Objective
Software produced by INPS is aimed at automating its social security services and therefore it is highly related to the continuous law changes and needs for new services to the community. By the definition of a comprehensive document process during the software life cycle and of well specified Verification and Validation activities we want to improve the control over the whole software development process and, consequently, the ability to timely adequate our services to customer requirements.
THE EXPERIMENT
The intent of this project is to define a set of document standards together with the definition of clear rules and roles involved in the document flow management. Moreover we intend to experiment Verification and Validation activities to be executed on the outputs of each phase. Available environments as Lotus Notes for document management and a metrication tool as Metrication (by SPC) for collection and analysis of metrics (also derived by V&V activities) will be experimented in PIE project.
Major activities in the experiment will be: PIE management, PIE qualification and monitoring; Set up of the IDEA experiment, inclusive of training, definition of a methodology defining document and V&V processes, software tools selection and acquisition, preparation of technological layout; Application of defined methodology on top of the baseline project (methodology tailoring, definition of baseline project plans, production of specified documents, application of defined procedures on software development products, collection and analysis of metrics); internal and external dissemination of results.
The baseline project selected for this PIE concerns the reengineering of software used to collect requests and to order payments of unemployment indemnities to specific workers categories, a limited project but highly representative of our typical software production. It will be carried out by an IT peripheral software development structure (SIR - Bari), already owning a noticeable experience on this particular application domain, with the control and supervision of the IT central structure (DCTI- Roma).
The whole IT department of INPS employs about 800 people in Italy, while the involved peripheral structure employs about 20 people.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
We expect to gain some advantages such as the reduction of software maintenance times, a better understanding between different work groups and an easier exchange of people between them, the availability of standardised documents, etc.
As an indirect goal we think to increase the attention to well founded practices of software engineering in the whole IT department and, generally, to promote the introduction of quality concepts in our software development process.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
- social sciences sociology social issues unemployment
- social sciences law
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00144 Roma
Italy
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