The Eight International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Impro- ment (PROFES 2007) brought together researchers and industrial practitioners to report new research results and exchange experiences and findings in the area of process and product improvement. The focus of the conference is on understanding, learning, evaluating, and improving the relationships between process improvement activities (such as the deployment of innovative defect detection processes) and their effects in products (such as improved product reliability and safety). Consequently, major topics of the conference include the evaluation of existing software process improvement (SPI) approaches in different contexts, the presentation of new or mo- fied SPI approaches, and the relation between SPI and new development techniques or emerging application domains. This year’s conference theme focused on global software development. More and more products are being developed in distributed, global development environments with many customer–supplier relations in the value chain. Outsourcing, off-shoring, near-shoring, and even in-sourcing aggravate this trend further. Supporting such d- tributed development requires well-understood and accurately implemented devel- ment process interfaces, process synchronization, and an efficient process evolution mechanisms. Overcoming cultural barriers and implementing efficient communi- tion channels are some of the key challenges. It is clear that process improvement approaches also need to consider these new development contexts.
Author(s): H. Dieter Rombach (auth.), Jürgen Münch, Pekka Abrahamsson (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4589 : Programming and Software Engineering
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 420
Tags: Software Engineering; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Computers and Society; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing
Front Matter....Pages -
Software Development and Globalization....Pages 1-1
Software Development Globalization from the Baltic Perspective....Pages 2-2
Experiences in Applying Agile Software Development in F-Secure....Pages 3-3
People Side of IT Globalization....Pages 4-4
An Industrial Survey of Software Outsourcing in China....Pages 5-19
Understanding Lacking Trust in Global Software Teams: A Multi-case Study....Pages 20-34
Utilization of a Set of Software Engineering Roles for a Multinational Organization....Pages 35-50
Software Verification Process Improvement Proposal Using Six Sigma....Pages 51-64
Software Development Improvement with SFIM....Pages 65-80
SPI-KM - Lessons Learned from Applying a Software Process Improvement Strategy Supported by Knowledge Management....Pages 81-95
Organisational Readiness and Software Process Improvement....Pages 96-107
Software Process Improvement Through Teamwork Management....Pages 108-117
De-motivators of Software Process Improvement: An Analysis of Vietnamese Practitioners’ Views....Pages 118-131
Defining Software Processes Through Process Workshops: A Multicase Study....Pages 132-146
Improving an Industrial Reference Process by Information Flow Analysis: A Case Study....Pages 147-159
Connecting the Rationale for Changes to the Evolution of a Process....Pages 160-174
Use of Non-IT Testers in Software Development....Pages 175-187
Requirements Management Practices as Patterns for Distributed Product Management....Pages 188-200
SPI Consulting in a Level 1 Company: An Experience Report....Pages 201-206
On the Effects of Pair Programming on Thoroughness and Fault-Finding Effectiveness of Unit Tests....Pages 207-221
An Agile Toolkit to Support Agent-Oriented and Service-Oriented Computing Mechanisms....Pages 222-236
Achieving Success in Supply Chain Management Software by Agility....Pages 237-246
Software Measurement Programs in SMEs – Defining Software Indicators: A Methodological Framework....Pages 247-261
Smart Technologies in Software Life Cycle....Pages 262-272
Convertibility Between IFPUG and COSMIC Functional Size Measurements....Pages 273-283
A Framework for Measuring and Evaluating Program Source Code Quality....Pages 284-299
Software Fault Prediction with Object-Oriented Metrics Based Artificial Immune Recognition System....Pages 300-314
Operational Planning, Re-planning and Risk Analysis for Software Releases....Pages 315-329
Project Cost Overrun Simulation in Software Product Line Development....Pages 330-344
E-Service Architecture Selection Based on Multi-criteria Optimization....Pages 345-357
A Component-Based Process for Developing Automotive ECU Software....Pages 358-373
A Systematic Approach to Service-Oriented Analysis and Design....Pages 374-388
Improving the Problem Management Process from Knowledge Management Perspective....Pages 389-401
Experience on Applying Quantitative and Qualitative Empiricism to Software Engineering....Pages 402-404
Using Metrics to Improve Software Testing....Pages 405-406
Increase ICT Project Success with Concrete Scope Management....Pages 407-409
Agile Software Development: Theoretical and Practical Outlook....Pages 410-411
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