Software Process Improvement and Product Line Practice: CMMI and the Framework for Software Product Line Practice
Many organizations report dramatic benefits from the adoption of software product line practice. Organizations that have established software engineering process discipline are better poised to succeed with product lines. While we acknowledge that there are different paths to successful process discipline, in this technical note, we concentrate on approaches based on the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) models. We describe practices that are most crucial to product line success. While some of these relate directly to the CMMI models process areas, others are uniquely important to product lines.
In this technical note, we first present fundamental concepts of software product lines. We then describe important product line practices as they have been documented in A Framework for Software Product Line Practice (framework). We next present an overview of the CMMI models, followed by a description of the general relationships between the framework and CMMI models. We amplify this comparison with a detailed example showing the relationship between configuration management practices in CMMI and in the framework. We conclude by describing the ways in which organizations can build upon their process improvement efforts to achieve success with product lines and realize additional benefits through the use of both technologies.
This report is related to the following area(s) of work:
CMMIProcess Improvement
Software Product Lines
Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2002-TN-012
July 2002
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SEI:
Jones, Lawrence; & Soule, Albert. Software Process Improvement and Product Line Practice: CMMI and the Framework for Software Product Line Practice (CMU/SEI-2002-TN-012). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/02tn012.cfm
IEEE:
L. Jones, and A. Soule, "Software Process Improvement and Product Line Practice: CMMI and the Framework for Software Product Line Practice," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2002-TN-012, 2002. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/02tn012.cfm
APA:
Jones, L., & Soule, A. (2002). Software Process Improvement and Product Line Practice: CMMI and the Framework for Software Product Line Practice (CMU/SEI-2002-TN-012). Retrieved May 25, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/02tn012.cfm
CHI:
Jones, Lawrence, and Albert Soule. Software Process Improvement and Product Line Practice: CMMI and the Framework for Software Product Line Practice (CMU/SEI-2002-TN-012). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/02tn012.cfm
MLA:
Jones, L., & Soule, A. 2002. Software Process Improvement and Product Line Practice: CMMI and the Framework for Software Product Line Practice (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2002-TN-012). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/02tn012.cfm
Please note that current and future CMMI research, training, and information has been transitioned to the CMMI Institute, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University.
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