Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Addresses

   1. Processes and the Software Business

      • Michiel van Genuchten

      Pages 1-1

   2. Controlling the Chaos of the CMMI Continuous Representation

      • Jan Jaap Cannegieter

      Pages 2-2

   3. Evidence-Based Software Engineering and Systematic Literature Reviews

      • Barbara Kitchenham

      Pages 3-3

   4. Expanding the Scope of Software Product Families: Problems and Alternative Approaches

      • Jan Bosch

      Pages 4-4

3. Decision Support

   1. Defining the Process for Making Software System Modernization Decisions

      • Jarmo J. Ahonen, Henna Sivula, Jussi Koskinen, Heikki Lintinen, Tero Tilus, Irja Kankaanpää et al.

      Pages 5-18

   2. Introducing Tool Support for Retrospective Analysis of Release Planning Decisions

      • Lena Karlsson, Björn Regnell

      Pages 19-33

   3. A Qualitative Evaluation Method for Business Process Tools

      • Erika M. Nieto-Ariza, Guillermo Rodríguez-Ortiz, Javier Ortiz-Hernández

      Pages 34-46

4. Embedded Software and System Development

   1. An Effective Source Code Review Process for Embedded Software

      • Masayuki Hirayama, Katsumi Ohno, Nao Kawai, Kichiro Tamaru, Hiroshi Monden

      Pages 47-60

   2. Troubleshooting Large-Scale New Product Development Embedded Software Projects

      • Petri Kettunen

      Pages 61-78

   3. Software Process Improvement with Agile Practices in a Large Telecom Company

      • Jussi Auvinen, Rasmus Back, Jeanette Heidenberg, Piia Hirkman, Luka Milovanov

      Pages 79-93

5. Measurement

   1. Assessing Software Product Maintainability Based on Class-Level Structural Measures

      • Hans Christian Benestad, Bente Anda, Erik Arisholm

      Pages 94-111

   2. Integrating Reuse Measurement Practices into the ERP Requirements Engineering Process

      • Maya Daneva

      Pages 112-126

   3. Process Definition and Project Tracking in Model Driven Engineering

      • Ivan Porres, María C. Valiente

      Pages 127-141

6. Industrial Experiences

   1. Difficulties in Establishing a Defect Management Process: A Case Study

      • Marko Jäntti, Tanja Toroi, Anne Eerola

      Pages 142-150

   2. A Case Study on the Success of Introducing General Non-construction Activities for Project Management and Planning Improvement

      • Topi Haapio, Jarmo J. Ahonen

      Pages 151-165

   3. The Concerns of Prototypers and Their Mitigating Practices: An Industrial Case-Study

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

      Pages 166-176

   4. An Industrial Case Study on the Choice Between Language Customization Mechanisms

      • Miroslaw Staron, Claes Wohlin

      Pages 177-191

   5. Preliminary Results from a Survey of Multimedia Development Practices in Australia

      • Anne Hannington, Karl Reed

      Pages 192-207

   6. An ISO 9001:2000 Certificate and Quality Awards from Outside – What’s Inside? – A Case Study

      • Darja Šmite, Nils Brede Moe

      Pages 208-221

The 7th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2006) brought together researchers and industrial practitioners for reporting new research results and exchanging experiences and findings in the area of process and product improvement. The focus of the conference was on understanding, evaluating, controlling, and improving the relationship between process improvement activities (such as the deployment of innovative defect detection processes) and their effects on products (such as improved product reliability and safety). Consequently, major topics of the conference included the evaluation of existing software process improvement (SPI) approaches in different contexts, the presentation of new or modified SPI approaches, and the relation between SPI and new development techniques or emerging application domains. The need for SPI is being widely recognized. Current trends in software intensive systems such as increased distribution of software development and growing dependability on software-intensive systems in everyday life emphasize this need. This implies the establishment of advanced process improvement capabilities and an adequate understanding of the impact of the processes on the generated products, services, and business value in different situations. Recent trends enforce the establishment of such capabilities: more and more products are being developed in distributed, global environments with many customer-supplier relations in the development chain. Outsourcing, off-shoring, near-shoring, and in-sourcing aggravate this trend. In addition, systems are being built from multiple disciplines (such as electronics, mechanics, and software). Supporting such distributed and multi-disciplinary development requires well-understood and accurately implemented development process interfaces, process synchronization, and process evolution.

• Controlling
• Planning
• SPI
• Software Engineering
• architecture
• product-focused software systems
• risk management
• software architecture
• software lifecycle
• software process
• software process improvement
• software process management
• software product families
• software-intensive systems
• testing

• Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Jürgen Münch

• VTT Electronics, Oulu, Finland

  Matias Vierimaa

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