A framework for groupware-supported software architecture evaluation process in global software development

Muhammad Ali Babar

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Abstract

SUMMARYA software architecture evaluation process requires a large number of stakeholders to be collocated for evaluation sessions. Given an increasing trend to using globally distributed software development teams, organizations are likely to be discouraged from introducing disciplined software architecture evaluation practices that require collocated stakeholders. To address this issue, we propose that a software architecture evaluation can be carried out using suitable groupware systems. In this paper, we present a framework for supporting the software architecture evaluation process using a groupware system. The framework highlights the changes that are required in the existing software architecture evaluation methods. We provide an illustrated example of modeling and mapping the activities of the presented process on electronic workspaces provided by a groupware system. We also identify some of the features that a groupware system should provide to successfully support the process.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
ISSN1532-0618
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2010

Emneord

  • Framework
  • Groupware-supported
  • Software Architecture Evaluation
  • Groupware

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