Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 13th International Conference, PROFES 2012, Madrid, Spain, June 13-15, 2012 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Frank Houdek (auth.), Oscar Dieste, Andreas Jedlitschka, Natalia Juristo (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 393
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7343
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13 International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2012, held in Madrid, Spain, in June 2012. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 3 short papers and 4 workshop and tutorial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on process focused software process improvement, open-source agile and lean practices, product and process measurements and estimation, distributed and global software development, quality assessment, and empirical studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Improving Requirements Engineering Processes....Pages 1-2
Defect Data Analysis as Input for Software Process Improvement....Pages 3-16
A Test Process Improvement Model for Automated Test Generation....Pages 17-31
Software Process Improvement and Certification of a Small Company Using the NTP 291 100 (MoProSoft)....Pages 32-43
Derivation of Process-Oriented Logical Architectures: An Elicitation Approach for Cloud Design....Pages 44-58
A Proposal for Simplified Model-Based Cost Estimation Models....Pages 59-73
Estimating the Software Product Value during the Development Process....Pages 74-88
Reusability Metrics for Program Source Code Written in C Language and Their Evaluation....Pages 89-103
Modeling the Effects of Project Management Strategies on Long-Term Product Knowledge....Pages 104-115
Growing into Agility: Process Implementation Paths for Scrum....Pages 116-130
Differences between Traditional and Open Source Development Activities....Pages 131-144
Analyzing the Drivers of the Combination of Lean and Agile in Software Development Companies....Pages 145-159
Fostering and Sustaining Innovation in a Fast Growing Agile Company....Pages 160-174
Software Architecture as a Means of Communication in a Globally Distributed Software Development Context....Pages 175-189
Socio-technical Congruence Sabotaged by a Hidden Onshore Outsourcing Relationship: Lessons Learned from an Empirical Study....Pages 190-202
Providing Training in GSD by Using a Virtual Environment....Pages 203-217
Improving IT Service Desk and Service Management Processes in Finnish Tax Administration: A Case Study on Service Engineering....Pages 218-232
Experiences from Establishing Knowledge Management in a Joint Research Project....Pages 233-247
The Impact of Lack in Domain or Technology Experience on the Accuracy of Expert Effort Estimates in Software Projects....Pages 248-259
A Metrics for Meeting Quality on a Software Requirement Acquisition Phase....Pages 260-274
Merging the Quality Assessment of Processes and Products in Automotive Domain....Pages 275-289
Improving Unfamiliar Code with Unit Tests: An Empirical Investigation on Tool-Supported and Human-Based Testing....Pages 290-304
Self-Organizing Systems and the Like....Pages 305-308
Modified ART Network Architectures for the Control of Autonomous Systems....Pages 309-319
Application of Self-Organizing Systems in Power Systems Control....Pages 320-334
Minimizing Vehicular Travel Times Using the Multi-Agent System BeeJamA....Pages 335-349
A Study on Predictive Performance of Regression-Based Effort Estimation Models Using Base Functional Components....Pages 350-354
Managing Process Model Compliance in Multi-standard Scenarios Using a Tool-Supported Approach....Pages 355-360
Towards a Framework to Evaluate and Improve the Quality of Implementation of CMMI ® Practices....Pages 361-365
INTEAMSE 2012 1 st Workshop on Managing the Influence of People and Team Factors in SE....Pages 366-367
VALOIR 2012 2nd Workshop on Managing the Client Value Creation Process in Agile Projects: Message from the Chairs....Pages 368-369
Tutorial: Business IT Alignment Using the GQM  +  Strategies ® Approach....Pages 370-373
Requirements Meet Interaction Design....Pages 374-376
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Computers and Society; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Simulation and Modeling; Business Information Systems