Activity-Based Software Process Lines Tailoring

Abstract

Software process de¯nition requires choosing the process elements that appropriately ful¯l the tailoring requirements, such as to prevent risks or to satisfy quality goals. The selection of appropriate process elements is usually done manually, making this process complex, timeconsuming and error-prone. Our main objective is to de¯ne a systematic approach to tailor software process and a support tool to simplify and to support the tailoring process by improving the selection process of reusable process elements. We developed a systematic approach to tailor software process based on software process architectures and lines. This approach selects the process elements that appropriately match the tailoring requirements. A web tool was developed to support the use of the proposed approach. We concluded that the approach aids process engineer to make decisions for selecting a set of process elements suitable to the tailoring requirements and to the project context.

Artifact Quality Assessment Plans Generation from Tailored Processes

“…In previous work [9] we describe the process tailoring approach in detail. In this work, we extend this approach to incorporate process tailoring using quality criteria and to generate quality plans for assessing software artifacts.…”

“…The Quality Assessment of Artifacts in Process (QAPro System) tool was developed from as extension of the MfTPt tool [9]. For the quality plans to be generated, instances of quality elements (described in QAPro-M) must have been defined and stored in the knowledge base.…”

Quality Evaluation of Artifacts in Tailored Software Process Lines

“…This project has begun with the work of Lorenz [15], which objective was to define a systematic approach to the software process tailoring from SPrL and information about the projects' characteristics. The approach allows the reuse of process elements, previously defined, enabling the definition of agile and planned processes.…”