An Empirical Study on MBASE and LeanMBASE

From 1998-2005, the successful model-based (systems) architecting and software engineering (MBASE) had been used as a set of guidelines for the keystone two-semester real-client team project graduate software engineering course sequence. However, to fit with small-sized and limited schedule projects, MBASE was trimmed to reduce the huge amount of efforts in documentation. Consequently, LeanMBASE, which is a light-weight software process framework that helps teams identify the high-value activities and helps balance the workload of a development, is being used in the software engineering course. This paper reports the comparison and improvement of the projects that use MBASE and LeanMBASE in terms of content, performance, and customer satisfaction.