Apel: A Graphical Yet Executable Formalism for Process Modeling

摘要

Software process improvement requires high level formalisms for describing project-specific, organizational and quality aspects. These formalisms must be convenient not only for capture but also for execution purposes. In order to fulfill these requirements and to build a software process environment capable of supporting engineering tasks we have designed a new graphical, but still enactable, formalism called APEL (for Abstract Process Engine Language).