A growing number of researchers suggest that software process must be tailored to a project's context to achieve maximal performance. Researchers have studied 'context' in an ad-hoc way, with focus on those contextual factors that appear to be of significance. The result is that we have no useful basis upon which to contrast and compare studies. We are currently researching a theoretical basis for software context for the purpose of tailoring and note that a deeper consideration of the meaning of the term 'context' is required before we can proceed. In this paper, we examine the term and present a model based on insights gained from our initial categorisation of contextual factors from the literature. We test our understanding by analysing a further six documents. Our contribution thus far is a model that we believe will support a theoretical operationalisation of software context for the purpose of process tailoring.

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对软件环境进行分类：正在进行中的研究

越来越多的研究人员建议，必须根据项目的上下文量身定制软件过程，以实现最佳性能。研究人员专门研究了“上下文”，着眼于那些似乎很重要的上下文因素。结果是我们没有进行对比和比较研究的有用依据。我们目前正在研究软件上下文的理论基础，以进行剪裁，并请注意，在继续之前，需要更深入地考虑术语“上下文”的含义。在本文中，我们研究了该术语并基于从文献中对上下文因素进行初始分类所获得的见解提出了一个模型。我们通过分析另外六个文档来检验我们的理解。