This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12 International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2011, held in Torre Canne, Italy, in June 2011. The 24 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 2 keynote addresses were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agile and lean practices, cross-model quality improvement, global and competitive software development, managing diversity, product and process measurements, product-focused software process improvement, requirement process improvement, and software process improvement.
Author(s): Dennis B. Smith (auth.), Danilo Caivano, Markku Oivo, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Giuseppe Visaggio (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6759
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 353
Tags: Software Engineering; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Computers and Society; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Simulation and Modeling; Business Information Systems
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The Impact of Emerging Software Paradigms on Software Quality and User Expectations....Pages 1-1
Acquiring Information from Diverse Industrial Processes Using Visual Analytics....Pages 2-2
Monitoring Bottlenecks in Agile and Lean Software Development Projects – A Method and Its Industrial Use....Pages 3-16
Applying Agile and Lean Practices in a Software Development Project into a CMMI Organization....Pages 17-29
Adopting Agile Practices in Teams with No Direct Programming Responsibility – A Case Study....Pages 30-43
Proposing an ISO/IEC 15504-2 Compliant Method for Process Capability/Maturity Models Customization....Pages 44-58
Homogenization, Comparison and Integration: A Harmonizing Strategy for the Unification of Multi-models in the Banking Sector....Pages 59-72
Supporting Audits and Assessments in Multi-model Environments....Pages 73-87
Scrum Practices in Global Software Development: A Research Framework....Pages 88-102
Towards the Competitive Software Development....Pages 103-112
Defect Detection Effectiveness and Product Quality in Global Software Development....Pages 113-127
Managing Process Diversity by Applying Rationale Management in Variant Rich Processes....Pages 128-142
Usage of Open Source in Commercial Software Product Development – Findings from a Focus Group Meeting....Pages 143-155
Identifying and Tackling Diversity of Management and Administration of a Handover Process....Pages 156-170
A Process Complexity-Product Quality (PCPQ) Model Based on Process Fragment with Workflow Management Tables....Pages 171-185
Using Web Objects for Development Effort Estimation of Web Applications: A Replicated Study....Pages 186-201
Applying EFFORT for Evaluating CRM Open Source Systems....Pages 202-216
A Factorial Experimental Evaluation of Automated Test Input Generation....Pages 217-231
Automating and Evaluating Probabilistic Cause-Effect Diagrams to Improve Defect Causal Analysis....Pages 232-246
A Genetic Algorithm to Configure Support Vector Machines for Predicting Fault-Prone Components....Pages 247-261
A Systematic Approach to Requirements Engineering Process Improvement in Small and Medium Enterprises: An Exploratory Study....Pages 262-275
Understanding the Dynamics of Requirements Process Improvement: A New Approach....Pages 276-290
Precise vs. Ultra-Light Activity Diagrams - An Experimental Assessment in the Context of Business Process Modelling....Pages 291-305
If the SOK Fits, Wear It: Pragmatic Process Improvement through Software Operation Knowledge....Pages 306-321
Critical Issues on Test-Driven Development....Pages 322-336
On the Difficulty of Computing the Truck Factor....Pages 337-351
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