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Software Engineering Process Benchmarking

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Book cover Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2002)

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This paper proposes a Software Engineering Process (SEP) benchmarking methodology and a benchmark-gap analysis technique to assist industrial practitioners in quantitative software engineering. This work adopts the comprehensive SEP Assessment model (SEPRM), as a foundation to SEP benchmarking. In this approach, a number of conventional benchmarking challenges may be overcome. Case studies are presented to demonstrate the usage of the benchmarking technologies and supporting tools.

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  1. Theoretical and Empirical Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Vincent Chiew & Yingxu Wang

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  1. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, 90014, Oulun yliopisto, Finland

    Markku Oivo

  2. VTT Electronics, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1100, 90571, Oulu, Finland

    Seija Komi-Sirviö

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Chiew, V., Wang, Y. (2002). Software Engineering Process Benchmarking. In: Oivo, M., Komi-Sirviö, S. (eds) Product Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2559. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36209-6_43

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