INITIAL SOFTWARE PROCESS MANAGEMENT IN EPOS

EPOS* is an instrumentable, kernel software engineering environment (SEE), featuring change-oriented versioning to manage evolving software products or configurations, through file-based workspaces attached to a versioned DBMS. Management of the associated software development processes, i.e. to describe, plan, control and execute software activities. Integration of the two areas above. An object-oriented ERA data model, EPOS-OOER, to describe 'passive' software products and 'active' tasks. Work procedures are expressed as task types, which may be customised through simple versioning in project-specific workspaces. The design, implementation and preliminary experience of EPOS process management is the subject of this paper.