Investigating factors affecting the usability of software process descriptions

This paper presents the findings of our investigation into factors thataffect the usability of software process descriptions from three sources of information:the literature on software process descriptions, data we collectedfrom a survey of practitioners at the 5th Australia SEPG conference, and ananalysis of core elements of software process metamodels. To understand howthe identified factors can be used to evaluate process descriptions, we used severalfactors as a set of criteria for a qualitative comparison of a number of processdescriptions. As a result, we discovered some gaps between the sampleprocess descriptions and those usability factors.