An Approach to Handling Software Process Deviations

Abstract—Since software processes are permanently dynamic evolving during software process enactment, the problems on software process deviation are increasingly received more attention. In process-centered Software Engineering Environments (PSEE), the enacted software process model is always inconsistence with the observed process obtained by PSEE. In order to address this problem, this paper presents a framework which structures the field of process deviation analysis and identities, a Process Behavior Space Expression based on process algebra and judgment rules to decide whether handle the deviation or not. This approach can effectively find and handle the prevalent deviation problems in the software process implementation, through dealing with the deviation so as to improve the software process, and ultimately promote the quality of software products.

Index Terms—Software process deviation, process algebra, process behavior space expression, deviation judgment rules, deviation handling.

Rui Zhu and Tong Li are with Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China (e-mail: ray0209055@gmail.com).

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Cite: Rui Zhu, Fei Dai, Qi Mo, Yong Yu, Leilei Lin, and Tong Li, "An Approach to Handling Software Process Deviations," Lecture Notes on Software Engineering vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 238-244, 2015.