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Software Architecture Challenges in Distributed

Development Settings: An Experience Report

Tassio Vale

tassio.vale@fpc.ufba.br

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Experience report

Research paper

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Emergency and Crisis

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Emergency and Crisis

People’s lives

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Problem

Industrial areas Large events

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A Brazil-Europe Effort

Project Partner Type of Organisation Country

EU.1 FRAUNHOFER Applied research organisation Germany

EU.2 DFKI Applied research organisation Germany

EU.3 UPM University Spain

EU.4 VOMATEC SME Germany

EU.5 FIRESERV SME Austria

BR.1 UFBA University Brazil

BR.2 USP University Brazil

BR.3 MTM SME Brazil

BR.4 COFIC SME Brazil

SME = Small and Medium Enterprise

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RESCUER

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Architectural View 1

VOMATEC / UFBA

VOMATEC USP / UPM / DFKI

DFKI

MTM / FRAUNHOFER

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Architectural

View 2

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Goal

To share our experience regarding

a set of architectural challenges

respective solution ideas

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Audience

For researchers

We present evidence from software architecture practice in a distributed environment

Researchers might investigate the relationship of challenges reported in both

literature and practice

For practitioners

Be aware of possible architectural challenges

Apply (any) proposed solution ideas in other contexts

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Challenges

AC01 – Commercial deployment

Academy Industry

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Challenges

AC02 – Test (environment) deployment

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Challenges

AC03 – Performance from data extraction to visualization

~ 0.5s End-to-end evaluation?

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Challenges

AC04 – Scalability

100-200 users End-to-end evaluation?

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Challenges

AC05 – Extensibility towards new components

Requirements team

Components teams

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Challenges

AC06 – Identification of contexts

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Challenges

AC07 – Context-aware data analysis

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Challenges

AC08 – Context-aware visualization

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Solution Ideas

S01 – DevOps toolchain

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Solution Ideas

S02 – Continuous feedback from potential end-users

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Solution Ideas

S03 – Plan for creating development/test environment

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Solution Ideas

S04 – Decouple components

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Solution Ideas

S05 – Continuous testing

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Solution Ideas

S06 – Context interpreter component

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Concluding Remarks

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Thank you! Questions? Suggestions?