CMMIsm (CMM Integrationsm) appraisal tool (CAT TOOL)

• Main Author: Mohamad Nazim, Jambli
• Format: E-Thesis
• Language: English; English
• Published: School of Computing and Information Technology. 2003
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/8051/1/CMMIsm%20%28CMM%20Integrationsm%29%20appraisal%20tool%20%28CAT%20TOOL%29%20%2824pgs%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/8051/2/CMMIsm%20%28CMM%20Integrationsm%29%20appraisal%20tool%20%28CAT%20TOOL%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/8051/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

In the modern business world nowadays, most software organizations must continually improve all aspects of their business especially the improvement in their software processes in order to increase productivity and gain competitive advantage. One way of doing this is to conduct process improvement by implementing a disciplined and systematic approach to software process and quality improvement, such as the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model® (CMM®) (1993) or CMM Integrations''" (CMMI ) (2001a), the ISO/IEC 15504 standard for software process assessment (1998) and the BOOTSTRAP process assessment model developed by BOOTSTRAP Institute (Bicego, et al., 1998a). These various popular process assessment approaches are normally used for conducting process assessment and improvement in any software organization. However, the success of process improvement largely depends on the effectiveness of the process assessment in a particular software organization. It is very important to conduct process assessment correctly and effectively in order to gain full benefits from the assessment. This is the main objective of the project reported here; that is to develop a tool to support software process assessment for any software organization that wants to improve their software and product quality. The development of this software process assessment tool, which is also known as CMMI Appraisal Tool (CAT Tool) is based on the continuous representation of CMMIS'n process assessment model. This model is chosen for the CAT Tool because it is one of the emerging international standards for process assessment and there is a need to develop the tool for this model due to its rigorous rule of evidence as opposed to the requirements of other process assessment models. CAT Tool is a window-based process assessment supporting tool to record data collection from CMMISr appraisals. CAT Tool is focused on collecting the objective evidence needed for CMMI appraisals in advance for any software organization that wants to prepare and conduct process assessment.