This is the repository of the data quality control (QC) software for the ALICE O² system.

For a general overview of our (O2) software, organization and processes, please see this page.

• QuickStart
  • Requirements
  • Setup
  • Execution
    • Basic workflow
    • Readout chain
    • Post-processing example
• Modules development
  • Context
    • QC architecture
    • DPL
    • Data Sampling
    • Code Organization
    • Developing with aliBuild/alienv
    • User-defined modules
    • Repository
  • Module creation
  • Test run
    • Saving the QC objects in a local file
  • Modification of the Task
  • Check
    • Configuration
    • Implementation
  • Quality Aggregation
    • Quick try
    • Configuration
    • Implementation
  • Committing code
  • Data sources
    • Readout
    • DPL workflow
  • A more advanced example
  • Monitoring
• Post-processing
  • The post-processing framework
    • Post-processing interface
    • Post-processing Task configuration
      • Triggers configuration
    • Running it
    • Triggers
  • Convenience classes
    • The TrendingTask class
      • TrendingTask configuration
• Advanced topics
  • Plugging the QC to an existing DPL workflow
  • Production of QC objects outside this framework
  • Multi-node setups
  • Writing a DPL data producer
  • Access run conditions and calibrations from the CCDB
  • Definition and access of task-specific configuration
  • Custom QC object metadata
  • Canvas options
  • QC with DPL Analysis
  • Data Inspector
  • Details on the data storage format in the CCDB
  • Local CCDB setup
  • Local QCG (QC GUI) setup
  • Developing QC modules on a machine with FLP suite
  • Use MySQL as QC backend
  • Configuration files details
• Frequently Asked Questions

Where to get help

• CERN Mailing lists: alice-o2-wp7 and alice-o2-qc-contact
• Discourse: https://alice-talk.web.cern.ch/
• JIRA: https://alice.its.cern.ch
• O2 development newcomers' guide: https://aliceo2group.github.io/quickstart
• Doxygen: https://aliceo2group.github.io/QualityControl/