Archive for October, 2009

ScopeSET wins contract for Virtual Spacecraft Design

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

ScopeSET has recently been awarded a contract to build tools facilitating a Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) processes. This contract is part of an ESA TRP (Technology Research Programme) project, called Virtual Spacecraft Design (VSD).

The VSD study, led by EADS Astrium, started in 2005 with the objective to analyze and improve the current spacecraft system level system engineering process. Its goal is the consistent application of model-based techniques, in order to have an improved virtual representation of a spacecraft.

ScopeSET will build the MBSE tools and related services. The new tool-set will allow the consistent definition of a spacecraft system level design, covering requirements, functional architecture, physical architecture, AIT and verification definition. All tools will be based on Eclipse and the Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF).

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Timetracking, Twitter and CodeBeamer

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Have you ever wanted to know what your distributed team is doing ?

Did you ever want to easily tweet about what you’re presently working on ?

Have you ever wanted to have a simple time tracking tool for your CodeBeamer tasks ?

Well, we at ScopeSET pretty much work in a distributed environment all the time, we’re using CodeBeamer, we often ping around to check who’s presently doing what, and sometimes, we even need to track the time we spend on things ;-) So there was an idea to combine all those needs into a nice little tool which would make our lives easier. Introducing CBLiveTracker:

CBLiveTracker

With CBLiveTracker, you can pick any task from a CodeBeamer site, set it to your individual in-progress status and press the start button. The tool will update the CodeBeamer task, take the start time and send a twitter message telling everyone who’s interested that you started working on something.

Twitter

When you finish the task, you simply set the done status and press the stop button. Status and time-spent will be updated in CodeBeamer and another tweet will be sent. That’s pretty much it.

The tool can be downloaded on javaforge.com, either as source or Win32 binary. Further documentation is available there as well.

Please comment if you have any ideas how to improve or adapt the tool.

  • Have you ever wanted to know what your distributed team is doing ?
  • Have you ever wanted to have a simple time tracking tool for your CodeBeamer tasks ?
  • Did you ever want to easily tweet about what you’re presently working on ?

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