CERTICS Assessment Methodology for Software Technological Development and Innovation

Author

Alves, Angela M. ; Salviano, Clenio F. ; Stefanuto, Giancarlo N. ; Maintinguer, Sonia T. ; Mattos, Carolina V. ; Zeitoum, Camila ; Martinez, Manuel ; Reuss, Giancarlo

Author_Institution

Centro de Tecnol. da Informacao Renato Archer, Campinas, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

23-26 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

174

Lastpage

177

Abstract

Technological development and innovation are key drives for software development organizations. Furthermore they are strategic for the growth of a region or a Country. Therefore, the Brazilian government established a public policy instrument to identify and stimulate software resulting from technological development and innovation in the Country. Hence a software assessment methodology, named as CERTICS, has been created and established in Brazil. Its construction has been based on the reality of software development organizations and guided by methodological references including the ISO/IEC 15504 (SPICE) Standard. CERTICS includes a reference model, an assessment method and an arrangement for its application, monitoring and continuous improvement. A software organization can also benefit from CERTICS as good practices reference model on technology development and innovation. This article presents an overview of the rationality, design, major components and early practical results of CERTICS Methodology version 1.1.

Keywords

IEC standards; ISO standards; government; software engineering; Brazilian government; CERTICS assessment methodology; ISO/IEC 15504 (SPICE) Standard; methodological references; public policy instrument; software assessment methodology; software development organizations; software technological development; software technological innovation; IEC standards; ISO standards; Organizations; Software; Standards organizations; Technological innovation; Assessment Method; Assessment Reference Model; ISO/IEC 15504; SPICE;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), 2014 9th International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Guimaraes

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6132-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QUATIC.2014.32

Filename

6984113