Working Smarter, Not Harder

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Working Smarter, Not Harder:Development Tools, Processes and Automation

2NORTHWATER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT INC.Not to be used by anyone other than the intended recipients.

Contents

Our custom tools

– Custom menus, GemStone & VA tools

Automation

– Runtime monitoring, scheduler and nightly automation

Production release process

– Issue management, reporting

– production and daily release processes

– Automation and testing


Custom menus for our tools

GBSM forwarderDebugging: true.GBSM stubDebugging: true.

Code can run in GS or VA. We use a VA ‘in memory’ model to run SUnit tests on a small domain model and

for new feature development.

ENVY utilities


Code compare

The class change files (inst vars, new classes, deleted classes) are generated by a separate scan, triggered by the Export button.

Test is done on array of sub-strings, since the exact method strings do not match (<cr><lf> vs. <cr>).

Takes about fifteen minutes to compare all the code – no longer do this manually.

Push changes to GS.Used for testing.


Instance migration tool

Use a known list of instances, since #allInstances can take 20 minutes.

Allows for more complex migrations by adding a script to set values in the new instance based on the old instance.

We can migrate between any version of any class...

...and we can map any instance variable to any other instance variable.

For large instance collections, we can do an incremental migration; the tool tolerates a mix of old and new instances in the migration collection.


Attribute specifications

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#(. . .

( ' Hedge Fund' #hedgeFund #hedgeFund: #none ' NcmHedgeFund' ' Accessor f or Hedge Fund' )

. . .

The spec arrays are cached on class instance variables.


Generic attribute view

The specs can be used in generic attribute views to display and update an object before a custom view is created.

We use the generic views for administrative work.


Access to development tools


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Our custom tools


Automation







Runtime error notification

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Gemstone monitor

Sessions abort every two minutes. Here, three sessions have disabled the async abort, staggered by five minutes.

More information can be displayed for the selected session… and it can be terminated if needed.

Some actions require ‘admin’ access.

Each user is given a default set of buttons according to their role, and can adjust their own custom set as they desire.


Scheduler

User has option to setup auto refresh for certain windows

Some windows have auto refresh built in


Nightly automated process


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Our custom tools


Automation







Issue management


Change reports

Create new versions of modified applications and version a new config map with these new application versions.

Our runtime image does not include VA Parts and is built from IBMST.ICX

Each time a class is versioned we add the issue information to the comment field. A report by version comment is generated when the config map is versioned.



Codecompare

Group meeting

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Test & demo

Production update

Files for code update, class changes and instance migration

Mon Tue* Wed Thu Fri

Mon Tue* Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Code freeze.

Production update

Test, version & package release

*Group meeting every week to discuss issue priorities and determine which changes will be included in the next release.

Daily automatic restore and build of testing and development environments.


Daily release process and automation

abt.exe build.icx -buildRuntime


Tests, tests and more tests


Questions?

Mon Tue* Wed Thu Fri

Mon Tue* Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun

Production update

Test, version & package release

Technology

Working Smarter, Not Harder