SMartySPEM: A SPEM-Based Approach for Variability Management in Software Process Lines

OliveiraJr, Edson; Pazin, Maicon G.; Gimenes, Itana Maria de Souza; Kulesza, Uirá; Aleixo, Fellipe Araújo

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39259-7_15

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“…Oliveira Junior et al [22] presented an extension of the Software & Systems Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM), which is a UMLbased metamodel for modeling, representing, and managing software processes. The study enhances SPEM in order to support the identification and representation of variability in software process lines.…”

Section: Managing Software Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent developments in product-focused software process improvement

Graziotin

Jedlitschka

2013

SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes

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This report summarizes the presentations and discussions that happened at PROFES 2013, the 14th International Conference on ProductFocused Software Process Improvement, which was held June 12-14, 2013 in Paphos, Cyprus. The main theme of PROFES is software process improvement (SPI) motivated by product, process, and service quality needs. PROFES 2013 addressed both quality engineering and management topics, divided into the areas of Decision Support in

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Section: Managing Software Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent developments in product-focused software process improvement

Graziotin

Jedlitschka

2013

SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes

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“…SMartySPEM is composed of an UML profile, the SMartySPEMProfile, and a set of guidelines for identification and representation of variabilities in SPEM-based models [12]. Fig.…”

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“…Therefore, SMartySPEM does not modify the standard structure of the SPEM 2.0. On the contrary, it introduces new stereotypes to the original elements [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In an overall analysis, annotative approach has taken advantage over compositional as gathered initial evidence from Dias and OliveiraJr [9], Dias et al [10], and Aleixo et al [11]. In addition, our Research Group on Systematic Software Reuse and Experimentation (GRSSE) has proposed an annotative approach for modelling variability in software process, named stereotypebased variability management for the SPEM meta-model (SMartySPEM) [12]. Annotative approaches, such as vSPEM [13], have been widely considered for variant-rich software processes modelling [6].…”

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Empirical study on software process variability modelling with SMartySPEM and vSPEM

2018

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With the continuous improvement of software processes, it is possible to increase quality, to address different application domains and accelerate the development of software products. However, existing process modelling notations like the SPEM meta-model typically do not have appropriate constructs for expressing process variability. Thus, SPEM-based approaches such as SMartySPEM and vSPEM provide mechanisms for representing variabilities to address characteristics of different projects. Here, the authors empirically compared SMartySPEM and for variability representation in software processes models, aiming to analyze correction, time, and efficiency. The performed experiment provides preliminary evidence based on 11 participants and sample size N = 44. Participants took longer to comprehend diagrams in SMartySPEM. However, the correctness of SMartySPEM diagrams had a superior result and higher efficiency based on the median values and hypothesis tests. With regard to variability mechanisms, the diagrams modelled with SMartySPEM had a slightly lower efficiency and it took longer for modifying them, thus the correctness of the SMartySPEM diagrams had a superior result. Therefore, an initial body of knowledge indicated a positive efficiency of SMartySPEM for variability representation in process models, as well as potential improvements as the reduction in SMartySPEM diagrams complexity, which may contribute to its evolution.

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“…The base process (the SPrL common assets) can be modeled using BPMN, a general notation for modeling business processes, SPEM, the Object Managment Group standard for modeling software processes, Unified Modeling Language activity diagrams and Petri nets, among others. Process variability can be formalized using extensions to process modeling notations, like BPMNt , set‐theoretic collection operations , SPEM extensions such as SMartySPEM or vSPEM . General variability modeling notations, like feature models and orthogonal variability models , have also been used for this purpose.…”

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The v‐algorithm for discovering software process lines

Blum

Simmonds

Bastarrica

2016

J Software Evolu Process

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A software company can define a software process line (SPrL) to deal with projects with different characteristics. This entails defining a base process and its variation points; the SPrL is then tailored to each project. This approach avoids the co-evolution problems but is expensive to set up. In companies that register project events, this information could be used to discover the SPrL. However, traditional discovery algorithms focus on extracting a single process, which can be overly complex and would not be useful for managing future projects. Filtering out less frequent behavior leads to the discovery of simpler models, but these may not include relevant behavior. To address these issues, we propose the v-algorithm, which discovers a SPrL from process logs. Two thresholds split the log into three clusters based on relation frequency. The first one is used to generate the base process, the second one is used to identify variable elements, and the last one is discarded. We used the v-algorithm to discover the SPrL of Mobius, a small Chilean software company. We also discuss how the values of the thresholds affect the process discovery quality dimensions, extending existing metrics to the SPrL case.

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SMartySPEM: A SPEM-Based Approach for Variability Management in Software Process Lines

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

Recent developments in product-focused software process improvement

Recent developments in product-focused software process improvement

Empirical study on software process variability modelling with SMartySPEM and vSPEM

The v‐algorithm for discovering software process lines

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