Towards guidelines for building a business case and gathering evidence of software reference architectures in industry

Authors

  • Silverio Martínez-Fernández Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  • Claudia P Ayala Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  • Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  • Helena Martins Marques Everis
  • David Ameller Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Keywords:

Software architecture, Reference architecture, Empirical software engineering, Business case, Cost-benefit analysis, Reference architecture context, Industry-academia collaboration

Abstract

Background

Software reference architectures are becoming widely adopted by organizations that need to support the design and maintenance of software applications of a shared domain. For organizations that plan to adopt this architecture-centric approach, it becomes fundamental to know the return on investment and to understand how software reference architectures are designed, maintained, and used. Unfortunately, there is little evidence-based support to help organizations with these challenges.;

Methods

We have conducted action research in an industry-academia collaboration between the GESSI research group and everis; Results

The results from such collaboration are being packaged in order to create guidelines that could be used in similar contexts as the one of everis; Conclusions

The created guidelines could be used by other organizations outside of our industry-academia collaboration. With this goal in mind, we describe the guidelines in detail for their use.;

 

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Published

2014-07-21

How to Cite

Martínez-Fernández, S., Ayala, C. P., Franch, X., Marques, H. M., & Ameller, D. (2014). Towards guidelines for building a business case and gathering evidence of software reference architectures in industry. Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development, 2, 7:1 – 7:27. Retrieved from https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jserd/article/view/404

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Research Article