This volume contains papers presented at the International Conference on Software Process (ICSP 2008) held in Leipzig, Germany, during May 10-11, 2008. ICSP 2008 was the second conference of the ICSP series. The theme of ICSP 2008 was “Making Globally Distributed Software Development a Success Story. ” Software developers work in a dynamic context of frequently changing technologies and with limited resources. Globally distributed development teams are under ev- increasing pressure to deliver their products more quickly and with higher levels of qu- ity. At the same time, global competition is forcing software development organizations to cut costs by rationalizing processes, outsourcing part of or all development activities, reusing existing software in new or modified applications, and evolving existing systems to meet new needs, while still minimizing the risk of projects failing to deliver. To address these difficulties, new and modified processes are emerging, including agile methods and plan-based product line development. Open Source, COTS, and com- nity-developed software are becoming more and more popular. Outsourcing coupled with 24/7 development demands well-defined processes to support the coordination of organizationally—and geographically—separated teams. The accepted papers present completed research or advanced work-in-progress in all areas of software and systems development process including: agile software pr- esses, CMMI, novel techniques for software process representation and analysis; process tools and metrics; and the simulation and modeling of software processes. Contributions reflecting real-world experience, or derived directly from industrial or open-source software development and evolution, were particularly welcome.
Author(s): Pär J. Ågerfalk, Brian Fitzgerald, Helena Holmström Olsson, Eoin Ó Conchúir (auth.), Qing Wang, Dietmar Pfahl, David M. Raffo (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5007 : Programming and Software Engineering
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 422
Tags: Software Engineering; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Computers and Society; Programming Techniques; Technology Management
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Benefits of Global Software Development: The Known and Unknown....Pages 1-9
Method Engineering: Towards Methods as Services....Pages 10-11
Macro-processes Informing Micro-processes: The Case of Software Project Performance....Pages 12-23
Improving Software Risk Management Practices in a Medical Device Company....Pages 24-35
Framework to Evaluate Software Process Improvement in Small Organizations....Pages 36-50
On Deriving Actions for Improving Cost Overrun by Applying Association Rule Mining to Industrial Project Repository....Pages 51-62
Software Multi-project Resource Scheduling: A Comparative Analysis....Pages 63-75
Project Assets Ontology (PAO) to Support Gap Analysis for Organization Process Improvement Based on CMMI v.1.2....Pages 76-87
Towards Individualized Requirements Specification Evolution for Networked Software Based on Aspect....Pages 88-99
Requirement-Centric Traceability for Change Impact Analysis: A Case Study....Pages 100-111
Scaling Up Software Architecture Evaluation Processes....Pages 112-122
Software Project Similarity Measurement Based on Fuzzy C-Means....Pages 123-134
An Empirically–Based Process to Improve the Practice of Requirement Review....Pages 135-146
Capability Assessment of Individual Software Development Processes Using Software Repositories and DEA....Pages 147-159
Scoping Software Process Models - Initial Concepts and Experience from Defining Space Standards....Pages 160-172
Detection of Consistent Patterns from Process Enactment Data....Pages 173-185
A Deviation Management System for Handling Software Process Enactment Evolution....Pages 186-197
Assessing Quality Processes with ODC COQUALMO....Pages 198-209
Accurate Estimates without Calibration?....Pages 210-221
Investigating Factors Affecting the Usability of Software Process Descriptions....Pages 222-233
Degree of Agility in Pre-Implementation Process Phases....Pages 234-245
Support IT Service Management with Process Modeling and Analysis....Pages 246-256
The Secret Life of a Process Description: A Look into the Evolution of a Large Process Model....Pages 257-268
Simulating Worst Case Scenarios and Analyzing Their Combined Effect in Operational Release Planning....Pages 269-281
Using Process Simulation to Assess the Test Design Effort Reduction of a Model-Based Testing Approach....Pages 282-293
GENSIM 2.0: A Customizable Process Simulation Model for Software Process Evaluation....Pages 294-306
RVSim: A Simulation Approach to Predict the Impact of Requirements Volatility on Software Project Plans....Pages 307-319
Identifying Key Success Factors for Globally Distributed Software Development Project Using Simulation: A Case Study....Pages 320-332
Hybrid Modeling of Test-and-Fix Processes in Incremental Development....Pages 333-344
Reflections on 10 Years of Software Process Simulation Modeling: A Systematic Review....Pages 345-356
Integrating Joint Reviews with Automotive SPICE Assessments Results....Pages 357-368
Quantitatively Managing Defects for Iterative Projects: An Industrial Experience Report in China....Pages 369-380
An Investigation of Software Development Productivity in China....Pages 381-394
Optimized Software Process for Fault Handling in Global Software Development....Pages 395-406
Measuring and Comparing the Adoption of Software Process Practices in the Software Product Industry....Pages 407-419
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