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OOSPICE

OOSPICE* is an EU-funded project to extend the SPICE approach to software process improvement and capability determination to cover Component-based Development (CBD). CBD is generally acknowledged to be key for improving
time-to-market, productivity, quality and re-use in software development.

OOSPICE focuses on the processes, technology and quality concerns in component-based software development. Based on the principles of empirical software engineering the OOSPICE project combines in an innovative way four
major concepts:

  • component-based software development
  • object-oriented software development
  • software process assessment
  • software process improvement.

The project’s main objectives are a unified CBD process metamodel, a CBD
assessment methodology delivering component-provider capability profiles
and an assessment software tool, a CBD methodology together with a CBD
software tool, and proposed extensions to the ISO/IEC 15504 process
assessment standard.


* If you are wondering why the ‘OO’ in ‘OOSPICE’: it harks back to the origins of the project when our plan was to modify SPICE to deal with object-oriented development. While developing the project, we concluded that component-based software development needed to be addressed more than object oriented development. So, in ‘OOSPICE’, for ‘OO’ read ‘CBD’, remembering not confuse components with objects...