Title
Prioritization Of Software Process Improvements A Coqualmo-Based Case Study And Derived Decision Support Scheme
Abstract
Quality assurance has always been a major concern for software engineers. While a lot of work has been devoted to technical quality assurance aspects, its economics have rarely been addressed. This is remarkable in the light of the current endeavor of the software industry to learn from more mature industries and to adapt their 'lean' and process improvement philosophies. We advance this debate by proposing a decision support scheme. It facilitates the selection and prioritization of quality assurance activities for improvement initiatives. The prioritizing order is based on the expected quality gains in terms of reduced number of defects in the software product. Our scheme supports managers in their decision process, as shown in three industrial case studies. It can be instantiated with low data-collection effort because it makes use of calibration data and model characteristics of COQUALMO.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
ICSOFT 2009: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE AND DATA TECHNOLOGIES, VOL 1
Software process improvement, Decision support, Software quality assurance, COQUALMO
Field
DocType
Citations 
Software Engineering Process Group,Data mining,Systems engineering,Computer science,Decision support system,Based case study,Software development process,Empirical process (process control model),Requirement prioritization,Software verification and validation,Goal-Driven Software Development Process
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arne Beckhaus1364.24
Lars M. Karg2162.57
Christian A. Graf300.68
Michael Grottke442223.98
Dirk Neumann57311.89