Modeling and improving an industrial software process

Author

Bandinelli, Sergio ; Fuggetta, Alfonso ; Lavazza, Luigi ; Loi, Maurizio ; Picco, Gian Pietro

Author_Institution

CEFRIEL, Milan, Italy

Volume

21

Issue

5

fYear

1995

fDate

5/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

440

Lastpage

454

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.387473

Filename

387473