Multiple view software process support using the MultiView architecture

TL;DR: Progress is described towards a multiple view PCSDE designed using the MultiView architecture, with particular attention paid to the canonical representation of process employed and the derivation of views from this representation.

Abstract: The use of Process Centred Software Development Environments (PCSDEs) promises much to the software development, community. By allowing software development processes to be defined and followed accurate measurement of the process can be taken. These measurements will allow improvements to be made on the basis of objective evidence rather than subjective feel. Thus, the deployment, and use of PCSDEs will assist in the attainment of process improvement goals, through greater assurance that defined processes are being followed and that the process from which metrics information is being collected is indeed the process which was described. It is clear, though, that there are many classes of users for such PCSDEs, ranging from project, managers to individual software engineers. Each of these potential users will have a different perspective of the software development process and hence will need to be presented with different views of this process as it is enacted. This paper describes progress towards a multiple view PCSDE designed using the MultiView architecture. Particular attention is paid to the canonical representation of process employed and the derivation of views from this representation.