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Harmonizing Software Development Processes with Software Development Settings – A Systematic Approach

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The software process landscape is rich in complexity and many alternative software development approaches have emerged over the past 40 years. However, no single software development approach is universally implemented and it seems likely that no single approach can be universally useful. One of the primary reasons that no single approach is universally useful is that no two software development settings are identical. We have assembled a team of recognized academics, who together with industrial collaborators, plan to map the complex world of software processes with the context of software development projects. The results of our initial mapping efforts, reported in this paper, demonstrate that although there are challenges in an undertaking such as this, the outcomes are potentially of considerable value to both software researchers and practitioners.

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  1. Research Group Software Construction, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

    Simona Jeners

  2. Regulated Software Research Group, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland

    Paul Clarke & Marion Lepmets

  3. Dublin City University, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  4. ETS Montréal / Engineering.IT SpA, Italy

    Luigi Buglione

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  1. Regulated Software Research Group, Lero, The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dundalk, Ireland

    Fergal McCaffery

  2. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  3. ISCN, Graz, Austria

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Jeners, S., Clarke, P., O’Connor, R.V., Buglione, L., Lepmets, M. (2013). Harmonizing Software Development Processes with Software Development Settings – A Systematic Approach. In: McCaffery, F., O’Connor, R.V., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 364. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39179-8_15

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