Semantics and implementation of schema evolution in object-oriented databases
SIGMOD '87 Proceedings of the 1987 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Software Engineering Journal - Special issue on software process and its support
Towards a Reference Framework for Process Concepts
EWSPT '92 Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Software Process Technology
Design, Use and Implementation of SPELL, a language for Software Process Modelling and Evolution
EWSPT '92 Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Software Process Technology
Change management needs integrated process and configuration management
ESEC '97/FSE-5 Proceedings of the 6th European SOFTWARE ENGINEERING conference held jointly with the 5th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
A concept to support process model maintenance through systematic experience capture
SEKE '02 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering
Towards Flexible and High-Level Modeling and Enacting of Processes
CAiSE '99 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
SEE '97 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software Engineering Environments (SEE '97)
eParticipative process learning: process-oriented experience management and conflict solving
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Towards a conceptual framework for legacy to SOA migration
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Software processes are complex entities that may last for long periods of time and are carried out through the interaction of humans and computerized tools. They need to continuously evolve in order to cope with different kinds of changes or customizations both in the organization and in the technologies used to support software production activities.In recent years, many software process support technologies have been developed, and have currently been further extended and used in trial projects. Moreover, some research prototypes have generated commercial products, that are marketed and currently used in industrial organizations. Despite these significant efforts and results, however, there is still little conceptual characterization and assessment of the properties of software processes and related support environments. It is difficult to compare and assess existing approaches. Even a common characterization of the problems to be addressed seems to be problematic and difficult to achieve. This is particularly true when we consider the process evolution problem, for which it does not seem that a common view of the issue has been established yet.This paper aims at proposing a conceptual framework to describe and assess flexible and evolving software processes. It is based on the assumption that a software process is composed of two main components: a software production process to carry out software production activities, and a software meta-process to improve and evolve the whole software process.The general requirements and properties of the process domain are first discussed, and the meta-process concept is introduced. Then, we discuss several process related concepts and, in particular, the relationship between the meta-process and the rest of the software process. Methods and technologies needed to support the meta-process are highlighted and discussed. Finally, we apply the resulting framework to an example, in order to show the potential and expected benefits of the proposed approach.