Authors:
Alexander Redondo-Acuña
and
Beatriz Florian-Gaviria
Affiliation:
Escuela de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Computación, GEDI Research Group, Universidad del Valle, Calle 13 100-00, Cali, Colombia
Keyword(s):
ISO/IEC 29110, Software Development Process, Observation Model, Indicators, Software Metrics, Software Quality Management Models.
Abstract:
An imbalance exists between quality of software development for researchers on the one hand, and productivity for software industry on the other hand. However, clients demand to have both. So, this is a gap between researchers and the software industry. Therefore, it is necessary to attune software quality research to the productivity. Also it is necessary that software industry can understand the benefit of incorporating quality practices bonded to productivity. This paper proposes an observation model that allows to model internal practices of a small software development organization in comparison to those described in the ISO/IEC 29110 standard. It consists of four main components. First a visual frame of three axes: 1) the process domains and subdomains based on the profile process; 2) Roles and 3) Maturity level. Second, a battery of indicators on this three-dimensional visual frame. Third, a series of surveys designed for primary data collection from employees performing roles
of the model in Very Small Entities (VSEs), and fourth, results of surveys allow disclosing values to compute metrics of indicators.
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