Objetivo
In order to increment the effectiveness and the efficiency of software reuse, it is necessary to improve the software production process in terms of: correct resource allocation and better scheduling, improvement of the organisation and management of the production process, increase of productivity and production efficiency, and general software development process improvement.
By means of this experiment, it is expected to attain the following set of objectives, common ground for the whole industrial European Community: ability to quickly respond to extremely rapid changes in the market and increased customer satisfaction because of (a) higher quality of products, (b) reduced products' cost, (c) high degree of products customisability and (d) verticalization/specialisation chances.
Potential benefits of this experiment concerns the diffusion of Domain Analysis, providing to software firms in the EC convincing evidence that Domain Analysis methods and design frameworks are worthwhile.
THE EXPERIMENT
The achievement of the above objectives requires a deeper knowledge of the application domain, thus allowing Thera to better design and analyse software products, to increment the effectiveness and efficiency of software practices and reusability policies, and to reduce the effort due to the maintenance process. This can be obtained by the introduction of Domain Analysis and defining Frameworks for software reuse.
Main steps of the experiment are:
methodology adaptation and training;
application of adapted Domain Analysis method to the baseline project, formulating the Domain model, developing and then applying Reuse Frameworks;
data collection, analysis, comparison and dissemination of results.
The baseline project is the development of a software system named "Production Management". Its main goal is to help a manufacturing organisation to plan and control the production activity and resource handling. It is foreseen that the developing unit of the baseline project will be composed of 13 persons.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
Thera expects to improve its software development process by integrating Domain Analysis into it, improving the analysis and design activities, increasing productivity and production efficiency, generally improving the quality of the software development process.
From a commercial point of view, the achievement expected is the reduction of the prices of products and of the time-to-market, while augmenting customer satisfaction and improving the image of the company. Besides, it should allow the presence of Thera in the new market of semi-finished software applications.
Thera expects to gain a sound experience concerning application of Domain Analysis in the software development process, in particular for managing the complexity of software systems and modelling continuously changing domains and requirements.
Upon successful completion of the experiment, Thera will redesign the whole software production process basing on Domain Analysis and Software Reuse.
Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
CORDIS clasifica los proyectos con EuroSciVoc, una taxonomía plurilingüe de ámbitos científicos, mediante un proceso semiautomático basado en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural.
- ciencias naturalesinformática y ciencias de la informaciónsoftwaresoftware de aplicaciónsoftware de sistemas
- ciencias naturalesinformática y ciencias de la informaciónsoftwaredesarrollo de software
- ciencias socialeseconomía y empresaciencia económicaeconomía de la producciónproductividad
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