Edson Alves de Oliveira Junior

A product line architecture for workflow management systems with component-based development

This paper presents a component-based product line architecture for workflow management systems. The process followed to design the proposed architecture was based on Catalysis. Extensions were made to represent variability across the process. The domain of workflow management systems has been shown to be appropriate to the application of the product line approach as there are a standard architecture and models established by a regulatory board, the Workflow Management Coalition. In addition, there is a demand for similar workflow management systems but with some different features. The proposed architecture was evaluated with Rapide simulation tools. The evaluation was based on selected scenarios, thus, avoiding implementation details.

SMartySPEM: A SPEM-Based Approach for Variability Management in Software Process Lines

The definition of customized software processes can lead to improve the quality of software products and increasing the productivity. The Software Process Line (SPrL) approach might be taken into consideration to improve the establishment of customized processes for a given domain. The specific processes are derived in a systematic way, based on the resolution of variabilities explicitly represented in process notations, such as SPEM. SPEM has an UML 2 profile used to model software process elements. Therefore, this paper presents the SMartySPEM approach, which extends the SPEM profile for representing variabilities in SPrLs taking into consideration the SMarty approach for variability management. SMartySPEM is composed of an UML profile (SMartySPEMProfile) for representing variabilities and guidelines that suggest how to identify variabilities in a SPrL. A SMartySPEM application example is presented in an excerpt of a SPrL designed based on the Unified Process.

Learning Design for Software Engineering Courses

This paper presents a customization of a learning design approach, OULDI, to designing and implementing Software Engineering courses. We propose an iterative process for the application of the OULDI views. This process starts with a course map view and follows a series of steps that ends with the evaluation of the design reflecting on the balance of the proposed activities. A case study is presented in which two institutions were involved in the design and implementation of an experimental software engineering course. Feedback from students, designers and lecturers was collected to support the validation of the design and implementation of the course. This showed that learning design, with the process proposed here, is a feasible approach for the design of software engineering courses.