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M(in)BASE: An Upward-Tailorable Process Wrapper Framework for Identifying and Avoiding Model Clashes

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MBASE (Model-Based [System] Architecting & Software Engineering) is a framework that can be wrapped around any software development process to deal with project failures caused by “model clashes.” Existing MBASE guidelines have all been designed to cover large classes of projects, and are intended to be tailored down, based on risk considerations, to the project at hand. Experience has shown that tailoring down is quite hard to learn and apply; based upon this observation, we are developing M(in)BASE, a minimal version of MBASE intended to be tailored up. In this paper, we review the fundamentals of MBASE, discuss, in detail, the reasons for creating M(in)BASE, and describe M(in)BASE.

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  1. Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey, USA

    David Klappholz

  2. Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2404 Maile Way, E601k, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822

    Daniel Port

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

    Mingshu Li

  2. CS, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Barry Boehm

  3. Laboratory for Advanced Software Engineering Research (LASER), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 01003, Amherst, MA

    Leon J. Osterweil

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Klappholz, D., Port, D. (2006). M(in)BASE: An Upward-Tailorable Process Wrapper Framework for Identifying and Avoiding Model Clashes. In: Li, M., Boehm, B., Osterweil, L.J. (eds) Unifying the Software Process Spectrum. SPW 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3840. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11608035_31

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