Scenario

The creation of a single universally-applicable development process is a recognised chimera → Software designers tend to define their own problem-specific process by means of the Method engineering technique → New process can be created starting from existing process parts (method fragments) A unified meta-model and a specific AO Method Engineering technique are needed, allowing existing methodologies / processes to be represented and integrated in a uniform way The Software Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM) 2.0 [Object Management Group, 2008] and the Agent-Oriented Situational Method Engineering [Cossentino et al., 2008] seem to be the natural candidates Molesini/Nardini/Denti/Omicini (UniBo) SODA+TuCSoN SAC 2009 3 / 30 Objectives → Understanding the semantics of the infrastructures ’ processes → Exploring SPEM 2.0 applicability to the AOSE methodologies and infrastructures → Exploring the applicability of Agent-Oriented Situational Method Engineering for composing methodologies and infrastructures → A simple case stud