Characterizing SME's needs for implementing a software process improvement: A comparative between the reality and the theory [Caracterizando las necesidades de las pymes para implementar mejoras de procesos software: Una comparativa entre la teoría y la realidad]

Nowadays in the software development industry SMEs occupy a considerable percentage of the number of companies generating the 52% of the gross domestic product of the countries and around 72% of the formal employees. However, even when guarantee the software quality is important for SMEs, they have...

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Fecha de publicación:
2014
Institución:
Universidad de Medellín
Repositorio:
Repositorio UDEM
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.udem.edu.co:11407/1323
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/11407/1323
Palabra clave:
Quality models and standards, systematic review
SMEs
Software process improvement
SPI SMEs' needs
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http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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Summary:Nowadays in the software development industry SMEs occupy a considerable percentage of the number of companies generating the 52% of the gross domestic product of the countries and around 72% of the formal employees. However, even when guarantee the software quality is important for SMEs, they have a lack in the implementation of software development formal processes that help them to address this need. This paper shows a comparative between reality and theory focused on the characterization of the needs that SMEs have to face when implementing a software process improvement. The paper is focused on showing the results of analyzing SMEs from Zacatecas Region of Mexico and the results obtained performing a systematic review results and the SME's from Zacatecas Region results are included.