Primary responsibilities
Responsible for test and maintenance of a multi-platform (Linux and Mac) software application (FreeSurfer) used in the field of brain-imaging research. Focus on test suite development that ensures correctness of software results and coverage of the software suite.
- Test responsibilities include:
- Develop and execute software test plans
- Analyze test results and recommend corrective action
- Implement regression tests as bugs are found and fixed
- Implement the Dart software quality system
- Maintenance responsibilities include:
- Assist in bug-fixing, and feature enhancement
Maintain multi-platform builds of the FreeSurfer code-base and its accompanying 3rd-party packages
- Help resolve multi-platform compatibility, installation and run-time issues
- Port to new platforms when necessary
- Maintain an issue tracking system
- Help resolve open-source build issues
Qualifications
BSCS or related technical degree. C and C++ programming experience in a Unix environment is required. Basic shell scripting, and Perl, Python and Tcl/Tk scripting experience desired. Unix autoconf and CVS experience desired.
You will be working at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital, an affiliate of both Harvard Medical School and MIT. It is one of the premier brain imaging centers in the world, and the FreeSurfer software package is used in research centers worldwide. If you have a recent background in brain or medical image processing, and want to learn the inner workings of this complex software by testing and maintaining it, then this is an ideal position for you.
Tasks
- Test:
- Setup automatic tests of bert for the 'dev' enviro
- Setup automatic tests of buckner40 for the 'stable' enviro
- Expand tests to cover more binaries, particularly mri_glmfit, where a group analysis could be automatically run on the buckner40
Create a [http://public.kitware.com/Dart/HTML/Index.shtml Dart server], with Dashboard, to receive nightly build and test results, for public web-page display
- Buy and setup a 64bit Intel Mac Pro, and setup as a build and test machine
- Maintenance:
- Create VMWare Freesurfer virtual machine for Linux (so that freesurfer can run on Windows)
- Create a Mac Universal binary for Freesurfer (which is compatible with both powerpc and intel)
- Setup a read-only CVS server, for open-source code distribution (use the virtual server that Paul setup, and create cronjob to copy nightly the real CVS to the read-only CVS, excluding non-public code)
- Explore and mess with trying to get freesurfer to build in CMake, at least portions of it relating to Qdec