An Agile Development Process
for OSGi projects
Filippo Diotalevi <filippo@diotalevi.com>

Goal
Define a development process for
OSGi projects,
incorporating Scrum and XP best
practices

Project Lifecycle (Scrum)
Sprint
Product Backlog
Sprint Backlog
Daily
Meeting
Sprint Sprint Retrospective
Planning Review
Working
Software
Coding
and
testing

Development Process Matrix
Acceptance
Test
Build Continuous
Automation Integration
Release
Wiki Automation
Integration
IDE
Testing
Monitoring
Issue Tracker and
Management
Functional
Unit Tests
Tests
Deployment
and
Provisioning
Documentation Code development Code-Use Cases Final QA
alignement
Task Assignement Continuous QA Delivery
Compatibility with
Bug Tracking different sw versions Monitoring
and OSGi frameworks
Project Management Deployment

Wiki + Issue Tracker
Atlassian Jira + Confluence
Best Choice
www.atlassian.com
Trac
Runner-Up
trac.edgewall.org
Other: VQWiki, Redmine

Build Automation
Maven (maven-bundle-plugin)
Best Choice
maven.apache.org
Several other tools to structure and automate OSGi
projects:
- Pax Construct
- Pax Runner
http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/
ops4j/Pax

IDE
Eclipse
Best Choice
http://www.eclipse.org
A plain Eclipse for JavaSE development would work.
Possible enhancements (sometimes unstable):
- m2clipse (maven 2 Eclipse plugin)
- Apache Felix Sigil

Unit Testing
JUnit 4
Best Choice
http://www.junit.org
TestNG
Runner-Up
http://www.testng.org

Continuous Integration
Hudson
Best Choice
https://hudson.dev.java.net/

Integration Testing
Pax Exam
Best Choice http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/
paxexam/Pax+Exam
Apache Felix JUnit4OSGi
Runner-Up
http://felix.apache.org/site/
apache-felix-ipojo-
junit4osgi.html

Functional/Acceptance Testing
Selenium
http://seleniumhq.org/
Best Choice
Fitnesse
http://fitnesse.org/

Monitoring and Management
Apache Felix Web Console
http://felix.apache.org/site/
Best Choice apache-felix-web-console.html

Monitoring and Management (II)
Apache Felix Console (+ custom command)
Best Choice JMX Components + VisualVM
https://visualvm.dev.java.net/

Deployment and provisioning
Eclipse P2
http://wiki.eclipse.org/
Equinox_p2_Getting_Started
Experimental!
Apache ACE
http://incubator.apache.org/ace/

Thanks! For any question:
Filippo Diotalevi <filippo@diotalevi.com>
Images:
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