In this paper we publish the results of a thorough empirical evaluation of a CMM-based software process improvement program that took place at the IT department of a large Dutch financial institution. Data of 410 projects collected over a period of four years are analysed and a productivity improvement of about 20% is found. In addition to these results we explain how the use of linear regressi...

Validation is one of the software engineering disciplines that help build quality into software. The major objective of software validation process is to determine that the software performs its intended functions correctly and provide information about its quality and reliability. This paper identifies general measures for the specific goals and its specific practices of Validation Process Are...

The software crisis has been around since 1968 when NATO first identified the problematic nature of software development. In recognition of the need to manage the process of software development many methodologies have been proposed over the years. A recent contribution to this rich set of rigorous software development methodologies is the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability Matur...

This paper addresses the question: is higher capability maturity associated with adoption of Quality Assurance (QA) certification? To assess the extent of adoption of third-party QA certification by Australian software developers, a survey of 1,000 software developers was recently conducted. The questionnaire also included an assessment of their capability maturity based on the capability matur...

concern to both practitioners and researchers but also that the software market is becoming gradually more demanding in terms of development constraints, systems evolution and emerging business models. To cope with this reality, the adoption of Software Process Improvement Models such as capability maturity model integration (CMMI) is perceived by many software development organisations as a ba...

Requirements management measures help organizations to understand, control and assess requirements management process. This paper validates empirically a set of requirements management measures. The measures were defined for the five specific practices of requirement’s management key process area in capability maturity model integration by applying the goal question metrics paradigm to the five...

This paper reports on the design and development of a Measurement Metamodel to facilitate the Implementation and Monitoring of Software Improvement initiatives. The Indicators provided for the Measurement Metamodel are building on a Data Warehouse environment. The Measurement Metamodel is designed based on the International Standard ISO 15939 – Software Measurement Process [1]. The Measurement ...

One of the most commonly used agile methods is Scrum. Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMI-DEV) is currently the de facto framework for process improvement and for determining the organizational maturity of software development companies. CMMI-DEV and Scrum share certain characteristics, and even though they were developed for different purposes, they can be complementary...

This paper summarizes multifaceted synergies discovered between the ISO/IEC 15408 (Common Criteria) IT Security Evaluation standard, software product quality evaluation standards and the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®). In addition to serving research motivated interest, the usefulness of the synergies is demonstrated through case studies related to significant systems development...

The main objective of this work is analyzing the applicability of CMMi (Capability Maturity Model Integration) in developing a detailed software process for small organizations. The implementation of mature methods is hard, requiring highly trained and experienced people. It is usually complicated to apply evolved software processes in smaller organizations due to their lack of mature cultural ...