A hierarchical and functional software process description and its enaction
ICSE '89 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Software engineering
Toward Objective, Systematic Design-Method Comparisons
IEEE Software
Experience with an Approach to Comparing Software Design Methodologies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Software product and process modeling can be used as bases for more accurate, objective, and repeatable comparison of Software Design Methodologies (SDM's). In earlier work we have demonstrated the use of a fixed feature comparison process (called CDM), a fixed (but extensible) framework of design methodology features (the Base Framework, BF), and a fixed process/product modeling formalism (based upon HFSP) in supporting such comparisons. We have obtained both broad, general SDM comparison results, and sharp narrowly focused SDM comparison results and have used them to confirm the power and validity of our approach. In the course of this work we have revised, modified, and extended the BF to improve its scope of applicability and its accuracy. We have also improved CDM by elaborating it down to lower levels of detail, and by being more specific about iteration conditions. In more recent work we have addressed the question of of how sensitive these comparisons and their results might be to the specific choice of process modeling formalism. We are learning that the comparison results remain surprisingly as the modeling formalism is changed.