CODING DevOps Helps Sinochem Information Build a New Generation of Research and Efficiency Platform, Driving the New Future of "Online Sinochem"

Sinochem Information Technology Co., Ltd., referred to as "Sinochem Information", is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sinochem Holding Co., Ltd. ("Sinochem"), a Fortune 500 company. It relies on Sinochem's informatization construction practices. , establish a service value chain from consulting, design to R&D, delivery and operation and maintenance, and form business applications and innovations covering life science, material science, basic chemical industry, environmental science, tire rubber, mechanical equipment, urban operation, industrial finance and other industries The 17 product lines and solutions applied are committed to helping Sinochem become a world-class comprehensive chemical enterprise by giving full play to the driving and empowering role of information technology.

"Online Sinochem" strategy is promoted, and stronger IT capabilities have become a rigid need

Entering the era of Industry 4.0, information technology has penetrated into all walks of life, and industrial digitization has emerged as the times require. Through the transformation of the Internet, traditional enterprises can open up the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, so that equipment, factories, suppliers, products and consumers are closely connected and integrated, providing consumers with a higher-quality service experience in an intelligent and digital way, creating A higher-value industrial ecology and a strong digital ecosystem.

The dividends of industrial digital transformation are certainly considerable. To this end, Sinochem China has put forward the strategic goal of "Online Sinochem", vigorously promoting the digital transformation within the company, empowering the company's high-quality development with digitalization, and promoting Sinochem Sinochem to become a world-class industry. At the same time, the digital strategy of "Online Sinochem" has posed unprecedented challenges to Sinochem Information's IT capabilities. Sinochem Information, as the main information technology platform provider of Sinochem in China, shoulders the mission of " playing the driving and empowering role of information technology to help Sinochem become a world-class comprehensive chemical enterprise ", and must continuously improve its IT capabilities , continue to build innovative basic platforms and solutions to support the solid implementation of the "Online Sinochem" strategy.

Construction of one-stop research and efficiency platform to support closed-loop management of the whole process of research and development

In order to fundamentally improve its own IT capabilities, Sinochem Information decided to adopt a new R&D management model. Through CODING, Sinochem Information has built a new generation of digital research and effectiveness platform with the DevOps method system as the core, opening up the whole process from demand, design, development, construction, testing, release to deployment, forming a closed loop of R&D quality monitoring, and realizing project management visualization , Build integration automation , continuous testing automation , and continuous deployment automation to quickly respond to business needs and quickly deliver high-quality business value.

Beginning with agile methodology, refined multi-role collaboration around "projects"

With the multi-tenant management advantages of the CODING DevOps platform, Sinochem Information organizes multiple projects according to product or business needs, and then adds the parties that need to collaborate to the corresponding projects, so as to carry out refined team collaboration. Taking "projects" as the unit, Sinochem Information has unified management of personnel rights and resources, allowing the company to realize different roles such as product/project managers, application architects, developers, testers, and operation and maintenance personnel on one platform. efficient collaboration within .

The CODING DevOps platform carries the industry's advanced agile Scrum theory and provides powerful and flexible project management functions, including iterative planning , requirement decomposition , status transfer , Kanban view tracking , etc., helping Sinochem Information to quickly implement the agile project management model within the company.

According to the established workflow and mode of the R&D team, Sinochem Information independently defines the attributes and workflows of the requirements, tasks, defects and other item types in the project . It greatly improves the efficiency of cross-role and cross-department collaboration.

Unified code management, enterprise core assets are more secure

• Centralized control of multiple warehouses within the project

There are as many as hundreds of warehouses in Sinochem Information, and two version control systems, Git and SVN, are used at the same time, so it is difficult to carry out effective unified management. CODING provides fast and stable Git/SVN code hosting services, and provides easy-to-use external repositories (such as GitLab, GitHub and other common external repositories) import function, helping Sinochem Information to gradually migrate the original SVN/Git code repository to CODING , realize centralized management of all codes of the corresponding business team in a single project , and complete the unified management of code assets. In addition, each code repository supports individual permission configuration , allowing Sinochem Information to manage codes in a centralized manner, while retaining the flexibility of differentiated management of different repositories.

• Security-Oriented Code Scanning

Before using CODING, Sinochem Information mainly found code security loopholes through manual review. The code scanning function that comes with the CODING DevOps platform integrates dozens of tools and thousands of rules such as CheckStyle, FindBugs, SonarQube, and supports more than ten mainstream languages including Java, C/C++, JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP, Ruby, etc. , which effectively replaces the manual operation of Sinochem Information R&D personnel. After the developer submits the code, the CODING platform will automatically analyze the source code in the code repository , dig out potential code defects, security vulnerabilities and non-standard codes, and generate a list of problems to provide developers with modification suggestions. In addition, the platform will also measure the quality of the code, and count methods with extremely complex structures and repetitive codes to help developers continue to optimize and improve.

Since using CODING, Sinochem Information has widely and frequently used the Java code scanning solution provided by CODING, which improves the stability and maintainability of the code, and greatly improves the team's R&D efficiency.

Real-time coordination of test plans to ensure quality check points before going online

The internal testing, product, R&D and other member roles of Sinochem Information will all participate in the testing plan. In this case, the collaboration of testing, product, and R&D on the same platform becomes particularly important. Through CODING's test management function, information such as test plan progress, use case review results, and test results are synchronized in real time . In addition, during the testing process, testers can submit defects for specific test cases with one click , helping developers to quickly reproduce defects.

In addition to the above-mentioned collaborative convenience, CODING also makes the test management of Sinochem Information simpler, more flexible and more visualized. Thanks to the tree-structured test case library , the testers of Sinochem Information can reuse the existing test cases, organize the test plan flexibly, and greatly improve the test work efficiency. At the same time, when the test milestone is over, the multi-dimensional test report generated by the CODING platform, such as test conclusions, charts, work distribution, and test time, will be automatically sent to followers. On the other hand, test managers can also use the visual Gantt chart to overview the project test overview, accurately grasp the peaks and valleys of team workload, and easily improve team work planning.

Automated pipeline, faster construction and deployment

For the construction of a new generation of research and effectiveness platform, Sinochem Information expects to build a highly automated and visualized software development pipeline, realize end-to-end link closed-loop, reduce manual operations in the research and development process, and improve the delivery efficiency of research and development versions. The continuous integration capability provided by the CODING DevOps platform is an efficient tool to help Sinochem Information build an automated assembly line. With dozens of built-in build plan templates and graphical layout interface in CODING, Sinochem Information can realize automatic code compilation, packaging and scanning through simple configuration, until the binary package of the product is automatically deployed to the company's internal machine resources. Even if deployment fails, developers can quickly locate the problem through detailed logs.

The low threshold of use of the CODING pipeline and the running time of minutes and seconds make Sinochem Information extremely pleasant. Today, Sinochem Information triggers more than 500 CODING pipelines every day, increasing the efficiency of code construction and deployment by more than 10 times .

Multi-dimensional management perspective, data reports are indispensable

Visual tracking of the R&D process is also one of the goals of Sinochem Information's R&D platform upgrade. CODING provides a variety of report types , including demand statistics, defect statistics, code statistics, etc., to meet the visual analysis needs of Sinochem Information in different R&D scenarios. Rich scene-based card templates can be used directly without complex configuration; powerful data analysis capabilities help Sinochem Information to carry out refined tracking and statistical analysis of all aspects of the IT R&D process, and establish a framework from delivery efficiency to delivery quality. The performance measurement practice system of multi-dimensional analysis such as resource efficiency, completion status, etc., covers the whole scene of performance management, and provides solid data support for team performance improvement and leadership decision-making.

Continuous delivery is "fast and stable", enabling a new future for "online Sinochem"

The "Online Sinochem" digital strategy has been accelerated, and Sinochem Information, as the main force of Sinochem's information technology, has always been at the forefront of transformation. Through cooperation with CODING, Sinochem Information has built a new generation of research and effectiveness platform covering the entire software life cycle, realizing one-stop management of demand, development, testing, and deployment, greatly improving the efficiency and quality of business delivery, and strongly supporting China's digital implementation. In the future, CODING will continue to empower Sinochem Information's R&D management, further strengthen its digital R&D and operation system, and empower the new future of "Sinochem Online".