Mobile Web Services and Software Quality

Abstract

Convergence and changes in the business environment are bringing together the traditional telecom, datacom and consumer electronics industries. Rapid evolution period is taking place in this “infocom” industry where mobile technologies are offering consumers the choice of many new services. In the mobile world the traditional voice communication is being augmented with mobile data services that is making possible the access to any data, on any device, any time. Solving this inherent complexity in a way that enables consumers to have personal view for their own mobile world is a key ingredient in creating future proof solutions. This imposes new requirements to quality to address the whole end-to-end chain for enabling e.g. mobile web services. Realisation of the mobile world requires innovation and co-operation among industry to achieve jointly agreed open specifications and technical solutions that interoperate with each other. Managing the increasing complexity of the software systems combined with stringent time-to-market requirements on product level poses a challenge to software processes. It’s evident that the fundamentals of software engineering (i.e. processes, tools, management) need to be in good shape, but that’s not enough. Software development challenges of tomorrow call for collaboration in the industry, strong focus in mobile Internet technical architecture, and an advanced software platform approach. This keynote focuses on these topics.