Meta-Operations in the Process Model Hfsp for the Dynamics and Flexibility of Software Processes

Abstract

Meta-operations are introduced into a software process model HFSP for modeling dynamic and flexible features of software processes. As process enaction is characterized as growing trees of activity decompositions in HFSP, these operations are most naturally considered as operations over these trees, which allow changing enaction status, creating new trees and communicating among them from inside and outside of the trees. A Formal description of these operations are given together with their application to the description of ISPW6 Example Process. 1 Introduction Dynamics and flexibility are the fundamental characteristics of software processes, which make them different from usual pure computational processes and require special mechanisms for their enaction[1]. It refers, in general, to the fact that we need a dynamic and flexible control in their enaction. More specifically, it should allow that process scripts could be created, changed or refined incrementally during process enactio...

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