Validating the ISO/IEC 15504 Measure of Software Requirements Analysis Process Capability
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The Internal Consistencies of the 1987 SEI Maturity Questionnaireand the SPICE Capability Dimension
Empirical Software Engineering
Benchmarking Kappa: Interrater Agreement in Software ProcessAssessments
Empirical Software Engineering
Using FAME Assessments to Define Measurement Goals
IWSM '00 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on New Approaches in Software Measurement
Modelling the Reliability of SPICE Based Assessments
ISESS '97 Proceedings of the 3rd International Software Engineering Standards Symposium (ISESS '97)
SPICE in retrospect: Developing a standard for process assessment
Journal of Systems and Software
Empirical Software Engineering
Information and Software Technology
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The SPICE project aims to deliver an international standard for software process assessment by the end of 1996. As part of this project there is an empirical trials phase whose purpose is to ascertain the effectiveness of the prospective SPICE standard. Two of the objectives of the trials phase are: (a) to determine the extent to which SPICE-conformant assessments are repeatable (i.e., reliability), and (b) to determine the extent to which SPICE-conformant assessments are really measuring best software process practices (i.e., validity). This paper introduces the theoretical foundations for evaluating the reliability and validity of measurement, suggests some empirical research methods for investigating them in SPICE, and discusses the constraints and limitations of these methods within the context of the SPICE project.