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Experiences with behavioural process modelling in FEAST, and some of its practical implications. (English) Zbl 0982.68893

Ambriola, Vincenzo (ed.), Software process technology. 8th European workshop, EWSPT 2001, Witten, Germany, June 19-21, 2001. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer. Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2077, 47-62 (2001).
Summary: The FEAST/1 (1996-1998) and FEAST/2 (1999-2001) projects have been investigating the role and impact of feedback and feedback-based system dynamics as reflected by attributes of the long term evolution of industrial software and the behaviour of the processes that evolve them. The investigation was triggered by the hypothesis that, with the possible exception of the least mature processes, software processes are multi-agent, multi-level, multi-loop feedback systems that must be managed as such to achieve sustained process improvement. This paper summarises some of the findings of the FEAST projects to date with emphasis on the process modelling methodology that were adopted and that have evolved over the duration of the two projects. Such procedures encompass both metric based black-box and white-box (system dynamics) behavioural modelling. It will also draw attention to the practical industrial application of the results obtained in the form of over thirty-five rules and guidelines for software evolution planning and management.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0968.68549].

MSC:

68U99 Computing methodologies and applications
68U20 Simulation (MSC2010)
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