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On the extensibility requirements of business applications

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NEMARA '12: Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on Next Generation Modularity Approaches for Requirements and Architecture

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2162004.2162006

Published: 27 March 2012 Publication History

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Business applications play a crucial role for the day-to-day running of a business. These applications typically support a wide range of standard business processes like opportunity-to-order and order-to-cash. Customers using these solutions often demand extensions that will complement the existing functionalities offered by the standard application. The requirements for extensibility can be different for each customer which makes the enablement of business software for extensibility very challenging. In this paper we demonstrate some of these challenges and requirements through an example application and evaluate them against some state-of-the-art works on extensibility.

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Aly MCharfi AMezini M(2013)Building extensions for applications: Towards the understanding of extension possibilities2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613846(182-191)Online publication date: May-2013
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613846
Aly MCharfi AErdweg SMezini M(2013)XPointsProceedings of the 2013 17th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference10.1109/EDOC.2013.34(237-246)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/EDOC.2013.34

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On the extensibility requirements of business applications
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods

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NEMARA '12: Proceedings of the 2012 workshop on Next Generation Modularity Approaches for Requirements and Architecture

March 2012

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ISBN:9781450311274

DOI:10.1145/2162004

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Lancaster University, UK
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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Jörg Kienzle
McGill University, Canada
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Bedir Tekinerdoğan
Bilkent University, Turkey
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Ana Moreira
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

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Aly MCharfi AMezini M(2013)Building extensions for applications: Towards the understanding of extension possibilities2013 21st International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613846(182-191)Online publication date: May-2013
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613846
Aly MCharfi AErdweg SMezini M(2013)XPointsProceedings of the 2013 17th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference10.1109/EDOC.2013.34(237-246)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/EDOC.2013.34

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