Comparative evaluation of the state-of-the art on approaches to software adaptation
Software needs to evolve to ensure it continuously relevant in supporting the needs of an organization. Thus, software evolution is unavoidable for its survival. Due to rapid changes in business environment and advancement of technology, simplifying software evolution becomes more challenging and ma...
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| author | Awang, Nor Hazilawati Wan Kadir, Wan Mohd. Nasir Shahibuddin, Shamsul |
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| description | Software needs to evolve to ensure it continuously relevant in supporting the needs of an organization. Thus, software evolution is unavoidable for its survival. Due to rapid changes in business environment and advancement of technology, simplifying software evolution becomes more challenging and may involve high cost. Approaches in simplifying software evolution via software adaptation have been the subject of many current researches. Based on exhaustive literature review, we define four classifications of approaches to software adaptation. The four approaches are Architecture-based, Component-based, Middleware-based and Agent-based. In this paper we present the results of a systematic comparison on the state-of-the-art in software adaptation approaches mentioned earlier. Five evaluation criteria are defined to compare the said approaches. The evaluation criteria used are scalability, context-awareness, heterogeneity, performance and dynamic evolvability. The result of the evaluation is used to determine the best current approach to developing adaptive software in order to simplify software evolution. The evaluation result is also used as input for the development of a framework to simplify software evolution. High-level view of the framework is presented towards the end of the paper.
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| spelling | utm.eprints-132652017-10-05T05:21:25Z http://eprints.utm.my/13265/ Comparative evaluation of the state-of-the art on approaches to software adaptation Awang, Nor Hazilawati Wan Kadir, Wan Mohd. Nasir Shahibuddin, Shamsul QA76 Computer software Software needs to evolve to ensure it continuously relevant in supporting the needs of an organization. Thus, software evolution is unavoidable for its survival. Due to rapid changes in business environment and advancement of technology, simplifying software evolution becomes more challenging and may involve high cost. Approaches in simplifying software evolution via software adaptation have been the subject of many current researches. Based on exhaustive literature review, we define four classifications of approaches to software adaptation. The four approaches are Architecture-based, Component-based, Middleware-based and Agent-based. In this paper we present the results of a systematic comparison on the state-of-the-art in software adaptation approaches mentioned earlier. Five evaluation criteria are defined to compare the said approaches. The evaluation criteria used are scalability, context-awareness, heterogeneity, performance and dynamic evolvability. The result of the evaluation is used to determine the best current approach to developing adaptive software in order to simplify software evolution. The evaluation result is also used as input for the development of a framework to simplify software evolution. High-level view of the framework is presented towards the end of the paper. IEEE 2009 Book Section PeerReviewed Awang, Nor Hazilawati and Wan Kadir, Wan Mohd. Nasir and Shahibuddin, Shamsul (2009) Comparative evaluation of the state-of-the art on approaches to software adaptation. In: 2009 Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances. Article number 5298863 . IEEE, pp. 425-430. ISBN 978-076953777-1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSEA.2009.68 doi:10.1109/ICSEA.2009.68 |
| spellingShingle | QA76 Computer software Awang, Nor Hazilawati Wan Kadir, Wan Mohd. Nasir Shahibuddin, Shamsul Comparative evaluation of the state-of-the art on approaches to software adaptation |
| title | Comparative evaluation of the state-of-the art on approaches to software adaptation |
| title_full | Comparative evaluation of the state-of-the art on approaches to software adaptation |
| title_fullStr | Comparative evaluation of the state-of-the art on approaches to software adaptation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparative evaluation of the state-of-the art on approaches to software adaptation |
| title_short | Comparative evaluation of the state-of-the art on approaches to software adaptation |
| title_sort | comparative evaluation of the state of the art on approaches to software adaptation |
| topic | QA76 Computer software |
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