摘要：Controlling and improving the process used to develop and maintain a software product has been widely proposed as a primary answer to the poor quality and non-conforming software products. The ultimate goal of those efforts is to create a continuous SPI (Software Process Improvement) space. Once the organization is committed to begin the SPI effort,the first step is an assessment of the current process and the current capability of the organization to develop and maintain quality software. In this paper,the author presents a methodology for continuous software process self-assessment,developed,tested and successfully applied in several companies in Macedonia. The methodology,using the SW-CMM (Software Capability Maturity Model) as a referent model,is unique in: Development of a suitably structured Database of Documents covering nearly every practice used by the actual software process. The documents are grouped according to aspects of development,quality assurance, configuration management and project management. The database provides software input to the referent model. Formalization of the complex structure of the referent model SW-CMM,enabling statistical evaluation of the practices used versus baselines of the model,starting from the bottom up to the Levels of Maturity. For that purpose a software tool has been created and applied. There are very few methodologies and techniques, which include processes,modeling and documentation in a single package (Curtis et al. 1992). The main finding of this study is that an efficient,easy to use, sustainable and objective self-assessment and consequently self-improvement process should involve significant,well-designed initial efforts. This paper presents the methodology itself and reports our experiences in developing and conducting a selfassessment process that follows such a systematic approach.
关键词：Process Assessment;CMM;Software Process Documentation;Self-Assessment Software Tool.
