A Process Definition Language For Guiding Multiuser Design

有效的流程对制造业、政府、工程和管理都是至关重要的。在所有这些领域，更好地理解和控制关键过程可以提高效率。在过去的15年里，人们也认识到过程是软件开发的基础，有效地控制过程可以带来类似的好处，例如改善理解、协调、效率和自动化。人们希望这将导致软件开发成本的降低，软件产品质量的提高，以及软件开发时间的缩短。我们的假设是，通过建立支持更有效软件生产的过程技术的科学基础，可以加速实现这些目标的进展。该研究项目将导致对Little-Jil过程定义语言和Juliet解释器的必要改进的发展。这些改进将通过编制和运行有效整合人类活动和计算机自动化的多用户迭代软件设计过程来验证。这些过程本身应该具有相当大的价值。此外，它们的开发将加强和验证Little-Jil过程语言，从而使人们更清楚地了解对有效过程定义语言的根本要求。

Effective processes are of fundamental importance to manufacturing,government, engineering, and management. In all of these areas greaterunderstanding and control of key processes can lead to improvedeffectiveness. For the past 15 years, it has also been recognized thatprocesses are fundamental to software development, and that effectivecontrol of processes can lead to similar benefits, such as improvedunderstanding, coordination, efficiency, and automation. It has been hopedthat this would lead to reductions in software development cost,improvements in software product quality, and reductions in softwaredevelopment time. Our hypothesis is that progress towards these goals canbe speeded by establishing a scientific basis upon which to build theprocess technologies that will support more effective software production.This research project will lead to the development of needed improvementsto the Little-JIL process definition language, and the Julietteinterpreter. These improvements will be validated by programming andrunning multiuser, iterative software design processes that are effectivein integrating the activities of humans and computer automation. Theseprocesses should be of considerable value in themselves. Theirdevelopment, moreover, will sharpen and validate the Little-JIL processlanguage, resulting in clearer understandings of the underlyingrequirements for effective process definition languages.