Towards detailed software artifact specification with SPEMArti

  • Authors:
  • Marcos Silva;Toacy Oliveira

  • Affiliations:
  • Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Software and Systems Process
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Software Artifacts are key elements to software development processes as they ultimately gather all the information required to specify, develop and maintain a software-based system. Currently software artifacts are treated as loosely structured documents that are easy to use but hard to be manipulated by programs. In this work we present our approach to Software Artifact Authoring based on UML models to better organize the specification of documents derived from software development processes. The approach uses the concept of meta-modeling to define the Artifact Layer and the Process Layer. The former allows the specification of documents in general while the latter focus on software process documents exclusively. We also illustrate how our approach can be used to create structured artifacts.