Arcadia Papers: ABSTRACT
Process modeling and execution:
"Engineering Software Design Processes to Guide Process Execution",
by Xiping Song and Leon J. Osterweil in Technical Report 94-023,
Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994.
Abstract
Using systematic development processes is an important characteristic of
any mature engineering discipline. In current software practice, Software
Design Methodologies (SDMs) are intended to be used to help design
software more systematically. This paper explicitly shows, however, that
one well-known example of such an SDM, Booch Object Oriented Design (BOOD),
as described in the literature is far too vague to provide specific guidance
to designers, and is too imprecise and incomplete to be considered as a
fully systematic process for specific projects.
To provide more effective and appropriate guidance and control in software
design processes, we applied the process programming concept to the design
process. Given two different sets of plausible process requirements, we
elaborated two more detailed and precise design processes that are
responsive to these requirements. We have also implemented, experimented
with, and evaluated a prototype (called Debus-Booch) that supports the
execution of these detailed processes.
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