Building Industry-Ready Tools: FAMA Framework & ADA

Abstract

Developing good academic tools has become an art that forces researchers to achieve tasks they are not supposed to do. These include coding, web and logo designing, testing, etc. It compromises the quality of a product that differs from what the industry expects from it. in this paper we propose professionalising the tool development to build industry-ready products that are a middle term between academic and industrial products. We summarise many of the decisions we have made in the last three years to build two successful products of this kind, and that we think that may help other researchers their best in tool building.