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This paper introduce information technology of software process assessment. It consists of eight parts such as concepts and introductory guide, a reference model for processes and process capability, performing an assessment, guide to performing assessments, an assessment model and indicator guidance, guide to competency of assessors, guide for use in process improvement, and guide for use in determining supplier process capability.

This paper presents various information technologies of software product evaluation such as process for evaluators, process for developers, and process for acquirers. This study also introduces system life cycle processes and its application guide.

In this paper, the researchers describe the results obtained after assessing the software process activities in five small to medium sized Indian software companies. This work demonstrates a cost effective framework for software process appraisal, specifically targeted at Indian software Small-to-Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The framework explicitly focuses on organizations that have little or no experience in software process improvement (SPI) programmes. The companies involved in this assessment have no CMMI experience prior to the work. For Indian software SME’s, it has always been difficult to find the resources, both time and money, which are necessary to engage themselves properly in SPI. To alleviate this, we have developed a low-overhead and relatively non-invasive solution tool to support SMEs in establishing process improvement initiatives. The paper initially describes how the framework was developed and then illustrates how the method is currently being extended to include a questionnaire based approach that may be used by the appraised organization to perform follow-on self-assessments. The results obtained from this study can be used by organizations to achieve the CMMI standards. Finally, the results are discussed for consistency by incorporating a scientific based approach1 to avoid ambiguities which arise while arriving at a result.

This paper presents three-step process for validating the software process assessment model and report the result of each step to check the validity of MND-ESPAM. MND-ESPAM is the software process assessment model invented for evaluating the software process capability of Korean military software organizations, but it is not sufficiently validated so that it cannot be decided to spread it into the military software industry. The three-step process suggested in this paper is composed of 1) the investigation of the state of the Korean military software companies via a questionnaire survey, 2) the software process assessment via a questionnaire survey based on MND-ESPAM, and 3) the experimental software process assessment by the CMMI appraisal team with MND-ESPAM. After the validation, we suggest important improvements of the MND-ESPAM assessment model.

Software process assessment and improvement is widely acknowledged as one of the most important means for achieving competitive and effective software industry. To ensure the production of quality software, companies usually adapt software process standards and go through certifications based on their process capability. The goal of our study is to assess the current state of software process practice in the country in order to determine their process performance and process capability. To achieve this, we conducted a process assessment study of 7 software companies following the METvalCOMPETISOFT assessment methodology. Our findings reveal process areas such as configuration management, software quality assurance, and software maintenance which require more attention for process improvement. Furthermore, the findings help in understanding the organizations’ current software engineering practices and identification of strengths, major weaknesses and key areas for software process improvement.

Recently, the qualification of Capability Maturity Model(CMM) which is a dominant standard for improving software process productivity has drawn much attention as a critical competitive factor in software organizations. In order to prepare the qualification a lot of cost and time are typically required；it is important to make more economic efforts to minimize such resources of companies for the preparation. Therefore, this paper proposes a Web－based support system, CLAS(CMM Level Assessment System) to help companies which have interests in acquiring CMM qualification or even just improving their processes. This system contains an assessment survey tool based on enablers required to achieve the requirements of CMM, so can provide practical guidelines to help prepare the CMM qualification effectively.

소기업의 프로세스 심사는 재정 및 인적 자원의 한계로 실행되기 어려운 여건을 가지고 있다. 이러한 소규모 조직의 프로세스 심사 과정과 심사 대상 프로세스는 일반적으로 중견 또는 대기업을 대상의 그것과는 차별적으로 적용되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 소규모 조직의 소프트웨어 프로세스 개선을 위한 프로세스 심사 방법을 제안하였고 실제로 2개 기업에 적용하여 보았다. 여기에서 심사 대상 프로세스를 선정하는 것이 중요한 부분을 차지하는데, 이는 해당업체가 주관적으로 필요하다고 생각하는 "업체선정" 프로세스와 전문가가 객관적으로 중요하다고 판단하는 "전문가선정" 프로세스를 조합하는 방법을 취했다. 여기서 "전문가선정" 심사 대상 프로세스의 선정은 전문가들을 대상으로 한 2차에 걸친 델파이 설문조사 결과를 분석한 최종 산출물이다. 그리고, 선정된 심사 대상 프로세스를 중심으로 두 업체의 소프트웨어 프로세스를 시범적으로 심사하여 보았다.체의 소프트웨어 프로세스를 시범적으로 심사하여 보았다.

IT 산업의 급속한 확대에 따라 소프트웨어 분야에 대한 제품 및 생성 프로세스 관련 표준 연구가 국내에서 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 소프트웨어 생명주기 프로세스에 대한 국제표준의 ISO/IEC 12207, ISO/IEC 15504(일명 SPICE), SW-CMM, CMMI 등에서 정의하고 있는 프로세스에서 공통적으로 포함되어 있는 형상관리 프로세스에 대한 표준들 간의 활동 비교를 통해 프로세스 개선 모델들의 특징을 파악하였다.

최근 소프트웨어 프로세스 개선을 통하여 개발되는 소프트웨어의 품질을 향상시키기 위하여 개발 조직의 ?f발 능력과 생산성을 향상시키기 위하여 많은 회사들이 관심을 보이고 있다. 본 논문에서는 다양한 프로세스 심사 모델의 장점을 흡수하면서 조직 유형 및 프로젝트 규모에 제약 없이 프로세스 심사를 위한 개념을 제공하는 ISO/IEC 15504(SPICE)를 설명하고 최근의 심사사례를 바탕으로 전반적인 심사과정을 소개한다.

Safety critical systems are those in which a failure can have serious and irreversible consequences. Nowadays digital technology has been rapidly applied to critical system such as railways, airplanes, nuclear power plants, and vehicles. The main difference between analog system and digital system is that the software is the key component of the digital system. The digital system performs more varying and highly complex functions efficiently compared to the existing analog system because software can be flexibly designed and implemented. The flexible design make it difficult to predict the software failures. This paper reviews safety standard and criteria for safety critical system such as railway system and suggests development process, ordering management and assessment process for railway software with more detail description.

본 논문은 무기체계 임베디드 소프트웨어 프로세스 평가모델(이하 'MND-EAPAM')의 국방사업 특성화 방안을 제시한다. 2008년, 무기체계 임베디드 소프트웨어 프로세스 평가의 기준이 되는 무기체계 임베디드 소프트웨어 프로세스 평가모델을 개발하였지만, 국방분야에 대한 특성 반영이 미흡하였다. 이에 따라 국내 방위산업체의 소프트웨어 프로세스 관리 실태를 조사 분석하고, CMMI 인증을 획득한 방위산업체에 MND-ESPAM을 시범적용하여, MND-ESPAM의 문제점을 도출 및 분석하였다. 도출된 문제점을 개선하기 위하여, MND-EAPAM과 방위사업청 소프트웨어 개발프로세스 지침 간 연계가 가능하고, 국방시험성숙도모델(MND-TMM)의 체계적 반영으로 시험활동을 강화하며, 유사 프로세스 영역을 식별, 통합하는 MND-ESPAM의 개선안을 제시한다. 개선안은 CMMI와의 커버리지 검증, ISO/IEC 14598-3의 요구사항에 의한 시험활동 평가, 방위산업체 시범적용을 통하여 검증을 실시하였다.

In this paper, we propose the enhanced Assessment Model of the Embedded Software Process(MND-ESPAM) which is suitable for the development work of weapons in Korea. In 2008. We developed the MND-ESPAM which is the assessment criteria of software process, but this model is inefficient to apply to Korean military area. Therefore, we elicit and analyze the problems of MND-ESPAM through tow methods. One is to research on the actual condition of the domestic defense industry about software process management. And the other is to apply MND-ESPAM to the defense companies acquiring CMMI level. In order to overcome these problems elicited above, we provide solutions to make MND-ESPAM linked with Software Development Process Guide of Defense Acquisition Program Administration(DAPA) and to systematically strengthen testing activities and to reduce the number of process areas. The proposed model was proved by two objective methods such as checking the coverage with CMMI and whether it is satisfied or not by modified requirements ISO/IEC 14598-3. At last, experts in the field of software process confirmed the effect of MND-ESPAM through applying MND-ESPAM to the defense industry company.