Grupo Alarcos · Conference paper · 2013

A Framework to Support Software Quality Trade-Offs from a Process-Based Perspective

Gabriel Alberto García Mireles, María Ángeles Moraga de la Rubia, Félix Óscar García Rubio, Mario Piattini Velthuis

Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSpi 2013) · 2013 · 5 citations (OpenAlex)

Organizations are attempting to provide software that will meet stakeholders’ quality requirements. Experts recognize that interactions between quality requirements might be conflictive. A trade-off study is an approach that can be carried out in order to resolve this issue. Since a trade-off study is a kind of decision process, we have reviewed the decision processes in CMMI and ISO/IEC 12207 in order to identify the process requirements. As we wished to deal with only one set of requirements, we have applied a harmonization technique whose results show that tasks of the ISO/IEC 12207 decision process could be embedded in practices from the CMMI decision process. We have then developed a proposal for a process framework to deal with these issues, which includes a trade-off quality process. We depict the elements taken into account to build the framework, and the trade-off process is presented at a generic level.