TITLE:
A Hybrid Evaluation Framework of CMM and COBIT for Improving the Software Development Quality
AUTHORS:
Amin Amid, Somaye Moradi
KEYWORDS:
CMM; COBIT; Software Quality; Maturity Level; Control Objectives
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.6 No.5,
May
24,
2013
ABSTRACT:
It is essential to study quality of
software production like others. Software productions have special properties.
They are intangible. So, qualitative evaluation encountered with complexity.
Hence, proposing a model in order to evaluate the quality of Software
productions is considerable to most software managers and experts. In this
paper, regarding to improve
software productions quality, the process of software production has been
determined, using CMM standard framework of maturity level. In CMM it does not
present a method for measurement and evaluation maturity level, the presented
process in CMM standard mapped by COBIT control objectives has been combined in
the process of software productions development in developed hybrid framework. In this research, the processes have been mapped utilizing focus and established group, in parallel of software production in
different maturity level of CMM mapped by COBIT framework. In order to show the
capabilities of proposed framework, the hybrid evaluation model was employed in
a software developing organization as a case study. According to the results of
evaluation, improvements proceedings and action plans have been proposed and
discussed to enhance the software production processes.