Framework for Describing UML compatible development processes

Abstract

Have you ever tried to specify an accurate development process for your organization and later faced difficulties with the complexity of the description? Instead of describing a specific process, it might help to describe a process framework and reuse it by creating specific processes for specific needs. This paper describes the object-oriented framework of a development process, which considers software development artifacts as objects and evolution as collaborations between the objects. Such an object-oriented process definition can deal with the complexity of a development process in a better way than a traditional description based on workflow. This paper discusses features of such a process framework with an eye towards approaches such as Fusion, OPEN and the Rational Unified Process.