A Metamodel for the CMM Software Process

With the increasing complexity of software system, geographically distributed development has become mainstream. Managing a software process in which team members are physically distributed is challenging. How to use the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) in geographically distributed development is an area with a number of open research issues. We define a CMM Software Process (CSP) by a set of generic process elements in accordance with the requirements of the CMM. Using the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), the CSP model can be transformed into distributed CMM implementation process models. This paper presents a metamodel for the CSP model, named MM-CSP, and provides the abstract syntax and the semantic of the MM-CSP as well as a UML profile for the MM-CSP. Based on the MM-CSP, a prototype tool for CSP modeling is developed.

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