AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH FOR QUALITY MODELS INTEGRATION

Rodrigo Santos de Espindola, Jorge Luis Nicolas Audy

2009

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.

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Santos de Espindola R. and Luis Nicolas Audy J. (2009). AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH FOR QUALITY MODELS INTEGRATION . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-86-9, pages 231-236. DOI: 10.5220/0002008202310236


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@conference{iceis09,
author={Rodrigo Santos de Espindola and Jorge Luis Nicolas Audy},
title={AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH FOR QUALITY MODELS INTEGRATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={231-236},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002008202310236},
isbn={978-989-8111-86-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH FOR QUALITY MODELS INTEGRATION
SN - 978-989-8111-86-9
AU - Santos de Espindola R.
AU - Luis Nicolas Audy J.
PY - 2009
SP - 231
EP - 236
DO - 10.5220/0002008202310236