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-   This technote describes the design of an integrated night planning tool. This is a tools that allows our team to collect a group of Jira tickets that describes a set of tests, allows us to organize these into a coherent list of tests to execute, that can later be loaded and executed at the summit.
+   This technote describes the design of an integrated night planning tool.
+   This is a tools that allows our team to collect a group of Jira tickets describing a set of tests/observations, allows us to organize these into a coherent list that can later be loaded and executed at the summit.
 
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+Introduction
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+
+Test planning and execution for commissioning the Vera Rubin observatory has revolved around using Jira and Confluence to generate a comprehensive plan that can be followed by the night crew.
+This process involves a combination of Jira projects:
+
+- SITCOM are used to capture high level tests/verification activities.
+  They are usually connected to one or more requirement or some other commissioning activity.
+  For example, SITCOM-1099 was created to capture the tests required to validate the operation of the system with the TMA dynamic settings going from 5% all the way to 100% of its requirements.
+
+- DM tickets are used to capture work needed either by a regular contruction deliverable or a commissioning activity.
+  DM tickets can be linked to SITCOM tickets when there is work required to accomplish a particular test, but they can also be standalone ticket that are just broadly required.
+  For instance, in the example above of SITCOM-1099, we have DM-39533 linked as a related ticket.
+  It is not strickly necessary to have this relantionship as DM-39533 represents a broader system functionality, however the issues are linked to demonstrate the relantionship.
+  Sometimes a SITCOM ticket might trigger the development of systewide functionality and the relantionship is used to indicate it.
+
+- BLOCK tickets are used to design, plan, execute and track activities at the summit.
+  Usually a BLOCK ticket will be linked to a SITCOM ticket.
+
+Up to now, planning activities at the summit have revolved around collecting the BLOCK tickets that will be executed at night and sorting them out in a table with some information about priority and order of execution.
+Later, the summit crew adds information to these tables about the execution and are also required to do more detailed logging in LOVE/OLE. 
+Gathering information later about task execution and performing traceability under these conditions is taxing.
+Users have to peruse the night logs for detailed information and also check the confluence page with the night plan.
+
+In order to improve overal user experience on both sides of the isle; creating and executing the plan, and also to improve metadata extraction for traceability, we propose to introduce a set of new procedures and tools for planning and execution of the summit activities.
+
+Planning with Zephyr
+====================
+
+We will adopt Jira's Zephyr application to create test cases, test cycles and test plans to organize how tests will be executed and planned.
+
+- BLOCK tickets will be used to describe what the block does, link it to a particular SITCOM ticket and will also aggregate the block configuration.
+
+- Test Cases will have a step by step description of how to execute a particular BLOCK.
+
+- Test Cycles will be used to plan a particular night.
+  They contain a list of Test Cases, ordered in the same way they should be executed.
+  The Environment field is used to separate the Test Cases that will be executed at different parts of the day; Daytime, Afternoon, Early Night, Late Night, etc.
+
+- Test Execution are created for each Test Case to track a particular execution.
+
+- Test Plans contains a collection of Test Cycles and are used for long term planning.
+
+.. figure:: /_static/test_cycle.png
+  :name: fig-test-cycle
+  :target: ../images/test_cycle.png
+  :alt: Test Cycle
+
+  An example Test Cycle showing the planned Test Executions for the Test Cases scheduled for a particular night.
+  The Test Executions are sorted in the order they should be executed, sub-divided in two different parts of the day; Late Afternoon and Early Night.
+
+Integration with LOVE
+=====================
+
+As an initial fallback mode, we expect the summit crew would be able to interact directly with the Test Cycle in Jira to execute a night plan.
+However we have the potential to considerably improve the user experience by integrating the Test Cycle with LOVE.
+
+The idea would be to provide an interface in LOVE similar to that of the Jira Test Player.
+Through this interface users would be able to:
+
+- Select the plan for the night.
+
+  This could be a drop down menu that shows the list of Test Cycles from Jira.
+
+  Uppon selection of a particular Test Cycle, users would be presented with the list of Test Executions, ordered like they appear in the Test Cycle.
+
+- Select a Test Execution from the night plan.
+
+  This would present the users with the Test Player interface, showing information about the particular tests and the steps that need to be executed.
+
+- Start and run a Test Execution.
+
+  If the test steps are correctly configured with the required script information, users will be able to send these to the ScriptQueue directly from the test step.
+  The test step will also monitor the relevant information and back feed that into the Test Execution.
+  This means that, if a block fails to execute, the test step will be marked as failed.
+
+- Log information from a step execution and or the Test Execution.
+
+  Each step in the Test Execution will also have an input text box that can be used to log entries in OLE.
+  The system should use metadata provided in the Test Execution to augment the narrative log entry with additional labels, etc.
+
+  The high level Test Execution will also have an input text box to create log entries.
+
+- Feed the information back to Jira.
+
+  All metadata generated at the summit by this tool will be fed back to jira to allow for better traceability.
 
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