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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
From Process Programming to Process Engineering
Author : Stanley M. Sutton Jr.
Published in: Engineering of Software
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Osterweil proposed the idea of processes as a kind of software in 1986. It arose from prior work on software tools, tool integration, and development environments, and from a desire to improve the specification and control of software development activities. The vision of process programming was an inspiring one, directly leading to ideas about process languages, process environments, process science (both pure and applied), and to opportunities for process analysis and simulation. Osterweil, his colleagues, and a thriving community of researchers worldwide have worked on these and related ideas for 25 years now, with many significant results. Additionally, as Osterweil and others have shown, ideas and approaches that originated in the context of software process are applicable in other domains, such as science, government, and medicine. In light of this, the future of process programming looks as exciting and compelling as ever.