Flexible Support for Adaptable Software and Systems Engineering Processes.
Richard Mordinyi, Thomas Moser, Stefan Biffl, Deepak Dhungana · 2011
Abstract—Typical complex software and systems engineering projects involve a set of different engineering disciplines and therefore heavily rely on systems integration approaches. Service-oriented architecture and Enterprise Service Bus provide a valuable basis for systems integration; however often depend on tedious manual work or invasive and therefore inflexible adaptations in case of even minimal changes to engineering processes or engineering tools. In this paper we describe the Engineering Service Bus (EngSB), an integration platform which not only integrates tools and systems, but also provides a bridge between engineering processes and existing engineering tools. We evaluate the EngSB by implementing a standard software engineering process for multi-engineering environments. Major results were that the EngSB allows for non-invasive and flexible integration of well-established tools in multi-engineering environments, while enabling the integration to take place on the level of engineering processes. Keywords-(software+) engineering, non-invasive integration, component-based architectures.