Software Process

Recent interest in the engineering community has focused attention on the process by which organizations develop and maintain products. The software engineering community in particular has been a leader in developing new technologies and practices for use by large, diverse organizations. These range from process improvement strategies, such as the Software Engineering Institute's capability maturity model, to notations for describing software process, to tools and environments for automating software process execution, to techniques for collecting and analyzing process data. The essays in this collection present a picture of software process as an important component of the software engineering enterprise, one that is supported by sound technological advances, objective evaluation criteria, and significant experience.