Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Addresses

   1. The Consumer Juggernaut: Web-Based and Mobile Applications as Innovation Pioneer

      • David G. Messerschmitt

      Pages 1-7

   2. Software “Best” Practices: Agile Deconstructed

      • Steven Fraser

      Pages 8-13

3. Evidence Based Software Engineering and Quality Assurance

   1. Key Questions in Building Defect Prediction Models in Practice

      • Rudolf Ramler, Klaus Wolfmaier, Erwin Stauder, Felix Kossak, Thomas Natschläger

      Pages 14-27

   2. Investigating the Impact of Software Requirements Specification Quality on Project Success

      • Eric Knauss, Christian El Boustani, Thomas Flohr

      Pages 28-42

   3. Prediction of Software Quality Model Using Gene Expression Programming

      • Yogesh Singh, Arvinder Kaur, Ruchika Malhotra

      Pages 43-58

   4. Method for Software Cost Estimating Using Scope Champions

      • Yegor Bugayenko

      Pages 59-70

   5. A Measurement Framework for Team Level Assessment of Innovation Capability in Early Requirements Engineering

      • Björn Regnell, Martin Höst, Fredrik Nilsson, Henrik Bengtsson

      Pages 71-86

4. Evidence Based Software Engineering

   1. Why a CMMI Level 5 Company Fails to Meet the Deadlines?

      • Darja Smite, Cigdem Gencel

      Pages 87-95

   2. Towards Multi-Method Research Approach in Empirical Software Engineering

      • Vladimir Mandić, Jouni Markkula, Markku Oivo

      Pages 96-110

   3. The Role of Empirical Evidence for Transferring a New Technology to Industry

      • Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Giovanni Bruno, Danilo Caivano, Giuseppe Visaggio

      Pages 111-125

5. Agile Software Development

   1. Towards a Framework for Using Agile Approaches in Global Software Development

      • Emam Hossain, Muhammad Ali Babar, June Verner

      Pages 126-140

   2. Value Creation by Agile Projects: Methodology or Mystery?

      • Zornitza Racheva, Maya Daneva, Klaas Sikkel

      Pages 141-155

   3. Decision Support for Iteration Scheduling in Agile Environments

      • Ákos Szőke

      Pages 156-170

   4. Some Findings Concerning Requirements in Agile Methodologies

      • Pilar Rodríguez, Agustín Yagüe, Pedro P. Alarcón, Juan Garbajosa

      Pages 171-184

   5. An Exploratory Investigation on Refactoring in Industrial Context

      • Yi Wang

      Pages 185-198

   6. Absorbing Software Testing into the Scrum Method

      • Janne Tuomikoski, Ilkka Tervonen

      Pages 199-215

6. Process Models and SPI

   1. Learning and Organizational Change in SPI Initiatives

      • Marikka Heikkilä

      Pages 216-230

   2. The Role of Different Approaches in Inspection Process Improvement

      • Sami Kollanus

      Pages 231-245

   3. Scenario-Based Assessment of Process Pattern Languages

      • Antti Välimäki, Sari Vesiluoma, Kai Koskimies

      Pages 246-260

On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the proce- th ings of the 10 International Conference on Product Focused Software Process - provement (PROFES 2009), held in Oulu, Finland. Since the first conference in 1999, the conference has established its place in the software engineering community as a respected conference that brings together participants from academia and industry. The roots of PROFES are in professional software process improvement motivated by product and service quality needs. The conference addresses both the solutions found in practice as well as relevant research results from academia. To ensure that PROFES retains its high quality and focus on the most relevant research issues, the conference has actively maintained close collaboration with industry and sub- quently widened its scope to the research areas of collaborative and agile software development. A special focus for 2009 was placed on software business to bridge research and practice in the economics of software engineering. This enabled us to cover software development in a more comprehensive manner and tackle one of the most important current challenges identified by the software industry and software research community – namely, the shift of focus from “products” to “services. ” The current global economic downturn emphasizes the need for new methods and so- tions for fast and business-oriented development of products and services in a gl- ally distributed environment.

• Agile Software Development
• CMMI
• ERP
• Incident Management
• Quality Assurance
• Requirements Engineering
• Software Best Practices
• Software Engineering
• Software as a Business
• Software as a Service
• documentation
• learning
• organization
• organizations
• programming

• Fraunhofer IIESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Frank Bomarius

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

  Markku Oivo

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland

  Päivi Jaring

• Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  Pekka Abrahamsson

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