Meta Model Based Architecture for Software Process Instantiation

Killisperger, Peter; Stumptner, Markus; Peters, Georg; Großmann, Georg; Stückl, Thomas

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-01680-6_8

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“…Killisperger et al, [26] suggest an environment through which to apply variations to processes automatically through variation operations. Silva Barreto et al, [27,28] propose another environment in which to carry out variations in software processes, with the aim of facilitating process reuse, based on the definition of variations in process components.…”

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Process variability management in global software development: a case study

Martínez-Ruiz

García

Piattini

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software and System Process

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Global Software Development (GSD) is set to be the paradigm that will support software industries in the increasingly globalized 21st century. It opens the door to companies from emerging countries to compete for their own gap in the market. It does, however, still bring some challenges with it. It must integrate different cultures, work styles, and work timetables in the same development process. In fact, GSD methodologies do indeed include specific activities to coordinate different work teams, but they fail precisely where any other methodology does: in the need to be truly useful by meeting the distinct cultural requirements of every organization involved, all at the same time. Up to now, process tailoring has been managed through variability mechanisms. Since these successfully merge original structure with cultural assets, they are also useful for adjusting global methodologies so that they suit each particular development context. This paper presents a case study of the use of the VariantRich Process paradigm (VRP) to support tailoring in a GSD methodology. It reveals the suitability of the VRP mechanisms, given that they support the two tailoring dimensions a GSD project involves, i.e., they take into account the circumstances of the entire global project, as well as the need to fit the internal characteristics of each organization; furthermore, they save effort in the tailoring process.

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Section: State Of the Artmentioning

confidence: 99%

Process variability management in global software development: a case study

Martínez-Ruiz

García

Piattini

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software and System Process

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“…Killisperger [19] proposes an instantiation based approach. Because the industry has few processes formalized up to the enactment level, this approach may result in little benefit in practice.…”

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“…This approach promotes reuse through a generative strategy. MDE can also be used in software process engineering [7]: using transformations as instantiation strategies [19].…”

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An MDE approach to software process tailoring

Alegria

Bastarrica

Quispe

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Software and Systems Process

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Defining organizational processes is essential for enhancing maturity. However the best process depends on the particularities of each project. Typically a process engineer defines a specific process for each project in an ad-hoc fashion, which is expensive, unrepeatable and error prone. Trying to deal with this challenge we propose a model-based approach to software process tailoring that generates project specific processes based on the organizational process and the project context. The approach is systematic, repeatable and it does not depend on the people using it. The proposal has been applied for tailoring the Requirements Engineering process of a medium size company. The obtained results were validated by process engineers of the company. Processes obtained using the proposed approach matched the ones used in the company for planned contexts and also they were reasonable for non-expected situations.

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“…Software Process Models are Software Models too: similar to software models, process models can use an MDE approach for different goals: design, adaptation, simulation and enactment [7] [18]. Using an MDE production strategy in CASPER, software process models and software process tailoring rationale can be reused in different projects to automatically produce specific process models.…”

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Building software process lines with CASPER

Alegria¹,

Bastarrica²

2012

2012 International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP)

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Software product quality and project productivity require defining suitable software process models. The best process depends on the circumstances where it is applied. Typically, a process engineer tailors a specific process for each project or each project type from an organizational software process model. Frequently, tailoring is performed in an informal and reactive fashion, which is expensive, unrepeatable and error prone. Trying to deal with this challenge, we have built CASPER, a meta-process for defining adaptable software process models. This paper presents CASPER illustrating it using the ISPW-6 process. CASPER meta-process allows producing project specific processes in a planned way using four software process principles and a set of process practices that enable a feasible production strategy. According to its application to a canonical case, this paper concludes that CASPER enables a practical technique for tailoring a software process model.

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Meta Model Based Architecture for Software Process Instantiation

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Process variability management in global software development: a case study

Process variability management in global software development: a case study

An MDE approach to software process tailoring

Building software process lines with CASPER

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