Melhoria da Qualidade de Processos de Software com Base nas Avaliações MPS-BR

Abstract

Quality is one of the key words for the competitiveness of contemporary organizations, therefore, is today a basic requirement in all areas of human activity.The software industry, in recent years, is seeking methods to ensure that their products have acceptable quality and usefulness. This demand for quality creates a scenario where it is necessary the use and development of models of software quality, enabling the final products conform to specifications, standards development and the required needs and objectives proposed by those who produce software.It appears, then, that efforts to improve the quality of software should not only focus on the product, but mainly in the development process, improving it, and the client, providing a better product and within the required needs. The MPS-BR project provides an improvement model based on concepts of maturity and process capability for assessing and improving quality and productivity of software products and related services. It is an initiative of great relevance as a factor in improving the quality of products offered by the national software industry. The evaluation component (MA-MPS) in this model and the results of its implementation, as input for the improvement, the focus of this work.