Software Process Improvement

Results and Experience from the Field

By: Reidar Conradi (Editor), Tore DybÃ¥ (Editor), Dag I.K. SjÃ¸berg (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 March 2006

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For over a decade, software process improvement (SPI) has been promoted as an approach to improve systematically the way software is developed and managed. Mostly this research and the relevant experience reports have been focussed on large software companies.

Conradi and his co-authors have collected the main results from four Norwegian industrial research and development projects on SPI carried out between 1996 and 2005, which, in contrast to other treatments, concentrated on small- and medium-sized companies, typically characterized by fast-changing environments and processes. The presentation is organized in five sections: general principles and methods of SPI, knowledge management for SPI, process modelling and electronic process guides, estimation methods, and object-oriented and component-based systems. A spectrum of empirical methods has been used, e.g. case studies, large-scale experiments, surveys and interviews, and action research.

The book mainly targets researchers and graduate students in (empirical) software engineering, and software professionals working in development or quality assurance.

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"The continuous improvement of software processes has been a managerial focus for several decades. This book, written by Norwegian academics, 'mainly targets researchers and graduate students in empirical software engineering.' ... The papers are varied and well written ... . Academics in both information technology and software engineering will find a basis for further research projects in this title." (David Bellin, Computing Reviews, December, 2006)

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Lessons learned and recommendations from two large Norwegian SPI programmes	p. 3
Improvisation in small software organizations	p. 19
An empirical investigation of the key factors for success in software process improvement	p. 29
Evidence-based software engineering for practitioners	p. 59
Challenges and recommendations when increasing the realism of controlled software engineering experiments	p. 73
Postmortem reviews : purpose and approaches in software engineering	p. 93
Value-based knowledge management - the contribution of postmortem reviews and process workshops	p. 115
A dynamic model of software engineering knowledge creation	p. 129
An empirical study of an informal knowledge repository in a medium-sized software consulting company	p. 153
An empirical study on the utility of formal routines to transfer knowledge and experience	p. 169
Tailoring RUP to a defined project type : a case study	p. 189
A workshop-oriented approach for defining electronic process guides - a case study	p. 203
Empirical investigation on factors affecting software developer acceptance and utilization of electronic process guides	p. 219
Six theses on software process research	p. 239
A review of studies on expert estimation of software development effort	p. 247
Reuse of software development experiences - a case study	p. 295
Effort estimation of use cases for incremental large-scale software development	p. 309
Experiences from introducing UML-based development in a large safety-critical project	p. 329
An empirical study on off-the-shelf component usage in industrial projects	p. 361
Evaluating the effect of a delegated versus centralized control style on the maintainability of object-oriented software	p. 379
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