Uma sistemática baseada no reuso de atividades para adaptação de processos de software utilizando linhas de processos de software

Abstract

Software process definition requires choosing the process elements that appropriately fulfil the tailoring requirements, such as to prevent risks or to satisfy quality goals. The selection of appropriate process elements is usually done manually, making this process complex, time-consuming and error-prone. Our main objective is to define a systematic approach to tailor software process and a tool support to simplify and to support the tailoring process, improving the selection process of reusable process elements. A systematic approach was developed to tailor the software process based on software architectures and process lines. The approach selects the most appropriate elements of processes according to the tailoring requirements. A web tool was developed to support the use of the proposed approach. Aiming to illustrate the approach proposed in this paper, an case study and an experiment were conducted. The case study describe projects with different characteristics and consequently are different generated tailoring processes. With experiment can be noted that the Software Process Line helped mainly in the sequencing process, optimizing resources and improving management process. The use of architecture provided the retrieval of a set of activities that have been prioritized according to the characterization of the project, defining required and optional elements and the accretion of tailoring requirements. Facilitating thus the adequacy of the process used for different contexts of projects. We concluded that the approach aids process engineer to make decisions for selecting a set of process elements suitable to the tailoring requirements and to the project context.