Improvement proposal for a software requirements management process

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2006
Yamaç, Pınar Işıl
This thesis focuses on measurement based software process improvement, especially improvement of requirements change management process. The literature on software measurement is investigated, software process improvement methodologies are studied and requirements change management metrics are examined. Requirements change management process at a private company working in the defense industry is observed and metrics obtained from various tools have been aggregated. Moreover, an improvement proposal, which also simplifies collecting metrics, is presented for the requirements change management process. A tool is developed for evaluating the performance of the improvement proposal using event driven simulation method.

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P. I. Yamaç, “Improvement proposal for a software requirements management process,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2006.