Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

1. Agile Software Development

   1. On the Effects of Pair Programming on Thoroughness and Fault-Finding Effectiveness of Unit Tests

      • Lech Madeyski

      Pages 207-221

   2. An Agile Toolkit to Support Agent-Oriented and Service-Oriented Computing Mechanisms

      • Asif Qumer, Brian Henderson-Sellers

      Pages 222-236

   3. Achieving Success in Supply Chain Management Software by Agility

      • Deepti Mishra, Alok Mishra

      Pages 237-246

2. Software Measurement

   1. Software Measurement Programs in SMEs – Defining Software Indicators: A Methodological Framework

      • María Díaz-Ley, Félix García, Mario Piattini

      Pages 247-261

   2. Smart Technologies in Software Life Cycle

      • Zane Bičevska, Jānis Bičevskis

      Pages 262-272

   3. Convertibility Between IFPUG and COSMIC Functional Size Measurements

      • Juan Jose Cuadrado-Gallego, Daniel Rodríguez, Fernando Machado, Alaian Abran

      Pages 273-283

   4. A Framework for Measuring and Evaluating Program Source Code Quality

      • Hironori Washizaki, Rieko Namiki, Tomoyuki Fukuoka, Yoko Harada, Hiroyuki Watanabe

      Pages 284-299

   5. Software Fault Prediction with Object-Oriented Metrics Based Artificial Immune Recognition System

      • Cagatay Catal, Banu Diri

      Pages 300-314

3. Simulation and Decision Support

   1. Operational Planning, Re-planning and Risk Analysis for Software Releases

      • Ahmed Al-Emran, Dietmar Pfahl

      Pages 315-329

   2. Project Cost Overrun Simulation in Software Product Line Development

      • Makoto Nonaka, Liming Zhu, Muhammad Ali Babar, Mark Staples

      Pages 330-344

   3. E-Service Architecture Selection Based on Multi-criteria Optimization

      • Edzus Zeiris, Maris Ziema

      Pages 345-357

4. Processes and Methods

   1. A Component-Based Process for Developing Automotive ECU Software

      • Jin Sun Her, Si Won Choi, Du Wan Cheun, Jeong Seop Bae, Soo Dong Kim

      Pages 358-373

   2. A Systematic Approach to Service-Oriented Analysis and Design

      • Soo Ho Chang, Soo Dong Kim

      Pages 374-388

   3. Improving the Problem Management Process from Knowledge Management Perspective

      • Marko Jäntti, Aki Miettinen, Niko Pylkkänen, Tommi Kainulainen

      Pages 389-401

5. Workshop

   1. Experience on Applying Quantitative and Qualitative Empiricism to Software Engineering

      • Marcus Ciolkowski, Andreas Jedlitschka

      Pages 402-404

6. Tutorials

   1. Using Metrics to Improve Software Testing

      • Alfred Sorkowitz

      Pages 405-406

   2. Increase ICT Project Success with Concrete Scope Management

      • Carol Dekkers, Pekka Forselius

      Pages 407-409

   3. Agile Software Development: Theoretical and Practical Outlook

      • Pekka Abrahamsson, Jari Still

      Pages 410-411

7. Back Matter

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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.

• Service-oriented Computing
• Simulation
• agile methods
• architecture
• collaborative software
• distributed software development
• embedded software
• knowledge management
• life cycle models
• modeling
• optimization
• organization
• planning
• risk analysis
• service orientation

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