Conducting empirical studies on reference architectures in IT consulting firms
Tight time-to-market needs pushes IT consulting firms (ITCFs) to continuously look for techniques to improve their IT services in general, and the design of software architectures in particular. The use of reference architectures allows ITCFs reusing architectural knowledge and components in a syste...
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| Tipo de recurso: | informe técnico |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/17065 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/17065 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Software architecture Empirical software engineering Programari -- Arquitectura Software -- Desenvolupament Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Enginyeria del software Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Sistemes d'informació |
| Sumario: | Tight time-to-market needs pushes IT consulting firms (ITCFs) to continuously look for techniques to improve their IT services in general, and the design of software architectures in particular. The use of reference architectures allows ITCFs reusing architectural knowledge and components in a systematic way. In return, ITCFs face the need to assess these reference architectures in order to ensure their quality, return on investment and incremental improvement. Little support exists to help ITCFs to face this challenge. In this work-in-progress paper we present an empirical framework aimed to assess ITCFs’ reference architectures and their use in IT projects by harvesting relevant evidence from the wide spectrum of involved stakeholders. We are currently applying this framework in an ITCF and we report the issues found so far. |
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