An exploratory study of process enactment as input to software process improvement

  • Authors:

  • Ming Huo;He Zhang;Ross Jeffery

  • Affiliations:

  • National ICT Australia Ltd and University of New South Wales, Australia;National ICT Australia Ltd and University of New South Wales, Australia;National ICT Australia Ltd and University of New South Wales, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software quality
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Software process improvement has been a focus of industry for many years. To assist the procedure and implementation of software process improvement we provide a software process recovery method based on mining project enactment data. The goal of process recovery is to improve the quality of a planned software process. We investigate the enactment of a planned software process from the view of understanding the appropriateness and fitness for purpose of the process model from the viewpoint of the project managers in the context of a small software development organization. We collected empirical data from this organization and then applied our method to a pilot case study. The main contribution of our work is to provide a methodology of software process model recovery which supports software process improvement.