FIT–TIM: December 2 – 4, 2008  New!

Last week (Dec 2, 3, and 4) OS&T hosted 6 WFO and RFC staff members here in Silver Spring to kick off the inaugural Forecaster Initial Testing (FIT) and for a Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) with Raytheon.  From all accounts, both were very productive.  During the FIT (Dec. 2-3) we were able to run AWIPS I and AWIPS II in a side-by-side mode on the same workstations.  Particular focus was directed at evaluating WarnGen lifecycle product generation, GFE editing capabilities, and Bundle development.  In addition to their contribution to hands-on testing, FIT team members: outlined a high level collaborative plan for constructing Common - Operational Test Scenarios (C-OTS) and Unique - Operational Test Scenarios (U-OTS), which will play a critical part in our Task Order 11 delivery and acceptance testing; contributed to UFE testing  improvement planning; reviewed performance testing options and techniques with members of the IV&V team, and reviewed Site Migration issues and mitigation strategies with local application development leads. At the TIM (Dec. 4), Raytheon presented information regarding the transition from Mule to apache Camel and the advantages Camel brings to the project.  Additional topics discussed included: T.O.10 architecture changes that impact developers; SmartTools in T.O.10; NCLADT
Q & A; General Alerting in T.O.10 (Guardian); NAWIPS Transition; and Hydro issues.

• Forecaster Initial Testing (FIT): December 2 – 3, 2008
• Original Agenda
• Draft IV&V WarnGen Lifecycle Test Procedures
• IV&V_Test_Case_TO9_9001
• IV&V_Test_Case_TO9_9002
• Save-Send-Ingest WarnGen products in TO9
• FIT Report (coming soon)
• FIT Action Tracking List (FATL) (coming soon)
• FIT Generated TTRs (includes descriptions and status information) (coming soon)
• FIT Support Documents
• Site Migration Review Doc.
• Operational Testing Scenario Development Plan:  Plan for the collaborative construction of Common - Operational Test Scenarios (C-OTS) and Unique -Operational Test Scenarios (U-OTS), which will play a critical part in Task Order 10 and 11 delivery and acceptance testing

• On-SiteTechnical Interchange Meeting (TIM):  December 4, 2008
• TIM Report (coming soon)
• TIM Action Tracking List (TATL)
• TIM Support Documents
• Briefing Slides
• TIM Final Agenda
• NCLADT Talking Points and Raytheon Responses
• TIM Supplemental Questions
• Coding Standards and Conventions Applied to AWIPS II
• Draft NAWIPS Migration High-Level Software Information Exchange and Design Document