Towards Higher Software Quality in Very Small Entities: ISO/IEC 29110 Software Basic Profile Mapping to Testing Standards

This paper focuses on software and systems process improvement in small companies, for which the ISO/IEC 29110 series systems and software lifecycle profiles for very small entities (VSEs) has been developed and started to be implemented worldwide. The ISO/IEC 29110 series consists of VSE profiles. The most implemented profile worldwide has been the software basic profile. Published experience gained from the pilot projects and software basic profile implementations showed that software quality and testing are not sufficiently covered. In order to improve the effects of the implementation of the ISO/IEC 29110 software basic profile and increase the quality of a developed software product, the aim of this research is to provide process mapping between the ISO/IEC 29110 software basic profile and selected test improvement approaches, particularly the ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-2 and ISO/IEC 20246 testing standards, and TMMi. The results of the mapping are presented in the form of the mapping tables and the ArchiMate model.