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European Workshop on Software Process Technology

EWSPT 1992: Software Process Technology pp 196–214Cite as

An evaluation of FUNSOFT nets

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This paper presents an evaluation of the software process modeling language FUNSOFT nets and of the related software process management environment MELMAC after two years of using both. FUNSOFT nets are based on Petri nets. In the recent years FUNSOFT nets have been used for modeling several academic software processes, like the Core Problem and its extensions and the process model of the Kernel/2 subproject of ESF, a few industrial software processes, and some other interpersonal processes. In this paper we describe which features of FUNSOFT nets and MELMAC turned out to be useful, which others seem to be of limited interest and which improvement suggestions for FUNSOFT nets and for MELMAC emerged. We suppose that the experience with using FUNSOFT nets and MELMAC apply to other software process management approaches in a similar way.

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Gruhn, V., Jegelka, R. (1992). An evaluation of FUNSOFT nets. In: Derniame, JC. (eds) Software Process Technology. EWSPT 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 635. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017521

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