Architectural discussion with Mifos and ThoughtWorks folks on April 27th, 2010.

Brainstorm

• reduce build time

  • focus on speeding up integration tests

  • aim for 90% unit tests, 9% integration tests, 1% acceptance/functional tests

  • remove unnecessary tests

  • build pipelining

• transaction support

  • use Spring-managed transactions

  • remove commits and explicit session control

  • remove StaticHibernateUtil

  • use AOP in application context configuration for transaction management instead of annotations

• i18n and L10n

  • remove all L10n code from domain

  • use out-of-the-box i18n mechanism

• separate presentation from domain

• service identification

• convention of patterns for services

  • calling convention(s)

  • when/how DTOs are constructed and used

• migrate from Struts to SpringMVC

• new frontend: Grails?

• modularization along functional lines (also see EvolvingTheMifosCodeBase)

• 24x7 availability

  • reduce exclusivity of batch jobs and OLTP activities

• move to Spring security

• surveys/PPI as a separate module

• customizable/business-driven workflow

Goals

Vision

• do whatever gives us the largest ROI

• align goals with customer commitments

Prioritized Goals

1. frequent releases

2. easy to develop/maintain

3. feature-driven releases