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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

12th International Conference, PROFES 2011, Torre Canne, Italy, June 20-22, 2011. Proceedings

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6759)

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

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

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Table of contents (26 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Cross-Model Quality Improvement

    1. Proposing an ISO/IEC 15504-2 Compliant Method for Process Capability/Maturity Models Customization

      • Jean Carlo Rossa Hauck, Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Fergal Mc Caffery, Luigi Buglione
      Pages 44-58
    2. Homogenization, Comparison and Integration: A Harmonizing Strategy for the Unification of Multi-models in the Banking Sector

      • César Pardo, Francisco J. Pino, Félix García, Mario Piattini, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Sandra Lemus
      Pages 59-72
    3. Supporting Audits and Assessments in Multi-model Environments

      • Andre L. Ferreira, Ricardo J. Machado, Mark C. Paulk
      Pages 73-87
  3. Global and Competitive Software Development

    1. Scrum Practices in Global Software Development: A Research Framework

      • Emam Hossain, Paul L. Bannerman, D. Ross Jeffery
      Pages 88-102
    2. Towards the Competitive Software Development

      • Andrzej Zalewski, Szymon Kijas
      Pages 103-112
    3. Defect Detection Effectiveness and Product Quality in Global Software Development

      • Tihana Galinac Grbac, Darko Huljenić
      Pages 113-127
  4. Managing Diversity

    1. Managing Process Diversity by Applying Rationale Management in Variant Rich Processes

      • Tomás Martínez-Ruiz, Félix García, Mario Piattini
      Pages 128-142
  5. Product and Process Measurements

    1. Using Web Objects for Development Effort Estimation of Web Applications: A Replicated Study

      • Sergio Di Martino, Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Federica Sarro
      Pages 186-201
    2. Applying EFFORT for Evaluating CRM Open Source Systems

      • Lerina Aversano, Maria Tortorella
      Pages 202-216
  6. Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

    1. A Factorial Experimental Evaluation of Automated Test Input Generation

      • Per Runeson, Per Heed, Alexander Westrup
      Pages 217-231
    2. Automating and Evaluating Probabilistic Cause-Effect Diagrams to Improve Defect Causal Analysis

      • Marcos Kalinowski, Emilia Mendes, Guilherme H. Travassos
      Pages 232-246

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12 International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2011, held in Torre Canne, Italy, in June 2011. The 24 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 2 keynote addresses were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agile and lean practices, cross-model quality improvement, global and competitive software development, managing diversity, product and process measurements, product-focused software process improvement, requirement process improvement, and software process improvement.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Danilo Caivano, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Giuseppe Visaggio

  • Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Markku Oivo

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