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Authors:
Laud Ochei
Andrei Petrovski
Julian Bass
Keywords: Taxonomy; Deployment Pattern; Cloud-hosted Application; GSD Tool; Plugin; Continuous Integration
Abstract:
Cloud patterns describe deployment and use of various cloud-hosted applications. There is little research which focuses on applying these patterns to cloud-hosted Global Software Development (GSD) tools. As a result, it is difficult to know the applicable deployment patterns, supporting technologies and trade-offs to consider for specific software development processes. This paper presents a taxonomy of deployment patterns for cloud-hosted applications. The taxonomy is composed of 24 subcategories, which were systematically integrated and structured into 8 high-level categories. The taxonomy is applied to a selected set of software tools: JIRA, VersionOne, Hudson, Subversion and Bugzilla. The study confirms that most deployment patterns are related and cannot be fully implemented without being combined with others. The taxonomy revealed that (i) the functionality provided by most deployment patterns can often be accessed through an API or plugin integrated with the GSD tool, and (ii) RESTful web services and messaging are the dominant strategies used by GSD tools to maintain state and exchange information asynchronously, respectively. This paper also describes CLIP (CLoud-based Identification process for deployment Patterns), to guide software architects in selecting applicable cloud deployment patterns for GSD tools using the taxonomy and thereafter applies it to a motivating cloud deployment problem. Recommendations for guiding architects in selecting applicable deployment patterns for cloud deployment of GSD tools are also provided.
Pages: 420 to 434
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2015. Used with permission.
Publication date: December 30, 2015
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2628