Optimization of Software Development Process
In recent years, the key reasons for the success in software industry are enhancing the capability of managing software development process (SDP) in addition to the use of new technology. The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is widely adopted by the software organizations to improve their SDP all over the world. The staged approach of CMMI yields appraisal results as one of five maturity levels. Many software organizations have conducted the appraisal of CMMI maturity level 2 or 3. However, when the software organizations continuously enhance their software development process to pass CMML maturity level 4 or 5, most of them are encountered with some difficulties. Many researchers proposed methods, including Statistical Process Control (SPC), prediction models and some quantitative simulation methods, to help software organizations to meet the requirements of maturity level 4 or 5. However, some of these quantitative methods, such as stochastic optimization modeling (SOM), are too complicated for software engineers or managers to learn and employ. Another drawback is that adopting these methods is too time-consuming. To simplify the process of optimizing the performance-indicator to meet the requirements of maturity level 4 or 5, this study utilizes the analysis of variance (ANOVA) method to determine the best option of each sub-process. The proposed method can not only achieve the effect as SOM but also save a lot of time or effort as compared with SOM. In addition, this study utilizes the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to optimize multi-performance-indicator simultaneously and determine the best option of each sub-process. Finally, a real case from a paper of SEI is utilized to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed procedure.
software development process (SDP) analysis of variance (ANOVA) multi-performance-indicator stochastic optimization modeling (SOM)
Lee-Ing Tong I-Chun Liao Ying-Ti Tsai Chih-Wei Chang
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, China
国际会议
The Institute Industrial Engineera Asian Conference 2011(2011年国际工业工程师协会亚洲会议)
上海
英文
427-433
2011-06-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）