This is the starting point for all CI internal V&V efforts and related processes

Process

• Responsibilities
  • Development Team
    • Develop software to specification, requirements, use cases, agreements
    • Develop unit, integration and system tests
    • Document major architecture and design decisions and critical steps on the Wiki
    • Fix defects assigned to developers for targeted releases
    • Run existing test frequently
    • Before release, run existing tests on release candidate
    • Fix all blocker and critical defects before release
    • Document all open issues in Jira issue tracking system
    • Deliver release candidate to IVT for testing and keep untouched during test period
    • After IVT testing, fix blocker and critical issue; don't introduce new code
    • Report on software/release/defect status in development team meeting
  • Integration, Verification and Test Team (IVT) carried out by architecture team 
    • Receive release candidate from development team
    • Perform system and acceptance test
    • Document all open issues in Jira issue tracking system
    • Report on acceptance test status in development team meeting
    • Issue improvement and new feature requests as needed to maintain a sustainable architecture and user requensts
    • Document system architecture
    • Provide user documentation
  • Development Team Lead
    • Conduct weekly development team meetings
    • Keep track of assigned action items
    • Make release and defect fix decisions
    • Develop statements of work, assign tasks
    • Facilitate information exchange across team

Conventions

• Issue Tracking using Jira
  • Fill in component, version and other available attributes
  • Be as lucid but also as specific as possible to describe the defect
  • Use consistent and clearly defined terminology. If in doubt, refer to a definition or provide one
  • Crash: The system or one of its components fails and stops and is unavailable subsequently.
  • Failure: An error occurs when executing a certain function