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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

16th International Conference, PROFES 2015, Bolzano, Italy, December 2-4, 2015, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 9459)

Part of the book sub series: Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE)

Conference series link(s): PROFES: International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

Conference proceedings info: PROFES 2015.

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Table of contents (46 papers)

  1. Human Factors in Modern Software Development

    1. Empower a Team’s Product Vision with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®

      • Danielle Pichlis, Stefanie Hofemann, Mikko Raatikainen, Juho Sorvettula, Calle Stenholm
      Pages 210-216
    2. Early Product Design in Startups: Towards a UX Strategy

      • Laura Hokkanen, Kati Kuusinen, Kaisa Väänänen
      Pages 217-224
  2. Effort and Size Estimation Validated by Professionals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
    2. From Function Points to COSMIC - A Transfer Learning Approach for Effort Estimation

      • Anna Corazza, Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro
      Pages 251-267
  3. Empirical Generalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-269
    2. Investigating Functional and Code Size Measures for Mobile Applications: A Replicated Study

      • Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Pasquale Salza, Federica Sarro
      Pages 271-287
    3. Issue Dynamics in Github Projects

      • Riivo Kikas, Marlon Dumas, Dietmar Pfahl
      Pages 295-310
    4. Studying the Effect of UML-Based Models on Source-Code Comprehensibility: Results from a Long-Term Investigation

      • Giuseppe Scanniello, Carmine Gravino, Genoveffa Tortora, Marcela Genero, Michele Risi, José A. Cruz-Lemus et al.
      Pages 311-327
    5. Source Code Driven Decomposition of Object-Oriented Legacy Systems

      • Inese Supulniece, Solvita Berzisa, Inese Polaka, Janis Grabis, Egils Meiers, Edgars Ozolins
      Pages 328-334
    6. On the Use of Safety Certification Practices in Autonomous Field Robot Software Development: A Systematic Mapping Study

      • Johann Thor Mogensen Ingibergsson, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Marco Kuhrmann
      Pages 335-352
  4. Software Reliability and Testing in Industry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 353-353
    2. A Field Study on the Elicitation and Classification of Defects for Defect Models

      • Dominik Holling, Daniel Méndez Fernández, Alexander Pretschner
      Pages 380-396
  5. Workshop on Processes, Methods and Tools for Engineering Embedded Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 397-397
    2. Performance Engineering for Industrial Embedded Data-Processing Systems

      • Martijn Hendriks, Jacques Verriet, Twan Basten, Marco Brassé, Reinier Dankers, René Laan et al.
      Pages 399-414
    3. Fault-Prone Byte-Code Detection Using Text Classifier

      • Tsuyoshi Fujiwara, Osamu Mizuno, Pattara Leelaprute
      Pages 415-430

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2015, held in Bolzano, Italy, in December 2015.


The 18 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers and 18 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on lessons learned from industry-research collaborations; instruments to improve the software development process; requirements, features, and release management; practices of modern development processes; human factors in modern software development; effort and size estimation validated by professionals; empirical generalization; software reliability and testing in industry; workshop on processes, methods and tools for engineering embedded systems; workshop on human factors in software development processes; and workshop on software startups: state of the art and state of the practice.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technol., Trondheim, Norway

    Pekka Abrahamsson

  • Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Luis Corral

  • University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Markku Oivo

  • Free University of Bolzano, Bozen, Italy

    Barbara Russo

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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