Software has been reused in applications development ever since programming started. However, the reuse practices have mostly been ad hoc, and the potential benefits of reuse have never been fully realized. Systematic reuse offers the greatest potential for significant gains in software development productivity and quality. Organizations are looking for ways to develop a software reuse program....

For a software engineering division of a company, the most important standards are those used for the management of the software engineering projects. While numerous, relevant, de jure, software engineering standards exist, national guidelines, such as the Department of Defense’s Capability Maturity Model, and corporate standards, such as the Microsoft Solutions Framework, exert a significant i...

Many contributions concerned with software quality (DoD-2167A, ISO 9000-3 and Capability Maturity Model) mandate that requirements traceability be practiced. However, they do not provide a model of what information should be captures and used as a part of requirements traceability model. This paper provides an framework to improve the requirements traceability.

When developing multiple products within a common application domain, systematic use of a software product family process can yield increased productivity in cost, quality, effort and schedule. Such a process provides the means for the reuse of software assets which can considerably reduce the development time and the cost of software products. A comprehensive strategy for the evaluating the ma...

I love stories. I love hearing them; I love telling them. Stories connect me to ideas in a way that dry recitals of facts and findings never could. Perhaps it’s my love of stories that makes the experience reports track my favorite at conferences. A great experience report is a story: a personal account of what somebody experienced while trying an idea. Of course, there’s more to an experience ...

This paper describes the role of the quality organization in software development as observed in dozens of commercial organizations. It views the different charters and purposes the quality groups have. The potential benefits and drawbacks for various charters are presented, along with the organizational structure and typical activities in each. The charter for the quality group changes over ti...

Purpose – The purpose of the article is to investigate the impact of organizational culture on software process improvement (SPI). Is cultural congruence between an organization and an adopted process model required? How can the level of congruence between an organizational culture and the values and assumptions underlying an adopted process model be assessed? Design/methodology/approach – The ...

Project monitoring and control process is an important process in developing any computer information system. Monitoring and Control provides an understanding of the project’s progress so that when the project deviates significantly from the plan appropriate corrective actions can be taken. This research will identify general measures for the specific goals and its specific practices of Project...

................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 2 What Is a Maturity Model? ...................................................................................... 3 The Early Practitioners ..................

Process and product quality assurance are very important aspects in development of software. Process and product quality assurance monitor the software engineering processes and methods to ensure quality. It is the process of confirming and verifying that whether services and products meet the customer expectation or not. This research will identify general measures for the specific goals and i...