Objective
Our business objective is to build a product that is easier customisable, flexible to adapt to new needs and that is open for integration with any existing hard- and software. Important herein is the symbiosis between domain knowledge and the application of state-of-the-art software engineering techniques. It is our goal to install a software product line for (television) program planning applications that can be tailored to the specific needs of our customers. Off-the-shelf products don't work for this kind of complex business applications. Our experience shows that 80-90% of the business needs are the same for every station, but it is very important that the remaining 10-20% can be provided in a timely and cost effective way. OO Partners achieves this by using state-of-the-art software engineering techniques: object-orientation (OO) and framework technology.
THE EXPERIMENT
OO Partners' mission is to be a competitive broadcast management application provider. Today our product, called PSI, already covers a number of modules that manage the planning process of television broadcasting. The baseline project is the development of a cost analysis module for the broadcast planning application PSI. As in any other module of PSI, the module will be designed as a framework to allow easy customisation for different television stations. The cost analysis module will be closely incorporated in the existing PSI framework. The goal of the experiment is to evaluate how, and to what extent, the application of a proven object-oriented analysis & design methodology (OMT, BOOCH, OBA, ...) during our software development process can contribute to the following two (related) issues:
Applying the OO methodology to make the existing software product line more accessible for new team members and for experts in the problem domain that are themselves not experts in object technology.
Applying the methodology to come to a higher level of reuse and to introduce a more formal approach towards reuse in the organisation during all the phases of the software development process (analysis, design and implementation). On successful completion of the experiment this should result in higher quality software (less bugs, easier maintenance, better response times to requirements of customers).
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
As OO Partners is moving from a typical high tech start-up company to a stronger commercial, business-oriented organisation; and the nature of its software development is changing from ad hoc/ small team/ limited number of clients to larger team/ reuse based/ internationally located clients, adherence to a software methodology is critical.
Because all the versions of PSI are derived from the core, the core's documentation should be directed towards its reuse at different television stations. The availability of reuse documentation has a direct impact on the quality of the resulting software. In the experiment we will evaluate how an OO methodology can provide this reuse documentation. The proposed experiment is a step in achieving the above goals. By providing reuse design documentation we hope to improve the quality of the software process. More specifically we want to improve the maintainability, reusability and adaptability of our PSI product line.
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