Abstract
Software Process Improvement (SPI) is the set of activities with which an organization attempts to reach better performances on product cost, time-to-market and product quality, by improving the software development process. Changes are made to the process based on ‘best practices’: experiences of other, not necessarily similar organizations. Within SPI methodologies there is a focus on the software development process, because it is based on the assumption that an improved development process positively impacts product quality, productivity, product cost and time-to-market. This paper defines stan-dard metrics for quantitative measurement of quality indicators of processes through Software Process Assessment (SPA) based on SPICE. Through accomplishment of this, we are able to control and to measure SPI activity, and pro-vide for a basis of quantitative S/W process management. The results of our re-search will represent a circulatory architecture for SPI and support of the risk management through the improvement activities and the Process Asset Library with collected and measured data.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Kim, G.J.: Internal and external trends of SPI technology. Software Engineering Review 11(3), 61–73 (1998)
ESI, SPICE(ISO15504) Training, V.2.0, ESI (1996)
Kim, H.: Beyond ISO9000: the movement for process improvement of Software. Software Engineering Review 11(3) (1998)
Paulk, M.C., Cutis, B., Chrissis, M.B.: Capability Maturity Model for Software, Version 1.1, CMU/SEI-93-TR-24 (1993)
Canada, B.: Trillium-Model for Telecom product Development & Support Process Capa-bility, Internet Edition, Release 3.0 (1994)
Part 3: ISO/IEC TR 15504, Part 3: Performing an assessment, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 (1998)
Sassenburg, H., Matser, G., Kazil, P.: Software Process Improvement: Why and when? Informatie 38 (July/August 1996) (in Dutch)
Part 7: ISO/IEC TR 15504. Part 7: Guide for use in process improvement, ISO/IEC JTC/SC7 (1998)
Yoon, C.Y.: Relation Analysis of Software Processes using SPICE Level. M. Eng. thesis, Daejeon University (2003)
Part 3: ISO 9000-3, Part 3: Quality Management and Quality Standards, ISO 9001 (1997)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2006 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Hwang, SM., Kim, HM. (2006). A Study on Metrics for Supporting the Software Process Improvement Based on SPICE. In: Dosch, W., Lee, R.Y., Wu, C. (eds) Software Engineering Research and Applications. SERA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3647. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11668855_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11668855_6
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-32133-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-32134-7
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)