Producing and managing software objects in the process programming environment OPM

The paper reports on experience in applying the process programming environment OPM to the production and management processes of software objects. There are tools and environments that support software production and management processes. Process programs may interact with these tools and/or environments to produce and manipulate software objects. However, it is not always the case that the software processes can get the most desirable support from the tools and environments, because the support is hard-coded in the tools and/or environments. OPM includes the ability to model software objects as well as the production and management processes of these software objects in its process programming language Galois. Process programmers can develop process programs that: define their own software objects, and produce and manage the software objects in their own ways. As a result, OPM's support for software objects is highly configurable to meet the diversified requirements of various software processes.<
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