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Reducing Complexity of Process Tailoring Transformations Generation

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Tailoring software processes to particular contexts applying model transformations has proved to be appropriate and technically feasible. However, the use of this approach can become awkward for most process engineers, because it requires knowledge about the process and its tailoring needs, and also about building model transformations. In a previous work we have proposed a tool based on model-driven engineering (MDE) for automatically generating software process model tailoring transformations. This paper presents an improved user interface of the tool and proposes a process for guiding its application for tailoring processes. We illustrate its use by applying it for tailoring the process of Rhiscom, a Chilean small software company. The tool and the process balance the formally required by MDE with the usability needed by the process engineers.

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This work is partly funded by Project Fondef GEMS IT13I20010, Conicyt, Chile. The work of Luis Silvestre was supported by PhD Scholarship Program of Conicyt, Chile (CONICYT-PCHA/2013-63130130).

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    Luis Silvestre, María Cecilia Bastarrica & Sergio F. Ochoa

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Silvestre, L., Bastarrica, M.C., Ochoa, S.F. (2015). Reducing Complexity of Process Tailoring Transformations Generation. In: Hammoudi, S., Pires, L., Filipe, J., das Neves, R. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development. MODELSWARD 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 506. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25156-1_11

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