2015-04-23 Developers Forum

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OpenMRS Developers Forum 2015-04-23
Recording: http://goo.gl/Sz2ILH (Audio) 
Attendees
  • Burke Mamlin
  • Michael Downey
  • Tim Nicholson
  • Rafal Korytkowski
  • Tharunya _
  • Tomasz Mueller
  • Darius Jazayeri
  • Willa Mhawila
  • Saptarshi Purkayastha
  • Ada 
  • Daniel Kayiwa
  • Manika Praveenkumar Maheshwari
  • Ryan Yates
  • Maurya
  • Karl Wurst
Agenda & Notes
  • Review last week TODOs
  • TODO: Burke to notify presenters about their dev forum topics
  • TODO: Someone to Set up CI builds for MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLServer, Oracle (We assume these will not be green lights)
  • TODO: Someone to Create tickets to address problems that occur for alternate DBs
  • TODO: Someone to Schedule sprint(s) to address DB tickets
  • QA Systems (load testing and performance testing)
  • Follow up from the last wave of this topic: IU no longer allows non-IU systems to use NeoLoad & Dynatrace. :-(
  • Functional Testing
  • JBehave
  • Need to be "smart" about functional testing, since these can be brittle, so need to focus on high value tests and create them in a way that is as robust as possible
  • We have incoming volunteers who aren't devs but are interested & willing to do manual functional testing ... unfortunately we don't usually have much for them to do
  • Acceptance Testing
  • Performance Testing
  • OpenMRS 1.8 focused on performance improvements and, for that relese, we set up a CI build onto a spare server (non-VM) to generate a report of performance metrics (e.g., patient search, dashboard load time, etc.).
  • Is this a priority for us?  Would we like to have build tests that check performance?  Break builds if performance metric doesn't meet goal?
  • Implementations notice quickly with patient search takes 2 minutes, but we may not need a fancy, automated system to address these issues (in terms of priorities)
  • There are likely higher priorities – e.g., functional testing, testing against other databases, testing deployments (large db, upgrades, etc.)
  • What did Soldevelo and the Mifos team establish for their app? Sequence: Functional Testing, (Automated) Acceptance Testing, Performance Testing, Release Testing
  • Load Testing
  • How many concurrent users does OpenMRS support (on specific server specs)?
  • Darius: Lower in the priority list
  • Corollary: How many concurrent users do most large implementations have, and what type of work are those users doing? 
  • Unit Testing
  • We feel like we're doing reasonably well
  • Should probably do more mocks, so testing is more reliable & runs faster
  • How long should it take to run unit tests?  How long is "too long" (when devs stop using skipTests by default)?
  • "If you have tests that are useful, but take longer than you want the commit suite to run, then you should build a DeploymentPipeline and put the slower tests in a later stage of the pipeline." - Martin Fowler http://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html
  • Expect devs to run their tests using IDE as they develop.
  • Expect devs to run full suite of tests before committing code.
  • TODO: push for mocks over integration tests
  • TODO: document how to test within IDE in dev pages in wiki
  • Infrastructure update
  • OpenMRS Talk & Google Groups
  • Migrations away from Google Groups: Implementers Group on 2015-03-05, Developers Group on 2015-04-10
  • Increased activity: Nearly 20% of all Talk topics (159) and posts (817), and 30% (23,684) of all emails since early 2014, happened in the last 30 days
  • Last month: 1,224 unique visitors (up 6%) spent 7m40s (up 11%) during a typical visit
  • 570 users and counting have signed in with their OpenMRS ID & participated
  • Confluence wiki updates
  • Now running 5.7.3
  • Some performance improvements, but required doubling available memory to upgrade
  • New fonts, styles, colors, etc.
  • Improvements to authentication systems
  • Anticipated OpenMRS ID Dashboard 2.1 GSoC project. Highlights:
  • Support two-factor authentication for OAuth-based sign ins
  • Automatic synchronization (creation) of all OpenMRS ID users in Talk/Discourse
  • Build a REST API for working with user profile data
  • 3rd-party sign in and profile creation from Google, Facebook, GitHub, etc.
  • Various backend improvements
  • Private authentication network for improved Atlassian performance (direct LDAP auth to eliminate dependency on bad Crowd sync code)
  • After Action Review
  • What did you expect to happen?
  • What actually happened?
  • What can we do better?
  • Preview Next Week
  • 30 April: OpenERP showcase w/ Bahmni, OpenMRS 2.2 retrospective
  • 7 May: Google-MSF Ebola project

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