When?
Date: 19-21 of Oct 2015 (Mon, Tue and Wed)
Registration Page (Please note temporary dates)
Where?
Venue: Poznań, PSNC premises
What?
Concept
The idea behind SS4D is to continue, and improve, a series of workshops for software developers and software architects involved in GN4 project activities. This event will be carried to share/exchange technical knowledge about software development approaches and hands-on coding experience through collaborative sessions. Altogether, it aims to improve the confidence of development teams in a number of aspects of the project development process, as well as leveraging the overall quality of software and services within the GN4 project. Additionally, the presented techniques can be directly used by developers in their day-to-day work.
The Summer School for Developers 2015 will be organised around hands-on technical sessions. The leading notion of the event is to combine the workshop formula with the sessions on practical tasks during, all related to software engineering topics.
Objectives
The objectives of the SS4D 2015 are to:
- Convey technical knowledge about software development approaches,
- Provide hands-on coding experience,
- Facilitate an exchange of expertise and software development good practices,
- Improve the confidence of development teams in applying development processes,
- And indirectly to leverage the quality of GEANT software and services.
Possible topics:
- Clean Code
- Code retreat
- Agile Development
- Test Driven Development
Agenda (TBC)
Day 1/Day 2 - workshop
Day 3 - Hands-on training
Software School for Developers (SS4D)
Why?
Benefits
SA4 is aiming to continue the series of successful GN3/GN3+ Summer Schools for Developers throughout GN4 project. Since the early editions, these events have been introducing and exercising novel technologies and approaches in software engineering domain, what was well-accepted by the community of GN developers. This edition of S4D will focus more on the software development practices, rather than a particular technology.
It is an excellent occasion to share software engineering knowledge, best practices and how-to related to GN S/W development infrastructures and routines. It also gives developers a chance to meet in person, collaborate and build the team spirit. Indirectly, it has an impact on the overall quality of GN software based services, as well as the way development teams work on daily basis.
Expected outcomes
The expected outcomes of the SS4D 2015 are:
- Better efficiency of Geant software development teams using Agile practices, including the geographically distributed teams.
- Better quality of software products developed by Geant teams, influencing as supporting services the overall quality of Geant services.
- Improved predictability and management of software development activities
- Extended knowledge about Geant applications and services within the developers community
The qualitative outcomes can be measured via the online survey shared with development teams after 3 or 6 months since SS4D ends. The survey may indicate if e.g. the efficiency of the software development team has increased.
How?
Funding and Travel
The GEANT Project (Training) will reimburse attendees' travel and accommodation expenses to attend this course, as long as they are project partners and have the agreement of their relevant Activity Leader. Reimbursements should be marked as NA1 T7 (S4D) in your partner organisation's normal monthly reclaim procedure. Please note that Training is unable to cover the manpower aspect (the hours spent at the event).
The following allowances have been set for this course:
Hotel Costs: €103 per night
Flight/Travel: €250 (round trip)
One group dinner will also be funded by the project.
Please note that these allowances are a budget and not a target! However, if for whatever reason you feel this these allowances may prevent you from otherwise attending the event, please contact training for your case to be considered.
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