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 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.

• 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
• Rights: restrictedAccess
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec