Software Meeting Notes relevant to ezFIT 5.0 Milestones.

Attendees:

• Paul
• Barbara
• Joel
• AJ
• Siegwart

• Setup Automatic Testing (Unit Testing)
• Review Ad Hoc Testing (Barbara wrote test procedures).
  • Testers: Paul, Barbara, Glenn, and Chris
• Discussed the issues of making instruments backwards compatible, especially for storing new audiograms (supporting -10 - 120 dB) into the scratch memory.
  • The Intuition 2 / Clari-D circuits cannot support changes to the scratch memory map.
  • Rewriting the memory maps in newly programmed instruments might render them unreadable on older software (in a scenario, for example, where the patient moves to a different provider and requests adjustments, which might be done with older software).
  • Suggested to drop support for Intuition 2 products, and add a new one called Intuition 2+ based on the spin or spinNR circuits, removing advanced features found in the Intuition 2FC/2ER products, so that the product can totally replace the Intuition 2 market share.
• Paul expressed concern over the timeline for product delivery. He feels uncomfortable with shipping software with only ethos-based products (Flx, Intuition 12, Sparo 12, Cue) for the first release. He would like to add the spin-based and intune-based products as well for the first release. According to the timeline, the earliest possible date for that would be for Apr 2012. Some concerns about this move:
  • Software would not have been market tested well enough waiting for a final release. Development team supports doing incremental releases (starting with a base release) limited to certain customers, so they can provide feedback. Therefore, any issues could be worked out before adding new features and products.

• Next meeting: Jun 20, 2011, 2pm