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Realizing a Graphical User Interface for Procedures

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31224/5768

Keywords:

Procedures, Mission Critical Systems, Changes and Upgrades, XML, Graphical User Interfaces, GTK

Abstract

Printed procedures have been successfully used to plan and co-ordinate the activities of teams carrying on massive changes and upgrades to mission critical systems, but formatting these documents by hand and working through such events with paper copies has shown some limitations. To improve the experience of using these methods we introduce xseq, a graphical user interface for procedures being written in GTK.

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Author Biography

Andrew Frederick Cowie, Procedural

Andrew Cowie has an extensive background of software development, systems operations, production infrastructure, and engineering leadership experience but somewhat unusually started his career as an infantry officer in the Canadian army, having graduated from Royal Military College with a degree in engineering physics. He later ran operations for a new media company in Manhattan and was a part of recovering the firm after the Sept 11 attacks. Since then he has consulted on crisis resolution, change management, robust architectures, and (more interestingly) leveraging Open Source to achieve these ends. Andrew has been working in and around systems engineering and software development for many years; recent work has been to re-engineer observability into automation pipelines and developing domain specific languages for mission critical procedures.

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2025-11-06

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