Anpassbarkeit von Software-Werkzeugen in prozessintegrierten Entwicklungsumgebungen

Complex modelling tasks in the early phases of information systems development as well as in other engineering domains require suitable software tool support that can be easily adapted to organisation and project specific methods and processes. Conventional product-oriented CASE tools have often been criticized as being too inflexible as their behaviour is determined by hard-coded assumptions of the processes to be supported. So called process-centred engineering environments, which are based on explicit and exchangeable process models, allow greater adaptability but mainly address administrative processes at the project management level. The consequences of process model enactment on the interactive engineering tools used for the actual task performance have been studied much less. In those systems, tool behaviour is largely decoupled from process model enactment. This thesis investigates the evolution from process-centred to process-integrated engineering environments. Starting with a set of six key integration requirements, we develop an integrated modelling approach, which extends an existing model for creative processes by additional tool modelling concepts. By establishing adaptable cross-relationships between the process and the tool model, a specific environment model is configured. The environment model defines the effects of the process models on the tool behaviour and lays the foundation for fine-grained, interpretative tool adaptability. The approach has been realised in the form of a generic, object-oriented implementation framework that provides a set of prefabricated software components for the rapid development of a process-integrated environment. The framework also supports the integration of existing legacy tools which is demonstrated with three widespread commercial tools. The overall practicability of our approach has been validated through the implementation of four process-integrated environments in the application domains of requirements engineering and chemical process engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University

Year dc:date

2002

Author dc:creator

• Weidenhaupt, Klaus Lambert

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jarke, Matthias

• info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/004
• Informatik
• Informationssystem
• CASE
• Prozessmanagement
• Prozessmodell
• Softwarewerkzeug
• Anpassung

Statement dc:rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Language dc:language

ger

Identifier

https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/search?p=id:%22RWTH-CONV-121853%22

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:publications.rwth-aachen.de:60127