
Architecture-Centric Software Producibility Analysis.
Ralf Carbon(Author)
Fraunhofer Verlag
Published on 5. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
202 pages
978-3-8396-0372-7 (ISBN)
Description
Software Engineering significantly matured in the last decades, but still many projects suffer from delays, exceed their budget, do not reach their quality goals, or even fail. We experienced that many industrial projects suffer from a misalignment of software architecture and software project plan. Other engineering disciplines like manufacturing put specific focus on aligning product design and production plan to prevent problems during production.
In this thesis, we introduce the alignment of software architecture and software project plan as a new quality property of software called producibility and propose a method to analyze the producibility of a software product. The producibility analysis method semi-automatically detects critical architectural elements and project planning elements like work activities, iterations, or assigned resources that are supposed to cause delays or effort overhead during realization of a software product.
In an industrial case study, we identified more than 90% of critical elements up-front. We determined based on estimates of the project team that we could have saved 29% of time in the first of two iterations.
In this thesis, we introduce the alignment of software architecture and software project plan as a new quality property of software called producibility and propose a method to analyze the producibility of a software product. The producibility analysis method semi-automatically detects critical architectural elements and project planning elements like work activities, iterations, or assigned resources that are supposed to cause delays or effort overhead during realization of a software product.
In an industrial case study, we identified more than 90% of critical elements up-front. We determined based on estimates of the project team that we could have saved 29% of time in the first of two iterations.
More details
Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2011
TU, Kaiserslautern
Language
English
Place of publication
Stuttgart
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
num. illus. and tab.
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 17 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-8396-0372-7 (9783839603727)
Schweitzer Classification