MAPS-15504 - An automated methodology for software process assessment

Abstract

The increasing demand for quality has led the software engineering community to produce several standards and norms to guide the quality of software products and processes. Amongst the process standards, the following may be highlighted due to their wide use: ISO 9000-3, ISO 12207, CMM and ISO/IEC TR 15504. An additional important research result of the software engineering community is Process-centered software engineering environments (PSEE). These environments aim at providing integrated support for software process automation. This paper presents MAPS-15504, an automated methodology for evaluation of the quality of software processes based on the ISO/IEC TR 15504. MAPS-15504 was applied to a case study and implemented in the ExPSEE environment. ExPSEE is an experimental PSEE developed at the Department (DIN) of Informatics of the State University of Maringá (UEM)