Libraries and software development at Rigaku

Exploratory Software Development with Class Libraries

Software development based on the classical software life-cycle proves inadequate for many ambitious projects. Exploratory software development is an alternative way of building software systems by eliminating deficiencies of the conventional software life cycle. Instead of exactly defining the various phases of the life cycle, exploratory software development takes small development steps, whe...

Software Libraries

Scalable Software Libraries 1

Many software libraries (e.g., the Booch C++ Components, libg++, NIHCL, COOL) provide components (classes) that implement data structures. Each component is written by hand and represents a unique combination of features (e.g. concurrency, data structure, memory allocation algorithms) that distinguishes it from other components. We argue that this way of building data structure component librar...

Agile Software Development at Scale

Since 2001 agile software development approaches are being adopted across a wide range of organizations and are now being applied at scale. There are eight factors to consider – team size, geographical distribution, entrenched culture, system complexity, legacy systems, regulatory compliance, organizational distribution, governance and enterprise focus – when scaling agile. Luckily a collection...

Effective and efficient reuse with software libraries

Research in software engineering has shown that software reuse positively affects the competitiveness of an organization: the productivity of the development team is increased, the time-to-market is reduced, and the overall quality of the resulting software is improved. Today’s code repositories on the Internet provide a large number of reusable software libraries with a variety of functionalit...