Title :
Modeling and improving an industrial software process
Author :
Bandinelli, Sergio ; Fuggetta, Alfonso ; Lavazza, Luigi ; Loi, Maurizio ; Picco, Gian Pietro
Author_Institution :
CEFRIEL, Milan, Italy
fDate :
5/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The paper discusses the problems that a software development organization must address in order to assess and improve its software processes. In particular, the authors are involved in a project aiming at assessing and improving the current practice and the quality manual of the Business Unit Telecommunications for Defense (BUTD) of a large telecommunications company. The paper reports on the usage of formal process modeling languages to detect inconsistencies, ambiguities, incompleteness, and opportunities for improvement of both the software process and its documentation
Keywords :
DP industry; programming environments; software quality; system documentation; telecommunication computing; Business Unit Telecommunications for Defense; ambiguity detection; current practice; documentation; formal process modeling languages; incompleteness detection; inconsistency detection; industrial software process improvement; industrial software process modelling; large telecommunications company; quality manual; software development organization; Business communication; Capability maturity model; Companies; Computer industry; Continuous improvement; Coordinate measuring machines; Production; Programming; Project management; Telecommunications;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
