Techniques for process model evolution in EPOS
IEEE Transactions on Software EngineeringPublished 1 January 1993
Letizia Jaccheri, Reidar Conradi
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The authors categorize some aspects of software process evolution and customization, and describe how they are handled in the EPOS PM system, and compare it to other PM systems.
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The authors categorize some aspects of software process evolution and customization, and describe how they are handled in the EPOS PM system. Comparisons are made to other PM systems. A process model in EPOS consists of a schema of classes and meta-classes, and its model entities and relationships. There is an underlying software engineering database, EPOSDB, offering uniform versioning of all model parts and a context of nested cooperating transactions. Then, there is a reflective object-oriented process specification language, on top of the EPOSDB. Policies for model creation, composition, change, instantiation, refinement, and enaction are explicitly represented and are used by a set of PM automatic tools. The main tools are a planner to instantiate tasks, an execution manager to enact such tasks, and a PM manager to define, analyze, customize, and evolve the process schema.>
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