EVS Focus Meeting Minutes - 09 April 2014

Attendees

#	Assigned	Description	Date Identified	Due Date	Date Completed	Status
	Mayo/Jason	We have run into multiple issues where the performance on the DEV tier has be a problem due to Mayo not being able to replicate the slow points due to the drastic difference in DEV resources. We discuss this with the systems team and they requested us to put in a DRT ticket that provides the specs to match the Mayo DEV server.	08/30/13			The server resources have been expanded with an addition vCPU and an additional 2GB memory. Initial tests have shown better performance but the testing is ongoing.

Area of Interest	Details
LexEVS 6.1	We have received the firewall exception on Production and it is now viewable externally. Currently the Mayo team is looking at the effort to upgrade or remove struts from LexEVS.
Report Writer	Reviewing the open Feature Requests for feasibility and level of effort.
Term Browser	Deployment of the 2.4 Term Browser release to production was completed on Tuesday. Smoke tests were done by the QA team and the deployment looks good. Assessed the dependency of the BDA-Lite utility on CSM.
Meta Download Validation App	Currently we are putting together the artifacts for the QA team to start testing.
Term Suggestion Form	Re-deployment has been completed and now is working correctly in production.
NCIm Browser	Provided a release candidate tag to QA with Unit Test results and requirements.

Issue Number	Description	Status
GF#32771	Allow report templates with multiple roots.	Explored methodology for generating reports based on multiple roots.
GF#29350	Generate subset hierarchy..	Added a servlet to convert column data contained in an Excel report generated by the report writer to the desired tab-indented tree format. .

#	Description	Due Date	Resources	Notes	Risks	Mitigation

Area of Interest	Details
Term Browser 2.3 Release	Provide required support for deployment to Prod tier.
Term Browser 2.4 Release	Continue design activities for new feature requests
Term Suggestion Application Release	Make any required fixes from QA testing.
NCIm Browser 2.3 Release	Provide required support for deployment to Prod tier.
NCIm Browser 2.4 Release	Continue design activities for new feature requests.

#	Opened Date	Due Date	Description	Likelihood (H, M, L)	Impact	Assigned	Status	Mitigation Strategy
	04/10/14		Deployments have been taking long periods of time. There is a lot of overhead getting through the iters	H	H		Speaking with members of the QA team to find ways to streamline the testing/deployment process	Finding ways to better integrate the development and QA team. Spoke to EVS Tools TPM requesting the correct communication channels.

Opened Date	Description	Impact	Status
7/17/2013	The Term Browser deployments using AntHillPro require JAVA 1.6.	This would affect the deployments and production environment for the EVS tools. It sounds like this is going to be a future issue but we should have time to upgrade before it is part of the CBIIT tech stack.	Provided a level of effort for migrating all of the EVS applications to Java 1.7 to the Technical Project Manager and government sponsor. Updating to Java 1.7 is scheduled for the 2.5 release of the Term Browser.
7/31/2013	We currently have an issue where the browsers are ready to move to the QA tier for testing but due to the dependency of LexEVS 6.1 cannot start the QA testing process. LexEVS 6.1 does not currently have all the pre-QA qualification to proceed with the deployment to the QA tier.	With a hard deadline of Sept. 30 for both the browsers and LexEVS API 6.1 there is concern that there will be time to finish all the testing and deployments on time.	This is closed. The hard deadline was expanded due to factors we cannot control.