Software Process
Subtitle: Principles, Methodology, and Technology (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Jean-Claude Derniame (Editor); Badara A. Kaba (Editor); David Wastell (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: February 22, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9783540655169
Subjects: Software engineering; Software Development; General; Computers; Computers - Languages / Programming; Medical / Nursing; Programming - Software Development; Development; Programming - General; Management Information Systems; Computers / General; Software Lifecycle; Software Management; Software Process; Software Quality; Computer software
First sentence: Nowadays it is widely accepted that the quality of any product cannot be ensured simply by inspecting the product itself or by performing statistical quality control: quality is not only related to the product, but to the organisation and to the production process that is carried out.
Description: 1 Jean Claude Derniame Software process technology is an emerging and strategic area that has already reached a reasonable degree of maturity, delivering products and significant industrial expe riences. This technology aims at supporting the software production process by pro viding the means to model, analyse, improve, measure, and whenever it is reasonable and convenient, to automate software production activities. In recent years, this tech nology has proved to be effective in the support of many business activities not directly related to software production, but relying heavily on the concept of process (i. e. all the applications traditionally associated with workflow management). This book concentrates on the core technology of software processes, its principles and concepts as well as the technical aspect of software process support. The contributions to this book are the collective work of the Promoter 2 European Working Group. This grouping of 13 academic and 3 industrial partners is the suc cessor of Promoter, a working group responsible for creating a European software process community. Promoter 2 aims at exploiting this emerging community to collec tively develop remaining open issues, to coordinate activities and to assist in the dis semination of results. The title “Software Process Modelling and Technology” [Fink94] was produced during Promoter 1. Being “project based”, it presented the main findings and proposals of the different projects then being undertaken by the partners.