TY - CONF T1 - Tool supported detection and judgment of nonconformance in process execution T2 - Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2009. ESEM 2009. 3rd International Symposium on Y1 - 2009 A1 - Zazworka, N. A1 - Basili, Victor R. A1 - Shull, F. KW - aerospace KW - community;tool KW - cycle;software KW - detection;software KW - development KW - domain;large-scale KW - engineering KW - execution;process KW - life KW - management;software KW - nonconformance KW - project;nonfunctional KW - requirement;process KW - software KW - supported KW - tools; AB - In the past decades the software engineering community has proposed a large collection of software development life cycles, models, and processes. The goal of a major set of these processes is to assure that the product is finished within time and budget, and that a predefined set of functional and nonfunctional requirements (e.g. quality goals) are satisfied at delivery time. Based upon the assumption that there is a real relationship between the process applied and the characteristics of the product developed from that process, we developed a tool supported approach that uses process nonconformance detection to identify potential risks in achieving the required process characteristics. In this paper we present the approach and a feasibility study that demonstrates its use on a large-scale software development project in the aerospace domain. We demonstrate that our approach, in addition to meeting the criteria above, can be applied to a real system of reasonable size; can represent a useful and adequate set of rules of relevance in such an environment; and can detect relevant examples of process nonconformance that provide useful insight to the project manager. JA - Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2009. ESEM 2009. 3rd International Symposium on M3 - 10.1109/ESEM.2009.5315983 ER -