Organizing the Software Development Process Knowledge: An Approach Based on Patterns

This paper describes an approach to support software development process descriptions in the context of the Memphis Environment (a Reuse Based Software Development Environment), allowing the organization of a software development asset, i.e., the process knowledge. The approach uses software patterns to organize the information, and provides a tool that handles the process descriptions as a source of solutions to problems detected by project management. It enhances the environment features in terms of project management support, process modeling capability, and process evolution support.