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