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.

It is assumed that all participants are sufficiently knowledgeable about object oriented programming, C++ (or Java) and relatively familiar with scripting languages and CORBA. Links to relevant information can be found in the reference documentation (see below).

General Info

• Dates: September 8th to 10th, 2014.
• Location: IAG, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Room: Students Computer Lab
• Course project: LLAMA Observatory Software Toy Model
• Group exercises
• Reference documentation

Instruction for Participants

• Bring your own laptop
• Bring an electric plug adaptor for the Brazilian new standard
• Install in your laptop a virtualization application:
  1. VMware - default choice
  2. VirtualBox - use it at your own risk
• Download the CentOS5 virtual machine. These are VMware VM, but can be converted to VirtualBox.
  1. Zipped Cent OS Virtual Machine for VMware
  2. Targezipped Cent OS Virtual Machine for VirtualBox * Alternatively, there is also a SL5 version of the software. You can skip it this flavour for the time being.
  3. Zipped SL 5.5 Virtual Machine VMware
  4. Targezipped SL 5.5 Virtual Machine for VirtualBox
• Download the ACS software (note that this is optional, the virtual machines already include a working ACS installation)
  1. Gzipped tar file ACS 2.0 SL5.5
  2. Gzipped tar file ACS 2.0 Extra
  3. Gzipped tar file Sources
  4. Gzipped tar file ACS 4.0 SL5.5
  5. Gzipped tar file ACS 4.0 Extra

Participants

Course instructors:

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

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. Language Definition: English, Spanish, Portuñol? 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
13:30-14:00	Project life-cycle and software engineering basics	Tomás Staig
14:00-14:20	Group exercise: Setting up a development environment	All participants
14:20-14:50	Software deployment: The configuration database	Jorge Ibsen
14:50-15:20	Demonstration: Setting up a test CDB with simulated components	All participants
15:20-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-15:45	Demonstration: A simple python component client	Tomás Staig
15:45-16:15	Component implementation guidelines	Tomás Staig
16:15-17:30	Group exercise: Initial LOS development	All participants
17:30	End of day
Day 2
Time	Activity	Guiding instructor
09:00-09:30	Test driven development and automatic unit testing	Jorge Ibsen
09:30-10:00	Group exercise: First test and commit	All participants
10:00-10:15	Group exercise: First integration	All participants
10:15-10:45	Logging and Error Systems	Tomás Staig
10:45-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Group exercise: Component functionality development	All participants
12:30-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-13:50	Characteristic components: BACI Properties and DevIOs	Jorge Ibsen
13:50-15:30	Group exercise: Component functionality development (continued)	All participants
15:30-15:40	Coffee break
15:40-17:00	Group exercise: Component functionality development (continued)	All participants
17:00-17:30	Group exercise: Last integration of the day, plans for last day	All participants
17:30	End of day
Day 3
Time	Activity	Guiding instructor
09:00-09:30	Question and answers from previous day	All participants
09:30-11:00	Group exercise: Component functionality development (continued): Logging and error handling additions	All participants
11:00-11:10	Coffee break
11:10-12:10	Group exercise: Component functionality development (continued)	All participants
12:10-12:30	Discussion: Where do we stand, plans to finish the course project	All participants
12:30-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-15:00	Group exercise: Finishing the component and test development	All participants
15:00-15:10	Coffee break
15:10-17:00	Group exercise: Final project integration and testing	All participants
17:00-17:30	Round table: Final discussion and conclusions	All participants
17:30	End of day

-- Jorge Ibsen - 2014-08-06