1. Software Process and CASE Tools By Fang Xuefen SRA Key Technology Lab. Inc. Tokyo, Japan

2. Software Process Defined as a set of activities, methods, practices and transformations executed or used by people to develop & maintenance software products that meet the needs of customers and markets –Involution Process & Evolution Process (abstract level) –Software Development & Maintenance Process (practice level) Software Process Model –Waterfall,Spiral,Chaos, Iterative and Incremental, Extreme Programming …

3. Software Process Improvement Software Process Improvement : The application of technology and disciplines to improve software development and maintenance process for achieving business goals and objectives The Benefits of Software Process Improvement –Enhance Business Value –Improve Project Performance & Software Quality –Decrease Software Development Cost –Increase Customers’ & Employees’ Satisfaction

4. CASE Tools Goals To Improve software quality and productivity Classifications –Tools: support only specific task in software process. –Workbenches: support one or several software process activities by integrating some tools in a single application. –Environments: support all or at least part of the software process with a collection of Tools and Workbenches. Relationship with software process Be able to cover many activities in software process

5. Tool-use Characters at CMM Levels Initial No guidelines or stands in the use of tools Repeatable Project-level commonality in the use of tools Defined Tool standards are set across the organization Managed Process improvement is driven by the quantitative analysis of metric data Optimizing Innovative tools and technologies evaluated and adopted into the organization

6. The Issues Tool maturity It is very difficult to verify how mature an adopted tool set is applied for a software process. Cost-effective of tools It is important to figure if they can decrease cost. User support except the complete tools As a matter of fact, we can hardly acquire a perfect integrated tool, so it’s necessary for people to bridge it.