Using Counts as Heuristics for the Analysis of StaticModels
Keith Thomas Phalp, Steve Counsell, Liguang Chen, Martin Shepperd · 1998
The upstream activities of software development are often viewed as both the most important, in terms of cost, and the yet the least understood, and most problematic, 1 An early version of this paper (Phalp and Counsell 1997) was included in the ICSE'97 Workshop on Process Modelling and Empirical Studies of Software Engineering, Boston, 18 May 1997. The authors have since extended the original (position paper), with the addition of a validation framework, and a further empirical study, to form the paper that now appears. 2 particularly in terms of satisfying customer requirements. Business process modelling is one solution that is being increasingly used in conjunction with traditional software development, often feeding in to requirements and analysis activities. In addition, research in Systems Engineering for Business Process Change, highlights the importance of modelling business processes in evolving and maintaining the legacy systems that support those processes. However, th...