[alf-req] ALF Requirements Meeting Minutes 11/30/2005

["Kelly Shaw" <kshaw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 

ALF Requirements Meeting Minutes

11/30/2005  

 

Attendees

 

BuildForge 

Compuware 

Segue

Serena Software  

 

Review Requirements Document

 

Discussion: As with the past two weeks, this week we concentrated on reviewing the ALF requirements document. Besides looking at the requirements themselves, we are also discussing priorities so we can defer features if necessary. I'll summarize the findings here. See the document for the resulting requirements definitions.

•  AWS10. 
•  We discussed whether this should actually be two web services. The first service would have simply a text parameter that would be written to the log and sent to the email recipients. The second service would have two XML document parameters. The first would be the data to be included in the messages, and the second would be an XSLT document defining how to format the data. We agreed that the simple text parameter service would have a higher priority than the service that included formatting information.
• The parameter list for the services should include a parameter that indicates whether email should be turned off. Thus, this service could be used to write only to the log (when the logging level is set to none,) send only emails, both or neither.
• The service should write to the log if there are any errors connecting to the mail server.
• The priority of this requirement depends on the logging service priority. We all agreed that one or the other is an absolute must for ALF 1.0 to facilitate debugging.
• ADM7. The priority of this requirement must be aligned with the priority of AWS10.
• ADM8. The priority of this requirement must be aligned with the priority of AWS10.  

Review Expanded ALM Use Cases

 

We reviewed the expanded use cases to make sure they tell a good ALF ALM story, and to make sure they highlight the participating vendor products. These use cases are under review at this time.

 

Homework for next meeting 

Look at all of the requirements and see if any need a priority shift. 

Review the new ALM use case document. 

 Next Meeting

The next requirements meeting will be from 10:00 - 11:00 Pacific on Wednesday, 14 December. Shaw will send the meeting announcement and agenda to alf-events and alf-req and will post the announcement to the newsgroup. Shaw will also request the webmaster to update the requirements document and ALF ALM use case document before the next meeting.

Kelly Shaw

Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Serena Software

719-457-8811

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