A process complexity-product quality (PCPQ) model based on process fragment with workflow management tables

Authors:
Masaki Obana;Noriko Hanakawa;Hajimu Iida
Affiliations:
Nara Institute science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara Japan;Hannan University,Information management, Matsubara, Oasaka Japan;Nara Institute science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara Japan
Venue:
PROFES'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Product-focused software process improvement
Year:
2011

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Abstract

In software development projects, large gaps between planned development process and actual development exist. A planned process is often gradually transformed into complicated processes including a base process and many process fragments. Therefore, we propose a metric of process complexity based on process fragments. Process fragments mean additional and piecemeal processes that are added on the way of a project. The process complexity depends on three elements; the number of group of developers, the number of simultaneous process, and ratio of an executing period for a period of the whole project. The process complexity was applied to six industrial projects. As a result, changes of process complexities in the six projects were clarified. In addition, we propose a procedure of making a PCPQ (Process Complexity-Product quality) model that can predict post-release product quality on the way of a project. As a result of making a PCPQ model using the six projects, a post-release product quality was able to be predicted.