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Toward trustworthy software process models: an exploratory study on transformable process modeling
Author(s) -
Zhang He,
Kitchenham Barbara,
Jeffery Ross
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of software: evolution and process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2047-7481
pISSN - 2047-7473
DOI - 10.1002/smr.516
Subject(s) - computer science , process (computing) , process modeling , goal driven software development process , software , software engineering , trustworthiness , exploratory research , process management , software development , software development process , work in process , engineering , computer security , programming language , operations management , sociology , anthropology
SUMMARY Software process modeling and simulation have become effective tools for support of software process management and improvement over the past two decades. They have recently been integrated into the Trustworthy Process Management Framework (TPMF) as the infrastructural components to facilitate the delivery of trustworthy software products. This paper proposes the concept of Trustworthy Software Process Models as inputs to TPMF and introduces transformable process modeling for supporting effective and productive development of trustworthy process models. Furthermore, this paper undertakes an exploratory study on process model transformation by investigating and comparing process modeling semantics between quantitative (e.g., System Dynamics, SD) and qualitative forms of modeling and simulation. By following the model transformation scheme, a quantitative continuous (SD) software evolution process model is successfully transformed into its qualitative form for simulation. The results present the different capabilities and performance between these two modeling paradigms, as well as the possible benefits and interesting perspectives of transformable process modeling. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.