An Approach to Software Process Design and Implementation Using Transition Rules

When software organizations adopt several best practices models into one single environment the number of activities and processes tends to increase. Managing effectively a large and complex system of processes requires process modeling capabilities at higher levels of abstraction. This paper presents a modeling approach for software process design and implementation to deal with the increasing size and complexity of large systems of processes. A model based on an extension of UML 2.0 Component Diagrams is used to develop a process architecture. A transition mechanism using Little-JIL process programming language is also proposed to support the refinement of a process architecture to a process implementation.