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1995
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Characterizing and Assessing a Large-Scale Software Maintenance Organization

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Characterizing and Assessing a Large-Scale Software Maintenance Organization
One important component of a software process is the organizational context in which the process is enacted. This component is often missing or incomplete in current process modeling approaches. One technique for modeling this perspective is the Actor-Dependency (AD) Model. This paper reports on a case study which used this approach to analyze and assess a large software maintenance organization. Our goal was to identify the approach's strengths and weaknesses while providing practical recommendations for improvement. The AD model was found to be very useful in capturing the important properties of the organizational context of the maintenance process, and aided in the understanding of the flaws found in this process. However, a number of opportunities for extending and improving the AD model were identified. Among others, there is a need to incorporate quantitative information to complement the qualitative model.
Lionel C. Briand, Walcélio L. Melo, Carolyn
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Type Conference
Year 1995
Where ICSE
Authors Lionel C. Briand, Walcélio L. Melo, Carolyn B. Seaman, Victor R. Basili
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