Speed up development with reusable software factory

Software Factory

A Software Factory is a development environment configured to support the rapid development of a specific type of application. Software Factories are just a logical next step in the continuing evolution of software development methods and practices. However, they change the character of the software industry by introducing patterns of industrialization.

•          It’s a software product line that configures

–         Extensible tools

–         Processes

–         Content using a software factory template based on a software factory schema

•          It helps to automate the development and maintenance product by adapting

–         assembling

–         configuring framework-based components

•          Help building specific type of application

–         Smart client

–         Web service

–         Web application

–         Mobile application

•          Incorporate guidelines and best practice

–         Architecture and design guidance

–         Patterns

–         How-to’s

–         Application blocks

–         Guidance packages

Why software factory?

•          Productivity in software development

•          Reusability in efficient way

•          Reduction in development time

•          Communication between architect and development team

•          Utilize resources not having extensive expertise on software development

•          Shorten time to market

–         Reuse of existing core assets

•          Improved product quality

–         Pre-tested factory

–         Less chance of error during development

•          Framework variability and extensibility

•          Expand market

–         By selling products

–         Frameworks

Which are available software factory?

•          Web Client Software Factory

•          Smart Client Software Factory

•          Web Service Software Factory

•          Mobile Client Software Factory

Web Client Software Factory capabilities

Modularity

• Building composite UIs that are based on integration of multiple back-end systems.
• Composing applications from individually developed, tested, and deployed units (modules).
• Supporting XCopy deployment through distributed Web.config files
• Unit testing Web user interface application logic

User experience

• Separating the responsibility of UI design from UI development
• Leverage ASP.NET master pages, themes, and skins
• Dynamically interact with ASP.NET site map

Page flow

• Defining screen workflows

Deployment and updates

• XCopy deployment and updates of independent modules
• Module versioning by separating interfaces from implementation

Security

• Authentication (using Forms Authentication)
• Profile based user interface and authorization
• Input and output validation
• Exception shielding

State management

• Session
• Page flow

Manageability

• Handling exceptions
• Logging exceptions

Web service communication

• Communicating synchronously with external Web services

Details about web-client software factory:

1. Required component
2. How to create web-client software factory application?
3. Using Logging application block
4. Using Exception handling block
5. Creating new module
6. Inbuilt MVC pattern implementation
7. Customize look and feel
8. Adding page flow

To know more:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb264518.aspx#wcsfbenefits

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa480032.aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/aa699360.aspx

http://www.codeplex.com/websf