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Supporting collaborative development using process models: an integration-focused approach

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Komlan Akpédjé Kedji,

Redouane Lbath,

Bernard Coulette,

Mahmoud Nassar,

Laurent Baresse,

Florin RacaruAuthors Info & Claims

ICSSP '12: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software and System Process

Pages 120 - 129

Published: 02 June 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Software engineering projects are highly collaborative. Existing tools designed to support collaboration usually provide some specific service, and integration with other tools using data and events. However, Process-Centered Software Engineering Environments have traditionally been designed with different assumptions. The process is usually considered as the central aspect of the software project, and used as a center of control. As a result, great emphasis has been placed on the ability of PSEEs to invoke other tools, or use data generated by other tools. However, the integration in the other direction, that is, the ability of other tools to query the data managed by PSEEs (the process model), and hook into their extensions points, has been largely ignored, as it is not compatible with the vision of the PSEE as the central orchestrator of project support tools. We argue that this view has hindered the widespread adoption of process-based collaboration support tools by incurring too much adoption and switching costs, and propose a new process-based collaboration support architecture, backed by a process metamodel, which can easily be integrated with existing tools.

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ICSSP '12: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software and System Process

June 2012

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ISBN:9781467323529

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University of New South Wales, Australia
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Mayr-Dorn CVierhauser MBichler SKeplinger FCleland-Huang JEgyed AMehofer T(2021)Supporting Quality Assurance with Automated Process-Centric Quality Constraints CheckingProceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00118(1298-1310)Online publication date: 22-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00118
Mayr-Dorn CBichler SKeplinger FEgyed AJuristo N(2021)Guiding engineers with the passive process engine environmentProceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings10.1109/ICSE-Companion52605.2021.00033(49-52)Online publication date: 25-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICSE-Companion52605.2021.00033
Krismayer TMayr-Dorn CTuder JRabiser RGrünbacher PSutton SArmbrust OHebig R(2019)Using constraint mining to analyze software development processesProceedings of the International Conference on Software and System Processes10.1109/ICSSP.2019.00021(94-103)Online publication date: 25-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICSSP.2019.00021

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