A Model for Achieving the Goals of Requirement Development Process Area in CMMI Level3 on Workflow Applications

Abstract

Fast change of information techniques introduces the considerable needs of better software integration and generation over various hardware, operating systems, and applications. To extract the requirements of projects is getting more difficult; however, there is no perfect solution currently. Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is the most popular one used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. One CMMI benefit expected is increasing the focus and consistency in the requirement development and management. There are lots of researches which address related problems in requirement development process. Usually, a software company emphasizes on several specific application areas only. Each area has its own characters, thus its CMMI guidance might be different from others. In this paper, we aim the problem from another viewpoint: software development in an area might be summarized as a set of templates. The development processes associated with these templates might cause them to satisfy CMMI 3. With years of experiences on WfMS researches and advices, we developed a model for requirement development of the area to satisfy the goals of the requirement development process area in CMMI level 3 that might be a good way for the software development of this area. The validation will be down in the future.