Product Focused Software Process Improvement

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Addresses

   1. Competitive Product Engineering: 10 Powerful Principles for Winning Product Leadership, Through Advanced Systems Engineering, Compared to10 Failure Paths Still Popular in Current Culture

      • Tom Gilb

      Pages 1-1

   2. From Products and Solutions to End-User Experiences

      • Ari Virtanen

      Pages 2-2

3. Systems and Software Process Improvement

   1. What Formal Models Cannot Show Us: People Issues During the Prototyping Process

      • Steve Counsell, Keith Phalp, Emilia Mendes, Stella Geddes

      Pages 3-15

   2. Process Improvement Solution for Co-design in Radio Base Station DSP SW

      • Virpi Taipale, Jorma Taramaa

      Pages 16-28

   3. A Framework for Classification of Change Approaches Based on a Comparison of Process Improvement Models

      • Otto Vinter

      Pages 29-38

4. Systems and Software Quality

   1. A Qualitative Methodology for Tailoring SPE Activities in Embedded Platform Development

      • Enrico Johansson, Josef Nedstam, Fredrik Wartenberg, Martin Höst

      Pages 39-53

   2. An Empirical Study on Off-the-Shelf Component Usage in Industrial Projects

      • Jingyue Li, Reidar Conradi, Odd Petter N. Slyngstad, Christian Bunse, Umair Khan, Marco Torchiano et al.

      Pages 54-68

   3. A Rendezvous of Content Adaptable Service and Product Line Modeling

      • Seo Jeong Lee, Soo Dong Kim

      Pages 69-83

   4. A Framework for Linking Projects and Project Management Methods

      • Tony Dale, Neville Churcher, Warwick Irwin

      Pages 84-97

   5. Software Defect Analysis of a Multi-release Telecommunications System

      • Marek Leszak

      Pages 98-114

   6. Performance Rather than Capability Problems. Insights from Assessments of Usability Engineering Processes

      • Timo Jokela

      Pages 115-127

5. Mobile and Wireless Applications

   1. Using the MOWAHS Characterisation Framework for Development of Mobile Work Applications

      • Alf Inge Wang, Carl-Fredrik Sørensen, Heri Ramampiaro, Hien Nam Le, Reidar Conradi, Mads Nygård

      Pages 128-142

   2. Design Patterns and Organisational Memory in Mobile Application Development

      • Riikka Ahlgren, Jouni Markkula

      Pages 143-156

   3. Specifying Patterns for Mobile Application Domain Using General Architectural Components

      • Oleksiy Mazhelis, Jouni Markkula, Markus Jakobsson

      Pages 157-172

6. Requirements Engineering and Usability

   1. A Meta-model for Requirements Engineering in System Family Context for Software Process Improvement Using CMMI

      • Rodrigo Cerón, Juan C. Dueñas, Enrique Serrano, Rafael Capilla

      Pages 173-188

   2. Functional and Non-functional Requirements Specification for Enterprise Applications

      • Renuka Sindhgatta, Srinivas Thonse

      Pages 189-201

   3. Framework for Integrating Usability Practices into the Software Process

      • Xavier Ferre, Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno

      Pages 202-215

7. Industrial Experiences

   1. Using Evolutionary Project Management (Evo) to Create Faster, More Userfriendly and More Productive Software. Experience Report from FIRM AS, a Norwegian Software Company

      • Trond Johansen

      Pages 216-223

   2. Comprehensive Documentation Made Agile – Experiments with RaPiD7 in Philips

      • Ko Dooms, Roope Kylmäkoski

      Pages 224-233

On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present to you the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2005), held in Oulu, Finland. Since 1999, PROFES has established itself as one of the recognized inter- tional software process improvement conferences. Thepurposeoftheconferenceistobringtolightthemostrecent?ndingsand results in the area and to stimulate discussion between researchers, experienced professionals,andtechnologyproviders.Thelargenumberofparticipantscoming from industry con?rms that the conference provides a variety of up-to-date t- ics and tackles industry problems. The main theme of PROFES is 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. It has become a practical tool for quality software engineering and management. The conference addresses both the solutions found in practice and the relevant research results from academia. This is re?ected in the 42 full papers, which are – as in the years before – a well-balanced mix of academic papers as well as industrial experience reports. The business of developing new applications like mobile and Internet services orenhancingthefunctionalityofavarietyofproductsusingembeddedsoftwareis rapidlygrowing,maturingandmeetingtheharshbusinessrealities.Theaccepted papers focusing on wireless and the Internet are grouped into a special “mobile and wireless” session. WewishtothankVTTElectronics,theUniversityofOuluincludingInfotech, and Fraunhofer IESE for supporting the conference. We are also grateful to the authors for high-quality papers, the Program Committee fortheir hard work in reviewing the papers, the Organizing Committee for making the event possible, and all the numerous supporters who helped in organizing this conference.

• Software Engineering
• collaborative software
• design
• distributed software development
• documentation
• embedded software
• mobile application development
• modeling
• organization
• project management
• software lifecycle
• software metrics
• software modeling
• software process
• verification

• Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Frank Bomarius

• VTT Electronics, Oulu, Finland

  Seija Komi-Sirviö

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