Uma ontologia que estabelece os relacionamentos de dependência entre as práticas de gerência de requisitos e gerência de projetos constantes nos modelos MR-MPS-SW e CMMI-DEV

Abstract

The models and standards for software quality aim to propose a set of best practices to support the software companies in order to achieve the continuous software process improvements, so, those companies may develop better products. Commonly, the software companies need to hire implementation consultants in order to support the best practices institutionalization. In this context, there are companies and novice consultants that have the difficulty to understand about the practices and the relationship between those practices in quality models. In order to resolve it, we will create a ontology. The ontology is “a set of ordered terms, by hierarchy, in order to describe a domain that can be used as a knowledge base”. Thus, this research proposes a ontology that establish the dependency relationship among the best practices of project management process and requirement management process. In order to achieve this result, we need: (1) a study about the best practices presents in MR-MPS-SW and CMMI-DEV models, in order to find the relationship among the best practices; (2) create a ontology in UML – Unified Modeling Language; (3) define the ontology axioms, in order to consolidate the meaning of dependency relationships; and (4) survey the companies that have official certification, in this survey we collected the evidences used to implement the best practices suggested in quality models, in order to instantiate the ontology for its evaluation. In the end, our outcome was a ontology (structured model and axioms) that establish the relationship of the best practices among Project Management and Requirement Management process.