Software Process Automation: The Technology and Its Adoption - Brossura

Christie, Alan M. M.

 
9783642792540: Software Process Automation: The Technology and Its Adoption

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Process automation can significantly improve software quality and software development productivity. This monograph reviews the technology and the products and provides adoption guidelines for potential users.

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1 Software Process Automation in Perspective.- 1.1 The Origins of Software Process Automation.- 1.2 Automation in a Process Improvement Context.- 1.3 A Process Development and Usage Scenario.- 2 Process Definition, Execution and Verification.- 2.1 Underlying Concepts.- 2.2 Process Definition and Executable Specification.- 2.3 The ProNet Graphical Modeling Language.- 2.4 Developing an Approach to Process Execution.- 2.5 Two Examples of Process Execution.- 2.6 Software Process Verification.- 2.7 Miscellaneous Issues.- 2.8 Summary.- 3 An Investigation into Process-Centered Environments.- 3.1 Setting a Context for PCEs.- 3.2 The Experimental Approach.- 3.3 The ProcessWeaver Experiment.- 3.4 The Synervision Experiment.- 3.5 End-User Role Plays.- 3.6 A Comparison of ProcessWeaver and Synervision.- 4 The Application of Process-Centered Environments.- 4.1 Why Use a Process-Centered Environment?.- 4.2 Issues Related to CASE and Process Improvement.- 4.3 Responses to Adopting New Technology.- 4.4 User-Oriented Issues with PCEs.- 4.5 A Transitioning Strategy.- 5 The Past, Present, and Future of Process Automation.- Appendix A The Process Enactment Program, ProSim.- A.1 The Process Controller Listing.- A.2 The codeDevel Process.- A3 The docUpdate Process.- Appendix B The Process Verification Program.- Appendix C Vendor Information on PCEs.- Appendix D Listing of SynerVision Experiment Script.- Appendix E Terminology and Concepts.- E.1 Basic Terminology.- E.2 Process-Related Concepts.- E.3 Relationship to the NIST/ECMA Reference Model.- Appendix F End-User Evaluation Materials.- References.

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