Integrating CoFFEE and Rational Team Concert

CoFFEE tools in Rational Team Concert
Furio Belgiorno
Ilaria Manno
Vittorio Scarano
[furbel, manno, vitsca]
@dia.unisa.it
Università degli Studi di Salerno
IBM Rational Software Conference Italia
15 October 2009

CoFFEE
CoFFEE
stands for Cooperative Face2Face Educational Environment
is a suite of applications to support cooperative learning in a face-2-face setting
funded by the 3 year European project LEAD
http://lead2learning.org
available on sourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/coffee-soft/

Jazz and Rational Team Concert
Jazz
Is an open platform providing a common set of services which enable groups of tools to work together
http://jazz.net
Rational Team Concert (RTC)
A Jazz based collaborative work environment for developers, architects and project managers with work item, source control, build management, and iteration planning support
https://jazz.net/projects/rational-team-concert/

Integrating CoFFEE and RTC
Aims:
integrating in RTC a wide variety of collaboration tools
allowing synchronous collaboration
saving the outcomes of the collaboration
IBM Jazz Innovation Award 2008
Competition sponsored by IBM to prize the best proposals based on Jazz technology
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/university/innovation/jazz.html

CoFFEE tools
Collaboration
structured discussions, brainstorming, voting, co-writing
Service
team awareness, sharing resources, quick messaging
Private
private notes, eventually using structured tools

Each tool has its own configuration options

Demo: CoFFEE in RTC
Initial steps:
A leader user, Ilaria, starts the CoFFEE server launching the Threaded Discussion tool
(images with green border)
The other users (images with red border) connect the CoFFEE client to the Ilaria’s CoFFEE Server
They participate to the debates in the Threaded Discussion tool

CoFFEE leader user
Ilaria
Within her RTC environment chooses to start a collaboration session and launches the Threaded Discussion tool

CoFFEE participants
Furio, Vittorio and Pina
Within their RTC environment start the CoFFEE client
Choose to connect to the Ilaria’s CoFFEE server

Configuring Threaded tool
Ilaria
Sets the configuration of the Threaded Discussion tool
Contribution types:
Accepted, Proposal; Rejected, Comment
Highlights the last 5 messages
Allows private notes

Threaded Discussion Tool
Ilaria

Threaded Discussion Tool
Furio

Positionometer tool
Ilaria launches the Positionometer tool to start a votation
Sets the argument of voting (the Question) and the possible answers (as a range)

Projector
Ilaria starts the CoWriter tool
One user can write at a time but everyone can see the content
The leader user can choose who writes the document

Graphical Tool
Ilaria starts the Graphical Tool
chooses a configuration from a file and then cutomizes the contribution type:
Comment, grey
Task, green
Problem, green
Connector categories: concerns

Graphical Tool
Ilaria

Graphical Tool
Furio

Saving sessions
Ilaria stops the collaboration and saves the session on the Jazz repository

Reloading Sessions

Everyone can reload the session from the repository at any time, getting the tools content

Reloading Sessions

Everyone can reload the session from the repository at any time, getting the tools content

Conclusions
A Success story
from a technological point of view
collaboration among academic research and business products
Final phases of the integration project
consolidation and testing
Future works
new integration features with RTC work items and Open Services for Lifecycle Management