An agile toolkit to support agent-oriented and service-oriented computing mechanisms

  • Authors:
  • Asif Qumer;Brian Henderson-Sellers

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia;Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • PROFES'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
  • Year:
  • 2007

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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 development 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 mabstraction 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.