Every so often, a new methodology is launched onto the software engineering landscape with all the force of a religious crusade. From its humble beginnings, Software Process Improvement (SPI), which includes initiatives such as CMM and ISO 9000, has spread its wings into virtually every sector of the software engineering community and in the process has transformed itself from a bag of tools an...

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." In software, these expressions translate into the common observation that the longer a defect stays in process, the more expensive it is to fix [10]. Moreover software defects are expensive and time consuming. The cost of finding and correcting defects represents one of the most expensive software development activities. And that too, if the er...

Software technology has high impact on the global economy as in many sectors of contemporary society. As a product enabling the most varied daily activities, the software product has to be produced reflecting high quality. Software quality is dependent on its development that is based in a large set of software development processes. However, the implementation and continuous improvement of sof...

In this paper issues of creating case tools, implementing capability maturity models, for software process improvement are analyzed. A range of aspects of using the maturity models were analyzed to this end; these aspects were taken into consideration when designing the case tools structure. The group of existing case tools is reviewed, their benefits and limitations are displayed. The inner st...

Day by day the number of organizations is increasing which using process mining to understand the way of execution of operational processes. For ssystematically drive the innovation in the digitalized world is used by Process Mining. The aim of Process mining is to get the knowledge of an organization's business processes by transforming the event data recorded in information systems. This...

This work is about the software process of a software engineering course project work. The quality manual contains a general process model, written in a formal software process modeling language that describes activities, tools, products, responsibilities, and measures. The quality manual serves as a basis for obtaining project specific plans, and for communicating the process to students, coll...

This guidebook shows how well-established principles and methods for evaluating and controlling process performance can be applied in software settings to help achieve an organization’s business and technical goals. Although the concepts that are illustrated are often applicable to individual projects, the primary focus is on the enduring issues that enable organizations to improve not just tod...

Software managers pursuing process improvement initiatives are confronted with the problem of selecting potential improvements. In the field of software quality assurance, suitable decision support for prioritizing the optimization of activities according to their return on investment is not yet available. Our paper addresses this research gap. We develop a decision support scheme that facilita...

The lack of an adequate requirements specification is often blamed for the failure of many IT investments. Naturally, the requirements specification is the product of a requirements engineering process. Methods are required to evaluate the current requirements engineering process and identify where improvements are necessary making it possible to produce requirement specifications of high quali...

Changes in software technology and models for software development require commensurate change in the education of software developers. One way of teaching software engineering is to organize a course around a project similar to a real industrial project. The educational community itself is increasingly moving from lecture-format courses to team projects, problem-solving, direct involvement wit...