Support Environment EPT
A Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) environment is an effective tool supporting software evolution processes. In this chapter, a CASE environment EPT is designed and a prototype system of EPT is implemented. EPT can help software managers to mode
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An Approach to Modelling Software Evolution Processes
Tong Li
An Approach to Modelling Software Evolution Processes
With 72 figures and 6 tables
AUTHOR: Tong Li School of Software Yunnan University Kunming 650091, P.R. China Email: [email protected]
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To my daughter, Yixiao, my wife, Lixia and my parents with all my love.
Contents
Preface List of Figures and Tables 1
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Introduction 1.1 Motivation 1.2 Contributions 1.3 Research Methods 1.4 Success Criteria 1.5 Validation Methods 1.6 Outline References Overview of Software Processes and Software Evolution 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Software Processes 2.2.1 Concepts of Software Process 2.2.2 Software Process Modelling and Descriptions 2.2.3 Software Process Modelling and Description Languages 2.2.4 Software Process Improvement and CMM 2.2.5 Software Process Reuse 2.2.6 Process-Centred Software Engineering Environments 2.3 Software Evolution 2.3.1 Concepts of Software Evolution 2.3.2 Software Reengineering 2.3.3 Software Evolution 2.4 Summary References
3 Related Work 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Software Evolution Process 3.3 Concurrency in the Software Life Cycle 3.4 Petri Nets 3.5 Dependence Analysis 3.6 Formal Functional Decomposition
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3.7 Summary References
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Software Evolution Process Meta-Model EPMM Introduction Properties of Software Evolution Processes Iteration in Software Evolution Processes Concurrency in Software Evolution Processes 4.4.1 Version Con
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