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Maintainable Software Solution Development Using Collaboration Between Architecture and Requirements in Heterogeneous IoT Paradigm (Short Paper)

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Internet of Things (IoT) has been tremendously involved in the development of smart infrastructure. Software solutions in IoT have to consider lack of abstractions, heterogeneity, multiple stakeholders, scalability, and interoperability among the devices. The developers need to implement application logic on multiple hardware platforms to satisfy the fundamental business goals. Moreover, long-term maintenance issues due to the frequent introduction of new requirements and hardware platforms pose a vital challenge in IoT solution development.

Numerous techniques have been devised to satisfy the issues mentioned above for ubiquitous and smart infrastructure. However, these techniques lack in providing a comprehensive approach in dealing with the above challenges. In this paper, we argue that fundamentally, there is no difference between the architecturally significant requirements and the architectural design decisions in IoT solution development. The architecture revolves around the requirements gathered by the analyst at the requirements gathering phase. We stress that the requirements elicitation process must consider the software architectural assessment for maintainable software development. By adopting this perspective, we identify areas where both requirements and architecture communities collaborate to effectively increase the user acceptability, maintainability, and fulfill the heterogeneous needs of IoT solutions.

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This research is supported by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61672276 and 61702277 and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and Industrialization, Nanjing University.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

    Wajid Rafique, Maqbool Khan & Wanchun Dou

  2. The Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

    Wajid Rafique, Maqbool Khan & Wanchun Dou

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Rafique, W., Khan, M., Dou, W. (2019). Maintainable Software Solution Development Using Collaboration Between Architecture and Requirements in Heterogeneous IoT Paradigm (Short Paper). In: Wang, X., Gao, H., Iqbal, M., Min, G. (eds) Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. CollaborateCom 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 292. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30146-0_34

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