Towards a new approach on software process evolution

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach of software process evolution. This new approach deals with the evolution of both software process and their models in Process Centered Software Engineering Environments (PSEEs). These two types of evolution are complementary. The first one allows acting directly on the process during its execution. By appropriate update operations, it gives to the user the possibility to perfect his sofiare process through simulation and to define new software processes dynamically. The second one allows evolving software process models to satisfL new software engineering requirements (new software component types, new tool types, new agent types, etc). We provide an innovative approach which supports diflerent evolution strategies.

Using Process Mining Metrics to Measure Noisy Process Fidelity

“…Techniques and tools to address these difficulties are available, but current implementations focus on this specific application, thus they attempt to build a generic model for the whole lifecycle. The literature seems to implicitly favour the fact that a process is fixed over a time period, although techniques for managed process evolution have been discussed (Ahmed-Nacer, 2001) and a method has been presented to identify changes (Soto and Münch, 2007).…”