An evaluation of the benefits and difficulties of implementing ISO/IEC 29110 international software standard in academia and industry
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Very Small Entities (VSEs) have a suitable place as the principal producers in a software product supply chain. This leads to a commitment to achieve high-quality software products. To help them, experts from various countries collaborated to develop the ISO/IEC 29110 series of standards and guides. However, it is necessary to adequately transfer this knowledge to them in this standard; in other words, building conditions that make it
happen are required. This paper analyzes 23 benefits and difficulties of VSEs that improve their processes using a basic ISO/IEC 29110 standard profile as a reference.
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