IMPS: an experimentation based investigation of a nationwide software development reference model

  • Authors:

  • Marcos Kalinowski;Kival Chaves Weber;Guilherme Horta Travassos

  • Affiliations:

  • COPPE/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;SOFTEX, Campinas, Brazil;COPPE/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Experimentation in software engineering represents a means to understand the impact of adopting software technologies. In this paper we describe an on-going experimentation work aiming at to address a real industry need in Brazil: the understanding of how performance variables (such as cost, productivity, and quality) are affected by the adoption of a nationwide software development reference model. The main strategy consists in integrating the application of carefully planned surveys into the model implementation and assessment procedures. Besides the expected performance results, we hope it can be useful to reinforce to the Brazilian software industry the importance of experimentation to support software technologies evaluation.