Our work is a case study for Team Sweden, which is a national effort to produce a team of soccer playing robots. We took the present structure of the Reactive Planner, which is the game-planning module of the system, and made two new parallel versions of the Reactive Planner. One where we tried to optimize for CPU and memory usage called the performance-oriented implementation. We also made one implementation where we tried to optimize for maintainability called the maintainability-oriented implementation. To evaluate the implementations we ran a series of CPU and memory usage tests to assess the performance. We also estimated the maintainability of both implementations. The test results where later used to decide which implementation we should recommend to Team Sweden. The results showed that the difference in maintainability did outweigh the difference in performance. The conclusion is that the maintainability-oriented implementation is in this case the preferred / Vårt arbete består av en fallstudie för Team Sweden som är ett nationellt samarbete för att skapa ett lag med fotbollsspelande robotar. Vi använde oss av den nuvarande strukturen av Reactive Planner, vilket är en spelplanerings modul för systemet, och tillverkade två parallella versioner. En som vi försökte optimera prestanda i, kallad prestandaorienterad implementation. Samt en som vi försökte optimera underhållbarheten i, kallad underhållbarhetsorienterad implementation. För att evaluera implementationerna så gjorde vi en serie CPU och minnestester för att evaluera prestanda. Vi estimerade även underhållbarheten för de båda implementationerna. Testresultaten användes sen för att göra en bedömning om vilken av implementationerna som var mest fördelaktig för Team Sweden. Testresultaten visade att skillnaden i underhållbarhet övervägde skillnaden i prestanda. Slutsatsen är i det här fallet att den underhållbarhetsorienterade implementationen versionen är att föredra.

This master thesis describes our work with Team Sweden and how we have attempted to perform a Software Process Improvement using groupware. Team Sweden is a distributed academic software development organization doing research on artificial intelligence and robotics. Such an organization has a lot to gain from the introduction of a more structured process model. We have investigated the possibility of supporting the development processes of a small software development organization by introducing groupware. Only introducing a groupware tool or technique is not enough to improve the processes of an organization. Process improvement requires an infrastructure and groupware could be a useful tool for establishing it. Improved communication and knowledge sharing through groupware can be beneficial for establishing a process infrastructure. Groupware should be used in conjunction with other process improvement measures in order to be effective and improve the capability of the targeted organization. / This master thesis describes our work with Team Sweden and how we have attempted to perform a Software Process Improvement using groupware. / gustav@nordenskjold.com hakingma@hotmail.com