An Approach to Modelling Software Evolution Processes

By: Tong Li

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Hardcover | 1 November 2008

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An Approach to Modelling Software Evolution Processes describes formal software processes that effectively support software evolution. The importance and popularity of software evolution increase as more and more successful software systems become legacy systems. For one thing, software evolution has become an important characteristic in the software life cycle; for another, software processes play an important role in increasing efficiency and quality of software evolution. Therefore, the software evolution process, the inter-discipline of software process and software evolution, becomes a key area in software engineering.

The book is intended for software engineers and researchers in computer science.

Prof. Tong Li earned his Ph.D. in Software Engineering at De Montfort University, U.K.; he has published five monographs and over one hundred papers.

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"This book is based on the author's Ph.D. thesis accomplished in February 2007 at De Montfort University, UK. It aims to model and describe formal software processes that effectively support software evolution. ... The book is intended for software engineers and researchers in computer science who are interested in evolution of software processes." (G. Bauer, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1161, 2009)

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Preface	p. ix
List of Figures and Tables	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Motivation	p. 1
Contributions	p. 3
Research Methods	p. 4
Success Criteria	p. 5
Validation Methods	p. 5
Outline	p. 6
References	p. 7
Overview of Software Processes and Software Evolution	p. 8
Introduction	p. 9
Software Processes	p. 9
Concepts of Software Process	p. 9
Software Process Modelling and Descriptions	p. 11
Software Process Modelling and Description Languages	p. 13
Software Process Improvement and CMM	p. 16
Software Process Reuse	p. 19
Process-Centred Software Engineering Environments	p. 20
Software Evolution	p. 21
Concepts of Software Evolution	p. 21
Software Reengineering	p. 22
Software Evolution	p. 25
Summary	p. 27
References	p. 27
Related Work	p. 34
Introduction	p. 35
Software Evolution Process	p. 35
Concurrency in the Software Life Cycle	p. 38
Petri Nets	p. 39
Dependence Analysis	p. 43
Formal Functional Decomposition	p. 44
Summary	p. 46
References	p. 46
Software Evolution Process Meta-Model EPMM	p. 50
Introduction	p. 51
Properties of Software Evolution Processes	p. 52
Iteration in Software Evolution Processes	p. 52
Concurrency in Software Evolution Processes	p. 54
Version Concurrency	p. 54
Process Concurrency	p. 55
Sub-Process Concurrency	p. 55
Phase Concurrency	p. 56
Activity Concurrency	p. 56
Task Concurrency	p. 57
Static Component Definitions of EPMM	p. 57
Task	p. 58
Activity	p. 59
Software Process	p. 60
Example: Prototype Evolution Process Model	p. 61
Global Model	p. 63
Dynamic Component Definitions of EPMM	p. 64
Supports for Software Evolution Processes	p. 66
Summary	p. 67
References	p. 68
Software Evolution Process Description Language EPDL	p. 70
Introduction	p. 71
Survey of EPDL	p. 71
Design Goals	p. 71
Characteristics	p. 72
Program Structure	p. 73
Task	p. 74
Activity	p. 76
Software Process	p. 77
Global Model	p. 80
EPDL Program	p. 80
Example	p. 81
Summary	p. 82
References	p. 83
Framework of Software Evolution Processes	p. 85
Introduction	p. 86
Framework of Software Evolution Processes	p. 86
Steps for Modelling Software Evolution Processes	p. 88
Designing Global Models	p. 91
Evolution Process Descriptions	p. 92
Summary	p. 93
References	p. 93
Designing Processes and Activities	p. 95
Introduction	p. 96
Designing Processes	p. 96
Basic Blocks	p. 96
Software Process Package	p. 98
Procedure for Modelling Processes	p. 99
Designing Activities	p. 100
Reuse of Software Evolution Processes	p. 101
Reuse by Inheritance	p. 101
Reuse of Basic Blocks	p. 102
Reuse of Process Packages	p. 106
Summary	p. 107
References	p. 107
Designing Tasks	p. 109
Introduction	p. 110
Procedure of Designing Tasks	p. 111
Structures of Functional Decomposition	p. 111
Decomposition Rules	p. 113
Sequence Decomposition	p. 114
Selection Decomposition	p. 115
Repetition Decomposition	p. 116
Structure of the Knowledge Base	p. 117
The Case Base	p. 118
The Segment Base	p. 119
The Rule Base	p. 119
Decomposition	p. 119
The Decomposition Tree	p. 119
Match Between Two 2-Assertions	p. 120
The Decomposition Process	p. 121
Supports by Modellers	p. 122
Summary	p. 123
References	p. 124
Efficiency Improvement of the Software Evolution Processes	p. 125
Introduction	p. 126
Procedure of Efficiency Improvement	p. 127
Dependence Analysis Between Entities	p. 130
Constructing a Dependence Graph	p. 130
Localising Dependences	p. 131
Reconstructing Process Segments	p. 132
Preprocessing an ADG	p. 133
Transformation Rules	p. 136
Transformation Algorithm	p. 137
Examples	p. 138
Capturing Concurrency within an Activity	p. 140
Analysing Dependences Between Partition Blocks	p. 142
Extending Concurrency	p. 144
Reconstructing Software Processes	p. 146
Summary	p. 149
References	p. 149
Support Environment EPT	p. 151
Introduction	p. 152
Architecture of EPT	p. 153
File Depository	p. 154
Data Structures of EPDL Object Codes	p. 154
Other Data Structures	p. 156
Process Server	p. 158
Modelling Manager	p. 158
EPDL Compiler	p. 161
Runtime Manager	p. 161
User Interface and Message Server	p. 163
Summary	p. 165
References	p. 165
Case Studies	p. 166
Introduction	p. 167
First Case Study: The Waterfall Model	p. 168
Second Case Study: Three Software Processes Involved in Evolution	p. 170
Third Case Study: An Evolution Process of an Information Security System	p. 174
Background	p. 174
The Process of Modelling	p. 175
EPDL Program	p. 175
White Box Approach	p. 176
Black Box Approach	p. 179
Efficiency Improvement	p. 180
Fourth Case Study: The Maintenance Process of ISO/IEC 12207	p. 183
Background	p. 183
EPDL Program	p. 185
Activity: Process Implementation	p. 186
Activity: Problem and Modification Analysis	p. 187
Activity: Modification Implementation	p. 189
Activity: Maintenance Review/Acceptance	p. 190
Activity: Migration	p. 190
Activity: Software Retirement	p. 192
Summary	p. 194
References	p. 195
Conclusions	p. 196
Success Criteria Revisited	p. 196
Evaluations	p. 198
Comparison with Osterweil's Approach	p. 198
Comparison with Lehman's Approach	p. 200
Evaluations	p. 202
Summary	p. 202
Future Work	p. 204
Limitations	p. 204
Directions for Future Work	p. 205
References	p. 205
Index	p. 207
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