Paper Info
Title
Software Process Improvement Initiatives Based on Quality Assurance Strategies: A QATAM Pilot Application.
Abstract
Quality Assurance (QA) strategies, i.e., bundles of verification and validation approaches embedded within a balanced software process can support project and quality managers in systematically planning and implementing improvement initiatives. New and modified processes and methods come up frequently that seems promising candidates for improvement. Nevertheless, the impact of processes and methods strongly depends on individual project contexts. A major challenge is how to systematically select and implement "best-practices" for product construction, verification, and validation. In this paper we present the Quality Assurance Tradeoff Analysis Method (QATAM) that supports engineers in (a) systematically identifying candidate QA strategies and (b) evaluating QA strategy variants in a given project context. We evaluate feasibility and usefulness in a pilot application in a medium-size software engineering organization. Main results were that QATAM was considered useful for identifying and evaluating various improvement initiatives applicable for large organizations as well as for small and medium enterprises.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-15666-3_7
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Quality Assurance,Quality Assurance Strategies,Strategy evaluation,Best-Practices Method Selection
Software Engineering Process Group,Software quality analyst,Software engineering,Software security assurance,Software quality control,Software project management,Engineering,Software verification and validation,Software quality,Team software process,Process management
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
99
1865-0929
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dietmar Winkler1828.81
Frank Elberzhager214620.44
Stefan Biffl31305134.26
Robert Eschbach4282.07