4.2. Process Quality Properties
Process quality properties are those inherent characteristics of a software engineering process that are likely to influence a stakeholder’s judgment of the process with respect to one or more process quality attributes. Figure 6 depicts the types and sub-types of process quality property that analysis showed were important to software engineering process stakeholders.
Semantic properties are those inherent characteristics of a software engineering process that relate to the scope and intent of its constituent activities. Process semantics can be more specifically defined in terms of four quality property sub-types: