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International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development

SEAFOOD 2009: Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development pp 81–95Cite as

Global Software Development with Cloud Platforms

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 35))

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Offshore and outsourced distributed software development models and processes are facing challenges, previously unknown, with respect to computing capacity, bandwidth, storage, security, complexity, reliability, and business uncertainty. Clouds promise to address these challenges by adopting recent advances in virtualization, parallel and distributed systems, utility computing, and software services. In this paper, we envision a cloud-based platform that addresses some of these core problems. We outline a generic cloud architecture, its design and our first implementation results for three cloud forms - a compute cloud, a storage cloud and a cloud-based software service- in the context of global distributed software development (GSD). Our ”compute cloud” provides computational services such as continuous code integration and a compile server farm, ”storage cloud” offers storage (block or file-based) services with an on-line virtual storage service, whereas the on-line virtual labs represent a useful cloud service. We note some of the use cases for clouds in GSD, the lessons learned with our prototypes and identify challenges that must be conquered before realizing the full business benefits. We believe that in the future, software practitioners will focus more on these cloud computing platforms and see clouds as a means to supporting a ecosystem of clients, developers and other key stakeholders.

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    Pavan Yara, Ramaseshan Ramachandran, Gayathri Balasubramanian, Karthik Muthuswamy & Divya Chandrasekar

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Yara, P., Ramachandran, R., Balasubramanian, G., Muthuswamy, K., Chandrasekar, D. (2009). Global Software Development with Cloud Platforms. In: Gotel, O., Joseph, M., Meyer, B. (eds) Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development. SEAFOOD 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02987-5_10

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