Business oriented software understanding, development and evolution

业务需求的快速变化迫使组织重新设计他们的业务过程，并发展他们的支持软件系统。软件的敏捷性和可发展性在软件生命周期的各个阶段变得越来越重要。如果忽略了这些特征，软件系统将会恶化，最终将被放弃并重写，这将给其拥有的组织带来巨大的成本。我们研究的目标是支持长寿命软件系统的理解、开发和进化。具体来说，我们的研究旨在维护业务流程和源代码的一致性，并开发能够响应不断变化的业务流程的敏捷软件系统。此外，我们的研究将创造工具和技术，以确保软件系统的质量保持在令人满意的水平。

Rapid changes to business requirements are forcing organizations to reengineer their business processes and to evolve their supporting software systems. The agility and evolvability of software are becoming increasingly important at each stage of the software life cycle. If such characteristics are ignored, software systems will deteriorate and will eventually be abandoned and rewritten with large costs to their owning organization. The objective of our research is to support the understanding, development and evolution of long lived software systems. Specifically, our research aims to maintain the consistency of business processes and source code, and to develop agile software systems that are responsive to changing business processes. Moreover, our research will create tools and techniques to ensure that the quality of software systems remains at satisfactory levels.