An SEI Process Improvement Path to Software Quality

Software quality is growing in importance: we are increasingly dependent on software for everything from transportation to public safety. The Carnegie Mellon^reg Software Engineering Institute has pioneered excellent methods for software process improvement, namely its capability maturity model integration (CMMI^reg) and Team Software Processtrade (TSPtrade). This paper provides a brief overview of software quality and its history, a short treatment of CMMI, and an introduction to the TSPtrade , the SEI\´s "how to" guide to achieving process maturity. Empirical results are presented.