Investigating factors affecting the usability of software process descriptions

  • Authors:

  • Mohd Naz'ri Mahrin;David Carrington;Paul Strooper

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia;School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia;School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

  • 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

This paper presents the findings of our investigation into factors thataffect the usability of software process descriptions from three sources of information:the literature on software process descriptions, data we collectedfrom a survey of practitioners at the 5th Australia SEPG conference, and ananalysis of core elements of software process metamodels. To understand howthe identified factors can be used to evaluate process descriptions, we used severalfactors as a set of criteria for a qualitative comparison of a number of processdescriptions. As a result, we discovered some gaps between the sampleprocess descriptions and those usability factors.