EVS Focus Meeting Minutes - 12 November 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		7/16/2014	A new development server has been procured and is currently being setup. This AI will be closed.

Area of Interest	Details
LexEVS 6.2	The systems team is now working on the DataQA environment for all of the LexEVS services.
Report Writer	A tag is now available once the DEV environment is set up.
Term Browser	We have received approval to deploy the 2.5 release to Stage. Deployed the 2.6 release to the DEV environment. Need a firewall exception for the EVS ftp site to be fully operational. Developed a test program for diagnosing the cause of the failure of mapping search on the DEV tier. It was concluded that the API would throw exceptions when the browser is set to run under the remote mode. Implemented a temporary solution by configuring the browser to run on local mode instead. The Mayo team was able to reproduce the failure. Developed a test program for testing the new tree extension jar and lexbig.jar released by the Mayo team. The preliminary testing results show that the API no longer throws exceptions when the focus node is set to a concept with a code that is shared among multiple namespaces. Will perform more thorough testing by examining the actual JSON strings returned by the tree extension API.
Meta Download Validation App
Term Suggestion Form	AppScan has completed with no high or medium vulnerabilities. We have received approval to deploy the 2.4 release to stage.
NCIm Browser	We have received approval to deploy the 2.5 release to Stage.

Issue Number	Description	Status
NCITERM-625	Add NCI Metathesaurus link to browser.	Implemented

#	Description	Due Date	Resources	Notes	Risks	Mitigation

Area of Interest	Details
Term Browser 2.6 Release	Continue design activities for new feature requests
NCIm Browser 2.5 Release	Deployment to the DEV tier.
Report Writer	Develop Project plan for 2.1 release.
Term Browser 2.5 Release	Deployment to the Stage tier.
Term Form 2.4 Release	Deployment to the DEV tier.

#	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
7/17/2014	Deployment of software, even small upgrades, have been a lengthy process.	This especially affects smaller releases in which there are security or bug fixes.	The Agile practices migration have been put on hold for now.
09/10/2014	Getting the environment in place for the Mayo trip to NCI.	Need to get each of the environment (DEV,QA,Stage) in place before the Mayo trip on September 22nd. We are currently one week behind. The impact is that the Mayo developer will be onsite to work on the deployments and the tiers will not be in place.	Currently we only have the DEV environment setup for the LexEVS API>