Process Models

Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach,

Dr Raja. M
Professor and Head
Department of ISE and AI&DS
EWIT(Autonomous)
Bengaluru
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A Generic Process Model

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Process Flow

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Identifying a Task Set
■ A task set defines the actual work to be done to
accomplish the objectives of a software
engineering action.
■ A list of the task to be accomplished
■ A list of the work products to be produced
■ A list of the quality assurance filters to be applied

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Process Patterns
■ A process pattern
■ describes a process-related problem that is
encountered during software engineering work,
■ identifies the environment in which the problem has
been encountered, and
■ suggests one or more proven solutions to the
problem.
■ Stated in more general terms, a process pattern
provides you with a template [Amb98]—a
consistent method for describing problem
solutions within the context of the software
process.

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Process Pattern Types
■ Stage patterns—defines a problem associated
with a framework activity for the process.
■ Task patterns—defines a problem associated
with a software engineering action or work
task and relevant to successful software
engineering practice
■ Phase patterns—define the sequence of
framework activities that occur with the
process, even when the overall flow of
activities is iterative in nature.

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Process Assessment and Improvement
■ Standard CMMI Assessment Method for Process Improvement
(SCAMPI) — provides a five step process assessment model that incorporates
five phases: initiating, diagnosing, establishing, acting and learning.
■ CMM-Based Appraisal for Internal Process Improvement (CBA
IPI)—provides a diagnostic technique for assessing the relative
maturity of a software organization; uses the SEI CMM as the basis for
the assessment [Dun01]
■ SPICE—The SPICE (ISO/IEC15504) standard defines a set of
requirements for software process assessment. The intent of the
standard is to assist organizations in developing an objective
evaluation of the efficacy of any defined software process. [ISO08]

■ ISO 9001:2000 for Software—a generic standard that applies to any

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Prescriptive Models
■ Prescriptive process models advocate an orderly
approach to software engineering
That leads to a few questions …
■ If prescriptive process models strive for structure and
order, are they inappropriate for a software world that
thrives on change?
■ Yet, if we reject traditional process models (and the
order they imply) and replace them with something less
structured, do we make it impossible to achieve
coordination and coherence in software work?

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The Waterfall Model

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The V-Model

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The Incremental Model

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Evolutionary Models:
Prototyping
Quick
plan
communicatio
n
Modeling
Quick design

Deployment Constructio
delivery & n
feedback Constructio
of prototype
n
of prototype

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Evolutionary Models: The Spiral

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Evolutionary Models: Concurrent

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 Still Other Process
■Models
Component based development—the process to
apply when reuse is a development objective
■ Formal methods—emphasizes the mathematical
specification of requirements
■ AOSD—provides a process and methodological
approach for defining, specifying, designing, and
constructing aspects
■ Unified Process—a “use-case driven,
architecture-centric, iterative and incremental”
software process closely aligned with the Unified
Modeling Language (UML)

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The Unified Process (UP)
elaboration

inception

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UP Phases

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UP Work Products

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Personal Software Process (PSP)
■ Planning. This activity isolates requirements and develops both size and
resource estimates. In addition, a defect estimate (the number of defects projected
for the work) is made. All metrics are recorded on worksheets or templates.
Finally, development tasks are identified and a project schedule is created.
■ High-level design. External specifications for each component to be constructed
are developed and a component design is created. Prototypes are built when
uncertainty exists. All issues are recorded and tracked.
■ High-level design review. Formal verification methods (Chapter 21) are applied
to uncover errors in the design. Metrics are maintained for all important tasks
and work results.
■ Development. The component level design is refined and reviewed. Code is
generated, reviewed, compiled, and tested. Metrics are maintained for all
important tasks and work results.
■ Postmortem. Using the measures and metrics collected (this is a substantial
amount of data that should be analyzed statistically), the effectiveness of the
process is determined. Measures and metrics should provide guidance for
modifying the process to improve its effectiveness.

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Team Software Process (TSP)
■ Build self-directed teams that plan and track their work,
establish goals, and own their processes and plans. These
can be pure software teams or integrated product teams
(IPT) of three to about 20 engineers.
■ Show managers how to coach and motivate their teams
and how to help them sustain peak performance.
■ Accelerate software process improvement by making
CMM Level 5 behavior normal and expected.
■ The Capability Maturity Model (CMM), a measure of the
effectiveness of a software process, is discussed in Chapter 30.
■ Provide improvement guidance to high-maturity
organizations.
■ Facilitate university teaching of industrial-grade team
skills.

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