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Software Process Lines: A Systematic Literature Review

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Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination (SPICE 2014)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 477))

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Software Process Line (SPrL) has been claimed as a suitable paradigm for tailoring and reuse of software processes. However, despite its increasing importance, there is still a lack of research that systematically characterizes and analyzes the state of the art of SPrL approaches, in particular focusing on how such a paradigm has been used to improve software processes. This paper presents the method followed to perform a systematic literature review on SPrL in order to investigate the state of the art of this area, as well as the results of this review focusing especially on how variability is represented. We found 40 primary studies about this topic published from 1996 to 2013. Our results indicate that the software engineering community has increasingly invested effort in this area. However, it is still considered an immature area with many open issues such as the lack of the modeling of well-known process standards and models using SPrL concepts and the lack of empirical evaluations.

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    Daniel Dias de Carvalho, Larissa Fernandes Chagas, Adailton Magalhães Lima & Carla Alessandra Lima Reis

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de Carvalho, D.D., Chagas, L.F., Lima, A.M., Reis, C.A.L. (2014). Software Process Lines: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Mitasiunas, A., Rout, T., O’Connor, R.V., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 477. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13036-1_11

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