{"title":"Component-based software process support","authors":"K. Gary, T. Lindquist, H. Koehnemann, J. Derniame","doi":"10.1109/ASE.1998.732637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.1998.732637","url":null,"abstract":"Only recently has the research community started to consider how to make software process models interoperable and reusable. The task is difficult Software processes are inherently creative and dynamic difficult to define and repeat at an enactable level of detail. Additionally, interoperability and reusability have not been considered important issues. Recent interoperability and reusability solutions advocate the development of standard process model representations based on common concepts or generic schemas, which are used as a basis for translating between heterogeneous process representations. The authors propose an alternative approach through the development of process-based components. They present the Open Process Components Framework, a component based framework for software process modeling. In this approach, process models are constructed as sets of components which interact in meaningful ways. Interoperability and reuse are obtained through encapsulation of process representations, an explicit representation of process state, and an extendable set of class relationships.","PeriodicalId":306519,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 13th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (Cat. No.98EX239)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125715653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management of evolving specifications using category theory","authors":"V. Wiels, S. Easterbrook","doi":"10.1109/ASE.1998.732561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASE.1998.732561","url":null,"abstract":"Structure is important in large specifications for understanding, testing and managing change. Category theory has been explored as framework for providing this structure, and has been successfully used to compose specifications. This work has typically adopted a \"correct-by-construction\" approach: components are specified, proved correct and then composed together in such a way as to preserve their properties. However, in a large project, it is desirable to be able to mix specification and composition steps such that, at any particular moment in the process, we may have established only some of the properties of the components and some of the composition relations. In this paper, we propose adaptations to the categorical framework in order to manage evolving specifications. We demonstrate the utility of the framework on the analysis of a part of a software change request for the Space Shuttle.","PeriodicalId":306519,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 13th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (Cat. No.98EX239)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127530087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}