TU München - Fakultät für Informatik
Software- and Systems Engineering Research Group

ArSPI - Artifact-based Software Process Improvement & Management

This page contains all information regarding the ArSPI approach. You can download all relevant information, guidance, or templates.

(News): ArSPI is currently in revision. We conducted case studies and evaluation. In response, we currently revise ArSPI. New features will be:

Improvements in the artifact and activity model
Improvements in the role model
More and improved templates
An evaluation framework

Documentation

ArSPI in a Nutshell

M. Kuhrmann, S. Beecham. Artifact-Based Software Process Improvement and Management: A Method Proposal.
International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP), ACM Press, 2014

The original technical report on ArSPI

M. Kuhrmann. ArSPI: An Artifact Model for Software Process Improvement and Management.
Technical Report, Number TUM-I1337, Technische Universität München, 2013

A quasi-experiment for internally validating ArSPI

M. Kuhrmann, D. Mendez Fernandez, A. Knapp. Who Cares About Software Process Modelling? - A First Investigation About the Perceived Value of Process Engineering and Process Consumption.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES), Springer, 2013

Guidance

ArSPI is available as process documentation. Here, you can find:

The exported HTML documentation of ArSPI (version 0.9)
The process model as Eclipse Process Framework project

Further Material

ArSPI Models

ArSPI is a fine-grained artifact model, which is defined using the UML. Here, you can find exported figures of the model that are better to read than in the technical report.

	The entire ArSPI model
	Process Assets and the Conceptual Process Design
	Process Assets and the Technical Process Design
	Relations of the Conceptual and the Technical Process Design

Templates

	Process Requirements
	Conceptual Process Design
	Technical Process Design
	Process Life Cycle Support
	SPI Project Assessment Form

Tailored Templates

Use tailored templates according to the tailoring instructions from the technical report (Sect. 9.2.3)

Process Design

Evaluation Material

Use the following questionnaires to replicate the findings from the process-engineering lab.

	Questionnaire for Process Engineers
	Questionnaire for Process Consumers

Use the following sheet to conduct comparable expert evaluations.

Expert Board Evaluation Sheet