Enhancing the OPEN Process Framework with Service-Oriented Specific Method Fragments

Service-orientation is a promising paradigm that enables the engineering of largescale distributed software systems using rigorous software development processes. The existing problem is that every service-oriented software development project often requires a customized development process that provides specific service-oriented software engineering tasks in support of requirements unique to that project. To resolve this problem and allow situational method engineering, we have defined a set of method fragments in support of the engineering of the project-specific service-oriented software development processes. We have derived the proposed method fragments from the recurring features of eleven prominent service-oriented software development methodologies using a systematic mining approach. We have added these new fragments to the repository of OPEN Process Framework to make them available to software engineers as reusable fragments using this well-known method repository. Keyword: Service-Oriented Software Development, OPEN Process Framework, OPF Repository, Method Fragment, Situational Method Engineering Preliminary contributions of authors on the proposed subject matter of this paper presented in conferences are as follows:  Fifth IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS'11), France, May 19-21, 2011.  Second International Conference on Software Engineering and Computer Systems (ICSECS'11), Malaysia, June 27-29, 2011.  12th International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation (UKSim-AMSS), UK, 24-26 March 2010.  European Modeling Symposium (EMS'10), Pisa, Italy, November 17–19, 2010.