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Agility and Experimentation: Practical Techniques for Resolving Architectural Tradeoffs

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T. C. Nicholas Graham,

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ICSE '07: Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering

Pages 519 - 528

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2007.13

Published: 24 May 2007 Publication History

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This paper outlines our experiences with making architectural tradeoffs between performance, availability, security, and usability, in light of stringent cost and time-to-market constraints, in an industrial web-conferencing system. We highlight the difficulties in anticipating future architectural requirements and tradeoffs and the value of using agility and experiments as a tool for mitigating architectural risks in situations when up front pen-and- paper analysis is simply impossible.

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Twine ABrown IBrown ISewchurran KSuleman H(2011)Evaluating web conferencing tool effectivenessProceedings of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference on Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership in a Diverse, Multidisciplinary Environment10.1145/2072221.2072249(239-248)Online publication date: 3-Oct-2011
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ICSE '07: Proceedings of the 29th international conference on Software Engineering

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Roy BGraham NGutwin CPoltrock SSimone CGrudin JMark GRiedl J(2012)DiscoTechProceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work10.1145/2145204.2145397(1287-1296)Online publication date: 11-Feb-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2145204.2145397
Twine ABrown IBrown ISewchurran KSuleman H(2011)Evaluating web conferencing tool effectivenessProceedings of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference on Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership in a Diverse, Multidisciplinary Environment10.1145/2072221.2072249(239-248)Online publication date: 3-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2072221.2072249
Wolfe CGraham TPhillips W(2009)An Incremental Algorithm for High-Performance Runtime Model ConsistencyProceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems10.1007/978-3-642-04425-0_27(357-371)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2009
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