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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. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIII
  2. Lessons Learned from Industry-Research Collaborations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Strategic Ecosystem Management: A Multi-case Study in the B2B Domain

      • Helena Holmström Olsson, Jan Bosch
      Pages 3-15
    3. Early Value Argumentation and Prediction: An Iterative Approach to Quantifying Feature Value

      • Aleksander Fabijan, Helena Holmström Olsson, Jan Bosch
      Pages 16-23
  3. Instruments to Improve the Software Development Process

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
    2. Model-Driven Development for Multi-platform Mobile Applications

      • Rita Francese, Michele Risi, Giuseppe Scanniello, Genoveffa Tortora
      Pages 61-67
    3. SINIS: A Method to Select Indicators for IT Services

      • Bianca Trinkenreich, Gleison Santos, Monalessa Perini Barcellos
      Pages 68-86
  4. Requirements, Features, and Release Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
    2. Requirement Prioritization with Quantitative Data - A Case Study

      • Enrico Johansson, Daniel Bergdahl, Jan Bosch, Helena Holmström Olsson
      Pages 89-104
    3. A Case Study on Artefact-Based RE Improvement in Practice

      • Daniel Méndez Fernández, Stefan Wagner
      Pages 114-130
  5. Practices of Modern Development Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
    2. Artefacts in Agile Software Development

      • Gerard Wagenaar, Remko Helms, Daniela Damian, Sjaak Brinkkemper
      Pages 133-148
    3. Is Water-Scrum-Fall Reality? On the Use of Agile and Traditional Development Practices

      • Georgios Theocharis, Marco Kuhrmann, Jürgen Münch, Philipp Diebold
      Pages 149-166
    4. Tickets Without Fine

      • Masud Fazal-Baqaie, Marvin Grieger, Stefan Sauer
      Pages 167-181
  6. Human Factors in Modern Software Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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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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