Workplan 2017

Work Plan for 2017

Oversee testing shifts (Gunter)
Release management and Q/A monitoring with Valgrind and Coverity (Gabriele)
Perform regular profiling benchmarking of G4 development and public releases (Soon, Krzysztof, Andrea)
Grid testing, Reproducibility tests (Alberto, Dmitri)

System testing shifts
Maintain and support integration testing (Gunter)
Release testing
General testing/debugging of problems showing up especially during the release periods or development releases (Gabriele)
Q/A monitoring with Valgrind and Coverity(Gabriele)
Grid testing with simplified calorimeters: running, maintaining, migration (Dmitri, Alberto)
Reproducibility tests (Alberto)
Deploying of latest Dirac server for Grid validation(Dmitri)
Developing a new grid validation web interface and integrating Geant4 tests into this system(Dmitri)
Performance profiling and benchmarking
Regular profiling/benchmarking of Geant4 development and public releases, maintenance and evolution of the profiling infrastructure in response to the changing computing environment (Soon,Krzysztof, Daniel)
Finishing the migration from the FAST profiler to Open|SpeedShop(Soon, Krzysztof, Daniel)
Adding new IF related application(s) (Soon,Krzysztof,Daniel)
Consulting on the use of performance tools and interpretation of the results as well as evaluating the performance gain of various code improvements/ideas (Canal)
Carry over from 2016 on the ARM inclusion in CDash (Andrea)
Low energy physics profiling using Brachytherapy code (Kiheyon)
Continue to encourage the collaboration to provide more tests and more rigorous tests (All)

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