A unified framework for software process enactment and improvement

Most of the work previously carried out on software processes addressed the problem of modelling as a monolithic description focusing on one perspective e.g. product, process, role, etc. Little has been done to address the problem of software process improvement through the dynamic composition of consistent and reusable pre composed components. Our aim is to propose a new framework which integrates these aspects in a unified manner. This work is the result of five years' experience on the systems: Tempo/Adele and Opsis. In our framework we rely on a component based approach to build views which can be refined and expanded during enactment. Views are distributed entities which communicate using a dynamic connection protocol.