An Infrastructure for Indexing and Organizing Best Practices

Zhu, Liming; Staples, Mark; Gorton, Ian

doi:10.1109/rebse.2007.2

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“…[15], [16]). They advocate in particular the use of real repositories allowing various forms of consultation, thus facilitating research and discovery of BPs.…”

Section: Bp In Actionmentioning

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Good Architecture = Good (ADL + Practices)

Gloahec

Fleurquin

Sadou

2010

Research Into Practice – Reality and Gaps

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Abstract. In order to ensure the quality of their software development process, companies incorporate best practices from recognized repositories or from their own experiences. These best practices are often described in software quality manuals that do not guarantee their implementation. In this paper, we propose a framework for the implementation of best practices concerning the design of the software architecture. We treat the case of architecture design activity because it's the basis of the software development process. Our framework enables on the one hand to describe best practices and on the other hand to check their application by designers. We present an implementation of our framework in the Eclipse platform and for an ADL dedicated to Web applications. Finally, we give an example of use from the context of our industrial partner. to direct the architect toward the subset of relevant models among those allowed by the language. In this sense, BPs help the architect to limit the area of choice thanks to a language restriction adapted to the project. They help to increase the e ectiveness of development in terms of quality and productivity.Additional BPs speci c to an application domain, a technology or a managerial and cultural context may also emerge from projects within companies. Properly used in a project, these best language practices constitute the expertise and the value-added of a company. This valuable capital of knowledge guarantees to a company the quality of its architectural models and thus allows to satisfy its customers, to stand out, and to solicit labels and certi cates [11]. In other words, to be competitive.Unfortunately, we show in section 2 of this paper that due to a lack of an adequate formalism to document this knowledge, companies that try to capitalize on this knowledge use informal documents, often incomplete, poorly referenced, and sometimes scattered. This leads to an inadequate and ine ective use and sometimes loss of best language practices. This loss decrease the quality of the designed architectures. We rely for that on a study conducted with an industrial partner that uses a dedicated ADL for Web applications. We propose a language (section 3) and a software platform (section 4) that allow respectively to document and to enact these BPs for any graphical ADL. In this way, we ensure the durability and reuse of knowledge, as well as a constant veri cation of the application of best language practices. We then show, in section 5, how this language can be used to document some BPs for web applications coming from our industrial partner. In the same section, we show also how these practices can be integrated in their ADL tool (AlCoWeb-Builder). Thus, this helps developers to respect the best language practices de ned in their own companies, without changing their working habits. Finally, we describe related work in section 6 before concluding in section 7. Problem StatementIn this section, we show the interest for a company to make productive its language practices. We rely ...

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“…[15], [16]). They advocate in particular the use of real repositories allowing various forms of consultation, thus facilitating research and discovery of BPs.…”

Section: Bp In Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Good Architecture = Good (ADL + Practices)

Gloahec

Fleurquin

Sadou

2010

Research Into Practice – Reality and Gaps

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“…Several works suggest introducing processes and tools that facilitate storage, sharing, and dissemination of GP within companies (e.g. [8], [9]). They advocate in particular the use of real repositories allowing various forms of consultation, thus facilitating research and discovery of GPs.…”

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Good Practices as a Quality-Oriented Modeling Assistant

Gloahec¹,

Fleurquin

Sadou

2010

2010 10th International Conference on Quality Software

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In order to ensure the quality of their software development, companies incorporate best practices from recognized repositories or from their own experiences. These good practices are often described in software quality manuals that, in this form, do not guarantee their implementation. In this paper, we propose a framework for the implementation of best practices. We treat the case of modeling activities because they are becoming the main activity of software development processes. Our framework enables on the one hand to describe the good practices and on the other hand to check their application by the designers. We present an implementation of our framework in the Eclipse platform and some examples of use of our approach in the modeling of UML Class diagrams.

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“…Chau y Maurer señalan que si bien el marco "Experience Factory" establece las actividades de gestión de conocimiento que se necesitan (elicitación, análisis, generalización, empaquetamiento y diseminación) falla en no prescribir cómo tales actividades deben llevarse a cabo [Chau et al, 2005]. Una observación similar ha sido expresada por Zhu et al, quienes opinan que uno de los problemas en la investigación actual en los repositorios de experiencia es que la mayoría se enfoca en el aspecto tecnológico para construirlos en lugar de cómo realmente capturar y compartir las experiencias [Zhu et al, 2007].…”

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Memoria organizacional basada en ontologías y casos para un sistema de recomendación en aseguramiento de calidad

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Administrar el conocimiento organizacional representa una ventaja clave en las empresas de software. Para que dicha administración sea eficiente es importante contar con una Memoria Organizacional que de soporte a la captura, estructuración, reuso y diseminación del conocimiento creado por sus empleados. La utilidad de una Memoria Organizacional radica en que el conocimiento que almacena pueda ser fácilmente compartido entre sistemas dentro de la organización o entre organizaciones colaborativas. En esta tesis mostramos cómo se puede implementar una Memoria Organizacional Basada en Ontologías y Casos que administre en forma consistente, automática y distribuída el conocimiento presente en una empresa. A medida que el área de Gestión del Conocimiento va progresando hacia una disciplina más madura, se van obteniendo importantes resultados de investigación relacionados a Memoria Organizacional, Gestión del Conocimiento y Razonamiento Basado en Casos. Sin embargo, se observa que el desarrollo rápido y caótico de tanta información relacionada a estas áreas, proveniente de fuentes heterogéneas, y la falta de consenso en la terminología utilizada, dificulta su aplicación y reuso de forma eficiente en los procesos de Gestión del Conocimiento. Con el propósito de dar solución a esta problemática, uno de los aportes de esta tesis es proveer una conceptualización del dominio de Memoria Organizacional Basada en Casos (MOBC) que se formaliza en una Ontología para dicho ámbito. La Ontología de MOBC, combina aspectos de Memoria Organizacional con Razonamiento Basado en Casos para representar cada ítem de conocimiento informal. La estructuración del conocimiento informal en casos, facilita la captura, transferencia, y reuso a través de un procesamiento automático. La ontología propuesta, es usada como base para el diseño y construcción de un sistema de Memoria Organizacional Basada en Casos y un sistema de recomendación para proyectos de medición y evaluación en aseguramiento de calidad, que usa la MOBC como su componente central. En Ingeniería de Software/Web, el aseguramiento de la calidad y como consecuencia la medición y evaluación, son procesos de soporte claves para el desarrollo y mantenimiento de aplicaciones de software. Por lo tanto la administración en forma consistente y eficiente del conocimiento relacionado a dichos proyectos es muy importante para la toma de decisiones, el reuso y la recomendación en nuevos proyectos, tomando ventaja de las experiencias anteriores, lecciones aprendidas y las buenas prácticas.

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An Infrastructure for Indexing and Organizing Best Practices

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Cited by 8 publications

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Good Architecture = Good (ADL + Practices)

Good Architecture = Good (ADL + Practices)

Good Practices as a Quality-Oriented Modeling Assistant

Memoria organizacional basada en ontologías y casos para un sistema de recomendación en aseguramiento de calidad

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