An Industry-based Evaluation of Software Process Modelling Techniques

Speaker: Brian Song

When: 10:00, Friday, 6 October 2006

Venue: 78-621

Process modelling forms part of the Software Process Improvement Evaluation Framework (SPIEF), a framework that will support understanding and analysis of Boeing Australia's organisational processes and process change. Aspects of SPIEF useful to Boeing Australia include understanding their process architecture and provide the capability to monitor and record process performance, process change, process effectiveness and the effectiveness of process improvement. Achieving these ends is greatly assisted by the modelling of processes and the integration of the modelled processes to form a process-architecture.

There are many ways to model software development processes. This presentation reports a feature analysis of four process modeling techniques using criteria specified by a software development organization. The evaluation used a single process, peer review, modeled using all four techniques. Performing the modeling activity highlighted the usefulness of the modeling activity and the usefulness of metamodels in structuring processes. Modelling languages considered were the Software Process Engineering Metamodel, OPEN Process Framework, Business Process Definition Metamodel and the Specification of Coordinated and Cooperative activities.

Hospitality: Paul Strooper

Contact: Phil Cook (SSE seminar co-ordinator) (philc@itee.uq.edu.au)

SSE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~sse/Seminars.html