Goals and Requirements for Supporting Controlled Flexibility in Software Processes

  • Authors:

  • Dulce Domingos;João Varajão;Ricardo Martinho

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Lisboa, Portugal;University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal;School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Information Resources Management Journal
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Software processes are dynamic entities that are often changed and evolved by software development team members. Consequently, flexibility is one of the most important features within software processes and related tools. However, in the everyday practice, team members do not wish for total flexibility. They prefer to learn about and follow controlled flexibility advice, that is, previously defined information on which, where, how and by whom they can change software process representations to match real-world situations. In this paper, the authors define a set of goals and requirements for a language and supporting software tool to control the flexibility within software processes. They follow a two-step approach, where 1 process engineers use the language constructs and supporting tool to define controlled flexibility-related information within software process models, and 2 software tem members browse and learn from this information, and perform changes accordingly.