ARCA-tool is the finalist project of the Software Development Project (2011-2012) course in Aalto University.

ARCA-tool is a tool for doing root cause analysis. It is implemented as a web application, with Play! framework.

Current version includes:

• Registering user accounts
• Login with Google Login
• Making cause-effect diagrams for RCA Cases
  • Adding subcauses to causes
  • Adding additional relations between causes
  • Deleting causes
  • Renaming causes
  • Adding corrective actions for causes
  • Recommending and de-recommending causes
  • Creating classifications for causes
  • Tagging causes with classifications
• Opening a view with the RCA Case condensed into a classification diagram
  • Opening relations between classifications to see a deeper dimension
  • Seeing the causes related to different classification relations
  • Being able to name the relations
• Viewing percentage statistics and charts about the cause classification distribution
  • Categorized by percentage of total amount/ with corrective actions /with recommendations
  • Also pie charts related to the abovementioned figures
• Sharing RCA Cases by email
• Users can be invited even if they do not have an account
• Cause-effect diagrams can be made simultaneously by multiple people, collaboratively
• Causes can be downloaded as a cvs file
• Causes and corrective actions can be monitored through a separate monitoring view
  • Search can be filtered with multiple ways
  • Causes and corrective actions can be liked
  • States of causes and corrective actions can be changed

Download Play! framework from HERE (package built from master branch, source code available at e0400da60371c365063fccf941663d1e7c237938).

We used the above version of the Play! framework, because the latest stable version (1.2.3) didn't have support for multiple databases and a previous version from Github had a bug with ArchivedEventStream.

Add the installation path to environment variable PATH.

You can configure Play! framework to use different database implementations. Implemented configuration uses MySQL-database.

Note that in-memory and filesystem databases do not work in Play!'s production environment.

Install Java 1.6 JDK and add the installation path to environment variable JAVA_HOME.

Get the latest source from Github and unzip it somewhere.

1. Open command line utility and go to the folder where you unzipped the ARCA-tool source.
2. Remove line - play -> cobertura 2.4 from conf/dependencies.yml file. Released cobertura module does not work with latest play version.
3. Get module dependencies by running play deps --sync.
4. Edit conf/application.conf and comment/uncomment the database configuration (commented with # Production environment database configuration) you use. You can also configure other Play! configuration parameters, such as mail server, port, etc.
5. Migrate your MySQL-database: 1. Create databases by running play migrate:create --%prod. 2. Create database tables by running play migrate:up --%prod.
6. Run the application by running play run --%prod. You can run the application in background by running play start --%prod.
7. With default configuration, your ARCA-tool application is now available to use at http://localhost:9900/prod.