VDK-RITInserterVision Report System

Presented ByAdam Beck

Greg Dicheck

Kassidy Gerber

Mike Young

Agenda

• Project Sponsor• Problem• Our Solution• 1st Quarter• 2nd Quarter• Design and Implementation• Reflection• Future Plans• Demo

Our Team

Team Leader Greg Dicheck

Process Manager Kassidy Gerber

Development Manager Adam Beck

Testing Manager Mike Young

Notables

Videk Representative Chris Haidvogel

Faculty Advisor Dr. Stephanie Ludi

Alternate Advisor Prof. Mike Lutz

Project Sponsor - Videk

• 15-year track record of innovation in the field of process control

• Industry leader in factory automation

• Real-time vision inspection solutions– OCR software with the industry’s fastest read rate and

processing power– InserterVision: Single all-in-one solution for input

scanning for machine control

Videk’s InserterVisionTM

• Cameras scan mail jobs for data integrity– Reads names and addresses for verification– Diverts misprinted or incorrectly processed mail pieces

• High-speed solution reduces costly and error-prone manual checking

• Absolute quality assurance and reduced document liability

Problem

• Anticipating customer needs– Increased traceability– Storage of mailing job results

• Proposed add-on to InserterVision– Increase marketability of InserterVision – Generate revenue from sales of training

• Videk approached RIT for a Senior Project

Our Solution

• InserterVision Report System (IVRS)

• Low-cost DBMS and reporting solution

• Client-server architecture– Display, format, and print reports– Access over a company intranet– Uses data collected from the Videk camera system

• Meant to be deployed with InserterVision

• Implemented as a functional proof-of-concept

Project Deliverables

• Functional program including source

• System Documentation– User Manual– Installation Manual– Quick Start Card

• Project Documentation– Project Vision & Scope– Software Requirements Specification– Software Design Specification

Project Process

• Responsibilities assigned by task– Leveraged individual strengths of team members– Revisited task list weekly

• All documents reviewed by the team– Formal Inspections– Inspection Checklists

• Elicitation Sessions– Meetings between customer contact and the team– Email for clarifications

Project Process (2)

• Coding Standards – Set forth in the Configuration Management Plan

• Defect Tracking– Defects stored in the Issue Tracker spreadsheet– Quality Manager maintained the Issue Tracker– Test Manager closed the resolved defects

Project Process (3)

• Change Control– All changes formally approved by the team according to

the Change Control Process

• Traceability– Requirements traced through the entire project using a

Requirements Traceability Matrix

Project Process Tools

• Task Plan– Used to assign and schedule team tasks

• Issue Tracker– Used to file and track system defects and

changes

• Requirements Traceability Matrix– Used to trace project requirements through

the project

1st Quarter Schedule

Week Date Milestones

1 December 1 Introduction to product & sponsor

2 December 8 Draft process & assign roles

3 December 15 Produce synopsis, refine process, meet with sponsor

4 January 5 Review progress & prepare initial SRS draft

5 January 12 Prototype GUI v1.0

6 January 19 Complete SRS draft

7 January 26 Inspect & deliver SRS v1.0

8 February 2 Prepare Software Design Specification (SDS) Draft

9 February 9 Refine SRS v2.0 and draft documents SDS v1.0, Quality Plan v1.0, and Test Plan v1.010 February 16

1st Quarter Deliverables

• Project Vision & Scope

• Software Requirements Specification

• Risk Management Plan

• Configuration Management Plan

• Software Quality Plan

• Draft Acceptance Test Plan

1st Quarter Decisions

• Authentication– Levels of access for different Users

• System Administrator (All functionality)

• Manager (Import/ Export/ Delete Data Sets)

• User (View/ Save Reports)

– Different Permissions given • Permission to create/ edit/ delete Templates

• Adaptable to include more permission types

1st Quarter Decisions (2)

• Configurable system logging– Administrator sets criteria– System records only log statements that

match established criteria

• Editors for customizing– Template Editors– User Account Editor

1st Quarter Decisions (3)

• Templates for End-User Extensibility – Standard: Pre-defined, selectable filters– Advanced: Open-ended SQL filtering– Specialty: Missing Sequence, Combined,

and Duplicates

• Template Filters– Standard for data filtering on a specific field– Special (Count, Sum, Average)

2nd Quarter Schedule

Week Date Milestones

11 March 8 Draft Requirements Traceability Matrix

12 March 15 Refine Test Plan v1.0, acquire test data sets from Videk

13 March 22 Begin Implementation and finalize Test Plan v1.0

14 March 29 Finalize SDS v2.0

15 April 5 Deploy re-manufactured VDK-RIT website

16 April 12 Begin Test Plan Execution

17 April 19 Finalize SDS v3.0

18 April 26 Finalize User Manual and Quick Start card

19 May 3Demo Acceptance Tests, deliver User Manual v1.0, finalize

team poster board, draft Final Presentation

20 May 10Final Presentation, Write summary paper, re-deploy latest

VDK-RIT website

2nd Quarter Deliverables

• Software Design Specification

• Alpha, Beta, and Gamma code builds

• Project Documentation– User Manual– Installation Manual– Quick Start Card

• Final Acceptance Test Plan

• Senior Project Poster

• Technical Paper

Implementation Decisions

• Selected object-oriented PHP4 technology

• Advantages– Familiarity with object-oriented (OO) languages– Inheritance– Modular design– PHP moving toward OO practices– Free development tools

Implementation Decisions (2)

• Disadvantages– Lack of strong variable typing goes against

some OO principles– More difficult error handling– No function overloading

IVRS Major Features

• Store Data Sets for completed mailing jobs

• Display selected Data Sets– Format data display according to templates– Sort display according to multiple sort keys

• Printer-friendly reports

IVRS Major Features (2)

• Accessible from web browsers

• Controlled user access

• Multiple levels of access

• Editors for creating and modifying templates

IVRS Design

DBHandler DBMS

FileSystem

AccountAuthenticator

Recorder

PageVDKSession

EditorStandard

PageRegular

Template

DataSet

ObjectFactory

PageReportStandardBoundary

Service

Data Entity

View

Legend

Resource

IVRS Implementation

• Implemented in three incremental builds

• Alpha Build– User to select and display a single data set

• Beta Build– Added ability for user to create, modify, and

delete report templates– Fixed defects found in Alpha Build

IVRS Implementation (2)

• Gamma Build– Implemented user permissions– Added all administrator functionality including system

logging, user account creation and manipulation, and company header creation and manipulation

– Fixed defects in the report template creation and modification

– Added user help pages

• Commented code to generate PHP Docs automatically

IVRS Quality

• Unit Testing done informally by the developers

• Integration Testing done informally by the Development Manager

• System Tests performed by all developers and led by the Test Manager

Defect Resolution

Defects Opened, Resolved and Closed over Time, Individually

0

5

10

15

20

25

Open Resolved Closed

Defect Resolution (2)

Defects Opened, Resolved and Closed over Time, Cumulatively

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

Open Resolved Closed

Deployment

Local Intranet

FileSystem

DBMS

Report System

InserterVisionCamera System

Web Browsers

Reflections - Positive

• Team adapted well to changes in requirements and scheduling

• Team leveraged abilities to complete tasks efficiently

• Team created a well-documented system that will help in transition to Videk

Reflections - Negative

• Document overhead

• Scheduling conflicts

• Less formal process in the 2nd Quarter

• Not enough time to complete the Import/Export Data Sets feature

Future Plans

• The IVRS system will be deployed with InserterVision

• Maintenance and any future enhancements will be provided by Videk

Acknowledgements

• Videk and Chris Haidvogel

• Dr. Stephanie Ludi

• Cohber

http://129.21.207.64/videk/ivrs.php