Hello MediaWiki Community,
I am part of an undergraduate research group focusing on software architecture patterns and quality attributes at Utah Valley University. We recently analyzed the work published on MediaWiki in the Architecture of Open Source Applications <http://aosabook.org/en/index.html> (AOSA) and referenced it in a paper we presented at the 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA), as attached. As a part of our continuing research we wish to validate our architectural analysis for MediaWiki with the current developers. We would like to know if we are missing any patterns or quality attributes that may have been included in MediaWiki, or if there are any we listed that aren’t used. Any additional comment on these topics you might have would also, of course, be welcome. We believe we found the following software architectural patterns in this application: * Pattern Name | Is This Found in the Architecture? (yes / no / don't know) | Comments (optional)* Broker Client Server Event System Layers Pipes & Filters Plugin Shared Repository Other? We also identified the following quality attributes: * Attribute Name | Is This Found in the Architecture? | Comments (optional)* Scalability Usability Extensibility Performance Flexibility Security Capacity Cost Other? For your convenience, we have a complete list below of the patterns and quality attributes we referred to when conducting our research. To clarify, we are specifically studying architectural patterns, rather than design patterns such as the GoF patterns. Architectural Patterns Considered Quality Attributes Considered Active Repository Scalability Batch Usability Blackboard Extensibility Broker Performance Client Server Portability Event System Flexibility Explicit Invocation Reliability Implicit Invocation Maintainability Indirection Layer Security Interceptor Testability Interpreter Capacity Layers Cost Master and Commander Legality Microkernel Modularity Model View Controller Robustness Peer to Peer Pipes and Filters Plugin Presentation Abstraction Control Publish Subscribe Reflection Rule-Based System Shared Repository Simple Repository State Based Virtual Machine Please respond by October 25th, if possible. Thank you for considering our request, and for your continued work on MediaWiki. Sincerely, Michael Skeen, with Erich Gubler, Danielle Skinner, Brandon Leishman, Neil Harrison, Ph.D. (advisor) Reference: Neil B. Harrison, Erich Gubler, Danielle Skinner, "Software Architecture Pattern Morphology in Open-Source Systems",WICSA, 2016, 2016 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA), 2016 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) 2016, pp. 91-98, doi:10.1109/WICSA.2016.8 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
