ACS Workshop for LLAMA

Overview

This ACS Workshop for LLAMA is intended for software developers that will be involved in designing and implementing the LLAMA Software (LLAMAS), which include several applications to control and monitor its antenna and instruments. It is based on previous experiences that have been organized since 2004 (see past ACS workshops) and consists of a technical hands-on course using the ALMA Common Software (ACS) framework, alternated with short technical talks and discussions. This site contains all relevant information for the course participants.

General Info

• Dates: September 8th to 10th, 2014.
• Location: IAG, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Room: TBD
• Project: LLAMA Observing Software Toy Model

Participants

Course instructors:

Name	Institution	Project
JorgeIbsen	JAO (ESO)	ALMA
TomasStaig	JAO (AUI)	ALMA
TBC	TBC	TBC

Course attendees:

Name	Institute	Project	C++	Java	Python
Guigue	Mackenzie	LLAMA
TBD	TBD	LLAMA

Agenda

Time	Activity	Guiding instructor
Day 1
09:00-09:20	Welcome. Workshop introduction. Who is who	All
09:20-09:40	The LLAMA Software. What needs to be done, who will do it, how will it get done	All
09:40-10:20	Introduction to the ALMA Common Software Framework	Jorge Ibsen
10:20-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-11:30	A tour through ACS Functionality	Jorge Ibsen/Tomás Staig
11:30-12:30	Group exercise: Setting up your ACS environment, running the tools	Participants
12:30-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-14:00	Project definition and group assignments.
14:00-14:20	Project life-cycle and software engineering basics
14:20-14:30	Coffee break
15:15-16:15	Group exercise: modroot and inroot creation / compiling and installing project / archiving module skeleton	all
16:15-16:30	Distributed software deployment
16:30-17:30	Group exercise: Inspecting example components and CDB / Set up test CDB with a simulated component	all
17:30	End of day
Day 2
Time	Activity	Guiding instructor
9:30-10:25	Component IDL simulation
10:30-10:55	Test driven development and automatic Unit testing
11:00-11:10	Coffee break
11:15-12:25	Group exercises: Tests development and setup (against simulated components)	all
12:30-13:25	Lunch break
13:30-14:25	Component implementation guidelines (language specific)
14:30-15:25	Group exercises: Empty component implementation / Pass test case with real component	all
15:30-15:40	Coffee break
15:45-16:40	BACI Properties and DevIOs
16:45-17:25	Group exercises: Start component functionality development	all
17:30	End of day
Day 3
Time	Activity	Guiding instructor
9:30-9:55	Developing and debugging ALMA Software
10:00-10:55	Group exercises: Component functionality development	all
11:00-11:10	Coffee break
11:15-11:40	Logging]] and Error Systems
11:45-12:25	Group exercises: Component functionality development / Adding logging and error handling	all
12:30-13:25	Lunch break
13:30-14:55	Group exercises: Finishing the component development / comply tests cases / start integration	all
15:00-15:10	Coffee break
15:15-16:55	Group exercises: Project integration and testing	all
17:00-17:25	Round table: Final discussion and conclusions	all
17:30	End of day

-- Jorge Ibsen - 2014-08-06