Uma infraestrutura para consistência dos processos de software baseados no metamodelo SPEM 2.0

Abstract

The use of software development processes in the IT organizations has become common. This happens because the quality product is related to the process quality. The main interest of the IT companies is to adopt one or more well-defined software development processes and tailor them when necessary to meet the projects specific needs. However, since the amount of elements and relationships of a software development process is huge, defining and tailoring a software development process are not trivial activities. Inconsistencies may easily be introduced into a software development process when certain precautions are not taken. As a consequence, an inadequate software development process may be created to a software project causing errors during its enactment. Considering the need to avoid inconsistencies in a software development process, this research proposes a consistence infrastructure that enables defining and tailoring consistent software development processes based on SPEM 2.0 metamodel. The proposed infrastructure is composed by an extension to the SPEM 2.0 metamodel, a set of well-formedness rules related to the consistency of the software development processes and a tool prototype that supports automatically the proposed metamodel and well-formedness rules.