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Software Engineering Processes for Self-Adaptive Systems

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In this paper, we discuss how for self-adaptive systems some activities that traditionally occur at development-time are moved to run-time. Responsibilities for these activities shift from software engineers to the system itself, causing the traditional boundary between development-time and run-time to blur. As a consequence, we argue how the traditional software engineering process needs to be reconceptualized to distinguish both development-time and run-time activities, and to support designers in taking decisions on how to properly engineer such systems.

Furthermore, we identify a number of challenges related to this required reconceptualization, and we propose initial ideas based on process modeling. We use the Software and Systems Process Engineering Meta-Model (SPEM) to specify which activities are meant to be performed off-line and on-line, and also the dependencies between them. The proposed models should capture information about the costs and benefits of shifting activities to run-time, since such models should support software engineers in their decisions when they are engineering self-adaptive systems.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

    Jesper Andersson

  2. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

    Luciano Baresi

  3. INRIA Paris, Rocquencourt, France

    Nelly Bencomo

  4. University of Kent, UK

    Rogério de Lemos

  5. Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Switzerland

    Alessandra Gorla

  6. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università dell’Aquila, Italy

    Paola Inverardi

  7. Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, Germany

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Andersson, J. et al. (2013). Software Engineering Processes for Self-Adaptive Systems. In: de Lemos, R., Giese, H., Müller, H.A., Shaw, M. (eds) Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7475. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35813-5_3

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