VS Code Plugin - Project Plan

Project Management

Product: Problem Statement → Problem Description → Impact of the Problem Statement → Current Solutions? → Limitations of Current Solution/s → Propose a new Solution

Solution: Requirements (both Functional and non-Functional) → Functional Architecture → System Architecture → Low Level Designs → Implementation Phase (Estimated Effort for Tasks)

Project Roadmap

Activity Category	Activity	Effort	Estimated Time
Learning Activities	Technologies - Virtualization/Containers	1 Week	1st week of June
Learning Activities	Hyperledger Fabric	3 Weeks	end of June
Problem Statement and Analysis	Problem Description	2 Weeks	2nd week of July
	Impact
	Current Solutions - Analysis
	Formulate a Proposal
Requirements Gathering and Design	Capture Functional and non-Functional Requirements	1 Week	3rd week of July
	Functional Architecture
	System Architecture
	LLD	1 Week	end of July
Implementation	VS Code Plugin Development - Experiments	2 Weeks	2nd week of August
	Feature Development	8 Weeks	2nd Week of October
	Testing Phase	1 Week	3rd Week of October
	Quality and Metrics	1 Week	end of October
Documentation and Presentations	User Documentation	1 Week	1st week of November
Documentation and Presentations	Present the Project - Public Forums	1 Week	2nd week of November

Product

Problem Statement	As a Hyperledger Fabric smart contract (chaincode) developer, there is no option to debug the code during development. The mechanism to debug the chaincode often involves adding debug log lines and running the chaincode in a test environment. The complexity of running a Hyperledger Fabric environment for testing purpose is complex due to the nature of setting up the network. The developers are expected to learn the deployment and internal operations of the network. If the smart contract is running in a production environment, consuming a specific state database and it fails for a specific scenario, debugging gets more complicated. The developers would typically replicate the scenario on a test network, but they may not be able to do so because of the lacking state database values. Additional debugging code in the smart contract is not feasible due to chaincode operations and involvement of multiple partners. Overall the cost for debugging is high, both the time and the process is complex factoring the number of participants involved.
Problem Description
Impact of the Problem	High Cost of Maintenance: Both the time and the process for maintaining the Hyperledger Fabric smart contract in production environment. Specialized Skill: Finding the talent for Hyperledger Fabric smart contract development becomes extremely difficult. Feasibility: Other blockchain protocols such as Ethereum have better tooling for smart contract developers.
Current Solutions	IBM Blockchain Platform Extension Hyperledger Fabric Debugger: Spydra
Limitations of the Current Solution
Proposal	Develop a plugin that can connect to any Hyperledger Fabric runtime. Including a test network brought up locally, a production instance or a cloud instance. If there is some process involved for setting up the debugging capability, then it should be one time. Flexibility to make calls to specific chaincode functions, and accept the values at runtime. Precompose list of values to be supplied.

Solution

Functional Requirements
Non-functional Requirements
Functional Architecture
System Architecture
LLDs
Implementation Plan

Hyperledger Mentorship Program

VS Code Plugin - Project Plan

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Project Management

Project Roadmap

Product

IBM Blockchain Platform Extension

Hyperledger Fabric Debugger: Spydra

Solution

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