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The paper presents a Specification and Description Language (SDL) based approach to software process modeling. A brief review of other process modeling languages is given and the advantages of the ITU-T standardized SDL for formal model development are outline. Further on, it is shown how software process entities are modeled using SDL. Software maintenance process performed in a large telecommunications company is used as a case study. The software maintenance practice is first described informally, followed by a formal SDL software maintence model. Finally, the SDL model simulation and verification results are presented, and an overall assessment of SDL applicability for software process modeling is discussed.
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Podnar, I., Mikac, B., Caric, A. (2000). SDL based approach to software process modeling. In: Conradi, R. (eds) Software Process Technology. EWSPT 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1780. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095028
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