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Software Development Processes

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Developing Services for the Wireless Internet

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The complexity and novelty of the technology that can be used for developing wireless Internet services (i.e., mobile terminals, mobile networks, mobile interaction, variability of terminals, unstable business/billing models, complete testing environment hardly available, change of technology) and the extreme time-to-market pressure result in insufficient knowledge about development procedures and technical constraints, and therefore insufficient guidance for project managers and software developers on selecting appropriate development processes, techniques, methods, and tools. The end result is poor quality of products, unmotivated developers and managers, and unhappy users. At the moment, there is very little experience in developing software for such services systematically. Therefore, designing processes for this domain implicates several difficulties: 1) Whereas several standards exist for conventional software development (e.g., IEEE 1074-1997, ISO 12207, CMM, CMMI), no such standards are available for wireless Internet services. 2) The wireless Internet services domain lacks specific experience on particular technologies, their applicability and constraints. 3) The variations of the applications and, as a consequence, possible variations of the development technologies, are not sufficiently understood. This chapter describes an initial reference process by summarizing guidelines and several hints to take into account for the development of wireless Internet services on the levels of engineering processes and life cycle processes. The reference process is based on experience from the WISE pilot projects (see Chapter 6) and a comprehensive literature survey. 2.1 The Reference Process Model The lack of knowledge about wireless technologies, the unavoidable growth of this type of applications in the coming years, and the need for a systematic approach for developing these applications are important reasons to justify the creation of such a reference process. This process has been descriptively elicited in a systematic way through the development of pilot projects and literature study [49].

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