Paper Info
Title
Do software process improvements lead to ISO 9126 architectural quality factor improvement
Abstract
This paper presents preliminary results of a systematic review performed to determine the impacts of Software Process Improvements (SPI) on developers' activities and on architectural quality. The analysis shows that most SPI research focuses on the motivations of developers like quality of work life and participation incentives, but provides little detail on the impacts of SPI on their day-to-day tasks. The impacts on product quality are limited to defect reduction, and do not consider architectural quality factors, such as changeability and stability. This study shows a very weak link between process quality, as defined by the CMMI, and architectural quality, as defined by ISO 9126. The SPI literature found by this review is mostly concerned with requirement process improvements, which are related to problem definition quality, but not to architectural quality. Future quality-oriented SPI research should therefore focus on improving design and development processes with an eye to considering architectural quality factors, or what the ISO 9126 terms "architectural capabilities".
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2024587.2024592
WoSQ@ESEC/FSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
architectural quality factor improvement,problem definition quality,spi literature,future quality-oriented spi research,product quality,spi research,architectural quality,software process improvement,architectural quality factor,development process,architectural capability,process quality,capability maturity model,quality factor,systematic review,quality improvement
Quality of analytical results,Quality policy,Systems engineering,Capability Maturity Model,Software quality control,Software development process,Engineering,Capability Maturity Model Integration,Quality management,Process management,Quality assurance
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.65
24
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mathieu Lavallée1435.94
Pierre N Robillard256865.22