Agile Software Engineering and Systems Engineering at SKA Scale
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2017-12-05 v2 Software Engineering
Abstract
Systems Engineering (SE) is the set of processes and documentation required for successfully realising large-scale engineering projects, but the classical approach is not a good fit for software-intensive projects, especially when the needs of the different stakeholders are not fully known from the beginning, and requirement priorities might change. The SKA is the ultimate software-enabled telescope, with enormous amounts of computing hardware and software required to perform its data reduction. We give an overview of the system and software engineering processes in the SKA1 development, and the tension between classical and agile SE.
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@article{arxiv.1712.00061,
title = {Agile Software Engineering and Systems Engineering at SKA Scale},
author = {Juande Santander-Vela},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.00061},
year = {2017}
}
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4 pages, proceedings of the ADASS XXVII conference held in Santiago, October 2017