A Tool for the Management of the Software Maintenance Process

摘要: Software Process Management is a complex process. Due to the large number of different aspects that have to be considered it is useful to establish a conceptual architecture. Owing to the definition of conceptual levels in this architecture it is possible to work more easily with different models and metamodels of software processes. In this paper we present MANTIS-Metamod, a tool for representing and managing software process metamodels based on the MOF (Meta-Object Facility) standard proposed by the Object Management Group [5]. This standard defines a framework using the principles of object oriented modelling for the definition of information models for metadata.MANTIS-Metamod is a component of MANTIS, an integrated environment for the management of the Software Maintenance Process (SMP). MANTIS uses 4 conceptual levels (based on the architecture proposed by MOF) for dealing with the large quantity of different aspects that must be taken into consideration when modelling, managing, controlling and executing a software process. Although MANTIS is dedicated to SMP, the tool allows the meta-modelling of any software process.