A SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE FOR HIGHER QUALITY DISTRIBUTED DEVELOPMENT
Date Issued
2013
Author(s)
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to investigate the deficiencies of a
distributed development process, especially a grid
middleware software development and to propose some
useful software engineering practices that will improve its
quality. Considering that the distributed development
approach is very useful for developing complex grid systems
and scientific software, reducing the errors in the
development process and improving its quality is a
challenging problem for software engineers. Concerning to
show the possible deficiencies which usually result in delay
of the entire project or in the unsuccessful integration of the
processes we consider the European Middleware Initiative
(EMI) as our case study. Also, we found some specific
problems that occur during the development of the two
versions of the EMI products. That helped us to discover the
reasons for those problems and to suggest some formal and
standardized software engineering practices that will enhance
the distributed and the grid middleware development process.
distributed development process, especially a grid
middleware software development and to propose some
useful software engineering practices that will improve its
quality. Considering that the distributed development
approach is very useful for developing complex grid systems
and scientific software, reducing the errors in the
development process and improving its quality is a
challenging problem for software engineers. Concerning to
show the possible deficiencies which usually result in delay
of the entire project or in the unsuccessful integration of the
processes we consider the European Middleware Initiative
(EMI) as our case study. Also, we found some specific
problems that occur during the development of the two
versions of the EMI products. That helped us to discover the
reasons for those problems and to suggest some formal and
standardized software engineering practices that will enhance
the distributed and the grid middleware development process.
Subjects
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
Name
10CiiT-53.pdf
Size
229.1 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):a9972e619297bcd5c3dba8804d8ba4ff