A third generation Australian object-oriented software process for systems development

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC SPIRT (Strategic Partnerships with Industry Re)
Object Oriented Pty Ltd (Object Priented Pty Ltd Partner Funds)

Start year: 1997

Summary: Modern, complex software requires a sophisticated process for its creation if quality and productivity objectives are to be met. Processes for developing software products using object technology, as provided by current object-oriented methods, are inadequate. Objectives of this project is to converge existing knowledge built up independently and collaboratively since 1990 from the two object-oriented methods MOSES/OPEN and MeNtORTM. Collaboratively to create and consolidate a sophisticated object-oriented process which will have three manifestations: OPEN (public domain), MeNtOR (commercial process) and UniOPEN-MeNtOR (a teaching version). To undertake extensive industry-based testing of each of these processes.

Publications:

Henderson-Sellers, B, Serour, M, McBride, T, Gonzalez-Perez, C & Dagher, L 2004, 'Process construction and customization', JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 326-358.
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Serour, MK & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'Empowering a Software Development Team with a New Methodology: A Case Study of e-Government in Australia', Information Technology and Organizations in the 21st Century: Challenges and Solutions. Proceedings of the 2004 International Business Information Management Conference., International Business Information Management, International Business Information Management Association, Amman, Jordan, pp. 214-223.

Serour, MK & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'Influence of Key Socio-Cultural Factors on Organizations Undergoing e-Transformation', Information Technology and Organizations in the 21st Century: Challenges and Solutions. Proceedings of the 2004 International Business Information Management Conference., International Business Information Management, International Business Information Management Assoc, Amman, Jordan, pp. 60-66.

Serour, MK & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'Introducing agility: A case study of situational method engineering using the OPEN process framework', Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference, International Computer Software and Applications Conference, IEEE Computer Society Press, Hong Kong, China, pp. 50-57.

Serour, MK & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'Organisational Aspects of Transformation to e-Business: A Case Study', e-Society 2004, IADIS International Conference, e-Society, IADIS Press, Avila, Spain, pp. 751-758.

Barbier, F, Henderson-Sellers, B, Le Parc-Lacayrelle, A & Bruel, JM 2003, 'Formalization of the whole-part relationship in the unified modeling language', IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 459-470.
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Henderson-Sellers, B 2003, 'Method engineering for OO systems development', COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM, vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 73-78.
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Nguyen, V & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'OPENPC: A Tool to Automate Aspects of Method Engineering', Software and Systems Engineering and their Applications, International Conference Software and Systems Engineering and their Applications, ICSSEA, Paris, France, pp. 1-8.

Nguyen, VP & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'Towards automated support for method engineering with the OPEN approach', Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (IASTED), ACTA Press, Marina Del Rey, California, USA, pp. 691-696.

Henderson-Sellers, B 2002, 'Process Metamodelling and Process Construction: Examples Using the OPEN Process Framework (OPF)', Annal of Software Engineering, vol. 14, no. N/A, pp. 341-362.

Henderson-Sellers, B & Simons, AJH 2000, 'The OPEN software engineering process architecture: From activities to techniques', JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 47-68.

Fowler, D & Henderson-Sellers, B 1970, 'A requirements engineering process for OPEN development', Proceedings from 10th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 332-343.

Keywords: object technology; software development methods; software engineering; information systems

FOR Codes: Software Engineering, COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND SERVICES

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.