The SMART approach for software process engineering

Abstract

Describes a methodology for software process engineering and an environment, SMART, that supports it. SMART supports a process life-cycle that includes the modeling, analysis, and execution of software processes. SMART's process monitoring capabilities can be used to provide feedback from the process execution to the process model. SMART represents the integration of three separately developed process mechanisms, and it uses two modeling formalisms (object-oriented data representation and imperative-style programming language) to bridge the gap between process modeling, analysis, and execution. SMART demonstrates the meta-environment concept, using a process modeling formalism as input specification to a generator that produces process-centered software engineering environments (PSEEs). Furthermore, SMART supports a team-oriented approach for process modeling, analysis, and execution.<>