Death, taxes, & scalability

Letcia Duboc; Emmanuel Letier; David S. Rosenblum

doi:10.1109/MS.2010.97

Death, taxes, & scalability

Letcia Duboc, Emmanuel Letier, David S. Rosenblum

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Abstract

The London Ambulance System and the online tax return system of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs are two systems that have experienced significant problems of scalability. However, we've never seen a precise discussion of their scalability concerns. In this column we use those systems to illustrate how the scalability of software systems can be more precisely understood and characterized, and we describe recent research on goal-obstacle analysis that can help elaborate the scalability requirements of such systems, in an effort to mitigate scalability problems early in development.

Original language	English
Article number	5484110
Pages (from-to)	20-21
Number of pages	2
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	27
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2010.97
Publication status	Published - Jul 2010
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

KAOS
Obstacles
Requirements
Scalability
Software engineering

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