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

Volume

6

Issue

5

fYear

1991

fDate

9/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

275

Lastpage

284

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering Journal

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0268-6961

Type

jour

Filename

107027