Quality Assurance and Control
As mentioned, “hit or miss” so far
Directions for improvement: important roles for several efforts spearheaded by new people
- Release coordinator
- Provide for automated test procedures for released software at the package level and global build level
- if ‘make test’ fails, there’s a problem someone has to fix
- Package responsibles must provide and support tests
- Physics analysis coordinator
- It is in the application of simu and reco codes at the physics analysis stage that the upstream codes are really exercised and closely studied in terms of capability and performance
- Crucial area for effective quality control feedback
- Offline production leader
- “Responsible for providing the production-level simulation and reconstruction capability needed by STAR.”
- See offline production comments