Paper Info
Title
Process model difference analysis for supporting process evolution
Abstract
Software development processes are subject to variations in time and space, variations that can originate from learning effects, differences in application domains, or a number of other causes. Identifying and analyzing such differences is crucial for a variety of process activities, like defining and evolving process standards, or analyzing the compliance of process models to existing standards, among others. In this paper, we show why appropriately identifying, describing, and visualizing differences between process models in order to support such activities is a highly challenging task. We present scenarios that motivate the need for process model difference analysis, and describe the conceptual and technical challenges arising from them. In addition, we sketch an initial tool-based approach implementing difference analysis, and contrast it with similar existing approaches. The results from this paper constitute the requirements for our ongoing development effort, whose objectives we also describe briefly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/11908562_12
EuroSPI'06 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Software Process Improvement
Keywords
DocType
Volume
application domain,process model,similar existing approach,difference analysis,process evolution,process model difference analysis,process standard,ongoing development effort,visualizing difference,process activity,software development process
Journal
abs/1401.4821
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
Software Process Improvement, volume 4257 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 123-134, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006
3-540-47695-4
16
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.07
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martín Soto1636.96
Jürgen Münch21286147.27