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

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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.

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  1. Departmento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Sonora, Blvd. Encinas y Rosales s/n col. Centro, 83000, Hermosillo, Sonora, México

    Gabriel Alberto García-Mireles

  2. Instituto de Tecnologías y Sistemas de Información, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Paseo de la Universidad 4, 13071, Ciudad Real, España

    Ma Ángeles Moraga, Félix García & Mario Piattini

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García-Mireles, G.A., Moraga, M.Á., García, F., Piattini, M. (2013). A Framework to Support Software Quality Trade-Offs from a Process-Based Perspective. In: McCaffery, F., O’Connor, R.V., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 364. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39179-8_9

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