Supporting distributed software development processes in a Web-based environment

Research into software development processes has been active in the software engineering community for more than a decade. However, given the exposure of the Internet and the Web, there is a significant impact on Web-based software development support which can be beneficial to many software project managers and developers. Our project focuses on investigation of an effective Web-based visual environment to support process modelling for software project managers and process enactment for software developers in an asynchronous and/or synchronous manner. The research prototype is implemented in Java and the data repository used can be either an object-oriented or relational database.