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 Observatory Software Toy Model

Participants

Course instructors:

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

Course attendees:

Name	Institute	Project	C++	Java	Python
César	INPE	LLAMA
Danilo Zanella	IAG	LLAMA
Federico Bareilles	IAR	LLAMA
Fernando	IAR	LLAMA
Guigue	Mackenzie	LLAMA
Leandro	IAR	LLAMA
Zulema	IAG	LLAMA

Agenda

Day 1
Time	Activity	Guiding instructor
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 participants
09:40-10:20	Introduction to the ALMA Common Software Framework	Jorge Ibsen
10:20-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-10:50	Component/Container Model and Lifecycle Management	Jorge Ibsen
10:50-11:10	A walk through ACS functionality	Tomás Staig
11:10-12:10	Group Exercise: Setting up the ACS working environment	All participants
12:10-12:30	Project definition and group assignments.	Jorge Ibsen
12:30-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-13:50	Project life-cycle and software engineering basics	Tomás Staig
13:50-14:20	Group exercise: Setting up a development environment	All participants
14:20-14:50	Distributed software deployment	Jorge Ibsen
14:50-15:20	Group exercise: Setting up a test CDB with simulated components	All participants
15:20-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-15:45	A simple python component client	Tomás Staig
15:45-16:15	Component implementation guidelines	Tomás Staig
16:15-17:30	Group exercise: Empty component implementation / Manual test with a simple python component client	all
17:30	End of day
Day 2
Time	Activity	Guiding instructor
09:00-09:30	Test driven development and automatic unit testing
09:30-10:00	Group exercise: First automatic component test and test CDB/ First commit	all
10:00-10:15	Group exercise: First integration	all
10:15-10:50	Group exercise: Component functionality development	all
10:50-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Group exercise: Component functionality development (continued)	all
12:30-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-14:00	Developing and debugging ALMA Software
14:00-14:30	Logging and Error Systems
15:30-15:40	Coffee break
15:45-16:40	BACI Properties and DevIOs
17:30	End of day
Day 3
Time	Activity	Guiding instructor
10:00-10:55	Group exercises: Component functionality development	all
11:00-11:10	Coffee break
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
17:00-17:30	Round table: Final discussion and conclusions	all
17:30	End of day

-- Jorge Ibsen - 2014-08-06