SBIR Phase I: Value-Driven Design Debt Management for Contemporary Software Systems

SBIR 第一阶段：当代软件系统的价值驱动设计债务管理

• 批准号: 2236824
• 负责人: Yuanfang Cai
• 金额: $ 27.49万
• 依托单位: ArchDia LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2236824&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Value; Driven; Design

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will design a value-driven design debt management system applicable to modern, distributed, dynamic software systems. This system will pinpoint and quantify design debt and recommend the most effective debt-reduction strategies. This system will also support risk analyses for managers and designers, helping them choose a strategy that prevents severe decay in product performance, and maximize product value, productivity, and quality. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project provide a value-driven, design-debt management system that (1) discovers and empirically validates design debt in modern distributed and dynamically-typed software systems based on options theory, Conway's law, and design principles, leveraging a knowledge graph to capture and manage implicit, heterogeneous, and distributed entities and relations; (2) discovers the intrinsic and implicit relations among multiple design anti-patterns and creates an algorithm to prioritize and recommend the most effective debt-reduction strategies; and (3) bridges the gap between development and management, enabling a user to simulate refactoring outcomes and evaluate their economic implications by combining Monte Carlo simulation and Datar-Mathews option valuations, for each proposed refactoring strategy. The outcome of these research and development activities will lead to the first framework specialized for managing technical debt at the design and architecture level, rooted in financial and design theory, and applicable to modern distributed and dynamically typed software systems. This project has the potential to fundamentally change the management of software, supporting better informed, data driven decisions by focusing on their economic values.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将设计一个适用于现代，分布式，动态软件系统的价值驱动的设计甲板管理系统。该系统将查明和量化设计甲板，并推荐最有效的甲板还原策略。该系统还将支持管理人员和设计师的风险分析，帮助他们选择一种防止产品性能严重衰减的策略，并最大程度地提高产品价值，生产率和质量。这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I期项目提供了一个价值驱动的，设计DEBT管理系统，（1）在现代分布式和动态性的软件系统中发现并经验验证了设计甲板，基于期权理论，Conway的定律和设计原理，利用知识图来捕获和管理隐含，杂物，和管理，杂物和分布和分布和关系； （2）发现多种设计反图案之间的内在和隐性关系，并创建了一种算法来确定优先级和建议最有效的甲板减少策略； （3）弥合了开发与管理之间的鸿沟，使用户能够通过将蒙特卡洛模拟和数据混合期权值相结合，以模拟重构结果并评估其经济影响，并为每个提议的重构策略进行构图。活动将导致第一个专门用于在设计和建筑层面管理技术调试的框架，该框架植根于财务和设计理论，适用于现代分布式和动态类型的软件系统。该项目有可能从根本上改变软件的管理，从而通过关注其经济价值来支持更好的数据驱动决策。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估值得支持。