2008/05/06 by Lutz Prechelt, Prechelt, Lutz
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #D.2 #Data Visualization and Analytics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Multimedia Communication and Technology #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #Software Engineering Research #cs.SE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0805.0650
9 pages
arxiv created 2008/05/06 · openalex publication_date 2008/05/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
"PlatForms" is a competition in which top-class teams of three programmers compete to implement the same requirements for a web-based system within 30 hours, each team using a different technology platform (Java EE, .NET, PHP, Perl, Python, or Ruby on Rails). The results will 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, performance, etc.) and internal (structure, understandability, flexibility, etc.).