MDE software process lines in small companies
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Abstract
Software organizations specify their software processes so that process knowledge can be systematically
reused across projects. However, different projects may require different processes. Defining a separate
process for each potential project context is expensive and error-prone, since these processes must
simultaneously evolve in a consistent manner. Moreover, an organization cannot envision all possible
project contexts in advance because several variables may be involved, and these may also be combined
in different ways. This problem is even worse in small companies since they usually cannot afford to
define more than one process. Software process lines are a specific type of software product lines, in the
software process domain. A benefit of software process lines is that they allow software process customization
with respect to a context. In this article we propose a model-driven approach for software
process lines specification and configuration. The article also presents two industrial case studies carried
out at two small Chilean software development companies. Both companies have benefited from applying
our approach to their processes: new projects are now developed using custom processes, process
knowledge is systematically reused, and the total time required to customize a process is much shorter
than before.
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This work has been partly funded by project Fondef D09I1171
of Conicyt, Chile.
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URI: https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/126319
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The Journal of Systems and Software 86 (2013) 1153– 1171
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