Instantiating software processes: An industry approach

Abstract

Software processes are used for organizing work in software development projects. In order to use them for a number of projects they are described in a generic way. Since software development is highly individual, they have to be particularized (i.e., instantiated) in turn for becoming applicable in projects. A number of instantiation approaches have been proposed in recent years, but none has become a de facto standard in industry. Therefore instantiation in many software developing organizations is still manual and lacks standardization, making the procedure time consuming and expensive. This chapter describes a standardized and semi-automated instantiation approach developed at Siemens. The approach supports instantiation by ensuring that the resulting process is syntactically correct and consistent. © 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.