[OT] Plat_Forms web development platform comparison

[Ulrich Stärk <ul...@spielviel.de>]

Dear Tapestry Users,

Plat_Forms [1] is a contest and competition in which top-class teams of three programmers compete to 
implement the same requirements for a web-based system within two days, using different technology 
platforms (e.g. Java, .NET, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, or what-have-you).

Plat_Forms' purpose is to provide new insights into the real (rather than purported) pros, cons, and 
emergent properties of each platform. The evaluation will analyze many aspects of each solution, 
both external (usability, functionality, reliability, security, performance, etc.) and internal 
(structure, modularity, understandability, flexibility, etc.).

A first (smaller) execution of Plat_Forms in 2007 with only 9 teams was successful and was well 
received. The details were both published in Communications of the ACM [2] and IEEE Transactions on 
Software Engineering [3], two of the most renowned journals on software engineering and computer 
science, and also in . We now want to expand this to 24 teams, 4 teams for each of 6 platforms.

For the second execution in January 2011 in Nürnberg, Germany, we are searching for participating 
teams as well as for representatives for the respective platforms that help us find those teams. We 
are also looking for experts that want to help us during the evaluation.

You can read the details of Plat_forms at [1] and [4]. If you are willing to participate with a team 
of 3 developers please fill in the form mentioned in [4]. Even if you don't want to participate, 
please spread the word and forward this to people who might be interested.

You can reply to this thread (I'll monitor it) or email me directly if you've got further questions.

Uli

[1] http://www.plat-forms.org
[2] http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio/platforms07-cacm-2010.pdf
[3] http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio/platforms07-tse-2010.pdf
[4] http://www.plat-forms.org/platforms-announcement

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