Software Life Cycle Model Development at BPsim.DSS

This article describes the process of creating a model that helps determine the software development life cycle model on the basis of on initial software requirements. The choice of a software life cycle model is an important stage that determines the entire development structure and, subsequently, the quality of the project. To determine the LC model, the following factors are taken into account: various initial requirements for the devised software and organizational processes of the development company. Based on these factors, a model is built that allows you to determine the software life cycle model using queries and answers to them. The model is built in the BPSim system, an open specification that provides a wide range of functionalities for modeling business processes. The solution is based on a solution search diagram - this is an approach based on frame concepts and conceptual graphs, proposed by A. N. Shvetsov and implemented in the BPsim.MSN system. This approach affords you to (in the form of a flow chart) describe the course of solving the problem visually - a sequence of procedure calls (daemon methods) from one frame to another. Thus, the use of a sequence diagram allows us to describe a scenario for solving a problem in which frames are processed by calling methods.