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Aggregation of experiences in experience factories into software patterns

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 36, Issue 2

Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/1943371.1943390

Published: 14 March 2011 Publication History

Abstract

In software engineering Experience Factories have been in use for a long time to store and manage experiences from software projects, typically in large organizations. Beside the preservation of quantitative or numerical experiences, e.g., in form of project effort data or data from empirical studies, many experience facto-ries also preserve subjective or qualitative experiences, e.g., in form of observations or lessons learned from the projects. A key issue of experience management is to aggregate these documented experiences into more valuable software patterns. In this article we report about the aggregation (i.e., formalization and generalization) of documented experiences in an experience factory to software patterns. Observations from real-world projects are formalized (i.e., structurally contextualized) into semi-formal experiences and, over time, several similar of these experiences are generalized (i.e., systematically de-contextualized) into software patterns.

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Chen HBaptista Nunes MChen HBaptista Nunes M(2023)Discussion and Reflection on the Nature of the Research FindingsProfessional Empowerment in the Software Industry through Experience-Driven Shared Tacit Knowledge10.1007/978-981-99-1486-9_6(279-305)Online publication date: 20-May-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1486-9_6
Rabelo JViana DConte TSantos G(2012)Comparing Knowledge Codification ApproachesProceedings of the 2012 Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems10.1109/SBSC.2012.9(136-145)Online publication date: 15-Oct-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SBSC.2012.9

Index Terms

Aggregation of experiences in experience factories into software patterns
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. File systems management
      2. System management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Patterns
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Client-server architectures
      2. Software architectures

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 36, Issue 2

March 2011

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DOI:10.1145/1943371

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Chen HBaptista Nunes MChen HBaptista Nunes M(2023)Discussion and Reflection on the Nature of the Research FindingsProfessional Empowerment in the Software Industry through Experience-Driven Shared Tacit Knowledge10.1007/978-981-99-1486-9_6(279-305)Online publication date: 20-May-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1486-9_6
Rabelo JViana DConte TSantos G(2012)Comparing Knowledge Codification ApproachesProceedings of the 2012 Brazilian Symposium on Collaborative Systems10.1109/SBSC.2012.9(136-145)Online publication date: 15-Oct-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SBSC.2012.9

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