Enhancing the OPEN Process Framework with Service-Oriented Method Fragments

TL;DR

This paper introduces method fragments derived from existing service-oriented development methodologies, integrated into the OPEN Process Framework to support customizable, project-specific software engineering processes.

Contribution

It presents a systematic approach to creating and adding reusable method fragments for service-oriented development into the OPEN Process Framework.

Findings

Derived 11 method fragments from prominent methodologies

Enhanced the OPEN Process Framework with new reusable fragments

Facilitated situational method engineering for service-oriented projects

Abstract

Service-orientation is a promising paradigm that enables the engineering of large-scale distributed software systems using rigorous software development processes. The existing problem is that every service-oriented software development project often requires a customized development process that provides specific service-oriented software engineering tasks in support of requirements unique to that project. To resolve this problem and allow situational method engineering, we have defined a set of method fragments in support of the engineering of the project-specific service-oriented software development processes. We have derived the proposed method fragments from the recurring features of eleven prominent service-oriented software development methodologies using a systematic mining approach. We have added these new fragments to the repository of OPEN Process Framework to make them available to software engineers as reusable fragments using this well-known method repository. Keyword. Service-Oriented Software Development, OPEN Process Framework, OPF Repository, Method Fragment, Situational Method Engineering