Software Process Improvement Frameworks as Alternative of
CMMI for SMEs: A Literature Review

AL-Ashmori, Ammar; Rad, Babak Bashari; Ibrahim, Suhaimi

doi:10.3923/jse.2017.123.133

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“…Despite this attention, the studies do not sufficiently cover software engineering processes and practices, as Paternoster et al [7] elaborates. To overcome the challenges of software production by SSCs, researchers developed several process tools like frameworks and standards [8]- [10] to improve software development processes. However, the SSCs find adopting these frameworks rather difficult, as cited by Alexanda et al [11].…”

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Software Engineering in Small Software Companies: Consolidating and Integrating Empirical Literature Into a Process Tool Adoption Framework

Tuape¹,

Hasheela-Mufeti

Kayanda

et al. 2021

IEEE Access

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Small software companies face numerous challenges of complexity, unstructured software development processes and scarce resources. This notwithstanding, the companies have dominated the software market by 80 percent. The practice and products of these companies are still persistently marred by quality issues arising from the processes, with evidence indicating that process tools do not fit the unique contexts in which they operate. Significant strides have been made in transforming software development practice; however, the challenges are still evidently apparent. Hence the need to establish how knowledge areas are applied in process practice, understand the context of software development and its implication in practice, how process tools are utilised in practice and evaluate quality of research in software literature The researchers undertook a systematic mapping study to determine the state of practice in empirical literature on software engineering of SSCs by examining and classifying 1096 publications. Other than the finding that research quality was low and affecting generalisation and transferability, the results also revealed interesting findings which we finally consolidated and integrated to develop two contributions (i) a software development process adoption theoretical framework which provides new insights of understanding software development and (ii) a 3-point guideline for research quality.

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Software Engineering in Small Software Companies: Consolidating and Integrating Empirical Literature Into a Process Tool Adoption Framework

Tuape¹,

Hasheela-Mufeti

Kayanda

et al. 2021

IEEE Access

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“…ost of software development establishments face teething troubles in their projects due to deficiency of utilization of best practices and standards [1][2][3]. According to Khokhar et al [4] 50% of all application do not encounter trade goals while 40% of software development ventures do not deliver intended return on investment due to lack of best practices.…”

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A roadmap for a comparison framework for an adaptable software process improvement framework in small software companies

Tuape

Ayalew

2019

Communication Papers of the 2019 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

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Poor software quality due to failure to organize development processes using SPI is visible in small software companies, although these companies are significant to industry and world economy; the challenge of quality needs much more attention. The development of different frameworks to sort the development process in SSC continues to leave a lot to be desired. This work leads us to the development of a comparison framework which will ultimately end with an adaptable SPA and SPI framework for SSC. From a SLR to identify the factors affecting SSC and mapping them to the specific processes in which they occur, we analyze the software development environment and identify SPI frameworks that have registered success in similar environments of SSC to help us adopt best practices from which comparison is made to generate requirements for an adaptable SPI framework within context for small companies.

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Software Process Improvement Frameworks as Alternative of CMMI for SMEs: A Literature Review

Cited by 2 publications

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Software Engineering in Small Software Companies: Consolidating and Integrating Empirical Literature Into a Process Tool Adoption Framework

Software Engineering in Small Software Companies: Consolidating and Integrating Empirical Literature Into a Process Tool Adoption Framework

A roadmap for a comparison framework for an adaptable software process improvement framework in small software companies

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