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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | FSE 2014: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | 542-552 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 9781450330565 |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 2014 - Hong Kong, China Duration: 16 Nov 2014 → 21 Nov 2014 |
Abstract
The idea of software ecosystems encourages organizations to open software projects for external businesses, governing the cross-organizational development by architectural and other measures. Even within a single organization, this paradigm can be of high value for large-scale decentralized software projects that involve various internal, yet self-contained organizational units. However, this intraorganizational decentralization causes architecture challenges that must be understood to reason about suitable architectural measures. We present an in-depth case study on collaboration and architecture challenges in two of these large-scale software projects at Siemens. We performed a total of 46 hours of semi-structured interviews with 17 leading software architects from all involved organizational units. Our major findings are: (1) three collaboration models on a continuum that ranges from high to low coupling, (2) a classification of architecture challenges, together with (3) a qualitative and quantitative exposure of the identified recurring issues along each collaboration model. Our study results provide valuable insights for both industry and academia: Practitioners that find themselves in one of the collaboration models can use empirical evidence on challenges to make informed decisions about counteractive measures. Researchers can focus their attention on challenges faced by practitioners to make software engineering more effective.
Keywords
- Case study, Collaboration, Decentralized software engineering, Software architecture, Software ecosystem, Software product line
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science(all)
- Software
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FSE 2014: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2014. p. 542-552.
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