An alternative to software process languages

We argue that years of research into the characteristics needed in an "ideal" software process definition language have only demonstrated that such a language, if one were to exist, would be impossibly large and complicated. We suggest that it would be most difficult to write clear and eff...

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Published inProceedings. Ninth International Software Process Workshop pp. 129 - 131
Main Authors Osterweil, L., Heimbigner, D.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1995
Subjects
Application software
Automata
Computer architecture
Computer science
Concurrent computing
Energy management
Power system management
Resource management
Software systems
Software testing
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Summary:We argue that years of research into the characteristics needed in an "ideal" software process definition language have only demonstrated that such a language, if one were to exist, would be impossibly large and complicated. We suggest that it would be most difficult to write clear and effective process definitions in such a language. Thus, the prospects for continuing with this line of research seem bleak. We suggest that, instead we should model software processes using a variety of modelling formalisms, and we should implement software process execution systems as distributed software systems. These systems should be composed of a heterogeneous mix of process fragments, written in different languages designed to support the gamut of different specialized tasks that we now understand to be necessary.
ISBN:9780818667701
0818667702
DOI:10.1109/ISPW.1994.512783