Category: Software Product Lines
Australasian Software Engineering Conference Coming to Adelaide
After several months of deliberations and discussions, I’m glad to announce that finally Australasian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) will be coming to Adelaide in late September this year; the exact dates are September 28 to October 1 2015. ASWEC will be coming to Adelaide after almost 18 years and we are really looking forward to…
Architectural Solution for Providing Tools as a Service
A couple of years ago, we pitched the idea of Tools as Services as it had become clear that Cloud Computing based infrastructures will be widely leveraged for providing all sorts of services for businesses. We conceived and started a project to design, build, and evaluate an infrastructure that can materialize our idea of providing…
A Practice Oriented Guide on Agile Architecting!
Whilst it has widely been recognised that agile and architecture-centric approaches need to be integrating for developing large scale software intensive systems, there has not been much work on providing a good source of guidance based on multiple perspectives for successfully integrate architecture-centric approaches in agile methods. A few years ago, a few colleagues and…
Architecting Product Lines for Cloud Infrastructure!
It was a privilege to convince Dr. Dirk Muthig to visit ITU, Copenhagen and share his recent work at the Lufthansa Systems’ business unit “Airline Solutions. Dirk has been a thought leader and practical implementer in the area of software product lines for many years. It was the second time, he agreed to visit us…
Empirical research in software architecture
Empirical research is quite difficult undertaking; doing empirical research becomes even more difficult when the studied objects are likely to be described at a higher level of abstract like software architecture. That is an obvious reasons that we don’t see much empirical research, even not very rigorous one, carried out to assess the effectiveness and…
Integration challenges in ISS and OSS
Companies are showing great interest in adopting the processes, practices, and tools being used by Open Source Software (OSS); this phenomenon has come to known as Inner Source Software (ISS). While this phenomenon brings several known benefits of the OSS inside a corporate software development arena, unfortunately, the software developed using ISS also poses the…
Walt Scacchi will be relating OSS development and GSE
Walt Scacchi from UCL Irvine will be one of the keynote speakers at the 6th International Software Engineering Conference. We were very glad to receive his positive response to our invitation for giving a keynote at the premier event of the global software engineering community. Now we are quite excited about what he is going…
An experience of migrating to clouds
With the increasing popularity of Cloud computing, an increasing organizations are pondering about their strategy to migrate their existing software intensive systems to cloud-enabled infrastructure. One of the key questions of any migration strategy will be what kinds software engineering methods, guidelines, and tools are available to support the migration process. While an increasing number…
Evaluation of Variability Management Approaches
Variability Management (VM) was not a topic of my research interest until I assumed the leadership of two projects in the area of software product lines when I moved to Ireland a few years ago. During my initial observation of the area, I noticed that VM is one of the most researched areas in software…