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An MDE approach to software process tailoring

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Julio A. Hurtado Alegría,

María Cecilia Bastarrica,

Alcides Quispe,

Sergio F. OchoaAuthors Info & Claims

ICSSP '11: Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Software and Systems Process

Pages 43 - 52

https://doi.org/10.1145/1987875.1987885

Published: 21 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

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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An MDE approach to software process tailoring
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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ICSSP '11: Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Software and Systems Process

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DOI:10.1145/1987875

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