Title: Rapid Application Development Environment and the LabVIEW Software Infrastructure at CERN
Presenter: Odd Øyvind Andreassen, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Abstract: In the CERN accelerator domain there is a need of integrating industrial devices, control and monitoring applications in an easy and structured way. The LabVIEW-RADE framework provides the method and tools for integrating NI equipment and software in the CERN infrastructure. Building and distributing RADE is done using Subversion (SVN) and Hudson continuous integration (HCI) the process is fully automated and a distribution for all platforms can be made available within the hour.
I attended the talk at the NI Big Physics Event this summer. I was impressed by the amount of effort put forth by this group to incorportate AGILE methods in an R&D environmnet.