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Added by Stephen Alred, last edited by CHARLES GRIFFIN on Jan 28, 2009  (view change)

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Author: Stephen Alred
Email: alreds@mail.nih.gov
Team: caDSR
Contract: [caCORE:Contract number]
Client: NCI CBIIT
National Institutes of Heath
US Department of Health and Human Services

Sign off Date Role
CBIIT or Stakeholder Organization
Denise Warzel
11/05/08 (updated)
Product Manager
CBIIT
Dianne Reeves

Customer
CBIIT Curation Team
Larry Hebel
  Technical Lead
CBIIT caDSR Contractor
Dave Hau

Engg Mgr
CBIIT

The purpose of this document is to collect, analyze, and define high-level needs and features of the NCI CBIIT caCORE Curation Tool Release 4.0.0.2. This document focuses on the functionalities proposed by the product stakeholders and target users in order to make it a better product. The use-case and supplementary specifications document will detail how the framework will fulfill these needs.

Vision and Needs

The objective of this release of the Curation Tool is to address curators top priorities for bug fixes and enhancements as described in their "Top 10" list. This release will address a simplified user interface to improve performance and customer satisfaction with the product.  See Functional Requirements for details.

Current Solution 

Proposed Solutions

The Curation Tool will be enhanced in an iterative fashion to add features that are currently only available to curators using the Admin Tool.

Functional Requirements

Each enhancement, modification or new feature is described in detail below.

GForge number
(hyperlinked)
Brief description of functional requirement
(enhancement or new feature)
References Iteration
(Approved or Proposed)
1335 16041 Allow create/maintain CS and CSI Curation/CS (Top 10)
Iteration 1: Design - Nov 2008
CDE Curation Tool CS Maintenance

caDSR Roadmap Spreadsheet
Approved
16042 Provide UI to Create/Edit the Concept Metadata (Top 10) CDE Curation Tool Concept Maintenance 4.0.0.2 -- Design Increment; defer construction to 4.0.0.3
2587 Prevent,Test, and Training; AC associations in other Contexts (Top 10)   Approved
5856 Handle exceptions gracefully   if possible - LOE dependent
14852 Move CDE Browser URL into tool options   if possible - LOE
16748 Show all associations (Content Team "Top 10") 
  4.0.0.2 Design
4.0.0.3 Construction
16837 Allow searching without requiring login credentials CDE Curation Tool UI Evolution Approved tentative based on LOE
3736
Sorting ACs by registration and workflow status
  Needs Approval



Functional Bug Fixes

Each bug fix included in this release is described in detail below.

GForge number
(hyperlinked)
Brief description of bug
Iteration
(Approved or Proposed)
10797 Curation/DEC/Property : Selecting concepts to form a Property does not reuse existing Approved

Non-Functional Requirements

This section describes in detail all the related requirements which must be met for this release but do not add functionality. These requirements are included in the scope and project plan due to level of effort or relative importance to the overall success of delivery of the release.

GForge number (hyperlinked) Brief description of non-functional requirement
Iteration
(Approved or Proposed)


 
     
     
     

General Support Activities

This section describes in detail all the related activities which must be performed for this release but do not add functionality. These activities are included in the scope and project plan due to level of effort or relative importance to the overall success of delivery of the release.

GForge number (hyperlinked) Brief description of general support activity Iteration
(Approved or Proposed)
 
 
     
     
     

Stakeholder Summary

Customer Name
Role
Interest/Need
caDSR Curators
Key Stakeholder Community
Daily use of Curation Tool for maintaining caDSR content
     
     


CBIIT Staff/Contractor Name
Role
Responsibilities
Dianne Reeves
Content Developer COTR
 
     
     

Technical Environment

This product uses the following technical components which have been derived from the current NCICB Technology Stack.

Client Interface
  • Internet Explorer 6.0 and above
  • This product is not currently tested with Mozilla, however bugs are being taken and addressed for future releases.
Application Server [caCORE:Example, Apache Tomcat 5.5.9]
Database Server [caCORE:Example, Oracle 9i]
Operating System
  • [caCORE:Example, Windows 2000. XP, Vista]
  • [caCORE:Example, Unix (Sun Solaris)]
[caCORE:Other]  

Product Dependencies

This release is dependent on the caCORE components or products documented in the CORE Product Dependency Matrix.

EVS services are a critical component of the Curation Tool, providing programmatic access for constructing caDSR content. 

Out of Scope Items

Items that are out of scope were evaluated as part of the initial scoping activities for this release, and subsequently not included in the final approved scope. These items are also documented in the cumulative backlog of requirements found on the product GForge site. They include out-of-scope functional requirements (enhancements or new features), bug fixes, non-functional requirements, and general support activities.

GForge number (hyperlinked) Brief description of item moved from the in-scope section
with brief explanation added of why it was not included in this release
Iteration during which the item
was removed from in-scope
4392 Provide Reference Document Edit (Top 10)
Reference: CDE Curation Tool RefDoc Maintenance
LOE exceeds available resources for the 4.0.0.2 increment
4.0.0.2/Scope
15232 Open help specific to a pag;
LOE exceeds available resources for the 4.0.0.2 increment
4.0.0.2/Scope
16779 Add option to refresh materialized views; Will handle with Help Desk requests 4.0.0.2/Scope
16052 This was originally pushed to a deferred status and now may no longer be an issue
4.0.0.2/Scope
16226 This was tied in with the Bulk Load work which will not be completed in enough time for this iteration, this should be done in the next iteration.
1
11372 This has to wait for the reference implementation in CDE Browser
1
15974 Rolled into Concept Metadata design and plan implementation in 4.0.0.3 1

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Project Information

CBIIT Management
Role Responsibilities
Larry Hebel Technical Project Manager
Oversees development of the product: features, functions, definition of stakeholders, priorities within the scope, timeframe for release
Dave Hau
Engineering Manager
Oversees NCICB caCORE software engineering practices, conducts design reviews, guides technical development
Denise Warzel
Product Line Manager
Oversees NCICB caCORE product line. Responsible for overall product integration, major and minor release cycles. Supports Product Manager.

Please update this scope to include items for which Development can be completed before Thanksgiving.


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