A Method Engineering Language for the Description of Systems Development Methods

  • Authors:
  • Sjaak Brinkkemper;Motoshi Saeki;Frank Harmsen

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CAiSE '01 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We propose a Method Engineering Language, called MEL, as a formal representation language for the description of method fragments, i.e. the development processes, and the products and deliverables of a systems development method. The language allows representing the structures of method fragments, the applicable consistency rules, and a variety of method assembly operators, all of which the semantics are formally defined. The MEL language is illustrated by a simple example of a Sequence Diagram of UML.