Lattix presents at the 7th International DSM Conference
Seattle, WA 4 Oct, 2005Lattix presented 3 separate papers at the 7th International DSM Conference:
Results of DSM Analysis of Software Systems in Industrial Applications
Managing System Architectures
New Techniques for Leveraging Hierarchy in DSMs
These presentations report the results of applying DSM to analyze and improve the architecture of existing software systems in a variety of industrial applications, including financial services, data storage systems, semiconductor equipment, and software. In an example of forward engineering, we will also show how the Dependency Model approach was used to develop the Lattix DSM product (Lattix LDM), from its conception to second major release.
The companies who utilized the Lattix approach did so for a variety of reasons: most were seeking to gain visibility to the architecture, several needed to replace large parts of a system, some wanted to improve the ability to customize and assess the impact of change, and finally all wanted to find ways to improve quality and efficiency of testing.
As a result of these projects, we learned that the critical visibility of the architecture could be achieved very quickly (often within days) by leveraging the existing hierarchy and reviewing the DSM with the designers to formalize their design intent. Furthermore, the DSM enabled us to prioritize remediation and to identify which to pursue in the short and long term. By monitoring the implementation continuously, the architecture of the first system remained clean even after one year of distributed development.