Tailoring and verifying software process

Abstract

Process tailoring and verification are very important since project-specific processes are tailored from an organizational process standard and many quality assurance activities are based on the process standard. However, existing research does not provide a systematic method for process tailoring and verification. In this paper, we propose a systematic method for formalizing a process standard clearly with encapsulated reusable process modules for tailoring and verifying tailored process. AAG (activity artifact graph) is used to represent and tailor each process module. Additionally, a prototype tool is implemented to support the proposed method. We believe that the proposed method is helpful in tailoring a process standard and verifying a tailored process.