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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Finding Optimal Plans for Incremental Method Engineering
Authors : Kevin Vlaanderen, Fabiano Dalpiaz, Sjaak Brinkkemper
Published in: Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Incremental method engineering proposes to evolve the information systems development methods of a software company through a step-wise improvement process. In practice, this approach proved to be effective for reducing the risks of failure while introducing method changes. However, little attention has been paid to the important problem of identifying an adequate plan for implementing the changes in the company’s context. To overcome this deficiency, we propose an approach that assists analysts by suggesting—via automated reasoning—optimal and quasi-optimal plans for implementing method changes. After formalizing the Process-Deliverable Diagrams language for describing the method changes to implement, we present a planning framework for generating plans that comply with different types of constraints.We also describe an implementation of the modeling and planning components of our approach.