Initial software process management in EPOS

EPOS is an instrumentable, kernel Software Engineering Environment (SEE), featuring: Change-oriented versioning (2.1) to manage evolving software products or con gurations, through le-based workspaces attached to a versioned DBMS. Management of the associated software development processes, i.e. to describe, plan, control and execute software activities. Integration of the two areas above. An object-oriented ERA data model, EPOS-OOER, to describe \passive" software products and \active" tasks. Work procedures are expressed as task types, which may be customized through simple versioning in project-speci c workspaces. The design, implementation and preliminary experience of EPOS process management is the subject of this paper.