TY - GEN
T1 - Implementation of a software quality improvement project in an SME
T2 - EUROMICRO2009 - 35th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2009
AU - Tosun, Ayşe
AU - Bener, Ayşe
AU - Turhan, Burak
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Software process management is a crucial task in small and medium size enterprises (SME) due to scarce resources, small development teams and heavy workload. We have worked with an SME to institutionalize process improvement practices, aligned with CMMI maturity levels 2 and 3. Main goals of this project were to achieve effective resource management and increase the product quality with fewer defects. The project had two phases: Phase I conducts an "as-is analysis" in order to set well-defined processes. Phase II measures the software reliability in terms of time/effort allocation and defect rates. Our before and after analysis showed that: a) time allocation for requirements, coding and testing steps improved from (4%, 31%, 65%) to (47%, 20%, 33%), b) defect rates decreased from 11% to 6.5%, c) estimated testing effort also decreased from 47% to 30%.
AB - Software process management is a crucial task in small and medium size enterprises (SME) due to scarce resources, small development teams and heavy workload. We have worked with an SME to institutionalize process improvement practices, aligned with CMMI maturity levels 2 and 3. Main goals of this project were to achieve effective resource management and increase the product quality with fewer defects. The project had two phases: Phase I conducts an "as-is analysis" in order to set well-defined processes. Phase II measures the software reliability in terms of time/effort allocation and defect rates. Our before and after analysis showed that: a) time allocation for requirements, coding and testing steps improved from (4%, 31%, 65%) to (47%, 20%, 33%), b) defect rates decreased from 11% to 6.5%, c) estimated testing effort also decreased from 47% to 30%.
KW - CMMI
KW - Case study
KW - Small and medium size enterprise
KW - Software process improvement
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=74549158340&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SEAA.2009.52
DO - 10.1109/SEAA.2009.52
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:74549158340
SN - 9780769537849
T3 - Conference Proceedings of the EUROMICRO
SP - 203
EP - 209
BT - EUROMICRO2009 - Proceedings of the 35th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2009
Y2 - 27 August 2009 through 29 August 2009
ER -