CAGSD-2008

Intersections: Software Componentization and Global Software Development workshop

 

14/11/2008 - http://conway.isri.cmu.edu/~jdh/CAGSD-2008 - Atlanta, GA, USA  

Overview

Global software development (GSD) is becoming the norm for developing complex enterprise IT. Businesses tap global talent pools with a goal to lower costs while improving efficiency, increasing productivity, and reducing risk. However, these are conflicting goals that are hard enough to balance in small and co-located projects. GSD adds an additional layer of complexity. While past workshops (such as GSD at ICSE) have looked in a general way at this problem, we propose focusing on one of the most promising solutions that is beginning to find its way into practice: basing development on an over-arching architectural framework that implicitly partitions the development process. The concepts of componentization and abstraction have proven their value in managing complexity in software methodologies such as object oriented programming. Service oriented architecture (SOA) is now playing a significant role in standardizing the way that businesses expose functionality, define their business processes, and structure integration between monolithic software applications. Implicit in adoption of SOA and other frameworks is the assumption that these architectural principles enable a better division of labor between software development teams that need to coordinate across organizational, geographical, and cultural boundaries. The approach seems promising, but it may require the presence of additional supporting mechanisms such as process, governance, knowledge management, measurements, monitoring, awareness, collaboration, testing, change management and requirements. The goal of this workshop is to bring together both researchers and practitioners who are exploring problems that lie at the intersection of these two areas -- GSD and framework-based architectures -- to identify the core challenges and examine approaches that show promise in improving the current state of the art.

Submission Date : 15/07/2008

Notification Date : 15/08/2008

Camera Ready Date : 01/09/2008

Start Date : 14/11/2008

End Date : 14/11/2008