Managing the software process
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
What small business and small organizations say about the CMM: experience report
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
Software process improvement: practical guidelines for business susccess
Software process improvement: practical guidelines for business susccess
Toward computational support for software process improvement activities
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Process improvement towards ISO 9001 certification in a small software organization
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Towards an evaluative framework for software process improvement models
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on invited articles on top systems and software engineering scholars
Spice: The Theory and Practice of Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination
Spice: The Theory and Practice of Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination
Software Inspection
Capability Maturity Model, Version 1.1
IEEE Software
A Tailored Capability Model for Inspection Process Improvement
APAQS '01 Proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Quality Software
Design and code inspections to reduce errors in program development
IBM Systems Journal
Software process improvement success factors for small and medium Web companies: A qualitative study
Information and Software Technology
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Concrete guidelines are often helpful, when planning software process improvement activities. Especially minor companies may have difficulties in implementing full-scale SPI programs. One solution is to focus the improvement on the most effective quality methods. This paper introduces a set of patterns to direct the improvement of the software inspection process. Patterns help in setting overall goals for the improvement and describe specific actions that are needed to enhance the process. The patterns have been experimented in a software company that is carrying out a process improvement project. The experiment started with an evaluation of the inspection process capability, after which the process was updated according to determined goals. The process has been performing more effectively after the improvement effort in this case. Results of the experiment show that the pattern approach provides a feasible and quick method for launching SPI activities, although some refinements are needed to fully exploit them.