csis-architecture
Integration and Development Platform
As described in D1.1 “Initial workshops and the CLARITY development environment” [2], the purpose of this Building Bock is to provide a continuous integration platform allowing every consortium partner to be equipped with the tools and measures for best practices in software engineering. One of the most important factors on a successful IT project is to develop high quality software. Thereby, an appropriate development infrastructure and best practices are crucial in development in a distributed environment.
“Continuous integration is a software engineering practice in which isolated changes are immediately tested and reported on when they are added to a larger code base. The goal of CI is to provide quick feedback so that if a defect is introduced into the code base, it can be identified and corrected as soon as possible. Continuous integration software tools can be used to automate the testing and build a document trail.” [13]
Requested functionality
Baseline requirements elicitation has yielded the following functional requirements for this Building Block:
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support the development of industrial-quality code
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provide a consistent development toolset for
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source code management
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dependencies management
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build automation
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automated testing
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continuous integration
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release management
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Exploitation Requirements assessment
The assessment of the Exploitation Requirements [11] identified the following concrete technical and functional implications on this Building Block:
- from “Develop a viable business ecosystem, business model and secure access to funding”: provision of a development environment and continuous integration system that eases common software maintenance tasks, e.g. bug fixes.
Technology support
Figure 33 gives an overview on the technological possibilities and the related open-source frontend and backend software components that have been selected for the Technology Support Plan. Since technology support for this Building Block is provided by T1.4 “Industrialization and Support”, a more detailed description is provided in D1.1 “Initial workshops and the CLARITY development environment” [8].
Figure 33: Integration and Development Platform Technology Support
The technology stack of the Integration and Development Platform is briefly described below. The platform itself is realised by means of different Docker containers hosted in the CLARITY Container Engine and Cloud Infrastructure (7.1).
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