Generating customized software engineering information bases from software process and product specifications

The authors describe research carried out to: (i) develop a software process and product specification language that allows all the information necessary to understand, control, and improve any given software engineering process; (ii) develop a meta-information-base schema that automatically generates an information-base structure given a software process and product specification; and (iii) develop a mapping between the software-engineering-oriented and information-base-oriented models. Their generator approach addresses the fact that software engineering changes not only from environment to environment, but also from project to project