Pub Date : 2012-06-02DOI: 10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225981
Raquel M. Pillat, T. Oliveira, Fabio L. Fonseca
BPMN 2.0 is a widely used notation to model business process that has associated tools and techniques to facilitate process management, execution and monitoring. As a result using BPMN to model Software Development Process (SDP) can leverage on the BPMN's infrastructure to improve SDP quality. Nevertheless, when using BPMN to model Software Processes one can observe the lack of an important feature: means to represent process tailoring. This article introduces the BPMNt, a conservative extension to BPMN that aims at aggregating a tailoring representation mechanism as the one found at SPEM 2.0. BPMNt uses the extensibility classes already present in the BPMN meta-model. Our work also presents an example to illustrate the approach.
{"title":"Introducing Software Process Tailoring to BPMN: BPMNt","authors":"Raquel M. Pillat, T. Oliveira, Fabio L. Fonseca","doi":"10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225981","url":null,"abstract":"BPMN 2.0 is a widely used notation to model business process that has associated tools and techniques to facilitate process management, execution and monitoring. As a result using BPMN to model Software Development Process (SDP) can leverage on the BPMN's infrastructure to improve SDP quality. Nevertheless, when using BPMN to model Software Processes one can observe the lack of an important feature: means to represent process tailoring. This article introduces the BPMNt, a conservative extension to BPMN that aims at aggregating a tailoring representation mechanism as the one found at SPEM 2.0. BPMNt uses the extensibility classes already present in the BPMN meta-model. Our work also presents an example to illustrate the approach.","PeriodicalId":166836,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124944003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-02DOI: 10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225982
Ingolf Krüger, M. Menarini, Filippo Seracini, M. Fuchs, J. Kohl
We present a vision for the evolution of automotive diagnostics as car electronics are increasingly implemented as distributed systems. We first analyze the state of the art in the automotive development process, and we identify how distributed functionality challenges this process and leads to higher development and field maintenance costs. To address these challenges, we propose a modified development process that leverages a model-based approach. Finally, we outline future research directions for car diagnostics.
{"title":"Improving the development process for automotive diagnostics","authors":"Ingolf Krüger, M. Menarini, Filippo Seracini, M. Fuchs, J. Kohl","doi":"10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225982","url":null,"abstract":"We present a vision for the evolution of automotive diagnostics as car electronics are increasingly implemented as distributed systems. We first analyze the state of the art in the automotive development process, and we identify how distributed functionality challenges this process and leads to higher development and field maintenance costs. To address these challenges, we propose a modified development process that leverages a model-based approach. Finally, we outline future research directions for car diagnostics.","PeriodicalId":166836,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121315455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-02DOI: 10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225980
F. R. Golra, F. Dagnat
Multi-metamodel application development processes have to deal with specific needs including flexible support for structured artifacts like models, multi-layered modeling support and dynamic process updates. In order to deal with the requirements of dynamic process updates and multi-layered modeling support, we propose to model the processes in multiple abstraction levels. The use of conditions on structured artifacts, considered as models, allows enhanced activity interactions, specifically for iterative interactions. This endeavor presented as CAMA Process Modeling Framework (CPMF) counts towards the greater goal of automation of software development processes in the future.
{"title":"Generation of dynamic process models for multi-metamodel applications","authors":"F. R. Golra, F. Dagnat","doi":"10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225980","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-metamodel application development processes have to deal with specific needs including flexible support for structured artifacts like models, multi-layered modeling support and dynamic process updates. In order to deal with the requirements of dynamic process updates and multi-layered modeling support, we propose to model the processes in multiple abstraction levels. The use of conditions on structured artifacts, considered as models, allows enhanced activity interactions, specifically for iterative interactions. This endeavor presented as CAMA Process Modeling Framework (CPMF) counts towards the greater goal of automation of software development processes in the future.","PeriodicalId":166836,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116344385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-02DOI: 10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225987
A. Affleck, A. Krishna
A long standing problem in software engineering is inadequate requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation and management. The lack of well defined requirements is one of the major causes of project failure. Several well-known techniques and frameworks have been developed to deal with the functional aspect of requirements engineering. Recent years have also seen the emergence of frameworks that incorporate non-functional requirements. The Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) Framework models non-functional requirements and associated implementation methods. This paper presents a process-orientated, lightweight, quantitative extension to the NFR Framework; focusing on providing quantitative support to the decision process and how decisions affect the system.
{"title":"Supporting quantitative reasoning of non-functional requirements: A process-oriented approach","authors":"A. Affleck, A. Krishna","doi":"10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225987","url":null,"abstract":"A long standing problem in software engineering is inadequate requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation and management. The lack of well defined requirements is one of the major causes of project failure. Several well-known techniques and frameworks have been developed to deal with the functional aspect of requirements engineering. Recent years have also seen the emergence of frameworks that incorporate non-functional requirements. The Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) Framework models non-functional requirements and associated implementation methods. This paper presents a process-orientated, lightweight, quantitative extension to the NFR Framework; focusing on providing quantitative support to the decision process and how decisions affect the system.","PeriodicalId":166836,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133662295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-02DOI: 10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225983
Nupul Kukreja, B. Boehm
Avoiding a major source of system and software project failures by finding more non-technical-user friendly methods of system definition and evolution has been a significant challenge. Five generations of the WinWin negotiation framework have improved such capabilities, but even the latest WikiWinWin toolset has encountered problems with non-technical stakeholder usage. With the advent of social networking and popularity of Facebook and Gmail, we have developed a radically different way for collaborative requirements management and negotiations. The new avatar of the WinWin framework called `Winbook' is based on the social networking paradigm, similar to Facebook and content organization using color coded labels, similar to Gmail. Initial usage results on 14 small projects involving non-technical stakeholders have shown profound implications on the way requirements are negotiated and used through the system and software definition and development processes. Winbook has also been adopted as part of a project to bridge requirements and architecting for a major US government organization.
{"title":"Process implications of social networking-based requirements negotiation tools","authors":"Nupul Kukreja, B. Boehm","doi":"10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225983","url":null,"abstract":"Avoiding a major source of system and software project failures by finding more non-technical-user friendly methods of system definition and evolution has been a significant challenge. Five generations of the WinWin negotiation framework have improved such capabilities, but even the latest WikiWinWin toolset has encountered problems with non-technical stakeholder usage. With the advent of social networking and popularity of Facebook and Gmail, we have developed a radically different way for collaborative requirements management and negotiations. The new avatar of the WinWin framework called `Winbook' is based on the social networking paradigm, similar to Facebook and content organization using color coded labels, similar to Gmail. Initial usage results on 14 small projects involving non-technical stakeholders have shown profound implications on the way requirements are negotiated and used through the system and software definition and development processes. Winbook has also been adopted as part of a project to bridge requirements and architecting for a major US government organization.","PeriodicalId":166836,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP)","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121503058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-02DOI: 10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225957
Sujin Choi, Dae-Kyoo Kim, S. Park
Software process assessment methods such as SCAMPI and ISO 15504-2 provide an assessment framework for evaluating the current practice of software development organizations. Strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations are core results of process assessment to be used as a basis for process improvement. While the existing models provide concrete methods for identifying strengths and weaknesses of process, they lack detailed approaches to building recommendations, which are crucial in developing strategic improvement plans. This makes it difficult for the assessment team to develop constructive recommendations, which has consequently negative impact on the quality of process improvement. To address this, we present a systematic method for developing recommendations based on a capability-based reference model (e.g., CMMI, SPICE). The presented method is evaluated using real assessment data from industry and the results show the potential of the method.
{"title":"ReMo: A recommendation model for software process improvement","authors":"Sujin Choi, Dae-Kyoo Kim, S. Park","doi":"10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225957","url":null,"abstract":"Software process assessment methods such as SCAMPI and ISO 15504-2 provide an assessment framework for evaluating the current practice of software development organizations. Strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations are core results of process assessment to be used as a basis for process improvement. While the existing models provide concrete methods for identifying strengths and weaknesses of process, they lack detailed approaches to building recommendations, which are crucial in developing strategic improvement plans. This makes it difficult for the assessment team to develop constructive recommendations, which has consequently negative impact on the quality of process improvement. To address this, we present a systematic method for developing recommendations based on a capability-based reference model (e.g., CMMI, SPICE). The presented method is evaluated using real assessment data from industry and the results show the potential of the method.","PeriodicalId":166836,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116031438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-02DOI: 10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225967
He Zhang
Software Process Simulation (SPS) has been evolving in the last decades and gained researchers' and practitioners' interests in software process community. However, the growth of SPS seems slow down in recent years, and the evidence for its benefits to industrial practice is not commonly reported as expected. SPS still awaits a breakthrough success. This special panel aims to initiate a discussion on the challenges faced SPS and the solutions to tackling the problems, and to work out a research agenda for future advance of SPS.
{"title":"Special panel: Software Process Simulation — At a crossroads?","authors":"He Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225967","url":null,"abstract":"Software Process Simulation (SPS) has been evolving in the last decades and gained researchers' and practitioners' interests in software process community. However, the growth of SPS seems slow down in recent years, and the evidence for its benefits to industrial practice is not commonly reported as expected. SPS still awaits a breakthrough success. This special panel aims to initiate a discussion on the challenges faced SPS and the solutions to tackling the problems, and to work out a research agenda for future advance of SPS.","PeriodicalId":166836,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP)","volume":"2 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113980287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-02DOI: 10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225952
P. Robillard, Mathieu Lavallée
A software development team must integrate many process perspectives imposed by the client, the organization, team management, and team dynamics. All these perspectives intermingle at the team process level. We propose a taxonomy to define the various episodes observed at this level and a useful vocabulary for reporting the observations made. Our taxonomy is based on a previous literature review performed in the business management field and adapted in this paper for the software engineering field. It was applied on existing data obtained from a real project carried out with an industrial partner. The vocabulary defined can accurately present team interactions, and may help diagnose communication breakdowns leading to project failures. The benefit of this approach is that it enables team process activities to be measured without reference to specific concepts related to perspectives other than that of the team process.
{"title":"Software team processes: A taxonomy","authors":"P. Robillard, Mathieu Lavallée","doi":"10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225952","url":null,"abstract":"A software development team must integrate many process perspectives imposed by the client, the organization, team management, and team dynamics. All these perspectives intermingle at the team process level. We propose a taxonomy to define the various episodes observed at this level and a useful vocabulary for reporting the observations made. Our taxonomy is based on a previous literature review performed in the business management field and adapted in this paper for the software engineering field. It was applied on existing data obtained from a real project carried out with an industrial partner. The vocabulary defined can accurately present team interactions, and may help diagnose communication breakdowns leading to project failures. The benefit of this approach is that it enables team process activities to be measured without reference to specific concepts related to perspectives other than that of the team process.","PeriodicalId":166836,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP)","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133761607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2012-06-02DOI: 10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225958
Elham Paikari, G. Ruhe, Prashanth Harish Southekel
RUP-based development has proven successful in various contexts. The iterative and phased development approach provides a framework for how to develop software efficiently and effectively. Yet, there are plenty of occasions that the projects go off-track in terms of the key parameters of the project such as quality, functionality, cost, and schedule. The challenge for the software project manager is to bring the project back on track. Simulation, in general, and system dynamics based simulation in particular, is established as a method to pro-actively evaluate possible scenarios and decisions. The main contribution of this paper is a method called SIM-DASH; it combines three established techniques for providing decision support to the software project manager in the context of RUP-based development. SIM-DASH consists of (i) a system dynamics modeling and simulation component for RUP-based construction, (ii) dashboard functionality providing aggregated and visualized information for comparing actual versus targeted performance, and (iii) knowledge and experience base describing possible actions that have proven successful in the past for how to bring a project back on track. As part of (iii), decision trees and experience-based guidelines are used. The interplay between these three components provides pre-evaluated actions for bringing the current project iteration back on track. As proof-of-concept, a case study is provided to illustrate the key steps of the method and to highlight its principal advantages. For this purpose, SIM-DASH was substantiated retrospectively for a real-world SAP web system development project within the banking field. While the method is applicable for different issues and scenarios, we study its impact for the specific issue of adding personnel to testing and/or development in order to ensure improved project performance to achieve established quality levels of feature development.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-02DOI: 10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225974
He Zhang
Software processes evolve as software too. The evolving software processes are adapted to accommodate the rapid progress and changes in software engineering practice. Software process simulation has to evolve as well in order to effectively investigate the evolving software processes. This article illustrates the evolution of software process and the resulting challenges to process simulation with two examples from experiences. From these come a list of recommendations for improving the state-of-the-practice of software process simulation.
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