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An Approach for Modeling and Transforming Contextually-Aware Software Engineering Workflows

Authors:
Roy Oberhauser

Keywords: process-centered software engineering environments; software engineering environments; software engineering process modeling; software engineering process model transformation

Abstract:
Software engineering environments (SEE) face challenges for providing automated guidance for human-centric software development workflows. Among the various issues is the lack of a method to model software engineering (SE) workflows, as commonly used business process modeling notation is generalized and not conducive to context-aware support for SEE, while available SE-specific process model notation, such as the Software & Systems Process Engineering Metamodel, is not executable. The solution approach in this paper simplifies and validates the modeling of SE workflows via graphical modeling capabilities that extend the Software Engineering Workflow Language (SEWL). Model-based transformation of workflow concepts to diverse workflow management systems (WfMS), as well semantic transformation of SE concepts to a contextually-aware process-centered software engineering environment - CoSEEEK, is supported. The results show the viability and practicality of such an approach to graphically model, transform, and enact SE workflows while transforming relevant SE concepts to an ontology that supports contextual guidance capabilities.

Pages: 117 to 122

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-367-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014