J. Torgersson, A. Dorling
Proceedings of EUROSPI 2002, Conference on European Software Process Improvement, Nürnberg, Germany, September 18-20, 2002.
The current international standard for software process assessment, ISO/IEC TR 15504, has proven to be suitable for general software development approaches. However, there is a lack of coverage of Component-Based Development CBD specific issues when it comes, both to the content within the processes and the terminology used. Thus, there is a need for new or changed processes as the basis for assessing organisations using a component based approach for software development. To meet this need a Process Reference Model (PRM) that captures these changes has been developed by the OOSPICE project. Changed processes also trigger the need for new software process assessment methodologies to be able to determine the capability of CBD organisations and by that, be able to improve the quality of software components. Such a methodology is also under development by the OOSPICE project.