Get the Paddles Ready! CLEAR!

Well my mother always wanted me to go into the medical field. Now I can pretend to be a doctor. Special patients that require extra attention need to be placed in a Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and monitored for vital signs. Any major decline is a red flag and calls for attention.

What is Software ICU?

We, software engineers, aren't biased and prejudiced like that. Almost all projects (that contains multi-stage implementation) deserves to be monitored for these "vital signals" as well. In humans, vital signals include: blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, etc. When referring to software, these vital signals are: coverage, complexity, coupling, churning, and code issues. We monitor these with HackyStat, which utilizes sensors tied together with the tools we have used throughout this semester to transmit the status of the project.
Individually, one weak vital sign is not dangerous but should be tended to. Multiple weak signals are definitely a sign of danger of quality dropping severely and should be addressed immediately. Why is this important? Well just like how doctors don't like it when patients die, we don't want our programs to be on the verge of death either. Strong health is likely to indicate robustness.

Patient Status

Time to put the very little medical terms I learned from one of my favorite shows, House M.D., to use!

The program is all set up and in a stable condition. I ran into complications when trying to configure the subversion sensor. But after a differential and consult with a couple of classmates, I ended up creating a UserMap.xml file. A snapshot vital signs of our project is below:


Diagnosis and Treatment

It appears the program is allergic to crappy test cases, thus the crappy coverage. Until I or my partner give the patient steroids (better and more extensive test cases), the program can be considered to be in a medically induced coma (since it is not going to change unless we do something).

NOTE: I don't remember if steroids is what they give patients with severe allergic reaction. Let's just pretend I'm right. Don't worry, I won't be treating any of your family members any time soon.

To end this blog entry, I want to give an idea of what we look like. To the right is a slightly better looking team (House M.D.) of us software engineers. The program is in good hands.