Building a responsibility chart in a development team
Unless your software development team is a one-man-band, there is a good possibility that the coding activity is divided into parts, responsible by different developers. Take software projects that apply three-tier architecture as an example. It usually involves three groups of developers, with each responsible for one tier. For instance, developer A implements a model class readily to be used by developer B who implements the controller. Agilian 3.1 enables you to build chart. In addition to the built-in RACI chart available for general purposes, you can define your own type of chart for problem-specific purposes. In this tutorial, we will develop a chart to show the job division of a development team to show who implements or uses certain classes for an application.
Let's study this case: When the model class has been updated to follow the updated requirement, the developers who use the model class shall look into their code, to make sure the implementation written before is still valid. This proves knowing who does what in a team is needed - who implements certain classes, and who uses these classes. In order to identify who implements or uses what classes, a responsible chart can help.
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- Download Time-Killer-Mini-Online-Game.vpp from this tutorial in advance and open the project with Agilian.
- Right click on Chart Diagram on Diagram Navigator and select New Chart Diagram from the pop-up menu.
- Apart from the built-in chart type, you can configure a new type of chart or modify the existing chart by clicking the ... button next to Code Type.
- Let's configure a new chart type by selecting Add > Code Type from the drop-down menu.
- Name the newly created chart type as Class Management.
- Next, configure roles for Class Management by clicking Add > Code from the drop-down menu. The added code, therefore, will be used as a role in the chart type.
- Let's define a role, Implement for the chart type by entering Implement in Name field and I in Code field. Click the ... button next to Color field and select Orange from the pop-up menu.
- Repeat step 6 and 7 to add another role, Use. Enter Use in Name field, select Magenta in Color field and enter U in Code field.
- Click OK button.
- Now, we can create a responsibility chart. Name the chart as Class Management.
- The new chart type is created in Code Type. Let's select Class Management from the Code Type combo box to build a responsibility chart.
- Next, define team members who are involved in Class Management. Let's define Peter as a team member by clicking + button next to Models on Row, entering Peter in the pop-up Input dialog box and clicking OK button.
- Repeat the previous step to add three team members: Carlos, Linda and Pam.
- Let's specify a model element type taken in Class Management by selecting Class under Model Element Types tab.
- Click OK button.
- In Class Management, you can assign the specific role for each team member. Let's assign Peter to do Implement for Member by clicking Mark Code to Cell button on the top of chart, clicking Implement and then clicking the corresponding cell on the chart as the assignment.
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Assign the roles to all team members (participants) following the table below:
Participant Class Role Peter CreditTransaction Implement CreditTransfer Implement CreditOrder Implement Carols GameSession Implement Game Implement Linda Member Use CreditTransaction Use CreditTransfer Use CreditOrder Use CreditOrderController Implement TransferCreditController Implement Pam Member Use GameSession Use Game Use RegisterController Implement
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