Proposal

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Proposal

• Motivation
• What question do you hope to be able to answer
  after conducting the research?
• Why will the answer to the question be useful to
  other software developers or consumers?
• Dont need generic Web services, Web, Internet,
  middleware, etc motivation
• Background
• Describe related projects, research, tools
• Be specific about why this research is different
• Make use of references from conferences listed on
  course web page (Resources tab)

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Proposal

• Approach
• As much technical details as you know
• Which tools will you use?
• Which code bases or workloads will you experiment
  with?
• What is the high-level architecture?
• Validation
• What observable qualities will the finished
  product have?
• Can you compare against some of the five software
  qualities discussed in class?
• Describe specific metrics or use-cases