by Jesper Andersson, Luciano Baresi, Nelly Bencomo, Rogério de Lemos, Alessandra Gorla, Paola Inverardi, Thomas Vogel
Abstract:
In this paper, we discuss how for self-adaptive systems some activities that traditionally occur at development-time are moved to run-time. Responsibilities for these activities shift from software engineers to the system itself, causing the traditional boundary between development-time and run-time to blur. As a consequence, we argue how the traditional software engineering process needs to be reconceptualized to distinguish both development-time and run-time activities, and to support designers in taking decisions on how to properly engineer such systems. Furthermore, we identify a number of challenges related to this required reconceptualization, and we propose initial ideas based on process modeling. We use the Software and Systems Process Engineering Meta-Model (SPEM) to specify which activities are meant to be performed off-line and on-line, and also the dependencies between them. The proposed models should capture information about the costs and benefits of shifting activities to run-time, since such models should support software engineers in their decisions when they are engineering self-adaptive systems.
Reference:
Software Engineering Processes for Self-Adaptive Systems (Jesper Andersson, Luciano Baresi, Nelly Bencomo, Rogério de Lemos, Alessandra Gorla, Paola Inverardi, Thomas Vogel), Chapter in Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems II (Rogério de Lemos, Holger Giese, HausiA. Müller, Mary Shaw, eds.), Springer, volume 7475, 2013.
Bibtex Entry:
@InCollection{SEfSAS2-process,
AUTHOR = {Andersson, Jesper and Baresi, Luciano and Bencomo, Nelly and de Lemos, Rogério and Gorla, Alessandra and Inverardi, Paola and Vogel, Thomas},
TITLE = {{Software Engineering Processes for Self-Adaptive Systems}},
YEAR = {2013},
MONTH = {January},
BOOKTITLE = {Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems II},
VOLUME = {7475},
PAGES = {51-75},
EDITOR = {de Lemos, Rogério and Giese, Holger and Müller, HausiA. and Shaw, Mary},
SERIES = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)},
PUBLISHER = {Springer},
URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35813-5_3},
OPTacc_url = {},
ABSTRACT = {In this paper, we discuss how for self-adaptive systems some activities that traditionally occur at development-time are moved to run-time. Responsibilities for these activities shift from software engineers to the system itself, causing the traditional boundary between development-time and run-time to blur. As a consequence, we argue how the traditional software engineering process needs to be reconceptualized to distinguish both development-time and run-time activities, and to support designers in taking decisions on how to properly engineer such systems. Furthermore, we identify a number of challenges related to this required reconceptualization, and we propose initial ideas based on process modeling. We use the Software and Systems Process Engineering Meta-Model (SPEM) to specify which activities are meant to be performed off-line and on-line, and also the dependencies between them. The proposed models should capture information about the costs and benefits of shifting activities to run-time, since such models should support software engineers in their decisions when they are engineering self-adaptive systems.}
}