Product-Focused Software Process Improvement : 7th International Conference, PROFES 2006, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 12-14, 2006, Proceedings

by Munch, Jurgen; Vierimaa, Matias

• ISBN13: 9783540346821
• ISBN10: 3540346821
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2006, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in June 2006.The 26 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with 6 reports on workshops and tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers constitute a balanced mix of academic and industrial aspects; they are organized in topical sections on decision support, embedded software and system development, measurement, industrial experience, process improvement, agile development practices, and product line engineering.

Table of Contents

Processes and the software business	p. 1
Controlling the chaos of the CMMI continuous representation	p. 2
Evidence-based software engineering and systematic literature reviews	p. 3
Expanding the scope of software product families : problems and alternative approaches	p. 4
Defining the process for making software system modernization decisions	p. 5
Introducing tool support for retrospective analysis of release planning decisions	p. 19
A qualitative evaluation method for business process tools	p. 34
An effective source code review process for embedded software	p. 47
Troubleshooting large-scale new product development embedded software projects	p. 61
Software process improvement with agile practices in a large telecom company	p. 79
Assessing software product maintainability based on class-level structural measures	p. 94
Integrating reuse measurement practices into the ERP requirements engineering process	p. 112
Process definition and project tracking in model driven engineering	p. 127
Difficulties in establishing a defect management process : a case study	p. 142
A case study on the success of introducing general non-construction activities for project management and planning improvement	p. 151
The concerns of prototypers and their mitigating practices : an industrial case-study	p. 166
An industrial case study on the choice between language customization mechanisms	p. 177
Preliminary results from a survey of multimedia development practices in Australia	p. 192
An ISO 9001:2000 certificate and quality awards from outside - what's inside? - a case study	p. 208
Implementing software process improvement initiatives : an empirical study	p. 222
Using linear regression models to analyse the effect of software process improvement	p. 234
Taba workstation : supporting software process deployment based on CMMI and MR-MPS.BR	p. 249
Analysis of an artifact oriented test process model and of testing aspects of CMMI	p. 263
The impact of pair programming and test-driven development on package dependencies in object-oriented design - an experiment	p. 278
Applying an agility/discipline assessment for a small software organisation	p. 290
Lessons learned from an XP experiment with students : test-first needs more teachings	p. 305
An empirical study on design quality improvement from best-practice inspection and pair programming	p. 319
A variability-centric approach to instantiating core assets in product line engineering	p. 334
Improving the development of e-Business systems by introducing process-based software product lines	p. 348
Assessing requirements compliance scenarios in system platform subcontracting	p. 362
Software inspections in practice : six case studies	p. 377
Productivity of test driven development : a controlled experiment with professionals	p. 383
Results and experiences from an empirical study of fault reports in industrial projects	p. 389
Software process improvement : a road to success	p. 395
Characterization of runaway software projects using association rule mining	p. 402
A framework for selecting change strategies in IT organizations	p. 408
Building software process line architectures from bottom up	p. 415
Refinement of software architectures by recursive model - transformations	p. 422
A UML-based process meta-model integrating a rigorous process patterns definition	p. 429
Ad hoc versus systematic planning of software releases - a three-staged experiment	p. 435
A software process tailoring system focusing to quantitative management plans	p. 441
An extreme approach to automating software development with CBD, PLE and MDA integrated	p. 447
Experiences and methods from integrating evidence-based software engineering into education	p. 453
Workshop on embedded software development in collaboration	p. 454
Software product metrics - goal-oriented software product measurement	p. 455
Art and science of system release planning	p. 458
Multiple risk management process supported by ontology	p. 462
Get your experience factory ready for the next decade : ten years after "how to build and run one"	p. 466
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