EVS Focus Meeting Minutes - 18 June 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 6.2	Submitted a DRT to create a preliminary DEV environment on the current hardware. The request is being reviewed and could possibly be created on the current stage server.
Report Writer	The migration from Gforge to JIRA is complete. Although we are not actively working on a release of Report Writer Kim did find that we will have issues migrating to Tomcat. The problem is with caCORE SDK generated systems. Tomcat 7 does not support dependency injection used by the caCORE SDK to instantiate Java Beans. As of right now we don’t have a solution for moving Report Writer to Tomcat.
Term Browser	Continuing with updating BDA Lite for the upgrade to Tomcat and Java 1.7 tasks. Still waiting for the ARC meeting.
Meta Download Validation App	AntHillPro setup was completed on Stage. Jacob will complete the deployment today.
Term Suggestion Form	Has been migrated to JIRA from GForge.
NCIm Browser	The smoke test and 508 testing has been completed on Stage. We are just now waiting for the AppScan to finish. It was kicked off yesterday morning.

Issue Number

Description

Status

NCITERM-600

Java 1.7 Upgrade.

Explored methodologies for adding and deleting system properties through Tomcat configuration and script files.

Designed Ant tasks for modifying Tomcat startup script files.

Performed trouble-shooting on an incompatible jar issue when applying weld CDI in Tomcat 7.

Reviewed dependencies between hibernate, caCORE SDK, Spring, LexEVS and other jar files.

Updated the Term Browser 2.5 Release PTE at https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=202900386 to prepare for the deployment on Tomcat 7.

#	Description	Due Date	Resources	Notes	Risks	Mitigation

Area of Interest	Details
Term Browser 2.5 Release	Continue design activities for new feature requests
NCIm Browser 2.4 Release	Provide required support for deployment to Prod 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
7/17/2013	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.	Currently working on the JAVA 1.7 upgrade for 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.