Scenario-based assessment of process pattern languages

Abstract

Current standards and models for the quality of software development processes lead to a coarse-grained quality model which is heavy and difficult to focus for specific purposes. We propose a more light-weight method for assessing processes that can be expressed as process pattern languages. The method is based on imitating an existing software architecture evaluation method, ATAM, in the context of processes. The main advantages of the method are more fine-grained assessment in terms of quality attributes possibility to tune the assessment for a certain purpose, and a more light-weight assessment procedure. We illustrate the method in the case of two process pattern languages. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.