1.8. Quality Assurance of Software Process: Necessity, Sufficiency, and Malleability
There is a basic difference between a process and the models that reside within it. The models are static. The models are produced at a point in time. They have syntax and a semantic meaning to which we can apply quality-control criteria. Even the models that are supposed to represent the dynamic behavior of the system[17] are not dynamic.
[17] In UML, there are hardly any genuine dynamic models—a dynamic model would be something like a prototype of a steam engine, giving out a real whistle and steam! The state chart diagram comes closest.
The process that produces these steps, however, has specifications for the model, as well as a detailed set of activities ...
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