitoring, and Reports. SFEE is being used to track tasks, milestones, project planning and management, software issues, requirements, specifications, design decisions, weekly group meeting notes, peer review notes, walkthrough notes, viewgraphs, emails, individual progress reports, process improvement planning, and implementation. The File Release tool is used to archive and distribute source code and builds. SFEE interfaces to Subversion (an open-source version control system) for source code management.
SFEE has enabled important contractually required artifacts to be collected automatically as part of the workflow, thus relieving developers of onerous documentation tasks. Better communication is achieved by centralizing information and automated collaboration between team members, which improves developer productivity and quality.
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