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Modeling and Simulating Software Acquisition Process Architectures

Modeling and Simulating Software Acquisition Process Architectures. James Choi and Walt Scacchi Computer Science Dept. Institute for Software Research California State University University of California

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Modeling and Simulating Software Acquisition Process Architectures

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  1. Modeling and Simulating Software Acquisition Process Architectures James Choi and Walt Scacchi Computer Science Dept. Institute for Software Research California State University University of California Fullerton, CA Irvine, CA

  2. Overview • Software Acquisition • Modeling Software Process Architectures • A language for modeling processes • Modeling SPAs using the High-Level Architecture • Simulating Software Process Architectures • A software acquisition process simulator • A testbed for simulating SPAs using the HLA

  3. Software Acquisition • Multi-enterprise network of processes including software engineering, program and project management, systems integration, deployment and field support. • Large-scale, long-lived, expensive, and often problematic

  4. Software Acquisition • Virtual System Acquisition (VISTA--Boehm and Scacchi 1996,1998) • VISTA suggests the need to integrate and interoperate models and simulations of multiple, distributed software system and software processes • How to integrate and interoperate multiple, distributed software process simulations

  5. Software Acquisition • Acquisition process requires factoring and separation of concerns • => need for software process architectures • Goal:investigate modeling and simulation of software process architectures for software acquisition

  6. Modeling Software Process Architectures • Software Process Architecture (SPA): • Software process components whose resource interfaces are interconnected with connectors, following an overall architectural style. • A language for modeling processes • Modeling SPAs using the High-Level Architecture

  7. A language for modeling processes process Proposal_Submit { action submit_proposal { agent { PrincipalInvestigator } requires { proposal } provides { proposal.contents == file } script {"<p>Submit proposal contents.\ <p>BAA to which this proposal responds: \ <input name='baa' type='string' size=16>\ <br>Proposal title: <input name='title' type='string' size=50>\ <br>Submitting Institution: <input name='institution' type='string' size=25>\ <br>Principle Investigator: <input name='PI' type='string' size=20>\ Email: <input name='PIemail' type='string' size=20>\ <br>Contact: <input name='contact' type='string' size=20>\ Email: <input name='contactEmail' type='string' size=12>\ <br>Proposal contents file: <INPUT NAME='file' TYPE='file'>" } }

  8. Modeling processes using HLA • What is the High-Level Architecture? • Framework for interoperating independent components integrated with a Run-Time Infrastructure (a global messaging bus) • Layered, data abstraction, and event-based architectural style supporting publish-subscribe messaging • HLA is an emerging international standard • 10 framework and interface rules that require use of the HLA RTI

  9. Manager Cn Fulfillment Mechanism Connector Legend: Pi = Software Producer process Ci = Software Consumer process Pn P1 P2 C2 C1 An SPA for Acquisition conforming to the HLA style

  10. Simulating Software Process Architectures • A software acquisition process simulator • A testbed for simulating SPAs using the HLA

  11. A software acquisition process simulator • Software process simulators: • person-in-the-loop software process walkthrough • enables wide-area user participation in software process design, evaluation and improvement • introduced at ProSim’99 (Scacchi 2000). • Software acquisition simulator • process simulator for domain of software acquisition

  12. A testbed for simulating SPAs using the HLA • Four classes of software acquisition processes • Consumer, Producer, Fulfillment, Manager • Each runs as a separate simulation (“Federate”) that interoperates (exchanges state info) through the HLA Run-Time Infrastructure (global bus) • Each simulation supports multiple concurrent instances • Consumers and Producers exchange requests for, and shipment of, software using the Fulfillment mechanism, as coordinated by the Manager

  13. Discussion • The run-time environments for PML and HLA are not compatible • An architectural mismatch! • PML and HLA models of software processes have different run-time semantics • HLA appears to be ill-suited for use to integrate or interoperate existing software process simulations.

  14. Conclusions • Demonstrated software process modeling and simulation for software acquisition domain • Introduced software process architectures • Evaluated alternative architectures for modeling and simulating SPAs • Demonstrated distributed and concurrent simulation of multiple interoperating software processes for acquisition

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