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The maturing of the quality improvement paradigm in the SEL

Author
Basili, Victor R.
Published
Nov 1, 1993.
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Summary
The Software Engineering Laboratory uses a paradigm for improving the software process and product, called the quality improvement paradigm. This paradigm has evolved over the past 18 years, along with our software development processes and product. Since 1976, when we first began the SEL, we have learned a great deal about improving the software process and product, making a great many mistakes along the way. Quality improvement paradigm, as it is currently defined, can be broken up into six steps: characterize the current project and its environment with respect to the appropriate models and metrics; set the quantifiable goals for successful project performance and improvement; choose the appropriate process model and supporting methods and tools for this project; execute the processes, construct the products, and collect, validate, and analyze the data to provide real-time feedback for corrective action; analyze the data to evaluate the current practices, determine problems, record findings, and make recommendations for future project improvements; and package the experience gained in the form of updated and refined models and other forms of structured knowledge gained from this and prior projects and save it in an experience base to be reused on future projects.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 19940031978.
Accession ID: 94N36485.
NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center, Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Software Engineering Workshop; p 39-59.
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