Application Lifecycle Management as Infrastructure for Software Process Improvement and Evolution: Experience and Insights from Industry

2011 37th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications Pub Date : 2011-08-30 DOI:10.1109/SEAA.2011.51

Hermann Lacheiner, R. Ramler

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Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is widely promoted by tool vendors and ALM solutions have attracted the attention of many software developing companies. In this paper we describe the introduction of an ALM solution for software development in a large industrial manufacturing company. The introduction is complemented by several small-scale process improvement initiatives. Thereby the ALM solution was turned on itself by using the tool for the tool evaluation, the introduction as well as the process improvement activities. Based on this experience we explore whether the features provided by ALM for software development are also an effective utility for software process management. The paper shows how the ALM solution was applied for process development, process documentation, process implementation and process monitoring. We found that the concepts underlying ALM were suitable to support these activities and, furthermore, endorsed the view that software processes are software too.

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应用程序生命周期管理作为软件过程改进和进化的基础设施:来自工业界的经验和见解

应用程序生命周期管理(Application Lifecycle Management, ALM)被工具供应商广泛推广，并且ALM解决方案已经吸引了许多软件开发公司的注意。在本文中，我们描述了一个大型工业制造公司的软件开发ALM解决方案的介绍。介绍是由几个小规模的过程改进计划补充的。因此，ALM解决方案通过使用工具进行工具评估、介绍以及过程改进活动而开启了它自己。基于这一经验，我们探索ALM为软件开发提供的特性是否也是软件过程管理的有效工具。本文展示了如何将ALM解决方案应用于过程开发、过程文档、过程实现和过程监控。我们发现底层ALM的概念适合于支持这些活动，并且进一步认可了软件过程也是软件的观点。

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