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Software Process Improvement
Robin B. Hunter (Edited by), RB Hunter (Author), Richard H. Thayer (Edited by), Mark C. Paulk (Foreword by)
9780769509990, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 27 November 2001
640 pages
27.7 x 21.1 x 3.3 cm, 1.27 kg
"Software Process Improvement is a useful book and an office resource must have." (Software Quality Professional Journal, March 2009)
The creation of quality software on time and within budget has been a major problem facing the software industry for several decades. Consideration of software development and maintenance as an engineering discipline to control the developmental process can help alleviate these obstacles. This new book focuses on the best practices for software process improvement (SPI) and related international standards providing a valuable guide and reference.
The text is a collection of original and republished papers providing a significant survey on the use of SPI and software process assessment (SPA) as practiced by companies such as Lockheed Martin, Siemens, and Hewlett Packard. Among the important features of the book are chapters on software process evaluation, how to best perform SPI, ISO 9000 and TickIT-an alternative approach to SPA, as well as the latest information on the CMM integration project. The text also provides vivid descriptions on the most important international and national standards for SPI, in particular ISO 9001, ISO 9000-3, ISO/IEC 9126. ISO/IEC 15504, ISO/IEC 12207.
Software Process Improvement benefits software managers who want to learn about the requirements and effects of SPI, software process staff who need to understand the mechanisms of SPA and SPI, software developers who are affected by SPI and need to know how to apply it, and college students who want to understand the various methods of SPA and SPI.
Contributors of Original Papers. Foreword by Mark C. Paulk. Preface. Chapter 1: Software Process Assessment. Introduction. Models and Standards for Software Process Assessment and Improvement (Mark C. Paulk) The Frameworks Quagmire (Sarah A. Sheard) Chapter 2: The Capability Maturity Model for Software. Introduction. A Software Maturity Framework (Watts S. Humphrey) Software Process Improvement at Hughes Aircraft (Watts S. Humphrey, Terry R. Snyder, and Ronald R. Willis) Capability Maturity Model version 1.1 (Mark C. Paulk, Bill Curtis, Mary Beth Chrissis, and Charles V. Weber) Chapter 3: Other Approaches to Software Process Assessment. Introduction. BOOTSTRAP 3.0 - A SPICE Conformant Software Process Assessment Methodology (P. Kuvaja) TRILLIUM : A Model for the Assessment of Telecom Product Development and Support Capability (Francois Coallier) Sorting out Six Sigma and the CMM (David N. Card) SEL's Software Process Improvement Program (Victor Basili, Marvin Zelkowitz, Frank McGarry, Jerry Page, Sharon Waligora, and Rose Pajerski) Measuring Software Process Improvement (Capers Jones). Chapter 4: Software Process Improvement: How To Do It. Introduction. Overcoming Resistance to Standard Processes, or, "Herding Cats" (Sandra G. McGill) Statistically Managing the Software Process (William Florae, Anita Carleton, Julie Barnard) Chapter 5: Developments Following from the SW-CMM. Introduction. The Personal Software Process (Watts S. Humphrey) Using the TSP on the TaskView Project (David Webb and Watts S. Humphrey) The Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model (Peter A. Kind and Jack Ferguson) CMM Integration - Enterprise-Wide Process Improvement Using the Next Generation of CMM's (Mike Konrad and Sandy Shrum) SPICE for Space : A Method of Process Assessment for Space Software Projects (Ann Cass, Christian Volcker, Paolo Panaroni, Alec Dorling, and Lothar Winzer) Relating the SPICE Framework and SEI Approach to Software Process Assessment (D. H. Kitson) Chapter 9: Experiences of Software Process Assessment. Introduction. Software Quality and the Capability Maturity Model (James D. Herbsleb, David Zubrow, Dennis R. Goldenson, Will Hayes, and Mark Paulk) SPICE Trials Phase 2 (Bob Smith) SPICE Trials Assessment Profile (Robin Hunter) The Reliability of ISO/IEC PDTR 15504 Assessments (Jean-Martin Simon, Khaled El Emam, Sonia Rousseau, Eric Jacquet and Frederic Babey) European Experiences with Software Process Improvement (Fran O'Hara) Chapter 10: Software Process Improvement for Small Organizations. Introduction. Applying and Adjusting a Software Process Model in Practice.The Use of the IDEAL Model in a Small Software Enterprise (Karlheinz Kautz, Henrik Westergaard Hansen, Kim Thaysen) Process Improvement Towards ISO 9001 Certification in a Small Software Organisation (Elif Demirors,Onur Demirors, Oguz Dikenelli, and Billur Keskin) Software Process Improvement in Small Organizations (Marty Sanders). Chapter 11 Benefits of Software Process Improvement. Introduction. Journey to a Mature Software Process (C. Billings, J. Clifton, B. Kolkhorst, E. Lee, and W. B. Wingert) Schlumberger's Software Process Improvement Program (Harvey Wohlwend and Susan Rosenbaum) Accumulating the Body of Evidence for the Payoff of Software Process Improvement—1997 (Herb Krasner). Chapter 12: Software Process. Introduction. Software Processes are Software Too : Revisited; An Invited Talk on the Most Influential Paper of ICSE 9 (Leon J. Osterweil) Process Modelling—Where Next (M. M. Lehman) Software Process: A Roadmap (Alfonso Fuggetta) Appendix. Glossary (R.H. and M.C. Thayer). Editors' Biographies.
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Subject Areas: Electronics & communications engineering [TJ]
