Integrating the Capability Maturity Model for Software and the Quality Air Force Criteria.

Abstract

As defense budgets decrease and it is required to do more with less, the Air Force has chosen to use the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) as the basis for implementing quality principles. The Air Force program is known as Quality Air Force (QAF), and the criteria are referred to as the QAF criteria DEPA95b. At about the same time the Department of the Air Force implemented QAF, the software leaders in the Air Force adopted the Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM) as the internal standard for Air Force software organizations MOSE9l. Software organizations strapped with both sets of requirements struggle with how to implement both models. Many organizations implement redundant programs in an effort to satisfy both. This research uses signature and specification matching techniques gleaned from the software reuse domain to integrate the CMM and QAF criteria into a single set of requirements that correlate to both models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA323146

Entities

People

  • Marshall B. Messamore

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Configuration Management
  • Data Analysis
  • Design Criteria
  • Formal Languages
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Software Engineering.