Automated Support for Defining Software Processes at Levels

• Gleidson Bertollo UFES
• Ricardo de Almeida Falbo UFES

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2003.15693

Abstract

An important requirement for software quality is to define and follow a software development process. However, software process definition is a complex task. Processes should be defined for each case, considering the application characteristics, the development team and the technology to be applied. Although different projects require processes with specific features in order to regard its peculiarities, it is possible to establish a set of software process assets for use in software process definition. This collection of software process assets is called standard software process. This way, software process definition can be done in different levels of abstraction. First, a standard software process is defined for the organization. Based on the organizational software process, specialized standard processes can be defined considering certain paradigm, technology or domain application. Finally, project processes can be instantiated from standard processes. This paper presents a tool that supports this leveled approach to software process definition. This tool is integrated to a software engineering environment.

Keywords: Software Process, Standard Software Process, Software Engineering Environment

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