Software process improvement

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2007
Elalmış, Mert Erkan
In this thesis the software development process and in particular, the requirements management processes in a major software development company have been investigated. The current problems related to requirements quality and process performances have been identified. Process improvement measures have been proposed based on the suggestions found in the relevant literature. The current process and the improved version have been compared with respect to the process evaluation metrics proposed particularly for software process improvement.

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M. E. Elalmış, “Software process improvement,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.