Marian ZUREK for ETICS Team
CERN - IT/GD, ETICS Team
Geneve, Switzerland

   ETICS - Software Engineering Infrastructure and Quality Process

The quality of grid and distributed software is becoming more and more
challenging task especially in short lasting projects. A major milestone
was achieved in this direction by the ETICS/ETICS2 projects that provide
a "ready-to-go" build and test system. Having  well defined release
processes can help certification and pre-production teams save time and
effort. The ETICS system provides a complete set  of tools, which enable
their users to optimize efforts in the following areas

1) Building - by easily registering their software and building it on the
    platform of their choice
2) Testing  - by running classical test-suites
3) Integration - by defining configurations and deployment scenarios and
    running them on the testbed
4) Deployment - by automatically running multi-node deployment,
    functional, regression tests on many nodes (grid-like)
5) Monitoring - by accessing the software repository with rich meta-data,
    trends, reporting, etc.

The above set of tools combined with continuous integration/test 
processes
enables projects to reduce the time spent from code to release. Regularly
running integration/update/upgrade tests allow the quick spotting of bugs,
backwards compatibility issues, interoperability issues, etc.
The ETICS toolkit will be presented with emphasis on the above mentioned
5 directions.