Editors:
- Provides essential insights on the adoption of modern software engineering practices at large companies producing software-intensive systems
- Presents the “Stairway to Heaven” model, which supports a continuous evolution path to mature software engineering capabilities
- Describe theoretical frameworks, conceptual models and industrial experiences in applying novel software engineering techniques
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Agile Practices
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Front Matter
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Continuous Integration
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Front Matter
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R&D as an Innovation System
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Front Matter
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Organizational Performance Metrics
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About this book
This book provides essential insights on the adoption of modern software engineering practices at large companies producing software-intensive systems, where hundreds or even thousands of engineers collaborate to deliver on new systems and new versions of already deployed ones. It is based on the findings collected and lessons learned at the Software Center (SC), a unique collaboration between research and industry, with Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg University and Malmö University as academic partners and Ericsson, AB Volvo, Volvo Car Corporation, Saab Electronic Defense Systems, Grundfos, Axis Communications, Jeppesen (Boeing) and Sony Mobile as industrial partners.
The 17 chapters present the “Stairway to Heaven” model, which represents the typical evolution path companies move through as they develop and mature their software engineering capabilities. The chapters describe theoretical frameworks, conceptual models and, most importantly, the industrial experiences gained by the partner companies in applying novel software engineering techniques.
The book’s structure consists of six parts. Part I describes the model in detail and presents an overview of lessons learned in the collaboration between industry and academia. Part II deals with the first step of the Stairway to Heaven, in which R&D adopts agile work practices. Part III of the book combines the next two phases, i.e., continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), as they are closely intertwined. Part IV is concerned with the highest level, referred to as “R&D as an innovation system,” while Part V addresses a topic that is separate from the Stairway to Heaven and yet critically important in large organizations: organizational performance metrics that capture data, and visualizations of the status of software assets, defects and teams. Lastly, Part VI presents the perspectives of two of the SC partner companies.
The book is intendedfor practitioners and professionals in the software-intensive systems industry, providing concrete models, frameworks and case studies that show the specific challenges that the partner companies encountered, their approaches to overcoming them, and the results. Researchers will gain valuable insights on the problems faced by large software companies, and on how to effectively tackle them in the context of successful cooperation projects.Editors and Affiliations
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Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Jan Bosch
About the editor
Jan Bosch is Professor of Software Engineering and Director of the Software Center at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Earlier, he worked as Vice President Engineering Process at Intuit Inc., and as Head of the Software and Application Technologies Laboratory at the Nokia Research Center, Finland. His research activities include open innovation, innovation experiment systems, compositional software engineering, software ecosystems, software architecture, software product families and software variability management.
In the start-up space, Jan is Chairman of the Board of Fidesmo in Stockholm, and Remente, in Gothenburg, Sweden. He serves on the advisory board of Assia Inc. in Redwood City, CA, as well as on the advisory board of Burt, in Gothenburg, Sweden.
As a consultant, as a professor and as an employee, Jan has worked with and for many companies on innovation and R&D management, including Philips, Thales Naval Netherlands, Robert Bosch GmbH, Siemens, Nokia, Ericsson, Grundfos, Tellabs, Avaya, Tieto Enator and Det Norska Veritas.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Continuous Software Engineering
Editors: Jan Bosch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11283-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-11282-4Published: 24 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36470-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-11283-1Published: 11 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 226
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Software Engineering, Innovation/Technology Management, Management of Computing and Information Systems, Software Management