A SPEM BASED SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT META-MODEL

Rodrigo Santos de Espindola, Jorge Luis Nicolas Audy

2010

Abstract

Nowadays the organizations are using Software Process Improvement (SPI) reference models as the starting point to their quality improvement initiatives. There is a consensus that by understanding and improving the software process we could achieve the improvement of the software product as well. Several studies also indicate the concurrent adoption of multiples SPI reference models by the organizations. The need for new approaches to integrate those SPI reference models with each other and with the software process developed aiming compliance with them has increased. This paper propose a SPEM based SPI meta-model as a way to support those kinds of integration.

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Santos de Espindola R. and Luis Nicolas Audy J. (2010). A SPEM BASED SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT META-MODEL . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-06-5, pages 301-306. DOI: 10.5220/0002910503010306


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@conference{iceis10,
author={Rodrigo Santos de Espindola and Jorge Luis Nicolas Audy},
title={A SPEM BASED SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT META-MODEL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={301-306},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002910503010306},
isbn={978-989-8425-06-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - A SPEM BASED SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT META-MODEL
SN - 978-989-8425-06-5
AU - Santos de Espindola R.
AU - Luis Nicolas Audy J.
PY - 2010
SP - 301
EP - 306
DO - 10.5220/0002910503010306