Towards Developing Collaborative Experience Based Factory Model for Software Development Process in Cloud Computing Environment

Abstract

Knowledge and experience are important assets for software organizations. In today's global software development trends, development teams are no longer located in single premise; they are spreading across national and geographic boundaries. As a software project progresses, more and more activities are involved which results with the accumulation of knowledge and experiences. Maintaining and reusing of past experiences are vital; and it is even more crucial for distributed teams. In order to sustain in today's competitive advantages, organizations should prepare a well collaborative solution for managing software development knowledge and experiences to maximize sharing and future reuse. Numerous attempts have been invested by researchers to overcome the issues on knowledge management in software development; however, the emphasis on the actual experiences collected throughout the development phases is limited. Furthermore, there are not many solutions offering comprehensive collaborative solution for managing software development experiences. In this paper, we propose a model for managing software development experiences including its tacit and explicit knowledge based on experience factory approach. The model is adapted for cloud computing environment with the goal to provide efficient and effective collaborative solution for knowledge access, sharing and reuse by capitalizing the cloud's resources and infrastructure. A systematic literature review has been conducted to investigate the current issues of knowledge management in software development and to analyze available approaches and solutions. The findings are quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated to support the model formulation.

SP2MN: a Software Process Meta-Modeling Language

“…A method service proposes to capture the software process/ method modular construct in a service-based specification. This in turn would pave the way for new promises in software process knowledge sharing and reuse in the service-oriented architecture [48]. However, the modularization of software process models and its presentation in such approaches is not handled according to concepts, principles and modeling formalism that conform to service-oriented architecture and service-orientation design principles.…”

The Development and Evaluation of Experience-Based Factory Model for Software Development Process

“…Some examples include ontology-based solution [3], [4], multi-agent-based [11], [12], and semantic web [13], [14]. It is found that the number of EF based approach for SD process are still insignificant [1]. One of the studies that adopted EF concept was the study by Ivarsson and Gorschek [2] who proposed Practice Selection Framework (PSF) to support utilizing postmortems for organizational improvements.…”

“…The knowledge and experiences gained during development have become important assets in software organizations. In the previous work, via a systematic literature review [1], it has been identified that there are issues in knowledge management for SD, and it is even more challenging for distributed teams. The main challenges identified are inefficient knowledge transfer and information flow [2], [3], misinterpretation, and inconsistencies [4], [5], and additionally, organizations fail to learn [6].…”

Architectural design of experience based factory model for software development process in cloud computing: integration with workflow and multi-agent system

“…The initial model, EBF-SD as proposed in [1] is then named as SDeX (Software Development eXperience Factory) in this study. For simplicity, 'knowledge and experience' are referred to 'experience' in this paper.…”

“…Aforementioned, an experience based factory model for SD process named as EBF-SD has been proposed in [1]. In this paper, further details on the prototype and architectural design of the model with the integration of automation process with workflow, intelligent agents and cloud computing are discussed.…”