Masterthesis A Framework for Goal-oriented Process Configuration Context-Specific Configuration of SE processes in SPEM

Statement of Authorship: Except where reference is made in the text of " A framework for goal-oriented process configuration " , this contains no material published elsewhere or extracted in whole or in part from a thesis presented by me for another degree or masters. No other person's work has been used without due acknowledgement in the main text. This thesis has not been submitted for the award of any other degree or masters in any other tertiary institution. Acknowledgements This master thesis and the research presented would have never been possible without the support and understanding of my family and friends. I was very lucky to have friends and colleagues who supported me in different ways in these exhausting months and during my whole study. In the first place, I thank Dr. Andreas Jedlitschka from the Fraunhofer IESE for being the supervisor of this thesis and for supporting me during the research and writing period. He offered me the opportunity to do this thesis within the context of the ARAMiS project which is partly handled by the Fraunhofer IESE and the Software Engineering Research Group: Processes and Measurement. It was very interesting and stirring to work in a big project together with industrial partners. my first contact person at the IESE and he offered me some possible thesis topics and then referred my supervisor, Andreas Jedlitschka. In addition Christiane Plociennik was a big help for me, because she is the person responsible for the ARAMiS Project from the Software Engineering Research Group of the University. She also supported me in some tasks, e.g., selection of technologies provided by the industry partners, by offering me help from her research assistant(s). Special thanks go to all the friends and my family who directly supported me and my research work. Some of my fellow students assisted me as a kind of counterpart for discussing ideas and implementations. Especially I want to give thanks to Kevin Krüger, Thilo Rauch and Nena and Eric Egli for reviewing and proofreading of the written report. Executive Summary This research for this thesis was conducted to develop a framework which supports the automatic configuration of project-specific software development processes by selecting and combining different technologies: the Process Configuration Framework. The research draws attention to the problem that while the research community develops new technologies, the industrial companies continue only using their well-known ones. Because of this, technology …