Towards software reuse through an enterprise architecture-based software capability profile

Abstract

Most of today's software development projects depend on the usage of existing solutions to save time and development cost. We target in this research work the design of a software capability profile that provides a broader view of an organization's internal and external software, along with an exploitation model in line with requirements engineering and enterprise architecture to fill the gap between the goals of the stakeholders and what can be delivered as a practical solution. For this purpose, we define a Framework that offers a qualification that helps to gather the initial requirements that guided the development of existing software. This qualification is based on a proposed Enterprise Architecture Capability Profile and its associated ontology covering business, operational and technical aspects for serviceoriented software. Furthermore, an exploitation methodology is proposed and based on the alignment of requirements engineering with software architecting actions that evolve together, to investigate the highest compatibility of the desired functionalities. Our contribution aims to improve the reuse of existing services, by upgrading these technical components to the level of end-user's requirements for accelerating future business application development. An implementation and a case study are proposed to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach.

Contributions of enterprise architecture to software engineering: A systematic literature review

“…Belfadel et al 41 use the ADM and TOGAF frameworks to create the Enterprise Architecture Capability Profile (EACP) framework. This EACP framework includes an EA Knowledge Repository (EAKR), which assists in the selection of software or services to be reused for the development of new business software.…”

Realization of Presentation layer information of Legacy Java Enterprise Applications Through Design Pattern’s Recovery

“…Furthermore, each layer has a collection of different sorts of design patterns to formalize the solution to the difficult problem [24,41,90]. Enterprise applications' server-side architecture is organized into three layers: The presentation layer, the Business Logic Layer, and the Data Access layer [6].…”

“…The enterprise applications are built using design patterns of many types like GOF [6]. Also, Java Enterprise application design patterns (JEA) [2,3] are proven solutions that can deal with the complexity of enterprise-level applications by offering encapsulation.…”

“…The exiting parsing capability of Enterprise Architect (EA) [5,6,11] is fine-tuned by using a super parsing module. EA is a well-versed and famous tool for the modeling of software systems [7][8][9]14].…”

“…They are reusable components that can be utilized to solve certain design issues [8]. They aid in the improvement of quality of software system design [6]. In particular, the detection of different design patterns can help a great deal to understand the design decisions which can be useful for the comprehensive examination of a system.…”