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An Agile Toolkit to Support Agent-Oriented and Service-Oriented Computing Mechanisms

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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2007)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 4589))

Abstract

The complex nature of the software development paradigm and the rapid acceptance of emerging abstraction mechanisms, such as agent-oriented and service-oriented computing, highlight the increasing need for re-evaluation of existing software development approaches that focus on agile software de-velopment methodologies (primarily originating in object-oriented technology); since existing object-oriented, structure-oriented and component-oriented approaches embodied in an agile approach cannot be applied immediately to agent and service-oriented computing. Therefore, we present here, an agile toolkit (Java-based) to facilitate the construction of multi-abstraction or m-abstraction situation-specific agile processes for software development projects. This paper only presents the newly emergent abstraction concepts of agent and service, and does not discuss the well-established object-oriented mechanism used in current agile approaches.

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Qumer, A., Henderson-Sellers, B. (2007). An Agile Toolkit to Support Agent-Oriented and Service-Oriented Computing Mechanisms. In: Münch, J., Abrahamsson, P. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4589. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73460-4_21

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