Product-Focused Software Process Improvement : 11th International Conference, PROFES 2010, Limerick, Ireland, June 21-23, 2010, Proceedings

by Babar, M. Ali; Vierimaa, Matias; Oivo, Markku

• ISBN13: 9783642137914
• ISBN10: 3642137911
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-05
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2010, held in Limerick, Ireland, in June 2010. The 28 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 2 keynote addresses were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on software quality assurance; agile software development; software business; software systems; process quality; software measurement; and software process improvement.

Table of Contents

Keynote Addresses
Mobile Privacy Requirements on Demand	p. 1
Lean Development - Potentials, Principles and Practices	p. 2
Software Quality Assurance I
A Qualitative Survey of Regression Testing Practices	p. 3
Investigating the Temporal Behavior of Defect Detection in Software Inspection and Inspection-Based Testing	p. 17
Analysis of Bug Fixing Processes Using Program Slicing Metrics	p. 32
Agile Software Development
Systermatic Piloting of Agile Methods in the Large: Two Cases in Embedded Systems Development	p. 47
Optimized Feature Distribution in Distributed Agile Environments	p. 62
Approaches to Agile Adoption in Large Settings: A Comparison of the Results from a Literature Analysis and an Industrial Inventory	p. 77
Software Quality Assurance II
Applying DPPI: A Defect Causal Analysis Approach Using Bayesian Networks	p. 92
Evaluating Three Approaches to Extracting Fault Data from Software Change Repositories	p. 107
Regularities in Learning Defect Predictors	p. 116
Software Business
Business Value Is Not Only Dollars - Results from Case Study Research on Agile Software Projects	p. 131
Critical Success Factors for Offshore Software Development Outsourcing Vendors: An Empirical Study	p. 146
Impact of Corporate and Organic Growth on Software Development	p. 161
Software Systems
Prioritizing Countermeasures through the Countermeasure Method for Software Security (CM-Sec)	p. 176
Feedback in Context: Supporting the Evolution of IT-Ecosystems	p. 191
Comparing Agile Processes for Agent Oriented Software Engineering	p. 206
Standardizing the Software Tag in Japan for Transparency of Development	p. 220
Process Quality I
Discovering Software Process and Product Quality Criteria in Software as a Service	p. 234
A Maturity Model for IT Dependability in Emergency Management	p. 248
Dependency Analysis between CMMI Process Areas	p. 263
Software Measurement
Productivity Reanalysis for Unbalanced Datasets with Mixed-Effects Models	p. 276
SAS: A Tool for the GQM+Strategies Grid Derivation Process	p. 291
Understanding the Influential Factors to Development Effort in Chinese Software Industry	p. 306
Process Quality II
Lean Management of Software Processes and Factories Using Business Process Modeling Techniques	p. 321
Improving Efficiency of Change Impact Assessment Using Graphical Requirement Specifications: An Experiment	p. 336
Vague Project Start Makes Project Success of Outsourced Software Development Projects Uncertain	p. 351
Software Process Improvement
The Rosetta Stone Methodology - A Benefits Driven Approach to Software Process Improvement	p. 366
Defining and Monitoring Strategically Aligned Software Improvement Goals	p. 380
A Strategy for Painless Harmonization of Quality Standards: A Real Case	p. 395
Author Index	p. 409
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