QRP : یک ابزار ارزیابی CMMI برای مدیریت کیفیت پروژه

Organizations adopt software process improvement (SPI) frameworks for developing higher-quality software more efficiently. CMMI is one of the most widely used SPI frameworks; however, software tools that provide a higher automation level are required. In this paper, the QRP platform, which guides and evaluates conformance to a CMMI level, is presented. The main innovation provided by the platform is the automation of the CMMI level assessment using evidences collected during day-to-day project development, facilitating the appraisal of CMMI to a great extent.

Organizations adopt software process improvement (SP I) frameworks to achieve more effectiveness in their development process and a higher quality of the fin al software product [1, 2]. Specifically, CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) is an SPI framework [1] that , on the one hand, provides guidance for improving the software lifecycle and, on the other hand, can be used for appraising the maturity of the development process [3]. However, the adoption of CMMI by organizations is not a simple task. There are studies that describe successful CMMI adoption cases [4, 5] , but other analyses conclude that som etimes organizations consider it to be infeasible to adopt CMMI, requiring radically less cost and time [2, 6]. For this reason, a solution could be any tool or software platform that facilitates and ease s the adoption of CMMI, reducing cost or time [7]. In this paper, we describe QRP (Quality Ready Portal), which is a platform that supports quality assurance during the different phases of project development. The main innovation provided by this platform is the automation of the assessment of the degree of compliance with a CMMI maturity or capacity level through the natural use of the platform, facilitating the appraisal of the CMMI to a great extent. The paper is structured as follows. The next sectio n is devoted to presenting our proposal and the related work. Section 3 explains the way in which process monitoring is performed by means of QRP. The CMMI appraisal by means of QRP is presented in Section 4. Th e last section includes conclusions and future work.

A CMMI appraisal tool for project quality management has been presented, for which the main innovation is the integration of the platform into daily work and the provision of a quick and semi-automatic way for evaluating its conformance to a CMMI level. The implementation of other existing software process improvement frameworks, with the aim of increasing the flexibility of the QRP, [1] is a goal for further development.