Title :
Initial software process management in EPOS
Author :
Conradi, Reidar ; Osjord, Espen ; Westby, Per H. ; Liu, Chunnian
Author_Institution :
Div. of Comput. Syst. & Telematics, Norwegian Inst. of Technol., Trondheim, Norway
fDate :
9/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
EPOS is an instrumentable, kernal software engineering environment (SEE), featuring: change-oriented versioning to manage evolving software products or configurations, through file-based workspaces attached to a versioned DBMS; management of the associated software development processes, i.e. to describe, plan, control and execute software activities; integration of the two areas above; and an object-oriented ERA data model, EPOs-OOER, to describe `passive´ software products and `active´ tasks. Work procedures are expressed as task types, which may be customised through simple versioning in project-specific workspaces. The design, implementation and preliminary experience of EPOS process management are discussed
Keywords :
configuration management; expert systems; object-oriented databases; programming environments; EPOS process management; EPOs-OOER; SEE; change-oriented versioning; evolving software products; expert system; file-based workspaces; kernal software engineering environment; object-oriented ERA data model; project-specific workspaces; software activities; software development processes; task types; versioned DBMS;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering Journal
