Speaker
Stefano Argiro
(European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))
Description
Releasing software for projects with large code bases is a challenging task. When
developers are geographically dispersed, often in different time zones, coordination
can be difficult. A successful release strategy is therefore paramount and clear
guidelines for all the stages of software development are required. The CMS
experiment recently started a major refactorization of its simulation, reconstruction
and analysis software. At the same time, we revised our software development cycle
to improve on release management, build management, distribution management and
proper quality assurance via unit, regression and validation tests. In this paper we
will report on the lessons learned from our previous experience and on how we are
improving in the new project.
Primary author
Stefano Argiro
(European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))
