FESA3 - 4.3.1 "Beryllium" - 08 / 2017

Information for FESA class developers

Start

• Installation of the FESA Development Environment
• Quick overview on how to develop, run and test a simple FESA binary

Development

• Migration from v4.2.0 to v4.3.1
• Development workflow for productive FESA equipment software
• C++ Code Snippets
• Device Configuration since FESA3 4.2.0
• How to provide mock FESA software for CSCOAP
• Release and run FESA equipment software
• RDA Client Software to connect to devices: Tools, C++-interface and first Python-binding (see cmwrda.py)
• Debugging FESA equipment software
• Database Workflow

Knowledge Base

General

• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

User Interface

• FESA Command Line Interface
• FESA Class Documentation
• Eclipse Cheat Sheets
• How to move to another Eclipse Version
• Working with the SVN Repository
• Eclipse Working Sets

C++ Programming / FESA

• C++ Code Templates
• FESL ( FESA Support Library)
• WhiteRabbit based Timing
• Usage of Dynamic Libraries
• Usage of (Error) Conditions
• Testing with googletest
• Information on logging
• Working with Subsets
• Usage of Post Mortem Functionality
• Units-Suffix: Names to be used
• GSI template: default data automatically
• Timing Simulation

Hardware related

• Available frontend computers
• Configuring Timing Runtime Environment on frontends

Environment

• Working with Logstash
• Getting information from the FESA database

Documentation

• C++ doxygen documentation for fesa-core
• C++ doxygen documentation for fesa-core-gsi
• Documentation Design
• Documentation Deploy-Unit
• Documentation Instantiation
• Changelog