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Evaluation of competing software process assessment (SPA) methods is an important issue for software process improvement initiatives. Although SPA methods designers may claim successful design and implementations of their SPA methods, no evaluation of these claims, based on a set of evaluation criteria, has yet been documented. In addition, independent evaluation of the SPA methods currently available would also help the designers of these methods. This paper presents as a case study the results of applying the proposed evaluation criteria to the MARES SPA method.
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Zarour, M., Abran, A., Desharnais, JM. (2011). Evaluation of Software Process Assessment Methods – Case Study. In: O’Connor, R.V., Rout, T., McCaffery, F., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 155. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21233-8_4
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