An MDE approach to software process tailoring

Alegria, Julio Ariel Hurtado; Bastarrica, María Cecilia; Quispe, Alcides; Ochoa, Sergio F.

doi:10.1145/1987875.1987885

Cited by 32 publications

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“…Zakaria et al, 2015;Graviss et al, 2016), or very specific, being only applicable in certain domains, processes, or requiring specific technologies to automate the tailoring activity (e.g. Hurtado Alegría et al, 2011).  Existing approaches largely focus on the automation of the tailoring activity itself, using complex modelling approaches requiring domain-specific software skills and knowledge, and depend on particular technical implementations (i.e.…”

Section: Process Tailoring: Related Work and Research Gapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting Tailoring of Complex Product Development Processes: An Approach Based on Structural Modelling and Analysis

Hollauer¹,

Langner²,

Lindemann³

2018

Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference

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Project tailoring is discussed in academia and industry as a way to bridge the project-specific adaptation of generic organizational reference process models. Research into process tailoring in interdisciplinary product development is currently limited. We have developed a structure-based approach for supporting process tailoring, addressing limitations in existing approaches through: Concrete method support; systematic analysis of documented tailoring knowledge using structural analysis; and social aspects, e.g. stakeholder inclusion. The approach has been evaluated in eight case studies.

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Section: Process Tailoring: Related Work and Research Gapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting Tailoring of Complex Product Development Processes: An Approach Based on Structural Modelling and Analysis

Hollauer¹,

Langner²,

Lindemann³

2018

Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference

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“…The tool used to define the metamodel and the tree editor is EMF 2 (Eclipse Modeling Framework). The tool used to define the textual editor varies according to the requirements of the projects: in our example it is either XText 3 or EMFText 4 . The tool used to define the checker, the interpreter and the compiler is Kermeta 5 , a metamodeling environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the field of software processes, several approaches rely on Software Process Line Engineering (SPLE) [7] to reuse software processes [2]- [6]. Among them, some approaches target SPEM 2.0 processes [2], [4], [5], while other approaches do not target a specific process metamodel [3], [6]. In the field of business processes, that is closed to the field of software processes, there are also several approaches that rely on process line engineering in order to reuse business processes [16]- [26].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Integrating Software Process Reuse and Automation

Rouille

Combemale

Barais

et al. 2013

2013 20th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)

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Abstract-Reusing software processes from a Software Process Line (SPL, i.e., a set of software processes that captures their commonalities and variabilities) and automating their execution is a way to reduce development costs. However, to our best knowledge no approach integrates both aspects. The difficulty is to automate the execution of a process whose variability is only partially resolved (i.e., a value is not set to each variable part of the process). Indeed, according to projects' constraints, it is possible to start the execution of a part of a process whose variability is resolved, while postponing the resolution of the variability of other parts of this process. In this paper, we propose a tool-supported approach that integrates both aspects. It consists of reusing processes from an SPL according to projects' requirements. The processes are bound to components that automate their execution. When the variability of a process to execute is not fully resolved, our approach consists of resolving this variability during the execution of this process. We illustrate this work on a family of processes for designing and implementing modeling languages. Our approach enables both the reuse of software processes and the automation of their execution, while enabling to resolve process variability during the execution.

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“…However, they are dependent of the process metamodel because they modify the process metamodel with variability mechanisms. In the field of software processes, one approach relies on the variability mechanisms that SPEM 2.0 provides in order to model a general process model with variability [11]. The vSPEM approach [12] extends SPEM 2.0 with variability mechanisms empirically evaluated as more understandable [13].…”

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Leveraging CVL to Manage Variability in Software Process Lines

Rouille

Combemale

Barais

et al. 2012

2012 19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference

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Abstract-Variability on project requirements often implies variability on software processes. To manage such variability, Software Process Lines (SPLs) can be used to represent commonality (i.e., common practices) and variability (i.e., differences) of a set of related software processes. To this end, some Software Process Modeling Languages (SPMLs) natively integrate variability mechanisms. Nevertheless, such a coupling between the SPML and the variability mechanisms i) requires to interpret the requirements variability in terms of the processes variability, ii) limits the reuse of the requirements variability for other purposes (e.g., the development itself), and iii) is a barrier to the use of advances from the field of variability management. In this paper, we propose an approach to apply the Common Variability Language (CVL from the OMG consortium) for requirement variability modeling and its binding to the processes. This work is illustrated on a family of industrial Java development processes. Our approach enables the definition of an SPL and the automatic derivation of a process from this SPL according to the requirements of a given project. The variability is managed separately from the process model and benefits from existing tools coming from process modeling community and CVL.

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An MDE approach to software process tailoring

Cited by 32 publications

References 36 publications

Supporting Tailoring of Complex Product Development Processes: An Approach Based on Structural Modelling and Analysis

Supporting Tailoring of Complex Product Development Processes: An Approach Based on Structural Modelling and Analysis

Integrating Software Process Reuse and Automation

Leveraging CVL to Manage Variability in Software Process Lines

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