Scoping software process models: initial concepts and experience from defining space standards

  • Authors:

  • Ove Armbrust;Masafumi Katahira;Yuko Miyamoto;Jürgen Münch;Haruka Nakao;Alexis Ocampo

  • Affiliations:

  • Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan;Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan;Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan;Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ICSP'08 Proceedings of the Software process, 2008 international conference on Making globally distributed software development a success story
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Defining process standards by integrating, harmonizing, and standardizingheterogeneous and often implicit processes is an important task, especiallyfor large development organizations. However, many challenges exist,such as limiting the scope of process standards, coping with different levels ofprocess model abstraction, and identifying relevant process variabilities to beincluded in the standard. On the one hand, eliminating process variability bybuilding more abstract models with higher degrees of interpretation has manydisadvantages, such as less control over the process. Integrating all kinds ofvariability, on the other hand, leads to high process deployment costs. This articledescribes requirements and concepts for determining the scope of processstandards based on a characterization of the potential productzs to be producedin the future, the projects expected for the future, and the respective process capabilitiesneeded. In addition, the article sketches experience from determiningthe scope of space process standards for satellite software development. Finally,related work with respect to process model scoping, conclusions, and an outlookon future work are presented.