Unifying the Software Process Spectrum

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Speech

   1. Evolving Defect “Folklore”: A Cross-Study Analysis of Software Defect Behavior

      • Victor Basili, Forrest Shull

      Pages 1-9

   2. The Future of Software Processes

      • Barry Boehm

      Pages 10-24

   3. Software are Processes Too

      • Jacky Estublier

      Pages 25-34

   4. The Software Process: Global Goals

      • Watts S. Humphrey

      Pages 35-42

   5. Achieving Software Development Performance Improvement Through Process Change

      • Ross Jeffery

      Pages 43-53

   6. Expanding the Horizons of Software Development Processes: A 3-D Integrated Methodology

      • Mingshu Li

      Pages 54-67

   7. Unifying Microprocess and Macroprocess Research

      • Leon J. Osterweil

      Pages 68-74

   8. What Beyond CMMI Is Needed to Help Assure Program and Project Success?

      • Arthur Pyster

      Pages 75-82

   9. Integrated Software Process and Product Lines

      • Dieter Rombach

      Pages 83-90

   10. A Rigorous Software Process for the Development of Embedded Systems

       • Wilhelm Schäfer

       Pages 91-99

   11. Active Models:A Possible Approach to the Integration of Objective and Subjective Process Models

       • Brian Warboys

       Pages 100-107

3. Process Content

   1. A Value-Based Process for Achieving Software Dependability

      • Liguo Huang

      Pages 108-121

   2. A Development Process for Building OSS-Based Applications

      • Meng Huang, Liguang Yang, Ye Yang

      Pages 122-135

   3. A Study on the Distribution and Cost Prediction of Requirements Changes in the Software Life-Cycle

      • Chengying Mao, Yansheng Lu, Xi Wang

      Pages 136-150

   4. Requirements Engineering Processes Improvement: A Systematic View

      • Anliang Ning, Hong Hou, Qingyi Hua, Bin Yu, Kegang Hao

      Pages 151-163

   5. S-RaP: A Concurrent, Evolutionary Software Prototyping Process

      • Xiping Song, Arnold Rudorfer, Beatrice Hwong, Gilberto Matos, Christopher Nelson

      Pages 164-176

   6. Aspect-Oriented Software Development and Software Process

      • Stanley M. Sutton Jr.

      Pages 177-191

   7. A Gradually Proceeded Software Architecture Design Process

      • Licong Tian, Li Zhang, Bosheng Zhou, Guanqun Qian

      Pages 192-205

   8. Process Patterns for COTS-Based Development

      • Ye Yang

      Pages 206-221

This volume contains papers presented at SPW 2005, the Software Process Workshop held in Beijing, P. R. China, on May 25-27, 2005, and prepared for final publication. The theme of SPW2005 was “Unifying the Software Process Spectrum. ” Software process encompasses all the activities that aim at developing or evolving software products. The expanding role of software and information systems in the world has focused increasing attention on the need for assurances that software systems can be developed at acceptable speed and cost, on a predictable schedule, and in such a way that resulting systems are of acceptably high quality and can be evolved surely and rapidly as usage contexts change. This sharpened focus is creating new challenges and opportunities for software process technology. The increasing pace of software s- tem change requires more lightweight and adaptive processes, while the increasing mission criticality of software systems requires more process predictability and c- trol as well as more explicit attention to business or mission values. Emergent app- cation requirements create a need for ambiguity tolerance. Systems of systems and global development create needs for scalability and multi-collaborator, multi-culture concurrent coordination. COTS products provide powerful capabilities, but their v- dor-determined evolution places significant constraints on software definition, dev- opment, and evolution processes. The recognition of these needs has spawned a considerable amount of software process research across a broad spectrum.

• CMMI
• COTS-based development
• Workflow
• architecture
• automation
• extreme programming
• modeling
• organization
• process analysis
• process representation
• programming
• software life cycle
• software process
• software process management
• versioning

• State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  Mingshu Li

• CS, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  Barry Boehm

• Laboratory for Advanced Software Engineering Research (LASER), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst

  Leon J. Osterweil

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