Open Access

ARTICLE

CMMI Compliant Workflow Models to Track and Control Changes

by Islam Ali¹, Syed Muhammad Ali¹, Waqar Mehmood², Wasif Nisar¹, Muhammad Qaiser Saleem³, Majzoob K. Omer³, Mahmood Niazi⁴, Muhammad Shafiq⁵, Jin-Ghoo Choi^5,*

1 Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus, Pakistan
2 Department of IT and Computer Science, PAF-Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Mang, Haripur, Pakistan
3 College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Al Baha University, Al Baha, Saudi Arabia
4 Department of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
5 Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 38541, Korea

* Corresponding Author: Jin-Ghoo Choi. Email:

(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Soft Computing Methods for Innovative Software Practices)

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing 2022, 31(1), 387-405. https://doi.org/10.32604/iasc.2022.015955

Received 15 December 2020; Accepted 24 May 2021; Issue published 03 September 2021

Abstract

The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a renowned Software Process Improvement (SPI) framework. Research studies have revealed that CMMI adoption needs a lot of resources in terms of training, funds, and professional workers. However, the software SMEs (SSMEs) have few resources and cannot adopt CMMI. One of the challenges of adopting CMMI is that CMMI tells “What to do?” as requirements to be met, and leaves “How to do?” to the implementers. The software industry especially SSMEs faces difficulties in successfully implementing various process areas (PAs) particularly Configuration Management Process Area (CM-PA). SG-2 (Track and control changes) is one of the important Specific Goals (SGs) required by CMMI to successfully implement CM-PA. As a starting point, we have achieved this SG by implementing its two contributing Specific Practices (SPs). The proposed WFMs were validated through an Expert Panel Review (EPR) process. In addition, a case study approach was used for the evaluation. The results showed that the models are useful, easy to use, supportive in the achievement of SG-2, and applicable to SSMEs. It is worth mentioning that this research work has not only contributed to the implementation studies but also added to the empirical software engineering body of knowledge.

---

Keywords

---