PROMENADE: a PML intended to enhance standarization, expressiveness and modularity in software process modelling

Abstract

Some limitations have been identified in current software process modelling languages (SPML) concerning expressiveness, standarization, modularity and flexibility. We present a SPML called PROMENADE which aims at improving the above-mentioned features. Expressiveness is enhanced in PROMENADE by the use of a basic catalogue of precedence relationships (instead of transitions), the ability to define derived precedences using a high-level notation and the existence of dynamic precedences intended for relationships that are not known until process enactment time. Standarization is achieved by the mapping of PROMENADE features into a slightly extended UML. PROMENADE allows also the construction of complex models by the combination of partial ones using high-level operators.