Designing adaptable software-parametrization of volatile properties

Author

Bækgaard, Lars

Author_Institution

inst. of Electron. Syst., Aalborg Univ., Denmark

fYear

1990

fDate

26-29 Nov 1990

Firstpage

335

Lastpage

342

Abstract

The author presents and discusses the PoVP (parametrization of volatile properties) approach to the design of adaptable software. It is based on a combination of analysis of volatile properties, program structuring and parameterization. Two main questions are addressed: Which volatile characteristics of the working environment of a piece of software are related to volatile software properties? How and for whom is the change in volatile software properties going to be supported by software adaptability? PoVP is qualified by means of a fictitious redesign of a real-world information system characterized by huge adaptability problems. The redesign strongly suggests that parameterization of volatile properties is a valuable supplement to program structuring when software adaptability is an important software property

Keywords

software portability; software reusability; PoVP; adaptable software; information system; parametrization of volatile properties; program structuring; Application software; Computer errors; Environmental management; Error correction; Hardware; Humans; Information systems; Psychology; Software design; Software quality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 1990, Proceedings., Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2091-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.1990.131383

Filename

131383