Software Process Technology: Second European Workshop, EWSPT '92, Trondheim, Norway, September 7-8, 1992. Proceedings [Paperback]

Software process technology emerged as an identifiedresearch and development activity in the early 1980s. Sincethen, several international workshops and conferences havecontributed to the creation of an international communitywith a common understanding of the concepts involved.Numerous prototypes and tools are now appearing to supportthesoftware process life cycle. The first European Workshopon Software ProcessTechnology was held in 1991, which ledamong other things to the creation ofan ESPRIT workinggroup. EWSPT '92 is the first event of this working group.This volume presents the proceedings of EWSPT '92. Thepapers areorganized into sections on:- Concepts and reference frameworks,- Humanand social aspects in process modelling,- Process engines and enactment mechanisms,- Models,- Process lifecycle.Towards a reference framework for process concepts.- SA/CM/IM for process modelling.- Software processes modeling: What, who, and when.- The need of a process engineering method.- Supporting social interaction activities of software processes.- Understanding the software process as a social process.- Specification of coordinated behaviour in the software development process.- Software development is a communication process.- In search of the software process test- and-set introduction to session on process engines and enactment mechanisms.- Process enactment in SPADE.- Oikos at the age of three.- Suitable databases for process-centred environments do not yet exist.- Initial requirements for E 3: An environment for experimenting and evolving software processes.- Session introduction.- Integrating a formal specification method with PML: A case study.- Multiparadigm description of system development processes.- Using CSP and system dynamics as process engineering tools.- Process versus product, abstraction, and formalism: A personal perspective (position paper).- The object role software process model.- Impact of the supported coordinal£®