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PROFES 2000: Product Focused Software Process Improvement pp 311–325Cite as

The FEAST Approach to Quantitative Process Modelling of Software Evolution Processes

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This paper argues that quantitative process models can play an important role in seeking sustained improvement of E-type software evolution processes and summarises some of the experiences gained in the FEAST projects to date. Modelling guidelines are provided.

The present is a revised version of ’Model-based Assessment of Software Evolution Processes’, Research Report 2000/4, Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, Feb. 2000.

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  1. Dept. of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen’s Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, UK

    Juan F. Ramil, Meir M. Lehman & Goel Kahen

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    Frank Bomarius

  2. Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, FIN-90014, OULUN YLIOPISTO

    Markku Oivo

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Ramil, J.F., Lehman, M.M., Kahen, G. (2000). The FEAST Approach to Quantitative Process Modelling of Software Evolution Processes. In: Bomarius, F., Oivo, M. (eds) Product Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1840. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45051-1_28

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