The Internal Consistencies of the 1987 SEI Maturity Questionnaireand the SPICE Capability Dimension

Authors:
Pierfrancesco Fusaro;Khaled El Emam;Bob Smith
Affiliations:
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Sauerwiesen 6, D-67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Sauerwiesen 6, D-67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany;European Software Institute, Parque Tecnologico de Zamudio 204, E-48170 Bilbao, Spain
Venue:
Empirical Software Engineering
Year:
1998

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of an empirical evaluationof the reliability of two commonly used assessment instruments:the 1987 SEI Maturity Questionnaire and the SPICE v1 capabilitydimension. The type of reliability that was evaluated is internalconsistency. A study of the internal consistency of the 1987questionnaire was only briefly mentioned in a 1991 article, andthe internal consistency of the SPICE v1 capability dimensionhas not been evaluated thus far. We used two different data setsto evaluate the internal consistency of each instrument. Ourresults indicate that both assessment instruments are very reliableand also have similar reliability levels. The results are encouragingfor users of assessment instruments, and provide a baseline withwhich to compare subsequent versions of these instruments.