Tools and processes to support the development of a national platform for urban research: lessons (being) learnt from the AURIN project

  • Authors:

  • Richard O. Sinnott;Christopher Bayliss;Luca Morandini;Martin Tomko

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia;University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia;University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia;University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  • Venue:
  • AusPDC '13 Proceedings of the Eleventh Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing - Volume 140
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The development of large-scale software systems remains a non-trivial endeavour. This is especially so when the software systems comprise services and resources coming from multiple distributed software groups, and where they are required to interoperate with heterogeneous, independent (and autonomous) distributed data providers. The use of software development and management tools to support this process is highly desirable. In this paper we focus on the software development and management systems that have been adopted within the national Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN - www.aurin.org.au) project. AURIN is tasked with developing a software platform to support research into the urban and built environment - a domain with many diverse software system and data needs. In particular, given that AURIN is tasked with integrating a large portfolio of sub-projects offering both software and data that needs to be integrated, deployed and managed by a core team at the University of Melbourne, we illustrate how tooling and support processes are used to manage the software development lifecycle and code/data integration from the distributed teams and data providers that are involved. Results from the project demonstrating the ongoing status are presented.