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Usina intends to be an "open factory of open-source software" providing to the open-source community its expertise on software development processes in the form of software engineering artifacts.  A process with guidelines and templates.

It is a synonym of factory in the portuguese language.

• Educational project(Software Engineering class)
  Group of 8 (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) computer science students from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil taking Software Engineering class with the following discipline objectives:
  • Apply concepts, techniques and tools of Software Engineering;
  • Analyze the intersections and disconnections from Software Engineering and Open Source Development;
  • Define, create and evaluate an open source software factory (within a real world open source software development) generating a detailed report of the experiment.
  
  The group extended the discipline objectives to also provide software development process artifacts to the community acquired from its expertise.
• The same motivation of the hoot.tigris.org project.
  The usina project has a simpler scope though, it doesn't provide tools. These two projects in the future could be complementary, but for now it can't be for two reasons:
  • hoot.tigris.org project has been inactive and Usina's project has an schedule to accomplish;
  • Usina needs to be private for its first release because of motivation 1: it is an educational project and the 8 students need to be evaluated. It'll be matured on the course of the discipline and, when released to the public, it'll be more stable than it's now.

• Usina as open factory

The usina's artifacts are considered stable only after execution of a real world open-source project using its definitions. The Usina project members will accept proposals to develop open-source software from the community to validate sets of Usina's artifacts releases and turn it into a stable bundle.

Go to projects!

• Usina providing templates for factories

The factory artifacts will be constructed from the expertise acquired at the Simulare project. We expect to have a closed set of artifacts to enable start new projects quickly and in a deterministic model.

Go to templates!

• Software Engineering class at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
• Software Engineering Wikipedia
• The Cathedral and the Bazzar
• The Roots Of Software Engineering
• CMMI - Capability Maturity Model� Integration)
• RUP - Rational Unified Process
• XP - Extreme Programming
• SWEBOK - Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
• PMI - Project Management Institute
• hoot.tigris.org