J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que le papier suivant a été accepté pour publication dans
la 30e édition de SAC (ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing) :
D. Khelladi (1), R. Bendraou (1), S. Baarir (2), Y. Laurent (1), M.‑P. Gervais (1) : A
Framework to Formally Verify Conformance of a Software Process to a Software Method
<https://publications.lip6.fr/index.php/publications/show/11054> ».
(1) Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, France,
CNRS UMR 7606, LIP6, F-75005 Paris, France
(2) LRDE, EPITA, Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
ABSTRACT
The increasing complexity of development projects requires methodological frameworks or
methods to support development processes. A method comes with a set of best practices that
are enforced and instantiated into processes to drive the realization steps of the
development projects. However, those best practices come in the form of text in guides and
books, or they are in the developer’s mind. Thus, during an instantiation of a method,
there is no guaranty to enforce its best practices into the process, which could impact
negatively the criteria: cost, time, and quality. To cope with this issue, we propose a
library of constraints to be checked for four popular methods: Unified Process, Extreme
Programming, Scrum and Kanban. It represents a set of best practices of these four methods
that must be enforced during the instantiation. On top of this library we have built up a
template-based constraint language, and implemented it to express additional constraints
on processes that are modeled with UML Activity Diagrams (AD). To apply formal
verification we leverage on our formalization of the way UML AD operates based on fUML
semantics. The evaluation showed the feasibility of our approach as well as the
feasibility to check constraints of different dimensions, i.e. time, resource,
control-flow, and data-flow.
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