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Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

19th International Conference, PROFES 2018, Wolfsburg, Germany, November 28–30, 2018, Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 11271)

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 (36 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIV
  2. Processes and Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Implementation of a DevOps Pipeline for Serverless Applications

      • Vitalii Ivanov, Kari Smolander
      Pages 48-64
    3. HAVOSS: A Maturity Model for Handling Vulnerabilities in Third Party OSS Components

      • Pegah Nikbakht Bideh, Martin Höst, Martin Hell
      Pages 81-97
    4. Towards a Digital Ecosystem for Rural Areas: Experiences from Three Years of Development

      • Frank Elberzhager, Matthias Koch, Balthasar Weitzel
      Pages 98-105
    5. Software Processes Analysis with Provenance

      • Gabriella Castro Barbosa Costa, Humberto L. O. Dalpra, Eldânae N. Teixeira, Cláudia M. L. Werner, Regina M. M. Braga, Marcos A. Miguel
      Pages 106-122
    6. The Essence Theory of Software Engineering – Large-Scale Classroom Experiences from 450+ Software Engineering BSc Students

      • Kai-Kristian Kemell, Anh Nguyen-Duc, Xiaofeng Wang, Juhani Risku, Pekka Abrahamsson
      Pages 123-138
  3. Empirical Studies in Industry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
    2. Do Developers Really Worry About Refactoring Re-test? An Empirical Study of Open-Source Systems

      • Stev Counsell, Stephen Swift, Mahir Arzoky, Giuseppe Destefanis
      Pages 159-166
    3. Moving Beyond the Mean: Analyzing Variance in Software Engineering Experiments

      • Adrian Santos, Markku Oivo, Natalia Juristo
      Pages 167-181
    4. An Activity and Metric Model for Online Controlled Experiments

      • David Issa Mattos, Pavel Dmitriev, Aleksander Fabijan, Jan Bosch, Helena Holmström Olsson
      Pages 182-198
  4. Testing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
    2. Test-Driving FinTech Product Development: An Experience Report

      • Anders Sundelin, Javier Gonzalez-Huerta, Krzysztof Wnuk
      Pages 219-226

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2018, held in Wolfsburg, Germany, in November 2018.


The 16 revised full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 10 workshop papers and 2 industry talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: processes and methods; empirical studies in industry; testing; measuremene and monitoring; and global software engineering and scaling. Further relevant topics were added by the events co-located with PROFES 2018, the Second International Workshop on Managing Quality in Agile and Rapid Software Development Processes (QUASD) and the Third Workshop on Hybrid Software and System Development Approaches (HELENA).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Technische Universität Clausthal, Goslar, Germany

    Marco Kuhrmann

  • Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Kurt Schneider, Jil Klünder

  • University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Dietmar Pfahl

  • Okayama Prefectural University, Okayama, Japan

    Sousuke Amasaki

  • QAware GmbH, Munich, Germany

    Marcus Ciolkowski

  • Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Regina Hebig

  • IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Paolo Tell

  • Clausthal University of Technology, Goslar, Germany

    Steffen Küpper

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