CPS Ways of Working (WoW)

CPS Team Way-of-Working

1. Jira Stories/Task are groomed by team in weekly meeting or on demand as required
   1. The label 'Groomed' will be added when the team agrees there is enough information in the ticket, the scope is clear and acceptance criteria are defined
   2. Grooming is not compulsory for Jira (sub)tasks (not affecting source code)
2. Backlog should be in priority order.
   1. Check bugs first, unless specially agreed they always have the highest priority 
   2. Check the next available user story is 'Groomed' and there are no blocking dependencies
      1. if it not groomed but seems to be next in line, call a quick meeting with PTL and available team members to groom it as soon as is practical
   3. Check with PTL if story can be taken as there could always be last minute updates or changes that might prioritize a different task
   4. Inform team about you intention to take user story
   5. Assign user story to yourself
   6. Set user story to In progress! (even if starting with some study first)
   7. If required (typically agreed during grooming) create a Implementation Proposal page here:  Implementation Proposals
      1. You might find a proposal  is needed anyway and help you code and share intention for code solution with team and or address specific issues that are discovered during implementation phase
      2. Implementation Proposals are also good for knowledge sharing with the team and a quick meeting about it might be required depending on the nature of the user story
      3. Implementation Proposals can also serve as permanent developer documentation and might require further addition e.g. for CPS Exceptions and REST APIs HTTP Response Codes
   8. Sub task(s) can be created to track the work (especially for larger user stories) and/or delegate but this is optional
3. Commit early and frequently
   1. It is always good to give the team a heads up and share early!
   2. Ensure all team developers are added as reviewer, see Team Members
   3. The WiP flag in Gerrit can be used to indicate that review is not ready for review with a fine toothcomb yet
4. All java code commits should be accompanied with test ware covering the new or modified code (unless agreed by team to handle it in a separate commit in special circumstances) 
5. Review promptly, none of us like context switching but we cant have developer sitting and waiting for reviews either, try to balance this!
   1. Use Code Review Checklist : CPS Code Review Check List
   2. Please review completely ie. it shouldn't be necessary to add more comments on unchanged code after committer as applied your previous comments.
   3. Please close any resolve commits using 'Done' option. It is up to the commenter to re-open if they don't agree with your solution.
6. Depending on the user story a demo might be required before it can be closed
   
   1. Demos should be recorded and added to CPS User Story Demos

Code, Merge requirements and Jira updates are further detailed in next few sections

Code Review Process

• Aspects to review
  • Functional/AC -> WIO
  • Technical/quality. Anyone should be able to
• not all coders need to get involved in all reviews, this could be counter productive
  • Ideally
    • Scenario  A
      • Coder
      • Work Item owner
      • + 2 additional reviewers
    • Scenario  B
      • Coder = Work Item Owner
      • Other Senior developer
      • + 2 additional reviewers
• Others can view of course , maybe alert blocking issues. But preferably focus on more relvant commit reviews
• See also Committer Best Practices

Code Requirements

1. Copyright included in each file.  Apache 2 for coding files.
   1. The Copyright line for contributing organization inserted or updated reflecting the contribution year.
2. A LICENSE.txt file placed at the root of the repo to provide umbrella coverage.
3. Unit testing coverage > 90% using Persistence Layer Testing and  Groovy & Spock
4. We will follow ONAP Recommended Software Development Best Practices: Developer Best Practices

Help-process

1. Preferred the agreed point if Contact as per Plan
2. Agree in Stand-up who can help

JIRA Status Updates