Database implementation for a software process assessment model

Summary form only given. A new work item for a software process assessment standard was approved by the International Standardization Organization in January 1993. The SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination) project was established in June 1993 to assist the standardization project in its preparatory stage, to undertake user trials and, to create market awareness and take-up of the evolving standard. As a result of the projects the technical report of type 2 ISO/IEC 15504 was published in 1998 to provide a framework for the assessment of software processes. The technical report is composed of nine parts. Part 2 defines a two-dimensional reference model for describing processes and process capability used in a process assessment while Part 5 is an exemplar assessment model compatible with the reference model. In this paper we present a conceptual model of the reference model (part 2) and its compatible assessment model (part 5) of the technical report ISO/IEC 15504. We also show how the model can be implemented as a relational database