TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards enacting a SPEM-based test process with maturity levels
AU - Dashbalbar, Amarmend
AU - Song, Sang Min
AU - Lee, Jung Won
AU - Lee, Byungjeong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 KSII.
PY - 2017/2/28
Y1 - 2017/2/28
N2 - Effective monitoring and testing during each step are essential for document verification in research and development (R&D) projects. In software development, proper testing is required to verify it carefully and constantly because of the invisibility features of software. However, not enough studies on test processes for R&D projects have been done. Thus, in this paper, we introduce a Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi)-based software field R&D test process that offers five integrity levels and makes the process compatible for different types of projects. The Software & Systems Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM) is used widely in the software process–modeling context, but it lacks built-in enactment capabilities, so there is no tool or process engine that enables one to execute the process models described in SPEM. Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)-based workflow engines can be a solution for process execution, but process models described in SPEM need to be converted to BPMN models. Thus, we propose an approach to support enactment of SPEM-based process models by converting them into business processes. We show the effectiveness of our approach through converting software R&D test processes specified in SPEM in a case study.
AB - Effective monitoring and testing during each step are essential for document verification in research and development (R&D) projects. In software development, proper testing is required to verify it carefully and constantly because of the invisibility features of software. However, not enough studies on test processes for R&D projects have been done. Thus, in this paper, we introduce a Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi)-based software field R&D test process that offers five integrity levels and makes the process compatible for different types of projects. The Software & Systems Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM) is used widely in the software process–modeling context, but it lacks built-in enactment capabilities, so there is no tool or process engine that enables one to execute the process models described in SPEM. Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)-based workflow engines can be a solution for process execution, but process models described in SPEM need to be converted to BPMN models. Thus, we propose an approach to support enactment of SPEM-based process models by converting them into business processes. We show the effectiveness of our approach through converting software R&D test processes specified in SPEM in a case study.
KW - Enactment
KW - Maturity levels
KW - R&D test process
KW - SPEM
KW - Software test process
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U2 - 10.3837/tiis.2017.02.034
DO - 10.3837/tiis.2017.02.034
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85014072224
SN - 1976-7277
VL - 11
SP - 1217
EP - 1233
JO - KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
JF - KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
IS - 2
ER -