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Evaluation and Improvement of an Organizational Resource applying Strategy Patterns
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2016-04Registro en:
Papa, María Fernanda; Rivera, María Belén; Becker, Pablo Javier; Olsina, Luis Antonio; Evaluation and Improvement of an Organizational Resource applying Strategy Patterns; Scientific Research; Journal of Software Engineering and Applications; 9; 4; 4-2016; 128-146
1945-3116
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Papa, María Fernanda
Rivera, María Belén
Becker, Pablo Javier
Olsina, Luis Antonio
Resumen
For any software company that frequently performs quality assurance activities devoted to measurement, evaluation (ME) and change/improvement (MEC) projects, ME and MEC strategies can be valuable organizational assets. In this paper, we analyze the improvement of a ME strategy, which can be considered an organizational resource to be applied to quality assurance activities. This resource is called the GOCAME (Goal-Oriented Context-Aware Measurement and Evaluation) strategy. AME/MEC strategy embraces the next three integrated capabilities: 1) the ME/MEC domain conceptual base and framework; 2) the process perspective specifications; and, 3) the method specifications. The improvement of GOCAME was performed instantiating two strategy patterns. A strategy pattern is a reusable solution to recurrent problems in ME/MEC projects. For an improvement goal, the selected MEC strategy pattern allows instantiating in a project a set of tailored activities and methods for measurement, evaluation, analysis and change. Particularly, we instantiate the GoME_1QV (Goal-oriented Measurement and Evaluation for One Quality View) strategy pattern to understand the GOCAME current quality state and compare it with the so-called GQM+ Strategies. First, this evaluation and analysis allows us to know the GOCAME strengths and weaknesses with regard to the quality of the three capabilities. Second, we instantiate the GoMEC_1QV (Goal-oriented Measurement, Evaluation and Change for One Quality View) strategy pattern to improve the GOCAME current state, producing as result a new version of the GOCAME strategy.