A UNIFIED APPROACH FOR SOFTWARE PROCESS REPRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS

Vassilis C. Gerogiannis, George Kakarontzas, Ioannis Stamelos

2006

Abstract

This paper presents a unified approach for software process management which combines object-oriented (OO) structures with formal models based on (high-level timed) Petri nets. This pairing may be proved beneficial not only for the integrated representation of software development processes, human resources and work products, but also in analysing properties and detecting errors of a software process specification, before the process is put to actual use. The use of OO models provides the advantages of graphical abstraction, high- level of understanding and manageable representation of software process classes and instances. Resulted OO models are mechanically transformed into a high-level timed Petri net representation to derive a model for formally proving process properties as well as applying managerial analysis. We demonstrate the applicability of our approach by addressing a simple software process modelling example problem used in the literature to exercise various software process modelling notations.

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in Harvard Style

C. Gerogiannis V., Kakarontzas G. and Stamelos I. (2006). A UNIFIED APPROACH FOR SOFTWARE PROCESS REPRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-972-8865-69-6, pages 127-132. DOI: 10.5220/0001317201270132

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft06,
author={Vassilis C. Gerogiannis and George Kakarontzas and Ioannis Stamelos},
title={A UNIFIED APPROACH FOR SOFTWARE PROCESS REPRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2006},
pages={127-132},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001317201270132},
isbn={978-972-8865-69-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - A UNIFIED APPROACH FOR SOFTWARE PROCESS REPRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
SN - 978-972-8865-69-6
AU - C. Gerogiannis V.
AU - Kakarontzas G.
AU - Stamelos I.
PY - 2006
SP - 127
EP - 132
DO - 10.5220/0001317201270132