Information System Development Process (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Information System Development Process 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 10
PREFACE 6
PROGRAM COMMITTEE 8
LIST OF REFEREES 9
PART 1: INTRODUCTION 12
Chapter 1. Vision Driven System Engineering 14
1. INTRODUCTION 14
2. WHERE DO THE GOALS COME FROM ? 15
3 . HOW ARE THE GOALS USED ? 19
4. HOW ARE THE GOALS MANAGED ? 27
5. CONCLUSIONS 30
REFERENCES 30
PART 2: PROCESS/PRODUCT MODELING I 32
Chapter 2. Customization and Evolution of Process Models in EPOS 34
1. Introduction 34
2. Background 35
3. EPOS Survey: SPELL and Subdatabases 38
4. Process Models, Consistency and Variability 42
5. Proposals for Control of PM Changes 46
6. Conclusions and Further Work 47
References 48
Chapter 3. The Evolutionary Object Model (EOM) 52
1. INTRODUCTION 52
2. MODELING EVOLUTION OF PRODUCT OBJECTS 54
3. F3 TRACING MODEL 58
4. CONCLUSION 67
REFERENCES 68
PART 3. REUSE I 70
Chapter 4. Mechanisms of Standardized Reusability of Objects (MCO methodology) 72
1. INTRODUCTION 72
2. REMINDER OF THE PRINCIPAL CONCEPTS OF THE MCO MODEL 74
3. MAIN CONCEPTS OF OBJECT REUSABILITY 75
4. THE STANDARDIZED REUSABILITY OF OBJECTS 76
5. EXAMPLE OF RESULTS OF THE STANDARDIZED REUSABILITY OF OBJECTS 83
6. USE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ALGORITHM OF STANDARDIZED REUSABILITY OF THE OBJECTS 83
7. USE OF MECHANISMS OF STANDARDIZED REUSABILITY DURING THE INTEGRATION OF NEW INSTANCES 85
8. STEPS WHERE THE OBJECT REUSABILITY IS STUDIED 86
9. CONCLUSION 86
REFERENCES 88
Chapter 5. Reuse of Specifications and Designs in a Development Information System 90
1. Introduction 91
2. Development Information System 92
3. Reuse model 97
4. Application Specification Session 103
5. Concluding remarks and future work 105
Acknowledgments 106
References 106
PART 4: REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING 108
Chapter 6. Use of Domain Knowledge for Requirements Validation 110
1. INTRODUCTION 110
2. A PRELIMINARY THEORY OF DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE 111
3. VALIDATION AND THE DOMAIN THEORY 118
4. FUTURE WORK ON VALIDATION 122
5. CONCLUSIONS 124
ACKNOWLEDEGEMENTS 124
REFERENCES 125
Chapter 7. Utilizing Scenarios in the Software Development Process 128
Abstract 128
1. Introduction 128
2. An Example Application 129
3. A Scenario is 130
4. Three Example Systems 132
5. Roles of scenarios 134
6. Computer-Based Support for Scenarios 141
7. Summary 144
References 144
Chapter 8. Assessment and control of the requirements elicitation process in a CASE environment 146
Abstract 146
1. INTRODUCTION 146
2. AN UPGRADED CASE ENVIRONMENT 147
3. CALCULATION OF SPECIFIC RISKS 152
4. CONCLUSIONS 156
REFERENCES 157
PART 5: METAMODELING 158
Chapter 9. A Meta-Model for Representing Software Specification & Design Methods
1. INTRODUCTION 160
2. REQUIREMENTS TO META MODEL 161
3. META MODEL 162
4. REPRESENTING METHODS BY USING META MODEL 164
5. RELATED WORKS 168
6. METHOD BASE SYSTEMS 171
7. Conclusion 175
REFERENCES 175
Chapter 10. A Method Engineering Approach to Information Systems Development 178
Abstract 178
1. Introduction 178
2. The Framework 181
3. The Decomposition Process 184
4. Aspects of the Framework 190
5. Instantiating the Framework, an Example 193
6. Conclusions and further research 195
References 196
PART 6: COOPERATIVE APPROACHES 198
Chapter 11. The Role of Interaction Analysis in Requirements Engineering 200
Abstract 200
1. INTRODUCTION 200
2.0. INTERACTION ANALYSIS 203
3.0. CASE STUDY 207
4.0. FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS 213
5.0. SUMMARY 214
REFERENCES 215
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 216
Chapter 12. Conflict Management in Systems Development Groups 218
Abstract 218
1. INTRODUCTION 218
2. A WAY OF WORKING 221
3. DEVELOPMENT TRANSACTIONS 224
4. FUTURE WORK 235
REFERENCES 237
PART 7: PROCESS/PRODUCT MODELING II 240
Chapter 13. Product Modeling for Requirements Engineering Process Modeling 242
1. INTRODUCTION 242
2. THE NATURE PROCESS MODELING APPROACH 243
3. PRODUCT MODELING 247
4. SITUATION BUILDING UPON THE PRODUCT 252
5. CONCLUSION 255
REFERENCES 255
Chapter 14. A Development Model: Application to Z Specifications 258
1. Introduction 258
2. A Model for Developing Specifications 259
3. Phone Network Case Study 264
4. Conclusion 273
References 274
PART 8: REUSE II 276
Chapter 15. Reusing Process Specifications 278
ABSTRACT 278
1. INTRODUCTION 278
2. CONCEPTUAL MODELING 279
3. REUSE OF CONCEPTUAL SPECIFICATIONS 282
4. CONCLUDING REMARKS 292
REFERENCES 293
Chapter 16. Repositories for Software Reuse: The Software Information Base 296
Abstract 296
1. INTRODUCTION 296
2. DESCRIPTION OF SOFTWARE 298
3. FUNCTIONALITY AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE SIB 301
4. USAGE EXAMPLE 306
5. IMPLEMENTATION 313
6. CONCLUSION 315
REFERENCES 316
PART 9: INFORMATION SYSTEM ENGINEERING 320
Chapter 17. Concurrent engineering of information systems 322
1. INTRODUCTION 322
2. A GENERIC SOFTWARE PROCESS 323
3. PARTITIONING OF AN INFORMATION SYSTEM 325
4. CONCURRENCY IN THE SOFTWARE PROCESS 327
5. SF SPECIFICATION OF A CONCURRENT SOFTWARE PROCESS 329
6. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 333
REFERENCES 334
Chapter 18. Business Process Redesign and Information Systems Design: A Happy Couple? 336
ABSTRACT 336
SETTING THE SCOPE 337
WHY REDESIGN BUSINESS PROCESSES? 337
DEFINITIONS 338
WHY BUSINESS PROCESSES IN INFORMATION PRODUCTION ARE NOT REDESIGNED 339
BUSINESS PROCESS REDESIGN VERSUS INFORMATION SYSTEM DESIGN 340
COUPLING BUSINESS PROCESS REDESIGN AND INFORMATION SYSTEM DESIGN 344
CONCLUSION 346
REFERENCES 347
AUTHOR INDEX 348
IFIP 350