Assessing a Multi-Site Development Organization for Architectural Compliance
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Clerc, V.; Lago, P.; Van Vliet, H.
- Source
- 2007 Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA'07) Software Architecture, 2007. WICSA '07. The Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on. :10-10 Jan, 2007
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Software architecture
Guidelines
Programming
Consumer electronics
Computer science
Computer architecture
- Language
Multi-site development organizations require coordination and communication efforts between different sites to ensure successful distributed development. These efforts need to be guided by a set of principles and statements on the software architecture that must be complied with throughout the organization: architectural rules. It is of paramount importance that multi-site development organizations incorporate measures in the architecting process to secure compliance with these rules throughout the organization. We describe a method to assess the degree to which compliance measures are secured in multi-site development organizations. We share our experience in applying this method in a large development organization in the consumer electronics domain.