Capturing software processes through the generated objects

This paper mainly focusses on the representation of actual specification processes. However, the proposed scheme can be extended to the whole software process. The specification process is the sequence of operations required for building up a complete specification. Performing these operations mainly yields information objects that can be as various as informal statements, exploratory prototypes, test cases, axiomatic descriptions, user constraints for the elaboration process, etc. Thus, we propose to materialise the specification process through the representation of all the useful characteristics of these objects. The reason for this choice is the fact that objects are easier to comprehend than processes [Ost87].