A Review of Software Architecture for Collaborative Software’s

Abstract:

Software architecture has emerged as an important sub-discipline of software engineering; particularly in the realm of large system development. Collaboration software applications are inherently cooperative, requiring many software applications to coordinate their efforts to produce a software system application. Integral to this effort is developing shared understanding surrounding multiple artifacts, each artifact embodying its own model, over the entire development process. This focus on model collaboration embedded within a larger process is what distinguishes collaboration research in software engineering from broader collaboration research. This article first review a list of goals for software architecture, then collaboration software application, several possible future directions for collaboration in software engineering is presented. The article concludes by noting a problem in performing research on collaborative systems.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 433-440)
• Pages: 2372-2376
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.2372
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Mehdi Bahrami, Mohammad Bahrami
• Keywords: Collaboration Software, Software Architecture, Software Engineering

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