An Approach for Method Reengineering Export

@incollection{citeulike:2896403, abstract = {The increasing complexity of the Information Systems (IS) asks for new IS development methods constructed 'on the fly' to be adapted to the specific situations of the projects at hand. Situational Method Engineering responds to this need by offering techniques to construct methods by assembling reusable method fragments stored in some method repository. For method engineering to be performed it is necessary to build method bases. In this paper we propose an approach supporting the reengineering of existing methods. The reengineering process leads to the representation of an existing method in a modular fashion i.e. as a set of reusable method chunks, easy to retrieve and to assemble one the others. Once the method chunks are stored in a method repository they can be assembled in different manners to construct new methods. The emphasis of this paper is on the guidance provided by the method reengineering process model. The approach is exemplified with the OOSE reengineering case study.}, author = {Ralyt\'{e}, Jolita and Rolland, Colette}, citeulike-article-id = {2896403}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45581-7_35}, doi = {10.1007/3-540-45581-7_35}, journal = {Conceptual Modeling — ER 2001}, keywords = {assembly, fragment, method, reengineering}, pages = {471--484}, posted-at = {2008-06-15 18:38:33}, priority = {0}, title = {An Approach for Method Reengineering}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45581-7_35}, year = {2001} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:2896403 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2896403 N2 - The increasing complexity of the Information Systems (IS) asks for new IS development methods constructed ‘on the fly’ to be adapted to the specific situations of the projects at hand. Situational Method Engineering responds to this need by offering techniques to construct methods by assembling reusable method fragments stored in some method repository. For method engineering to be performed it is necessary to build method bases. In this paper we propose an approach supporting the reengineering of existing methods. The reengineering process leads to the representation of an existing method in a modular fashion i.e. as a set of reusable method chunks, easy to retrieve and to assemble one the others. Once the method chunks are stored in a method repository they can be assembled in different manners to construct new methods. The emphasis of this paper is on the guidance provided by the method reengineering process model. The approach is exemplified with the OOSE reengineering case study. JF - Conceptual Modeling — ER 2001 EP - 484 TI - An Approach for Method Reengineering SP - 471 KW - assembly KW - fragment KW - method KW - reengineering AU - Ralyté, Jolita AU - Rolland, Colette PY - 2001/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45581-7_35 ER -