Software Process

Principles, Methodology, and Technology

By: Jean-Claude Derniame (Editor), Badara A. Kaba (Editor), David Wastell (Editor)

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1 Jean Claude Derniame Software process technology is an emerging and strategic area that has already reached a reasonable degree of maturity, delivering products and significant industrial expe riences. This technology aims at supporting the software production process by pro viding the means to model, analyse, improve, measure, and whenever it is reasonable and convenient, to automate software production activities. In recent years, this tech nology has proved to be effective in the support of many business activities not directly related to software production, but relying heavily on the concept of process (i. e. all the applications traditionally associated with workflow management). This book concentrates on the core technology of software processes, its principles and concepts as well as the technical aspect of software process support. The contributions to this book are the collective work of the Promoter 2 European Working Group. This grouping of 13 academic and 3 industrial partners is the suc cessor of Promoter, a working group responsible for creating a European software process community. Promoter 2 aims at exploiting this emerging community to collec tively develop remaining open issues, to coordinate activities and to assist in the dis semination of results. The title "Software Process Modelling and Technology" [Fink94] was produced during Promoter 1. Being "project based", it presented the main findings and proposals of the different projects then being undertaken by the partners.

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The Software Process: Modelling and Technology	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
The Perspective of this Book	p. 2
Processes and Process Models	p. 3
A Simple Example: Software Change	p. 5
Process Modelling	p. 7
Basic Elements	p. 7
Process Model Levels	p. 8
Process Model Views	p. 9
Process-sensitive Software Engineering Environments	p. 10
Meta-Process	p. 11
Conclusion	p. 12
Software Process - Standards, Assessments and Improvement	p. 15
Introduction	p. 15
Standard Processes	p. 16
ISO 9000-3	p. 16
PSS-05	p. 17
ISO-12207	p. 18
Assessment Methods	p. 19
The Capability Maturity Model	p. 19
Bootstrap	p. 21
SPICE	p. 21
Summary	p. 22
Improvement Methods	p. 22
Quality Improvement Paradigm	p. 22
The Personal Software Process	p. 23
Total Quality Management	p. 24
Standards and Software Process Technology	p. 25
Process Modelling Languages	p. 27
Introduction	p. 27
Requirements on Process Modelling Languages	p. 28
Process Elements	p. 29
PML Requirements and Meta-process Phases	p. 31
Possible PML Technologies from Other Languages/Domains	p. 34
Project Management	p. 34
Formal Specification Languages	p. 34
Informal Design Notations	p. 35
Programming Languages	p. 35
Database Languages	p. 35
CASE Tools and Tool Integration Mechanisms	p. 35
WorkFlow and Groupware	p. 35
The PML Design Dilemma: One or Many PMLs?	p. 36
Process Modelling Languages in the Promoter Context	p. 38
The Survey Method	p. 38
EPOS SPELL	p. 39
SOCCA	p. 39
Merlin	p. 40
OIKOS	p. 41
ALF	p. 41
ADELE-TEMPO	p. 42
SPADE	p. 42
PEACE+	p. 43
E3	p. 44
PADM	p. 44
Discussion	p. 45
Other PMLs	p. 47
APPL/A	p. 47
MARVEL	p. 48
Process Weaver	p. 49
Possible Groups of PMLs and PSEEs	p. 50
Conclusion	p. 51
Meta-Process	p. 53
Introduction	p. 53
Overview	p. 53
Meta-Process and Quality Improvement	p. 55
Existing Meta-Processes	p. 56
Requirements for a Meta-Process	p. 59
A Model of the Meta-Process	p. 61
Introduction	p. 61
Control and Problem Solving	p. 61
Consistency Management	p. 63
Task Decomposition	p. 65
Method Specialisation	p. 66
Remarks on the Model	p. 66
PROMOTER Reference Model (PRM)	p. 67
Model Structure	p. 67
Method Specialisation	p. 70
Task Decomposition	p. 71
Consistency Management	p. 72
Validation of the PRM with Respect to Requirements	p. 73
Empirical Justification of PRM	p. 74
Introduction	p. 74
The Customisation of PRM as QIP	p. 74
The Customisation of PRM as PRISM	p. 76
The Customisation of PRM as "Process Life-cycle"	p. 76
Experience from Empirical Justification	p. 78
Validation with respect to CMM	p. 80
Introduction	p. 80
Consistency Management	p. 81
Task Decomposition View	p. 81
Method Specialisation View	p. 85
Validation of PRM with respect to Implementation	p. 86
Introduction	p. 86
Process Wise Integrator	p. 86
The Model	p. 87
The Scenario	p. 87
Conclusion	p. 90
Requirements	p. 91
Managing the Process Improvement Process	p. 91
Looking at other Meta-Processes	p. 91
Why Use a PRM?	p. 92
The Way Forward	p. 92
Architectural Views and Alternatives	p. 95
Basic Components	p. 95
A Reference Model for Architectures in PSEEs	p. 95
Dialog Management	p. 96
Process Management	p. 98
Workspace Management	p. 99
Repository Management	p. 100
Communication Management	p. 105
Tools	p. 106
Architectures for Distributed PSEEs	p. 107
Determinant Requirements on Architectures for Distributed PSEEs	p. 107
Architectural Alternatives for Distributed PSEEs	p. 108
Example Architecture: The Distributed PSEE Merlin	p. 111
Instance View on the Merlin Architecture	p. 111
Type View on the Merlin Architecture	p. 111
Cooperation Control in PSEE	p. 117
Introduction	p. 117
Objective	p. 117
An Illustrative Example	p. 118
Organisation of the Chapter	p. 123
Moving from Traditional to Advanced Applications	p. 123
ACID Properties	p. 123
From ACID to Non-ACID	p. 124
From Flat to Nested	p. 124
From Closed to Open	p. 124
Hierarchical versus Layered	p. 125
Homogeneous versus Heterogeneous	p. 125
From Transient to Persistent	p. 125
Available Advanced Transaction Models	p. 125
Summary and Analysis	p. 131
Impact of Cooperation Control on the Architecture of PSEE	p. 133
Impact of the Repository on Consistency Maintenance	p. 135
Workspaces: an Abstract Level to Support Flexibility	p. 136
Predefined Synchronisation Strategies Layer	p. 138
The Knowledge Management Layer	p. 139
The Interface Layer	p. 140
Current Work	p. 141
The COO System	p. 141
The MERLIN System	p. 148
The ADELE System	p. 153
The SPADE System	p. 158
Other Facets of Cooperation	p. 164
Conclusion	p. 164
The Human Dimension of the Software Process	p. 165
Introduction	p. 165
Three Organisational Contexts of Software Development	p. 166
In-house Development in "ACME Stores": the Fetish of Methodology	p. 166
Case B: Implementing Quality Management in a Software House (Columbine)	p. 168
Case C: User Involvement in the Development of a Medical Workstation	p. 169
General Remarks on the Cases	p. 171
The Social Dynamics of the Software Process	p. 172
MIS Research on the Software Process	p. 172
The Contribution of Software Psychology	p. 176
Process Modelling and Enactment: Some Practical Experiences	p. 179
The Human Role in the Software Process: Dowson's framework	p. 182
Dowson's Framework	p. 182
User Interaction	p. 184
User Interaction, Learning and the Meta-Process	p. 186
Interpersonal Interaction	p. 187
A Human-Centred Approach to Software Process Support	p. 189
The Need for an "Ecological Approach" in Software Process Research	p. 190
Synergy with Computer Supported Cooperative Work	p. 191
The Limits of the Process Enactment Paradigm	p. 192
The Software Process is a Learning Process	p. 194
Conclusion	p. 196
Software Process: Key Issues and Future Directions	p. 201
Introduction	p. 201
Summary of Key Issues	p. 201
Process Modelling Languages	p. 202
The Meta-Process	p. 202
PSEE Architecture	p. 203
Cooperation Control	p. 204
Social Aspects	p. 205
Wider Applications	p. 207
Future Trends	p. 210
Evolution of Software Development Practice	p. 210
Technology Evolution	p. 211
Application Domain Evolution	p. 212
Appendix
Lifecycle (Sub) Process Demonstration Scenario (ISPW 9)	p. 217
Background	p. 217
Introduction	p. 217
Problem Reporting and Change Process	p. 218
Sub-scenarios	p. 219
Annotated Bibliography on PSEE/PML	p. 223
PMLs	p. 223
Japanese and American PSEEs	p. 223
European PSEEs	p. 223
Case Study Demonstrating the Wider Applicability of the PSEE Paradigm	p. 227
Introduction	p. 227
Informal Formulation of the Example	p. 227
A Preliminary Discussion of the Example	p. 228
A First Level of Process Modelling	p. 230
A Top-Down LCPS Model for the Example Process	p. 235
Discussion of the Example Process Models	p. 239
Conclusion	p. 243
Assessment Framework for PSEEs	p. 245
Product	p. 246
Activity	p. 248
Workspace	p. 254
Cooperation	p. 257
Process and Meta-process Support	p. 263
Process Tracking and Time Constraints	p. 268
Human and Social Aspects: Costs and Benefits	p. 273
Glossary	p. 277
References	p. 281
Index	p. 305
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