A rule-based process representation technique for software process evaluation

✍ Scribed by D Welzel

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 719 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0950-5849
• DOI: 10.1016/0950-5849(93)90035-2

✦ Synopsis

A Process Representation Technique (PRT)proposed in this article can be used for evaluating software processes. The technique considers some important aspects of causal dependencies between activities and documents within a process model. Production rules are used as the description language because they are able to handle incomplete and changeable information and be translated into Prolog predicates in order to execute the evaluation.

process modelling, process models, software evaluation, standards, system views, system refinements, Petri net notion, rulebased system, conformance testing, Yourdon Structured Method Guide 256"7).

SOFTWARE EVALUATION PROCEDURE

A software evaluation has to cover the product and process evaluation indicated in Figure 1. The following basic tasks can be distinguished (see referencesS-~°).