Objective
The challenge of the single internal market in Europe asks for conformity with international standards for software quality and Gepin Engineering is making investments in order to improve its software development practices by suitable tools and methodologies.
The main objective is to create a centralised Software Quality Management (SQM) function with the role of driving and assuring the quality of software processes and products developed and maintained in the company, so that they follow recognised international standards. In broad sense, the company's objective is to structure and instrument all the support processes of the Software Life Cycle (SLC) as defined in the ISO/IEC 12207 standard, and to be capable of managing their continuous improvement.
THE EXPERIMENT
The experiment represents a major step towards the above objective, largely focusing the improvement effort on those SLC support processes perceived by the company to be the most critical, that is Configuration Management (CM) and Documentation Management (DM).
An "assess-metricate-improve" approach will be experimented to measure the impact that the experiment has on the CM and DM processes. This will be based on the guidelines of the ISO/SPICE assessment framework and on the AMI quantitative approach to software management.
The processes CM and DM will be properly structured and instrumented by means of operating procedures (defined by a constituted SQM team and based on SPICE baseline and generic practices) and supporting technologies:
a) Configuration management using CCC/Harvest;
b) Documentation management using Lotus Notes.
The experiment will be performed around an evolutionary release (client/server architecture) of actual system AANN for the automated treatment of the Nautical Information.
Gepin Engineering Spa employs 100 people, 4 of them are involved in the AANN team.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
The expected results of the experiment can be summarised as follows:
a measured improvement of the CM and DM processes;
a well defined procedural framework for CM and DM processes;
customised and tested tools providing facilities for system configuration, documentation and measurement
It is also expected that the availability of well proven CM and DM practices, jointly with the measurement capability, will positively influence other related SLC supporting processes, in particular Project Quality Assurance and Verication and Validation and will provide the basis for a generalised adoption of measurement approach within the SQM function.
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Italy
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