Product Focused Software Process Improvement: Third International Conference, PROFES 2001 Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 10–13, 2001 Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Prof. Dieter Rombach (auth.), Frank Bomarius, Seija Komi-Sirviö (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 393
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2188
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Third International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2001) continued the success of the PROFES’99 and PROFES 2000 conferences. PROFES 2001 was organized in Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 10 13, 2001. The PROFES conference has its roots in the PROFES Esprit project (http://www.ele.vtt.fi/profes/), but it quickly evolved into a full fledged general purpose conference in 1999 and since then it has gained wide spread international popularity. As in previous years, the main theme of PROFES 2001 was professional software process improvement (SPI) motivated by product and service quality needs. SPI is facilitated by software process assessment, software measurement, process modeling, and technology transfer and has become a practical tool for quality software engineering and management. The conference addresses both the solutions found in practice as well as relevant research results from academia. The purpose of the conference is to bring to light the most recent findings and results in the area and to stimulate discussion between the researchers, experienced professionals, and technology providers for SPI.

✦ Table of Contents

Guaranteed Software Quality....Pages 1-2
Building an Experience Base for Software Engineering: A Report on the First CeBASE eWorkshop....Pages 3-3
A Contingency Approach to Software Development....Pages 4-4
Career-Long Education for Software Professionals: A US View of the Educational Challenges in a Rapidly-Changing Technology....Pages 5-5
Cognitive Structures of Software Evaluation: A Means-End Chain Analysis of Quality....Pages 6-26
Requirements Evolution From Process to Product Oriented Management....Pages 27-41
A Case Study on Scenario-based Process Flexibility Assessment for Risk Reduction....Pages 42-56
Contexts of KM Based SPI: The Case of Software Design Experience Reuse....Pages 57-67
Models and Success Factors of Process Change....Pages 68-77
Process Improvement in Turbulent Times — Is CMM Still an Answer?....Pages 78-85
Assessment of Maintenance Maturity in IT Departments of Public Entities: Two Case Studies....Pages 86-97
Evaluating a Usability Capability Assessment....Pages 98-109
Building an Experience Base for Software Engineering: A Report on the First CeBASE eWorkshop....Pages 110-125
Experience Magnets Attracting Experiences, Not Just Storing Them....Pages 126-140
Improving Knowledge Management in Software Reuse Process....Pages 141-152
Processes and Knowledge Management: A Symbiosis....Pages 153-166
Augmenting Experience Reports with Lightweight Postmortem Reviews....Pages 167-181
A Tool for Managing Software Development Knowledge....Pages 182-195
Starting Improvement of Requirements Engineering Processes: An Experience Report....Pages 196-209
A Family-Oriented Software Development Process for Engine Controllers....Pages 210-226
Enabling Local SPI in a Multi-National Company....Pages 227-239
Project Improvement as Start-up....Pages 240-254
LIPE:A Lightweight Process for E-Business Startup Companies Based on Extreme Programming....Pages 255-270
Evaluation of the E3 Process Modelling Language and Tool for the Purpose of Model Creation....Pages 271-281
Describing Fractal Processes with UML....Pages 282-296
Extending the Software Process Culture - An Approach Based on Groupware and Workflow....Pages 297-311
Towards Systematic Knowledge Elicitation for Descriptive Software Process Modeling....Pages 312-325
Modular Process Patterns Supporting an Evolutionary Software Development Process....Pages 326-340
A Classification Scheme for Studies on Fault-Prone Components....Pages 341-355
Program Understanding Behavior During Estimation of Enhancement Effort on Small Java Programs....Pages 356-370
Evaluation of a Business Application Framework Using Complexity and Functionality Metrics....Pages 371-380

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Computers and Society; Business Information Systems