Olympya Web Tools

8/4/2019 Olympya Web Tools

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A Modern, Web-centric

Development & DeploymentEnvironment

Paulo Mattos

Technical DirectorOlympya

[email protected]



Goal

• Give a brief overview of some state-of-the-art Web-based tools capable of providing an

integrated software development &deployment suite



Agenda

• Driving Forces

• Web Tools

– Source Control & Browser– Documentation Archive

– Modules Repository

– Project Management

– Remote Assistance

• Open Issues

• Q&A



Agenda

• Driving Forces

• Web Tools





• Open Issues

• Q&A



Driving Forces

• Why Web-based?

• An ubiquitous, widely deployed client

– a.k.a. web browser• Truly OS-independent solution– client & server platforms

• A quasi-universal linking mechanism

– i.e., URLs– nice bootstrapping facility

• Enables telecommuters

– part-time & full-time



Driving Forces

• Intranet/Internet ready

• Leverages web browsers built-in features:

– searching, linking, spell checking, plugins, etc• Leverages web servers built-in features:

– security, caching, logging, etc

• Compatible with best-of-breed strategy – basic tools integration is relatively easy

• Some nice (and free) toolkits available:

– GWT, Ruby on Rails, JSF, etc



Agenda

• Driving Forces

• Web Tools





• Open Issues

• Q&A





Source Control→ Subversion

• Free software @ Tigris

• Major improvements over CVS

• Nicely integrated in many IDEs• Good match for XP teams

• A real, cheap alternative to Perforce

– standard tool on many shops

– ~$800 per user

– highly scalable (really shines on massive codebases)

• subversion.tigris.org

http://www.perforce.com/

http://subversion.tigris.org/

http://subversion.tigris.org/

http://www.perforce.com/



Source Browser→ OpenGrok

• Free software @ Sun

• Integrates with Subversion (among others)

• Wicked fast searching!• Usable URLs

– works nice as a code pointer facility

• Provides a poor man’s SCM tool– i.e., just read-only access

• www.opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok – @ src.olympya.com/opengrok

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok

http://src.olympya.com/opengrok/

http://src.olympya.com/opengrok/

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok



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• Driving Forces

• Web Tools





• Open Issues

• Q&A



Documentation Archive→ Wiki

• Free software @ Wikimedia Foundation

• Collaborative editing

• Built-in version control• Nice (and improving) searching facility

• Good for hyperlinked docs archive

– but bad when fine-grained formatting is needed

• Learning curve for WYSIWYG-style users

• www.mediawiki.org

– @ docs.olympya.com

http://www.mediawiki.org/

http://docs.olympya.com/

http://docs.olympya.com/

http://www.mediawiki.org/



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• Driving Forces

• Web Tools





• Open Issues

• Q&A



Modules Repository → Ivy

• Free software @ Apache

• Stores proprietary/third-party modules/APIs

• Dependencies are explicitly stated– Transitive dependencies

• Highly based on XML technologies

– e.g., XSD, XSLT, XPath

• Cross-linked APIs documentations

• incubator.apache.org/ivy

– @ lib.olympya.com

http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/

http://lib.olympya.com/

http://lib.olympya.com/

http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/



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• Driving Forces

• Web Tools





• Open Issues

• Q&A



Project Management→FogBugz

• Not free software!

– but still cheap

• Designed from the ground-up for softwareteams

– tracks new features & known bugs

– but also helps with external inquiries

• treats e-mails as a 1º class citizen

• includes discussion groups facility

http://goo.gl/7tklj

http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/

http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/

http://goo.gl/7tklj



Project Management→FogBugz

• Induces a very lightweight workflow

• Covers full software product lifecycle

• Plays nicely with others tools• Upcoming features (for 6.0):– Integrated WYSIWYG-style Wiki!

– Built-in Google-like search engine

• e.g., fields/axes– Statistical , evidence-based scheduling

• www.fogbugz.com – @ cases.olympya.com

http://www.fogbugz.com/

http://cases.olympya.com/

http://cases.olympya.com/

http://www.fogbugz.com/



Agenda

• Driving Forces

• Web Tools





• Open Issues

• Q&A





Agenda

• Driving Forces

• Web Tools





• Open Issues

• Q&A



Open Issues

• User interface not as smooth as desktop apps– rich client technologies can help (e.g., AJAX, Flex, etc)

• FogBugz ≥ 5.0 uses AJAX

• Single sign-in demands extra effort– Linux Yellow Pages– Windows Active Directory

• Minors browsers incompatibilities

– “The nice thing about standards is that there are somany of them to choose from.” - Andrew Tanenbaum

• Stronger authentication– no out-of-the box support for key-based methods– …but HTTPS can provide some additional security



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• Driving Forces

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• Open Issues

• Q&A





Documents

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