RAMALA: a knowledge base for software process improvement

  • Authors:

  • Javier Garcia;Yaser Rimawi;Maria Isabel Sánchez;Antonio Amescua

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Science Department, Carlos III University of Madrid, Leganes, Madrid, Spain;Computer Science Department, Carlos III University of Madrid, Leganes, Madrid, Spain;Computer Science Department, Carlos III University of Madrid, Leganes, Madrid, Spain;Computer Science Department, Carlos III University of Madrid, Leganes, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • EuroSPI'05 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Software Process Improvement
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The actual situation of small software organizations in software process definition and improvement is chaotic. Actually, deploying a software process improvement program within such organizations is very difficult, due to its high cost and small ROI percentage that could be obtained. RAMALA is a knowledge base, supported by a software tool called also RAMALA, that contains a software process framework, which is mainly based on the PMBOK process framework [9], detailed by software engineering experts using the best practices of the main software reference models like CMMI [11] and ISO 15504 [3], and enriched with process assets of the most outstanding software development methodologies. RAMALA is a platform where best practices of any software engineering process are recollected in a process definition form. Small software organizations can define, assess and improve their software processes economically using RAMALA.