Quality patterns---an approach to packaging software engineering experience
Frank G. Houdek, Hubert Kempter · 1997
Building up experience for its reuse plays a key role in context of systematic quality and process improvement. An organizational approach for building competencies and supplying them to software projects is provided by the concept of the experience factory. A basic step within the experience factory is the continual accumulation of all kinds of experience and storing them systematically in a repository, the experience base. A systematic and adequate packaging of experience is essential to successful reuse in this context. It has to be identified, analyzed for its potential reuse and tailored to meet the future needs. In this paper we introduce quality patterns as a suitable way of packaging experience to make it reusable. Main characteristic of this approach is that gained experience is packaged beyond a problem--solution strategy. To illustrate our approach, we enrich a common mechanism in quality improvement programs in view of reusability. To enable an effective handling of qualit...