A Metamodel for Assessable Software Development Methodologies

  • Authors:

  • Cesar Gonzalez-Perez;Tom Mcbride;Brian Henderson-Sellers

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia;Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia;Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Software Quality Control
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Software development methodologies usually contain guidance on what steps to follow in order to obtain the desired product. At the same time, capability assessment frameworks usually assess the process that is followed on a project in practice in the context of a process reference model, defined separately and independently of any particular methodology. This results in the need for extra effort when trying to match a given process reference model with an organisation's enacted processes. This paper introduces a metamodel for the definition of assessable methodologies, that is, methodologies that are constructed with assessment in mind and that contain a built-in process reference model. Organisations using methodologies built from this metamodel will benefit from automatically ensuring that their executed work conforms to the appropriate assessment model.