E-PUSS User Manual
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1. 2 3 Changing password You can change the password by choosing Change password from the menu Enter the password twice and then click the submit button to submit the updated password File Edit View Go Communicator 3 teaeieaste st F E Back Forward Reload Home Search Netscape Prit Security E puss Update password Enter new password Project Group puss9901 Group 8G New password once Main Time reporting New password twice i Problem reporting Status reporting Change password Change password Online help Log out Department of Communication Systems 1999 ERTA i Note You should change the password given to you at registration to E PUSS 2 4 Organize group restricted to project managers If you belong to the project management group then you are able to organize the group By clicking on Main and then choosing Organize group you can adjust the group of the project group members There are nine categories to choose from see table 1 There is a tenth group category namely CUS for Customer However only Customers and System administrators have access to change users group to and from this category 100 TABLE 1 Available groups Category Group CCB PG Project Management Group Yes SG System Management Group Yes TG1 Test Group 1 No TG2 Test Group 2 No DGCH Design Group Charging No DGTC Design G2. Some help is available on line including this user manual When you use the on line help it is displayed in a separate browser window Because of this you can both use E PUSS at the same time as you look at the help Even though it is in another window the on line help still uses the same login as the ordinary E PUSS window That is you cannot view the help if you are not logged in to E PUSS 98 2 Log in and out changing password and organizing group Authentication for E PUSS depends on cookies Make sure your web browser is set to accept cookies By default most browsers accept cookies 2 1 Login in To log in to E PUSS point your web browser to the URL given by the department The first page you will see is the login page Enter your userid and password in the corresponding fields Also you need to select your project group from the menu Click Log in to open a connection to the E PUSS system File Edit View Go Communicator lt e 3 Zaa sd g Back Forward Reload Home Search Netscape Prit Security Stop h ttp ida65 tts lth se 8080 e puss e_puss 7 Dept of Comm Systems Lund Institute of Technology Lund University E puss Welcome To login enter userid and data Userid I Password i Select group puss9901 1 Login Back to server main page Department of Communication Systems 1999 je 2 2 oi A login is not allowed to be passive for mor
3. A report is selected for updates the same way it is selected for viewing see above Only one of the four parts can be updated at a time Part A is updated when the status is Created part B is updated when the status is Investigation part C when status is Fixing and part D when status is Fixed When a report has the status Rejected no parts of the report can be updated In state Customer it is possi ble to update part B Also the header of the report can be updated in state Created When you update a report E PUSS will automatically let you update the correct part Which part this is can be seen in the introduction to the problem reports see above The user never has to be concerned with which part to update 1 If you are not logged in to E PUSS log in now 2 Select Problem reporting from the menu 3 Select Update problem report You will se an overview of all the reports sorted by status and prob lem report number 4 Select a problem report to update by pushing its number under Get problem report 5 E PUSS automatically lets you update the appropriate part of the report The only mandatory fields is the ones in the header of the report These can only be updated when a problem report is in state Cre ated 6 When done push the Update button at the end of the page to submit changes The report will now be updated If you typed an error or if you want to alter anything in the report you can always go b
4. 0 0 eae SVVI 0 0 0 33 0 0 View summary of all reports SDDD 0 0 0 0 0 0 Problem reporting SYVE p 0 0 55 0 0 Status reporting SSD 0 0 0 0 0 0 Change password Final Report 15 0 0 0 66 0 PrE Functional test 0 0 0 0 5 0 System test 0 20 o 0 0 0 Regression test 0 0 0 0 0 0 Meeting 0 0 o 0 0 0 Lecture 12 0 0 0 0 0 Exercise 0 0 0 0 0 44 Computer exercise 0 0 0 0 0 0 Home reading 0 0 0 0 0 0 Other 0 0 2s 0 10 0 Development ii 0 0 55 33 0 Informalreview 27 0 15 0 0 38 Formal review 13 0 10 33 33 0 Rework 14 0 o 0 0 0 Total time 77 20 50 88 81 82 Signed N N N N N N Signed m m m g q Submit changes Department of Communication Systems 1999 If someone wants to change a signed report a member from PG must first unsign it to allow the change to take place Unsigning is done in a similar way as signing is but select Unsign reports from the menu instead of Sign reports in step 3 in the instructions above Also the sign boxes is located to the left instead of at the bottom Note that when a project group member has updated a report you must sign it again A project manager does not have the privileges to update week reports for others than themselves 3 6 View all reports restricted to project managers For a project manager there is the possibility to view reports of all project members To view the week reports separately click in View all reports The selection of which
5. Time reporting from the menu Select Change existing report All your time reports will now be summarized on one page Select using the radio buttons to the left which report you want to update Push Get week to get the report Do the necessary updates If you decide not to update a report simply make a selection from the menu to abort the updates No change is done unless you push the submit button When you are done submit the changes by pushing the button at the bottom of the page When you have submitted your changes you will see the altered week report If a report has been signed by a project manager then you are not allowed to update the report To be able to update a signed report you must notify someone in PG to unsign it Only after that is an update possi ble Note that your project managers have to sign the report again when you are done 3 3 View week reports l 2 If you are not logged in to E PUSS log in now Select Time reporting from the menu 102 3 Select View reports All your time reports will now be summarized on one page Select using the radio buttons on the left which report you want to view Push the button at the bottom to get the report You can only see your own time reports For project managers who needs to see the time reports from all project group members see below 3 4 View summaries To view the summaries for a week select View summaries
6. been created and the source of the problem will be investigated Eve ryone is allowed to change the report in this state Investigation Someone from CCB Change Control Board has noted that the problem report exist and is investigating the problem Only members of CCB is allowed to update the report Customer From the investigation performed by CCB it was concluded that the customer should see this report and approve the actions suggested by CCB CCB is allowed to make updates on the reports in this state Fixing The problem at hand should be fixed and this is in progress All group members have access to make changes on the report Rejected From the investigation it was decided that this problem report should not be dealt with and thereby it is rejected Only CCB is allowed to make changes in this state Fixed The problem reported is fixed and the fix is checked and approved by CCB Only CCB is allowed to do additional changes to the report Only members of CCB is allowed to update the state of a report see below In all states everyone is allowed to view the problem reports 4 2 Creating problem reports Problem reports are created as follows 1 If you are not logged in to E PUSS log in now 2 Select Problem reporting from the menu 3 Select New problem report 4 Fill out the appropriate fields Some fields are filled out for you If those values are not correct they can be revised The
7. fields in the header of the report are the only mandatory fields to fill out These must be filled out 5 When done with writing the report click the submit button to submit your new report When a report is created it s state is automatically set to Created 1 Telecoms Utvecklingsmodell f r Programvara 105 4 3 Viewing problem reports By clicking on View problem reports in the problem menu you will get an overview of all the problem reports for the project group They are sorted by state in logical order Fixed and Rejected reports are at the end and Created at the beginning 1 2 4 If you are not logged in to E PUSS log in now Select Problem reporting from the menu Select View problem report You will se an overview of all the reports sorted by status and prob lem report number Select a problem report to update by pushing its number under Get problem report When you have selected a report you will see a button at the bottom of the page after the report If you press this button you will change to update mode for the report see below This is a quick hand to ease the use of the E PUSS problem reporting tool E PUSS Problem reporting Netscape oj x File Edit View Go Communicator Help ies ate2anecB F Ps Bookmarks 4 Location http ida65 tts I
8. olx Fie Edit View Go Communicator Help Ess User PG1 Updating a report Project Group puss01 Group PG To update the content of the report push Update report at the end of the page below the report you are updating Main Current status on this report Created Time reporting Problem reporting Problem number lis Created by PG1 PG he View problem reports n p z gt Waste probiemepaii Signed by customer N Created date 1999 09 02 New problem report Part A Origin Ezport problem reports Defect type x c iaoi R m For more help X Status reporting Review Review id and entry nbr lon defect types see ai Change password ithe online help Online help Test Cc Test case and position Rank A z Log out l Other Problem object Je puss Version fz aD Position prob iem reports Problem description defect table not always working E Part B Investigation Receive by CCB member Date Reject Reason if reject Solution proposal f misia _ Document Done i 53 dP Ea Z 5 Status reporting A status report keeps track of all the changes in the documents in the project Only CCB is allowed to update and to create new status reports Everyone is allowed to view the status reports within the project group 5 1 Viewing status reports 1 If you are not logged in to E PUSS log in now 2 Select Status reporting from the menu 3 Sele
9. status report in the status menu Fill out the document name and use the pull down menus to choose document and CCB responsible You create the new status report by pushing the button Create status report To change the header information on a status report select Change status header on the status menu As when selecting a report to view you select the status report to update using radio buttons You get the report by pushing the button after the table 5 3 Update status report restricted to CCB All changes on a status report is restricted to CCB members only 1 If you are not logged in to E PUSS log in now 2 Select Status reporting from the menu 3 Select Update status report You will see the header information of each status report for the group and also the date of the last update of each report 4 Select a status report to update by clicking on one of the radio buttons Get the report of your choice by pushing the button at the bottom of the page 109 File Edit View Go Communicator eve 3 Zad ss F Back Foward Reload Home Search Netscape Prit Security E puss Updating a status report yy To update an existing row use the radio buttons on the left to select a row Project Group puss9901 and the button Get row to retrieve the selected row Group PG To add a new row to the report fill out the form at the bottom of the page The new row is submited by pres
10. the page to submit the week report You will now see what you have entered 1 FKG is the Swedish acronym 101 XY E PUSS Time reporting Netscape Of x File Edit View Go Communicator Help e atge2naec0 F Py A Bookmarks 4 Location http ida65 tts Ith se 8080 e puss e_puss Command New State T ime X ET What s Related E PUSS User PG1 New time report Project Group puss01 Group PG Fill out the week report The only mandatory field is the week To submit press the button at the bottom of the page Main Time reporti Name PG1 Date Projectgroup puss01 Week View reports gt File new report Part A Total time this week minutes Change existing report Part B Number of minutes per activity View summaries The sum of all separate activities are automatically summed up and entered above on tne teports Number Activity D I F R Total time ign reports Unsign reports 11 SDP View all report iew all reports 12 SRS C TE TE gt are oma 13 svwws_ atus reporting Change password 14 STLDD Online help Log out 15 SVVI E L E E 16 SDDD 7o swr D O O O 18 SSD 19 Final Report Sum 21 Functional test a cai 1D Document Done ES TF se gm ts Z 3 2 Changing an existing report l 2 3 If you are not logged in to E PUSS log in now Select
11. Responsible TO Created by TO Date 2010 06 15 Doc nbr MD99001 Version 1 4 E PUSS User Manual Computer Science Lund University 1 Introduction E PUSS is an electronic reporting tool for the course in Large Scale Software Development PUSS is the acronym for the Swedish name of the course The tools consist of three different parts Time Prob lem and Status reporting E PUSS is web based see course web page for URL Knowledge about the different reports and how they are handled is assumed in this manual The differ ent reports are Week Report used by all project members to record time spent on different activities Problem Report used to handle changes to baselined documents Status Report used to track the status of a document configuration item Some help on the reports is available on the course web Further information about the software process and the reports and documents can be found in the project manual The user manual is organized as follows This chapter describes the general usage of E PUSS There are four subsequent chapters describing how to log in how to use the time reporting how to use the problem reporting and how to use the status reporting Each chapter has several step by step instructions on how to use the different functions within E PUSS This is not a introduction to the different reports This can be read in the project manual which also describes how the different reports a
12. ack and change the report again 4 5 Changing state of a problem report restricted to CCB As described in the project handbook a problem report follows a certain flow The different states of a report represents this flow To update the status of a problem report you have to be a member of the Change Control Group 1 If you are not logged in to E PUSS log in now 2 Select Problem reporting from the menu 3 Select Update problem report You will see an overview of all the reports sorted by status and problem report number 4 Select a problem report to update by pushing its number under Get problem report 5 If you are a part of CCB then E PUSS will display buttons at the bottom of the page Which buttons that appear depends on which state the report currently is in 6 By clicking one of the buttons the status of the report is changed Nothing else on the report is changed only the state If you have done updates in the report which you have not submitted then these are lost as for all other changes in the report 4 6 Exporting problem reports restricted to project managers It is possible to export the problem reports The feature does a test dump of all the report in a tab sepa rated list for the project group The problem reports are exported by selecting Export problem reports from the meny This feature has no further support from the department 107 3 E PUSS Problem reporting Netscape
13. ct View status report You will see the header information of each status report for the group and also the date of the last update of each report 4 Select a status report to update by clicking on one of the radio buttons Get the report of your choice by pushing the button at the bottom of the page 108 File Edit View Go Communicator lt e 3 Zaa F Back Foward Reload Home Search Netscape Print Security Stop 4 at Bookmarks Location http ida6S tts 1th se 8080 e puss e_puss Command Viev amp State Status A E puss View status report yy To view a status report use the radio buttons on the left Project Group puss9901 to select a report and then push Get selected report Grow PG Selection Document Document responsible Change Control responsible Last changed Main lt SDP _ a96xx 19990702 ee ey oe Status reporting lt svvs asyy d96xx 19990702 View status reports F Update status reports Get selected report New status report Change status header Change password Online help Log out Department of Communication Systems 1999 el 5 2 Creating new reports changing header data restricted to CCB The only mandatory field on a status report is the document name in the header This field must be filled out Creating new status reports or changing header data on one is restricted to CCB members To create a new status report select New
14. e than 15 minutes If a connection is not used in that time then the connection is automatically closed and the user is logged out This is to prevent someone else from using your login if you forget to log out If you are logged out due to the time out described while editing something in E PUSS there is a auto recovery function E PUSS will prompt you as you try to submit a change that you have been logged out because the inactivity exceeded 15 minutes and provide a login form The command or change that could not be performed will be executed when you log in again and you will be prompted with the result as usual 1 A cookie is a piece of information which is set on the client side and used by the web server to store session information 99 2 2 Login out To log out simply click on the link Log out in the menu on the left The system will confirm that you have logged out It is important that you always logs out when you have finished working with E PUSS It is only allowed to be logged in simultaneous once per user If the systems detects a second attempt to log in from one user at the same time the second attempt is prevented and the login attempt will fail If you for some rea son is not allowed to access E PUSS due to simultaneous logins wait for 15 minutes for the first login to be automatically logged out and then try to log in again Note that the auto recovery function does not apply to the situation described here
15. in the time reporting meny Then select a week and you will get the summary of each activity spent this week Viewing summaries are similar to viewing a single report You can also select all weeks that is a summary on all activities for the entire project 3 5 Signing and unsigning reports restricted to project managers Project management Group is supposed to sign all week reports handed in Do the following to sign reports 1 If you are not logged in to E PUSS log in now 2 Select Time reporting from the menu 3 Select Sign reports from the menu A summary of all the unsigned reports is shown To investi gate each report choose View all reports see later 4 Click the boxes at the bottom to sign the reports 5 Hit the update button to submit changes 103 File Edit 1 3 Aa d sS Back Foward Reload Home Search Netscape Prt Security Stop View Go Communicator Signing time reports User d96yy Use the check boxes at the bottom of the page to sign unsign a report Project Group puss9901 You submit the changes by pressing the button of the bottom of the page Group PG User d96xx d6yy e9 xy d9622 d9622 d9622 Main Last update 19990702 19990702 19990702 19990702 19990702 19990702 Time reporting Week 1 11 25 44 49 53 View reports SDP 11 0 o 0 0 0 unae aa SRS 12 0 25 0 0 34 PETT svys 13 0 0 0 0 4 Sign reports STLDD 14 0 0 0
16. re supposed to be used 97 1 1 General about E PUSS E puss Create a new report Fill out the form and push Create status report to create Project Group puss9901 anew report The field Document name is mandatory Group SG Document name Main Time reporting Problem reporting Document responsible None Status reporting View status reports Change Control Board onsible N go Update status reports MREP ane New status report Change status header Create status report Change password Online help Log out Department of Communication Systems 1999 Navigation is done by using the menu on the left Click on the appropriate link to use a specific func tion Information on what to do next will be presented in the main area You can see where you are by which sub menus that are present and further by which sub menu that is marked with a red arrow Your user identification project group and group within the project group is displayed in the top of the menu area 1 1 1 When does changes take place Generally no changes are done until you push a submit button When you have submitted your changes creation of new entries or updates of old ones you will get a confirmation of the submittal If you do not want submit a change simply do not push the button to submit your update Instead choose something from the menu located at the left 1 1 2 About the on line help
17. report to further investigate is done similar to viewing your own reports In the overview the reports are primarily sorted by week secondarily by user id 3 7 Exporting the week reports restricted to project managers To be able to use the data in Matlab Excel or some other program project managers have a possibility to export all the time data from the group This is done by selecting Export time reports from the time reporting menu The format is a tab separated list of all the data in the system Then you can choose to export either just the reports for a specific week or all the reports for the project 104 The activities are given by their number For documents a letter is also given This letter is either D I F or R These stand for Development Informal Review Formal Review and Rework The activity num bers and type are specified in the project handbook 4 Problem reporting The handling of problem reports in the course is also done through E PUSS The tool supports the prob lem reporting process used in the TUP E PUSS emphasizes on awareness To facilitate this there is only a limit number of things done automatically Hence this is considered a feature For example there is made no automatic update facility for the status reports when a problem report is submitted 4 1 Introduction to problem reporting in E PUSS A problem report in E PUSS has one of the following states Created A problem report has
18. roup Take Call No DGMA Design Group Maintenance No DGCFU Design Group Call Forward Unconditional No DGCFN Design Group Call Forward No Answer No Note that the Change Control Board CCB consists of PG and SG Since the members of CCB have special privileges it is important that PG at an early stage in the project organizes the group Otherwise PG will be the only member of CCB 3 Time reporting Metrics of time spent on different activities in the project are collected throughout the project The data collected should be handed in once a week using E PUSS When the reports have been handed in PG signs them electronically All the group members have to keep track of their time on their own You have got a paper form to keep track of the activities during the week The time reports submitted through E PUSS is a summary of the time spent each week i e a week report 3 1 Filing out a new week report 1 If you are not logged in to E PUSS log in now 2 Select Time reporting from the menu 3 Select File new report Your user id project group and the current date is automatically entered 4 Enter the time spent in minutes on each activity for the week you are writing a report The activities of which you have not spent any time on is to be left blank When you have submitted the report E PUSS will add up the different sums present in the report 5 When you are ready push the button at the bottom of
19. s reporting menu The format is a tab sep arated list of all the status reports data in the system This feature is not further supported by the depart ment 110
20. sing the button at the bottom of the page Main Document SVVS Document responsible d96yy Time reporting Change Control responsible d96xx Last changed 19990702 Problem reporting Status reporting Row Problem Id Act Responsible Deadline Version k ove D pproved selection if spplicable Date Comment View status reports l 3 Y Update status reports New status report Change status header Getrow for action Date 0 9 1 3etc sxx 1999 06 30 120 Change password Online help Problem Ia Responsible i i Spi Deadline Version Approved Log out if applicable At for action Date 09 13eu Date Ce Submit new entry Department of Communication Systems 1999 When you have selected a status report there are two ways of updating it Either you create a new row e Ifyou have done step 1 to 4 in the instructions above then there are forms at the bottom of the page Fill these out with the new information Submit the new row by pushing the button Submit new entry Or you can update an existing row Select a row to update marking your selection with the radio button Get the row by clicking on the button Get row Update the row with the changes you have Submit the changes for the row This is done by pushing Submit change 5 4 Export status reports restricted to project managers This is done by selecting Export status reports from the statu
21. th se 8080 e puss e_puss Command ViewsState Problem X E What s Related E ris User PG1 View problem report Project Group puss01 Group PG To view a report push the button with the number of the the report you want to view Man Get prohl Signed b Time reporting et probiem Status Creator Create date Last changed eee Drchien venoet report customer Created View problemreports H Created PGI 1999 01 01 19991203 Y Update problem report New problem report al Created PG4 1999 05 25 19991202 N Export problem reports penenie i 3l Created UG2 1999 05 25 19990618 N Status reporting m Created TG1 19990618 N Change password Online help 12 Created G1 2000 01 01 19990618 N Log out iej Created thomaso 1999 09 02 19990902 N 19 Created UG1 1999 12 03 19991203 N Investigation 3 Investigation PG1 1999 08 08 19990618 T 3 Investigation bjornr 1999 09 09 19990618 Y Investigation SG2 1999 05 28 19990618 N nal Investigation UG2 1999 05 25 19990618 N 18 Investigation thomaso 1999 12 02 19991202 N Customer 10 Customer PG6 1999 05 25 19991203 N Fixing Fixing PG1 1999 05 01 19991203 N 4 Fizing PG2 1999 08 08 19991203 Y i5 Fizing thomaso 1999 05 05 19991203 bg Fixed 13 Fired PGS 19990618 N sf piera acumen Done TS Or AO eM al Z 106 4 4 Updating problem reports Updates on reports with status Created and Fixing is open to all project group members For a status dif ferent than those updates is restricted to CCB
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