A Component-based Product Development Process for a Workflow Management System Product Line
Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes, Ruy Tsutomu Nishimura, Edson Oliveira, Fabrício Ricardo Lazilha, Uirá Kulesza, Carlos J. P. de Lucena · 2005
The product line approach has been pointed out as a means to improve software organization’s productivity. It offers both technical and managerial support to design applications for a specific domain from a welldefined infrastructure. A specific application can be developed from this infrastructure by customizing its variable aspects. This paper presents a process to develop members of a component-based product line for Workflow Management Systems (WfMS). The activities of the process are described within the context of a case study that develops a WfMS to manage service orders in a software house. Aspects and research issues relevant to the product development process are discussed.