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UDeploy: A Unified Deployment Environment

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Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2010)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 230))

Abstract

In the software life cycle we have mainly three activities: (1) the pre-development (requirements, specification and design), (2) the development (implementation, prototyping, testing) and (3) the post-development (deployment). Software deployment encompasses all post-development activities that make an application operational. These activities, identified as deployment life cycle, include: i) software packaging, ii) loading and installation of software on client sites, iii) instance creation, iv) configuration and v) updating. The development of system-based components made it possible in order to highlight this part of the global software lifecycle, as illustrated by numerous industrial and academic studies. However these are generally developed ad hoc, and consequently platform-dependent. Deployment systems, such as supported by middleware environments (CCM, .Net and EJB), specifically develop mechanisms and tools related to pre-specified deployment strategies. Our work, related to the topic of distributed component-based software applications, aims at specifying a generic deployment framework independent of the target environments. Driven by the meta-model approach, we first describe the abstractions used to characterize the deployed software. Then, we specify the deployment infrastructure and processes, highlighting the activities to be carried out and the support for their execution.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble, 681, Rue de la Passerelle, BP 72, 38402, St. Martin d’Hères, France

    Mariam Dibo & Noureddine Belkhatir

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  1. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Leszek A. Maciaszek

  2. The Business School, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK

    Pericles Loucopoulos

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Dibo, M., Belkhatir, N. (2011). UDeploy: A Unified Deployment Environment. In: Maciaszek, L.A., Loucopoulos, P. (eds) Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. ENASE 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 230. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23391-3_18

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