An Analysis of Process Languages
S. M. J Sutton, Peri L. Tarr, L. J. Osterweil · 1995
Process programming represents the application of the software engineering idiom and technology to the development of superior software processes. There is a substantial and growing body of research into software process technology in general and process programming approaches in particular. Much of this research concerns process languages. We are now in a position to draw some conclusions about the ways in which process languages may contribute to software process engineering. Furthermore, we can begin to make inferences regarding the original hypothesis that process programming is an applicable and feasible technology for software process support. We take the fundamental aim of software process research to be the production of better quality software in less time and at less cost. Thus, we emphasize issues in linguistic support for software production processes. These issues include the distinction between process requirements and process language requirements, language r...