Version: 1.2.1
SPICE 1-2-1: Determine the software processes of your software project according to ISO/IEC IS 15504. ISO 15504 was initially also called SPiCE, which is the abbreviation for Software Process Improvement & Capability dEtermination. ISO/IEC IS 15504 is an international standard for evaluating software development processes.
The basic idea behind the creation of the tool: The quality of software development processes can be measured. What can be measured can be assessed and improved and managed accordingly!
At the beginning of all improvements is the assessment, the evaluation of the existing processes. SPICE 1-2-1 is precisely the tool with which you can understand and implement the essential content of ISO 15504. This makes the process landscape tangible for software developers.
The ISO/IEC IS 15504 standard consists of ten parts. Parts 1 to 5 form the normative part; parts 6 to 10 comprise the extensions and additions that extend the applicability of the concepts of process maturity to other process areas and other business areas.
The assessment tool SPiCE 1-2-1 covers Part 2 (Performing an assessment) completely and Part 5 (An exemplar software life cycle process assessment model) in sufficient depth. The other parts of ISO/IEC 15504 were comprehensively taken into account in the development of the SPICE 1-2-1 software tool. The tool can also be used to calculate the "Organizational Maturity Level".
The current version of SPiCE comprises 60 processes, 15 of which are designed as sub-processes. The processes are assigned to so-called process groups: AGR (Agreement Processes group), ORG (Organizational Project-Enabling Processes group), PRO (Project Processes group), ENG (Technical Processes group), DEV (Software Implementation Processes group), SUP (Software Support Processes group), REU (Software Reuse Processes group) and QNT.