Situational Method Engineering for Constructing Internet of Things Development Methods

2018 ◽  
pp. 221-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Görkem Giray ◽  
Bedir Tekinerdogan
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Method Engineering ◽  
Development Methods

Situational Fit in Incremental Method Engineering

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge van de Weerd ◽  
Dominique Mirandolle ◽  
Sjaak Brinkkemper
Keyword(s):  
System Development ◽  
Method Engineering ◽  
Information System Development ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Incremental Method ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Development Methods

Almost all software vendors use methods and techniques in their software development and production processes. In order to improve the maturity of their processes, an incremental method engineering approach can be followed to adapt and improve methods and techniques. In order to ensure the suitability of selected methods, the authors propose the concept of situational fit to balance environmental characteristics, company characteristics, and information system development methods. They carried out a case study to illustrate the process of incremental method engineering. Furthermore, the authors performed a quantitative analysis on a data set of 38 companies to evaluate the use of situational fit.

Semi-Automatic Composition of Situational Methods

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anat Aharoni ◽  
Iris Reinhartz-Berger
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Method Engineering ◽  
Method Base ◽  
Project Characteristics ◽  
Automatic Composition ◽  
Development Methods ◽  
The Given

Situational methods are approaches to the development of software systems that are designed and constructed to fit particular circumstances that often refer to project characteristics. One common way to create situational methods is to reuse method components, which are the building blocks of development methods. For this purpose, method components must be stored in a method base, and then retrieved and composed specifically for the situation in hand. Most approaches in the field of situational method engineering require the expertise of method engineers to support the retrieval and composition of method components. Furthermore, this is usually done in an ad-hoc manner and for pre-defined situations. In this paper, the authors propose an approach, supported by a tool that creates situational methods semi-automatically. This approach refers to structural and behavioral considerations and a wide variety of characteristics when comparing method components and composing them into situational methods. The resultant situational methods are stored in the method base for future usage and composition. Based on an experimental study of the approach, the authors show that it provides correct and suitable draft situational methods, which human evaluators have assessed as relevant for the given situations.

Computer Aided Method Engineering

2011 ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Ajantha Dahanayake
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Information Systems Development ◽  
Method Engineering ◽  
Organizational Information ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Automated Support ◽  
Development Methods ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between information systems development methods, organizational information systems engineering requirements, and the advantage of flexible automated support environments is presented. CASE technology is presented as a possible solution to provide flexible automated support. In this chapter the major topic is a conceptual model to specify the functionality of a support environment. First a review of a number of basic concepts and approaches for deriving models for CASE environments are given. An informal description of service component concepts used to derive a generic framework is presented. Further, a configuration of service components, to support Computer Aided Method Engineering (CAME), is outlined.

A Model-Driven Approach for the Design and Implementation of Software Development Methods

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 86-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Cervera ◽  
Manoli Albert ◽  
Victoria Torres ◽  
Vicente Pelechano
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Method Engineering ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Model Driven Approach ◽  
Development Methods ◽  
Software Development Methods

The Situational Method Engineering (SME) discipline emerged two decades ago to address the challenge of the in-house definition of software development methods and the construction of the corresponding supporting tools. Unfortunately, current SME approaches still have limitations that are hindering their adoption by industry. One of these limitations is that most approaches do not properly encompass two phases of the SME lifecycle, which refer to the method design and the method implementation. To address this limitation, this paper demonstrates how Model-Driven Development (MDD) techniques can contribute to successfully cover both phases. The proposal is illustrated by a real case study that is currently being used at the Valencian Regional Ministry of Infrastructure, Territory and Environment.

Semi-Automatic Composition of Situational Methods

2013 ◽  
pp. 335-364
Author(s):  
Anat Aharoni ◽  
Iris Reinhartz-Berger
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Method Engineering ◽  
Method Base ◽  
Project Characteristics ◽  
Automatic Composition ◽  
Development Methods ◽  
The Given

Situational methods are approaches to the development of software systems that are designed and constructed to fit particular circumstances that often refer to project characteristics. One common way to create situational methods is to reuse method components, which are the building blocks of development methods. For this purpose, method components must be stored in a method base, and then retrieved and composed specifically for the situation in hand. Most approaches in the field of situational method engineering require the expertise of method engineers to support the retrieval and composition of method components. Furthermore, this is usually done in an ad-hoc manner and for pre-defined situations. In this paper, the authors propose an approach, supported by a tool that creates situational methods semi-automatically. This approach refers to structural and behavioral considerations and a wide variety of characteristics when comparing method components and composing them into situational methods. The resultant situational methods are stored in the method base for future usage and composition. Based on an experimental study of the approach, the authors show that it provides correct and suitable draft situational methods, which human evaluators have assessed as relevant for the given situations.

Computer Aided Method Engineering

2002 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Ajantha Dahanayake
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Information Systems Development ◽  
Method Engineering ◽  
Organizational Information ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Automated Support ◽  
Development Methods ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between information systems development methods, organizational information systems engineering requirements, and the advantage of flexible automated support environments is presented. CASE technology is presented as a possible solution to provide flexible automated support. In this chapter the major topic is a conceptual model to specify the functionality of a support environment. First a review of a number of basic concepts and approaches for deriving models for CASE environments are given. An informal description of service component concepts used to derive a generic framework is presented. Further, a configuration of service components, to support Computer Aided Method Engineering (CAME), is outlined.

Developing Semantically-Enabled Families of Method-Oriented Architectures

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Asadi ◽  
Bardia Mohabbati ◽  
Dragan Gaševic ◽  
Ebrahim Bagheri ◽  
Marek Hatala
Keyword(s):  
Product Line ◽  
Method Engineering ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Variability Management ◽  
Development Methods ◽  
Project Lifecycle ◽  
Method Construction ◽  
Line Engineering

Method Engineering (ME) aims to improve software development methods by creating and proposing adaptation frameworks whereby methods are created to provide suitable matches with the requirements of the organization and address project concerns and fit specific situations. Therefore, methods are defined and modularized into components stored in method repositories. The assembly of appropriate methods depends on the particularities of each project, and rapid method construction is inevitable in the reuse and management of existing methods. The ME discipline aims at providing engineering capability for optimizing, reusing, and ensuring flexibility and adaptability of methods; there are three key research challenges which can be observed in the literature: 1) the lack of standards and tooling support for defining, publishing, discovering, and retrieving methods which are only locally used by their providers without been largely adapted by other organizations; 2) dynamic adaptation and assembly of methods with respect to imposed continuous changes or evolutions of the project lifecycle; and 3) variability management in software methods in order to enable rapid and effective construction, assembly and adaptation of existing methods with respect to particular situations. The authors propose semantically-enabled families of method-oriented architecture by applying service-oriented product line engineering principles and employing Semantic Web technologies.

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