Process Models, Integrated CASE-Tool Environments and Project Management$$$$ Birds of a feather or enemies for life?

摘要

The need to improve software development, especially with respect to quality and productivity, has been approached from many different angles, the most prominent ones being Process Models, Integrated CASE-Tool Environments, Repository, Project Management Tools and Process Engines. Environments containing some or all of these components are on the market. Still fully integrated environments, where all these components have equal influence seem to be lacking. In this paper we will explore the interfaces between the components of a software engineering environment. We speculate why process-centered software engineering environments seem to lack market acceptance. The paper is based on the authors' experience with ADPS, ADW, KEY, PROSIMULA, MAESTRO/II and winGBS. Basic questions to be posed and up to now only partially answered are: 1. What are the problems when trying to integrate a process model with an integrated CASE-Tool environment? 2. What is the reason that Repository and Process Control Store do not harmonize with one another? 3. Can the control by a Process Model be unobtrusive? 4. Why do Project Management and Process Models speak a different language?