Stage 2 Planning

Stage 2 planning

A big advantage of Staged Delivery model is natural break that occurs after each release.

Consider all submitted change requests and "wish list" items.
Customer may have changed priorities for Stage 2 features.
Designers can do refactorings without disrupting development.
Processes can be revised or streamlined.

Midterm Retrospective in lab today. Post report on wiki by Monday 9:00.

What's new for Release 2?

Maintenance Release (1.1). Extra credit for Spring 2009 (2%).
    Deployment (1.0 and 1.1 wiki links to production site).
    Repository (trunk for 2.0 development and branch for 1.1 development).
    Stage Delivery Plan (add section for 1.1 fixes)
    Due May 15 in lab.

Formal Inspections
    Read the process for Monday.   Watch video in class Monday.
    Estimate 1-2 hrs prep * 4 developers / 200 LOC.
    Estimate 1 hr inspection meeting and admin followup.

White Box Test Documentation
     Derive white box unit tests using Basis Path technique for one class, ideally a controller.
     Class to be tested can be from release 1 or 2.
     Submit all worksheets and JUnit test cases at release.
     Estimate: 1 hr / 50 LOC.

Next Steps

Draft high level design
      Use Stage 2 features list from Staged Delivery Plan.
      Consider JCharts or other free Java charting tool for grading data display.
      Identify needed classes and methods.
      Estimate size (LOC) based on previous modules from Stage 1.

Budget Recalibration
       We now have data from Stage 1.
          Actual hours worked, hopefully categorized.
          LOC produced. GUI, non-GUI, HTML.
          Number of defects.

       We now have better understanding of all the tasks required for a release.
          Training time.
          Process planning and tracking.
          Writing good tests.

Do the Estimation Process.
       Results - List of features whose size fits our LOC capability.
               - Revised Stage 2 Delivery Plan ready for customer/instructor approval by end of Mon lab.
             - Detailed Schedule posted by end of Monday lab.

Follow the development process from Project Plan.
       Write javadocs for Stage 2 modules.
       Write psuedocode for every method in Stage 2.
       etc, etc.