Towards a Tool Support for a Living Software Development Process

Change and evolution of business and technology imply change and evolution of development processes. Besides that for a certain enterprise or a project we will usually integrate elements from a variety of existing process models, comprising generic standards as well as specific development methods. In this paper we propose a process framework which is modularly structured on the basis of the concept of process patterns. This framework allows us to describe development processes in a way such that change, evolution, and integration of processes are facilitated. Founded on our framework we sketch the idea of a living software development process. To its fully extend knowledge based tool support is required. We discuss and propose the approaches and requirements to fulfill the users specific needs of a sophisticated tool support for a living software development process.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Michael Gnatz, Frank Marschall, Gerhard Popp, Andreas Rausch, Wolfgang Schwerin
• Keywords: Biometrics, Development Processes, HICSS 2002, Living Software Development, Software Development Process