Autoria de artefatos de software

Abstract

In the context of software engineering, software process defines a set of activities, roles , and artifacts that are used throughout a software product life-cycle. However, these processes represent artifacts as monolithic documents of loosely structured information. This occurs due to the fact that the artifact construction is developed through text processing tools, leading to problems in the computation of the structure, in the organization, and in the content, since it limits the potential formalization of the used artifacts. In this context, the challenge is to build software artifacts through tools that work with a higher level of formalization. In this sense, we present an approach which aims to represent software artifacts in a structured way, slicing artifacts in two levels: structure and content . Besides, this work also helps to present artifacts as a generic process independent source. In the literature, this is known as separated method definition and process structure use . Therefore, our approach consists in using a different paradigm for artifact manipulation, trying to increase the information control at the software development process authoring and definition phase.