A deviation management system for handling software process enactment evolution

  • Authors:
  • Mohammed Kabbaj;Redouane Lbath;Bernard Coulette

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Toulouse II, IRIT, Toulouse Cedex 9, France;Université de Toulouse II, IRIT, Toulouse Cedex 9, France;Université de Toulouse II, IRIT, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

  • Venue:
  • ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

An important problem encountered in Process-centered Software EngineeringEnvironments (PSEE) is that software development processes aresubject to permanent evolution during enactment. Without managing evolution,PSEEs are condemned to fail in being adopted in software industry. This articlepresents an original approach to process enactment evolution, based on formalmanagement of process deviations. Deviations are defined as operations thatviolate process constraints. Once a deviation is detected, a deviation-tolerance model attached to the preset process is used to decide whether to accept or to rejectthe deviation.