An investigation into the best practices for the successful design and implementation of lightweight software process assessment methods: A systematic literature review

Zarour, Mohammad; Abran, Alain; Desharnais, Jean-Marc; Alarifi, Abdulrahman

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2014.11.041

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“…These synonyms were taken from the Thesaurus of the Oxford Dictionaries 4 . There were also words that were added because they were related to the first keywords -these words were identified in the exploratory search that was explained in subsection IV-B1.…”

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Research on Proposals and Trends in the Architectures of Semantic Search Engines: A Systematic Literature Review

Morales

Melgar

2017

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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Abstract-Semantic web technologies have gained some spotlight in recent years, mostly explained by the spread of mobile devices and broadband Internet access. As once envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee, semantic web technologies have fostered the development of standards that enable, in turn, the emergence of semantic search engines that give users the information they are looking for. This paper presents the results of a systematic literature review that focuses on understanding the proposals on the semantic search engines from an architectural point of view. From the results it is possible to say that most of the studies propose an integral solution for their users where their requirements, the context and the modules that comprise the search engine have a great role to play. Ontologies and knowledge also play an important role in these architectures as they evolve, enabling a great myriad of solutions that respond in a better way to the users' expectations.

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“…The questions for the following checklist are based on the ones presented in Zarour et al [4] for their systematic review. Those were rephrased according to the needs of this research.…”

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Research on Proposals and Trends in the Architectures of Semantic Search Engines: A Systematic Literature Review

Morales

Melgar

2017

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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“…Guidelines for designing software process assessment and improvement approaches are presented in [63,33]. Zarour et al [62] presented a systematic literature review on designing and implementing lightweight assessment methods based on top-down best practice, and concluded that success of assessment contributes to success of SPI as a whole. The reasons for designing lightweight methods based on top-down best practice (standards, guidelines) are the lack of skilled SPI experts and problems in initiating bottom-up SPI initiatives [62].…”

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“…Zarour et al [62] presented a systematic literature review on designing and implementing lightweight assessment methods based on top-down best practice, and concluded that success of assessment contributes to success of SPI as a whole. The reasons for designing lightweight methods based on top-down best practice (standards, guidelines) are the lack of skilled SPI experts and problems in initiating bottom-up SPI initiatives [62]. Lightweight methods are easier to design and implement, but they can be both top-down and bottom-up by its nature.…”

Section: Software Process Assessmentmentioning

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“…In addition, feedback is essential for understanding current state of the assessment process and results, as well as for decision making in assessment process regarding selection of the next assessment activities. Positive role of feedback in process assessment is discussed in several research studies [17,40,58,62]. At the other hand, Baddoo and Hall [7] discovered that the lack of feedback to developers is important de-motivating factor in process improvement projects.…”

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Inductive Approaches in Software Process Assessment

Stojanov

2016

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Abstract. Software processes play important role in overall business performances of software organizations. However, in many cases processes are not well established, leading to poor performances of software products and services. Since majority of software organizations are small, suffering from the lack of resources, there is a permanent need for developing lightweight inductive approaches for assessing and improving their processes. These approaches should start from the actual state of the practice in software organizations, and result with the most suitable improvement proposals. This paper presents a short introduction into software processes, process assessment and improvement, and motivation for investigating the field of inductive software process assessment. The paper also outlines basic principles of inductive assessment approaches and future challenges.

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