Software process engineering: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

Abstract

Software process engineering has been the challenging in the past 40 years, in the sense that it has been the underpinning of software engineering. On the other hand it has been one of the fundamental and much importance notions in this field; however, the improvement of software process has been the most challenging in software engineering. In the sense, several software process models have been proposed but none of them pay any concrete attention to the security assessment during the software process. Paying less attention to this fact could ultimately cause devastating on public life and national assets. In this paper we intend to analyze the SDLC models to find out the strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats within these models specially with focus on security aspects and as a result of this research work we show that none of these models have any concrete attention to the software product security.