A proposed value-based software process tailoring framework

Software process tailoring is the act of customising the existing software process to suit the specific software project. Current practices in software process tailoring consider project characteristics as the sole input to tailor the software process. In addition, it maintains the traditional approach whereby all the project characteristics factors are treated as being equally important. There is a need to shift the traditional software process tailoring approach to a value-centric approach by using a value-based software engineering concept. This study aims to propose a value-based software process tailoring framework to tailor the software process. A review was conducted to analyse the components embedded and input factors in the selected prior studies on software process tailoring. The framework proposed in this study uses value-based factors as input factors to tailor the software process. The framework also considers value prioritisation component, which rank the process elements according to value priority

Using grounded theory approach to identify value-based factors in software development

Grounded theory is an approach that can be used to analyse qualitative data. It is a systematic approach for data collection, handling and analysis. The objective of this paper is to present adapted grounded theory approach as data analysis strategy to identify value-based factors in software development. The grounded theory procedure started with data extraction and initial coding, memo writing and constant comparative analysis and finally identification of core categories and writing memos. Initial data extracted were 74 which were obtained from 28 sources generally related with software development. After constant comparison and memoing, the valid data (value-based factors) were reduced to 33 with six core categories (classification of value-based factors)

The state of the art and issues in software process tailoring

This study aims to review research works on software process tailoring in order to investigate the state of the art of the domain in terms of research activities. Based on the review, a classification of the research works was performed and issues pertaining to the domain were highlighted. Three classifications were produced that classify the research works into critical success factors, experiences and practices in a tailoring reference model and supporting tool. The issues discussed in this study are related to the framework and model, value-based tailored process, experienceware and quality of tailored process. This paper provides essential information on the software process tailoring research works to novice researchers who plan to conduct further research in this domain