Concurrent development on a framework and its application

Framework based software development has come into focus recently to facilitate global level of reuse. However, frameworks are not always available for new application domains, which forces the development of both a framework and its application at the same time. Concurrent development introduces several new problems such as where to partition the system into framework part and application extension, interface consistency between them, integration, organizations, how and when to provide extension capabilities in the framework, and so on. We designed the methodology, which addresses some of these issues, to achieve concurrent development of a framework and its application. Preliminary case study on the actual real project from our life insurance related software development was conducted. The study showed that our methodology was capable of handling some of the issues. Partitioning applications and synchronization of process still need more sophisticated approaches for more efficient development.