A Formalization of the ISO/IEC 15504 - Enabling Automatic Inference of Capability Levels

Outubro 2017

This paper presents a formalization that captures definitions of a number of con-cepts of ISO/IEC 15504 and relations among the concepts. The formalization is expressed in a formal language, OWL. The two main objectives for this formali-zation was to be consistent with the ISO/IEC 15504-5 process assessment model and to be effective, i.e., to allow for an automatic determination of a process ca-pability level based upon data about the process attributes and ratings. The for-malization is presented in a number of levels, from more general concepts to more specific. To assess the validity of the formalization, a number of test cases for the scenario of automatic determination of the capability levels were developed. A set of OWL reasoners were then used to derive the capability levels for the acquisi-tion process group. While the test results were all positive, the real value of this formalization comes from the fact that it faithfully captured the main aspects of ISO/IEC 15504, a well established and accepted model for the assessment of processes capability levels, and that an inference engine was able to support the assessment of processes capability levels of an organization.

Autores da comunidade :

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  D

  Diogo Alexandre Breites de Campos Proença

  ist174723

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  J

  José Luís Brinquete Borbinha

  ist13085

  Afiliações e fontes

  IST > INESC-ID

  Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores - Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa

  IST > DEI

  Departamento de Engenharia Informática

  De: orcid

  ID: 40975430

International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination

10.1007/978-3-319-67383-7_15

computer-and-information-sciences - Ciências da Computação e da Informação

eng - Inglês