Initial software process management in EPOS

Abstract

EPOS* is an instrumentable, kernel software engineering environment (SEE), featuringchange-oriented versioning to manage evolving software products or configurations, through file-based workspaces attached to a versioned DBMS.management of the associated software development processes, i.e. to describe, plan, control and execute software activities.integration of the two areas above.An object-oriented ERA data model, EPOS-OOER, to describe ‘passive’ software products and ‘active’ tasks. Work procedures are expressed as task types, which may be customised through simple versioning in project-specific workspaces.The design, implementation and preliminary experience of EPOS process management is the subject of this paper.