LCATR

The acronym LCATR originally meant LSST CCD Acceptance Testing Results. After it was begun, its scope was expanded to cover both CCDs and RTMs (generically "units"). An alternative meaning might be LIMS Client for Acceptance Testing Results as it's primary purpose is to interface between the Laboratory Information Management System and the actual software that runs CCD/RTM test hardware or analyses that run on the output of such tests. Finally, might best be called Look Carefully And Take Responsibility as it is meant to assure that the tests and analysis software programs are run to completion and known software versions and run-time environment are specified, used and recorded.

LCATR has some diverse responsibilities both in terms of what it provides and what test and analysis authors must supply. These are documented in the following:

design

an overall picture of how the system works.

developer

what an author of an LCATR job needs to know.

installation

how software for an LCATR job should be installed.

LIMS/harness API

agreement on communication between LIMS and LCATR.

environment modules

how test/analysis software sets up its run-time environment.

schema

required format for writing data into the LIMS database from an LCATR job.

testing

how to test LCATR or test/analysis software under LCATR

roles

some roles for individuals participating in LCATR

job harness details

details on the job harness

file system layout

details of organization of result files.

todo items

attempt to keep track of where we are and where we are going

making releases

some notes on how releases of the job harness software are made