Evaluation of Improvements in Software Processes During the Execution of a Project

• Mylene Cabral UFRJ
• Ana Regina Rocha UFRJ
• Gleison Santos UNIRIO

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2013.15302

Abstract

This paper presents proposal to support the evaluation of changes in the process defined for an ongoing project supported by multicriteria decision techniques. We expect that members of the Software Engineering Process Group of an organization are able to evaluate, through a method to support decision making, whether is advantageous to implement the improvements undertaken in the standard process in the defined process of an ongoing project. The proposed approach was evaluated through a case study performed in three software development organizations. The results indicate that the approach is useful and easy to use.

Keywords: Change Assessment, Software Processes, Support Method

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