PIT-ProcessM: A Software Process Improvement Meta-Model

Martins, Paula Ventura; Silva, Alberto Rodrigues da

doi:10.1109/quatic.2010.76

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“…Martins and de Silva [10] examine the domain of metamodeling in SPI. The motivation for the study is to solve a key problem facing software organization; that is, improving software quality and productivity as strategies for enhanced competitiveness in the industry.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The motivation for the study is to solve a key problem facing software organization; that is, improving software quality and productivity as strategies for enhanced competitiveness in the industry. The problem is even bigger because the available metamodeling methods such as the (SMSDM) Standard Metamodel for Software Development, (SPEM) Software Process Engineering Meta-model, and (OPF) Methodologies OPEN Process Framework focus on process description and thus giving different models for similar processes [10]. This makes it difficult to compare improved processes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Proposed Framework to Manage Software Requirements and Reuse

Alshehri¹,

Basheri²,

Qureshi³

2017

IJMECS

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Requirement elicitation and analysis form the focal point in the initial stages of the software development process. Unfortunately, in many software development projects, developers and end-users speak different languages. On one hand, end-users prefer to use natural languages while software developers who are technically perceptive, tend to use conceptual models. This difference in technical knowledge creates a communication gap, a potential cause of poor quality software products or project conflicts. The aim of this paper is to investigate the feasibility of a novel technique that seeks to foster effective elicitation of software requirements and support the implementation of structures that match particular requirements. By combining requirement elicitation and re-usable parts, the proposed solution envisages improvements in the overall software design process leading to enhanced requirement specifications. The novel idea is to incorporate an intermediate step for mapping Unified Modeling Language (UML) to Web Ontology Language (OWL) to enable the addition of ontology languages. The proposed model is validated through a survey. The validation results show that the proposed solution allows software developers to elicit software requirements and implement structures that match certain requirements.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Proposed Framework to Manage Software Requirements and Reuse

Alshehri¹,

Basheri²,

Qureshi³

2017

IJMECS

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“…In this context, the use of metamodels has been increasingly explored by diverse researchers in the context of Software Engineering. Nevertheless, in spite that diverse areas of Software Engineering have been addressed with the metamodel approach (e.g., requirements engineering [21][22][23], software process assessment [24,25] and measurement [26,27], software process improvement [28][29][30]), the software project management has been poorly analyzed. For example, research by [31] introduced the PROMONT ontology for project management in order to build a common understanding of project related terms and methods, and thus, facilitating the management of projects conducted in dynamic virtual environments.…”

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MyPMP: A plug-in for implementing the metamodeling approach for project management in small-sized software enterprises

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Nowadays, with the recurrent demands of high quality, delivery on time and no extra costs, the task of managing a software project could be extremely complex for any software enterprise. Furthermore, small-sized software enterprises face several problems (e.g., lack of knowledge, human and financial resources, time, and size of staff) that, undoubtedly, make this task more difficult. In this context, obtaining a simplified version of the management activities can be a helpful alternative for these enterprises. In this way, that an inexperienced project manager can define the management process that best fits with a particular project is not an easy task. Thus, this paper introduces the metamodeling approach in order to help project managers to define a process for managing a software project. Therefore, with the aim to validate its feasibility an add-in program was developed as a part of a case study. The achieved results show an important reduction in project's effort and time needed to develop a new software product.Keywords: project management, metamodeling approach, plug-in, small-sized software enterprises. complex and multi-dimensional concept encompassing many more attributes. However, in spite of the advancement in the definition of project management processes, tools, and computer systems, the rate of software projects success has not significantly increased. Moreover, a recent study stated that the value of project management depends on the country, culture, industry type, size of organization, and organizations' needs [3]. In fact, nowadays we still have not figured out how to substantially improve the software project success rate. For example, Cerpa, Bardeen, Astudillo, and Verner [4], have identified some factors influencing software project outcome: organizational structure; communication with customer/users; scheduling and project budget; customer satisfaction; product quality; leadership; software development methodologies; and the project management process and tracking tools, among others. Many of these factors are obviously related to project management. Thus, projects are the cornerstone of all commercial activities in small-sized software enterprises. 1 Therefore, these organizations must conclude many software projects to achieve their business and financial goals using a carefully planned and controlled process. In this regard, the nature of project management required by small-sized software enterprises is very different than the traditional forms suggested for larger enterprises. This is, small-sized software enterprises require less bureaucratic forms of project management than those used by larger, traditional organizations [5]. Unlike large enterprises, small-sized software enterprises do not have enough staff to develop functional specialties that would enable them to perform complex and secondary tasks to improve the software projects management and, as consequence, the products quality. The employees of these enterprises perform multi-tasks, so it is common that software projects a...

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“…In the last two decades, several SPI models have been developed, such as ISO/IEC 15504 sometimes called SPICE [8], Bootstrap [5], ISO 9000 [24], Six Sigma [23], the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) [24] and the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) [22] to support software firms to obtain more effective results by tailoring standards and methods into their software process.…”

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“…In this regard, several software process improvement (SPI) models have been developed to improve software process development. For instance, the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) [4], SPICE [1,6], Bootstrap [5], International organization for standardization ISO 9000 [8,7], the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) [2,3,18], and Six Sigma [13]. These standards were developed in last decade to assist and help corporations to achieve more reliable results.…”

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Software Process Improvement Initiatives in Small and Medium Firms: A Systematic Review

Almomani

Basri

Mahamad

et al. 2014

2014 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computer Science Applications and Technologies

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Nowadays, software firms are playing very important roles in economies all over the world, and majority of these firms are Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The SMEs recognize that it is important to improve their development processes and activities in order to produce software with high quality and to be competitive in the software industry. However, several studies have shown that the SMEs used ad-hoc manner in their development processes and they suffer from lack of the knowledge and resources to do Software Process Improvement (SPI). In this paper, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is used to identify and discuss the SPI initiatives in SME software firms. The results of the systematic review showed that the majority of software process improvement initiatives in SME firms are carried out in America and Europe. Only in one Asian country, Hong Kong was the SPI initiative considered and CMM Fast-Track was the model developed. The developed model did not cover all the CMM levels, only levels 1 and 2 were considered. In conclusion, many Software Process Improvement initiatives have been proposed for SME software firms but they have shortcomings such as lack of generalizability and take a lot of time to gain the benefits/advantage of the SPI model after implementation.

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PIT-ProcessM: A Software Process Improvement Meta-Model

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Proposed Framework to Manage Software Requirements and Reuse

Proposed Framework to Manage Software Requirements and Reuse

MyPMP: A plug-in for implementing the metamodeling approach for project management in small-sized software enterprises

Software Process Improvement Initiatives in Small and Medium Firms: A Systematic Review

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