Knowledge-Based Support for Process Centered Software Engineering

基于过程的软件开发工具和方法的一个关键问题是平衡对创新的需要与对过去经验和最佳实践的了解。实现这一平衡对于软件开发尤其重要，软件开发涉及开发需要持续过程调整的高度可变的产品。过去的工作集中在要么在高抽象级别创建流程框架以避免差异问题，要么使用流程语言组合细粒度的活动。这些方法错过了获取和重用流程知识作为未来开发工作的资源的重要机会。研究目标是：通过元建模工具推进基于知识的支持以过程为中心的软件工程的研究状况，这些工具能够构建各种组织级别的方法，这些方法可以为特定的开发工作量身定制。这些工具得到了基于经验的方法的补充，该方法捕获了开发实践，以不断细化和改进方法，以满足软件开发组织的新需求。采用混合的经验研究来调查过程即兴以及在开发过程中交付过程和产品知识来源的影响。这一战略将被用来评估创新的系统建设努力，并提高对软件开发实践的整体理解。

A critical issue for process-based software development tools and methodologies is to balance the need for innovation with knowledge of past experiences and best practices. Achieving this balance is particularly important for software development, which involves the development of a highly variable product requiring continuous process adjustments. Past work has focused on either creating process frameworks at a high level of abstraction that avoids issues of variance or composing fine-grained activities with process languages. These approaches miss important opportunities to capture and reuse process knowledge as a resource for future development efforts. The research objectives are to:Advance the state of research in knowledge-based support for process-centered software engineering through meta-modeling tools capable of constructing a variety of organization-level methodologies that can be tailored to specific development efforts. The tools are complemented by an experience-based approach that captures development practices to continuously refine and improve the methodology to meet emerging needs of software development organizations.Employ a mixture of empirical studies to investigate process improvisation and the impact of delivering process and product knowledge sources during the development process. This strategy will be used to both evaluate innovative system building efforts and improve the overall understanding of software development practices.