Authors:
Rodrigo Santos de Espindola
and
Jorge Luis Nicolas Audy
Affiliation:
Faculty of Informatics, PUCRS, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Software quality models, Software process improvement, Integration.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
Abstract:
The existing quality models (as ISO/IEC 15504, CMMI, MPS.BR, ITIL, COBIT) establish different processes and controls that must be adopted to achieve high software process reliability. Whereas it’s possible notice similarities and overlapping areas among them, a systematic approach to integrate quality models is not widely explored in the literature. In this work we propose an evolutionary approach to integrate quality models. The approach defines a method that can be executed in a systematic way and has a meta-model and a mapping table as outcome. The method is composed by two stages: the meta-model development and the meta-model stabilization. As this is an ongoing research, this work is presenting the application and the results from the execution of the first stage. As a result, a meta-model representing the structure of four different quality models was developed and its applicability was verified.