Evaluation and Improvement of an Organizational Resource Applying Strategy Patterns ()
ABSTRACT
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.
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Papa, M. , Rivera, B. , Becker, P. and Olsina, L. (2016) Evaluation and Improvement of an Organizational Resource Applying Strategy Patterns.
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
9, 128-146. doi:
10.4236/jsea.2016.94011.