Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Address

   1. Improving Requirements Engineering Processes

      • Frank Houdek

      Pages 1-2

3. Process-Focused Software Process Improvement

   1. Defect Data Analysis as Input for Software Process Improvement

      • Anu Raninen, Tanja Toroi, Hannu Vainio, Jarmo J. Ahonen

      Pages 3-16

   2. A Test Process Improvement Model for Automated Test Generation

      • Henri Heiskanen, Mika Maunumaa, Mika Katara

      Pages 17-31

   3. Software Process Improvement and Certification of a Small Company Using the NTP 291 100 (MoProSoft)

      • Verónica Ñaupac, Robert Arisaca, Abraham Dávila

      Pages 32-43

   4. Derivation of Process-Oriented Logical Architectures: An Elicitation Approach for Cloud Design

      • Nuno Ferreira, Nuno Santos, Ricardo J. Machado, Dragan Gašević

      Pages 44-58

4. Product and Process Measurements and Estimation

   1. A Proposal for Simplified Model-Based Cost Estimation Models

      • Vieri del Bianco, Luigi Lavazza, Sandro Morasca

      Pages 59-73

   2. Estimating the Software Product Value during the Development Process

      • Oscar Castro, Angelina Espinoza, Alfonso Martínez-Martínez

      Pages 74-88

   3. Reusability Metrics for Program Source Code Written in C Language and Their Evaluation

      • Hironori Washizaki, Toshikazu Koike, Rieko Namiki, Hiroyuki Tanabe

      Pages 89-103

   4. Modeling the Effects of Project Management Strategies on Long-Term Product Knowledge

      • Martin Höst

      Pages 104-115

5. Open-Source, Agile and Lean Practices

   1. Growing into Agility: Process Implementation Paths for Scrum

      • Kevin Vlaanderen, Peter van Stijn, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Inge van de Weerd

      Pages 116-130

   2. Differences between Traditional and Open Source Development Activities

      • John Wilmar Castro Llanos, Silvia Teresita Acuña Castillo

      Pages 131-144

   3. Analyzing the Drivers of the Combination of Lean and Agile in Software Development Companies

      • Pilar Rodríguez, Jouni Markkula, Markku Oivo, Juan Garbajosa

      Pages 145-159

   4. Fostering and Sustaining Innovation in a Fast Growing Agile Company

      • Nils Brede Moe, Sebastian Barney, Aybüke Aurum, Mahvish Khurum, Claes Wohlin, Hamish T. Barney et al.

      Pages 160-174

6. Distributed and Global Software Development

   1. Software Architecture as a Means of Communication in a Globally Distributed Software Development Context

      • Richard Berntsson Svensson, Aybüke Aurum, Barbara Paech, Tony Gorschek, Devesh Sharma

      Pages 175-189

   2. Socio-technical Congruence Sabotaged by a Hidden Onshore Outsourcing Relationship: Lessons Learned from an Empirical Study

      • Darja Šmite, Zane Galviņa

      Pages 190-202

   3. Providing Training in GSD by Using a Virtual Environment

      • Miguel J. Monasor, Aurora Vizcaíno, Mario Piattini

      Pages 203-217

7. Empirical Studies

   1. Improving IT Service Desk and Service Management Processes in Finnish Tax Administration: A Case Study on Service Engineering

      • Marko Jäntti

      Pages 218-232

   2. Experiences from Establishing Knowledge Management in a Joint Research Project

      • Sebastian Meyer, Anna Averbakh, Torsten Ronneberger, Kurt Schneider

      Pages 233-247

   3. The Impact of Lack in Domain or Technology Experience on the Accuracy of Expert Effort Estimates in Software Projects

      • Susanne Halstead, Rosario Ortiz, Mario Córdova, Miguel Seguí

      Pages 248-259

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13 International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2012, held in Madrid, Spain, in June 2012. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 3 short papers and 4 workshop and tutorial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on process focused software process improvement, open-source agile and lean practices, product and process measurements and estimation, distributed and global software development, quality assessment, and empirical studies.

• agile software development
• interaction design
• process model maintenance
• requirements engineering
• software product lines

• Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  Oscar Dieste

• Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Fh IESE), Kaiserslautern, Germany

  Andreas Jedlitschka

• Facultad de Informática,, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, España

  Natalia Juristo

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