Issues in Adopting Agile Development Principles for Mobile Cloud Computing Applications

Abstract

Abstract Mobile Cloud Computing has been a recent research and development area. Various framework and middleware have been developed recently providing solutions for utilizing cloud computing resources on resource constrained mobile devices. A very few number of works present sound engineering mechanism for developing such software. This paper discusses issues in developing mobile cloud applications using agile software development methodologies. Sha-Mo-Cloud, a hybrid cloud framework was developed leveraging public cloud services for storing data including images and videos captured from user's mobile devices. Users can upload, access, manage and share personal content using web interface as well as a mobile application. To preserve user privacy and personalized data, part of the framework was developed in a private cloud environment. This work also reports the engineering aspects of development of ShaMoCloud. The software construction team previously developed similar applications using Team Software Process. The work presented here, compares and contrasts the experiences of the ShaMoCloud development team with four similar projects carried out recently.