Supporting Software Processes Using Knowledge Management

Kneuper, Ralf

doi:10.1142/9789812389701_0025

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“…The relationship between software development processes and KM has also been examined, eliciting a distinction between formalising and automating software processes using KM [28]. It is argued that KM in SE assists software developers in defining software processes, pursuing a process-oriented approach and improving and adapting existing software processes for future use.…”

Section: The Role Of Km In Software Development Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating Knowledge Management practices in software development organisations – An Australian experience

Aurum¹,

Daneshgar²,

Ward³

2008

Information and Software Technology

120

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Section: The Role Of Km In Software Development Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating Knowledge Management practices in software development organisations – An Australian experience

Aurum¹,

Daneshgar²,

Ward³

2008

Information and Software Technology

120

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“…The knowledge needed to support software processes includes an overview of the processes used, descriptions of the tasks to be performed and the artifacts to be produced, the development method used, knowledge about best practices and lessons learned, and other knowledge needed for software development [2]. -Developers will need the overview of the processes to identify position of their work fits, interfaces to other developers.…”

Section: Knowledge In Software Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) [2], [12], [19] is the standard from Object Management Group (OMG) that supports ontology development and conceptual modeling in several standard representation languages. However, since it presents a coherent framework based on principles and standards of Meta Object Facility (MOF) [13] and Model Driven Architecture (MDA), it has an important advantage of enabling the use of graphical modeling capabilities of UML for ontology development.…”

Section: A Ontology Definition Metamodelmentioning

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Knowledge in software life cycle

Havlice

Kunstar

Adamuscinova

et al. 2009

2009 7th International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics

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Nowadays, knowledge about design and implementation models of current version of software system and also knowledge about application domain of software system are important for software engineering processes related to design, management, maintenance and modification of software system. Utilization of proper knowledge can streamline and speed up each phase of software system life cycle and increase quality of outcome software and length of its operation. This paper briefly analyzes types of knowledge which could be utilized in software development and maintenance process and the ways how they can be acquired and stored. Proposed modeldriven maintenance is based on utilization of knowledge acquired from abstract models of software system, which could be used as easy readable and understandable source of essential knowledge for maintenance process. The paper also analyzes the need of representing the knowledge about application domain in form of ontologies and the possibilities of using OMG specification of Ontology Definition Metamodel as a basis for development of these ontologies.

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“…Among software patterns there are process patterns. The concept of process pattern was first introduced by Coplien at the 1994 PLoP conference, in the sense of patterns that capture process knowledge. Later, Ambler defines a process pattern as follows: describing a proven, successful approach and/or series of actions for developing software.…”

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Reusing process patterns in software process models modification

Hachemi

Mohamed

2018

J Software Evolu Process

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Process patterns offer proven solutions to reuse in process modeling. This reuse can take many forms; however, we are particularly interested in the form where patterns are merged with already existing process models to enrich or to correct them to satisfy certain constraints or to increase their efficiency.We aim through the present work to propose an approach that proceeds the merging automatically. The difficulty is that some conflicts may arise between the pattern being reused and the model being modified, resulting in an incoherent process model. We start this work by studying possible conflicts (especially that of first order), which can be encountered when merging, and then we propose an algorithm ensuring the automatic reuse and managing these conflicts. We highlight through a comparison the benefits of our proposal.The difficulty of patterns reuse to modify existing models gives rise to very few works in the literature. Our approach aims to offer a possible solution that ensures conflicts management.Automating such form of reuse will enhance patterns exploitation within the software community, as well as it will open many perspectives based on process models merging. KEYWORDSfirst-order conflict, model merging, pattern reuse, process model, process pattern 1 | INTRODUCTION Software products are becoming more and more rich and complex, and their use reaches more and more areas. The trend was summarized succinctly in Andreessen 1 : software is eating the world. The dual challenge of software engineering is that of quality and productivity. This creates a context where software patterns emerge as a powerful mean, offering reusable proven solutions to overcome these challenges. The scale of published patterns is however reaching a point where the need for tools to find, understand, and apply patterns becomes a critical requirement. 2 Among software patterns there are process patterns. The concept of process pattern was first introduced by Coplien 3 at the 1994 PLoP conference, 4-7 in the sense of patterns that capture process knowledge. Later, Ambler 8 defines a process pattern as follows: describing a proven, successful approach and/or series of actions for developing software.It is known in software engineering that to improve the developed product it is important to master its development process. [9][10][11] This leads the concept of process model to appear, such model is a detailed representation of software development real-world activities, using a process modeling language. Thus, "methods and processes along with the tools supporting them are at the heart of software engineering." 12 Besides, process improvement is nowadays a challenge to improve software quality and productivity, 13 and even small companies are interested in process models to keep up their competitiveness by improving their products quality. 14 Consequently, process patterns as they concern process models became relevant elements in software engineering. In the present work, we are interested in process patterns, which are called in...

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Supporting Software Processes Using Knowledge Management

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Investigating Knowledge Management practices in software development organisations – An Australian experience

Investigating Knowledge Management practices in software development organisations – An Australian experience

Knowledge in software life cycle

Reusing process patterns in software process models modification

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