Towards Functional Method Engineering

Authors:

S.B. Goyal (Manav Rachna College of Engineering, Faridabad)

Naveen Prakash (Manav Rachna College of Engineering, Faridabad)

Keywords: Method, situation, fragment, method base, method engineering, situational method
engineering.

Abstract:

Different methods are needed for different projects/ situations. There is a no single universally applicable methodology to design a new adapted method.
Situational Method Engineering, SME promotes the idea of retrieving, adapting, and tailoring fragments to speciic situations for helping method engineers in their efforts to implement a flexible system correctly, on time, and within budget.
SME is concerned with the features to be included in methods but does not consider the relationship
of these features with the overall task to be performed by the method. This difficulty can be
overcome by treating the task as a function, doing method experiencing at the functional level and
then engineering the needed features. We refer to this approach as Functional Method Engineering,
FME and outline in this paper.