Product-focused software process improvement : 13th International Conference, PROFES 2012, Madrid, Spain, June 13-15, 2012 : proceedings / Oscar Dieste, Andreas Jedlitschka, Natalia Juristo (eds.).

Improving Requirements Engineering Processes / Impressions during One Decade of Improvement at Daimler / Frank Houdek -- Defect Data Analysis as Input for Software Process Improvement / Anu Raninen, Tanja Toroi, Hannu Vainio and Jarmo J. Ahonen -- A Test Process Improvement Model for Automated Test Generation / Henri Heiskanen, Mika Maunumaa and Mika Katara -- Software Process Improvement and Certification of a Small Company Using the NTP 291 100 (MoProSoft) / Verónica Ñaupac, Robert Arisaca and Abraham Dávila -- Derivation of Process-Oriented Logical Architectures: An Elicitation Approach for Cloud Design / Nuno Ferreira, Nuno Santos, Ricardo J. Machado and Dragan Gašević -- A Proposal for Simplified Model-Based Cost Estimation Models / Vieri del Bianco, Luigi Lavazza and Sandro Morasca -- Estimating the Software Product Value during the Development Process / Oscar Castro, Angelina Espinoza and Alfonso Martínez-Martínez -- Reusability Metrics for Program Source Code Written in C Language and Their Evaluation / Hironori Washizaki, Toshikazu Koike, Rieko Namiki and Hiroyuki Tanabe -- Modeling the Effects of Project Management Strategies on Long-Term Product Knowledge / Martin Höst.

Growing into Agility: Process Implementation Paths for Scrum / Kevin Vlaanderen, Peter van Stijn, Sjaak Brinkkemper and Inge van de Weerd -- Differences between Traditional and Open Source Development Activities / John Wilmar Castro Llanos and Silvia Teresita Acuña Castillo -- Analyzing the Drivers of the Combination of Lean and Agile in Software Development Companies / Pilar Rodríguez, Jouni Markkula, Markku Oivo and Juan Garbajosa -- Fostering and Sustaining Innovation in a Fast Growing Agile Company / Nils Brede Moe, Sebastian Barney, Aybüke Aurum, Mahvish Khurum and Claes Wohlin, et al. -- Software Architecture as a Means of Communication in a Globally Distributed Software Development Context / Richard Berntsson Svensson, Aybüke Aurum, Barbara Paech, Tony Gorschek and Devesh Sharma -- Socio-technical Congruence Sabotaged by a Hidden Onshore Outsourcing Relationship: Lessons Learned from an Empirical Study / Darja Šmite and Zane Galviņa -- Providing Training in GSD by Using a Virtual Environment / Miguel J. Monasor, Aurora Vizcaíno and Mario Piattini -- Improving IT Service Desk and Service Management Processes in Finnish Tax Administration: A Case Study on Service Engineering / Marko Jäntti.

Experiences from Establishing Knowledge Management in a Joint Research Project / Sebastian Meyer, Anna Averbakh, Torsten Ronneberger and Kurt Schneider -- 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 and Miguel Seguí -- A Metrics for Meeting Quality on a Software Requirement Acquisition Phase / Noriko Hanakawa and Masaki Obana -- Merging the Quality Assessment of Processes and Products in Automotive Domain / Morayo Adedjouma, Hubert Dubois, François Terrier and Tarek Kitouni -- Improving Unfamiliar Code with Unit Tests: An Empirical Investigation on Tool-Supported and Human-Based Testing / Dietmar Winkler, Martina Schmidt, Rudolf Ramler and Stefan Biffl -- Self-Organizing Systems and the Like / An Innovative Vital Perspective in Mutual Inspiration with Application Areas / Horst F. Wedde -- Modified ART Network Architectures for the Control of Autonomous Systems / Karl-Erwin Grosspietsch and Tanya A. Silayeva.

Application of Self-Organizing Systems in Power Systems Control / Sven aC. Müller, Ulf Häger, Christian Rehtanz and Horst F. Wedde -- Minimizing Vehicular Travel Times Using the Multi-Agent System BeeJamA / Sebastian Senge and Horst F. Wedde -- A Study on Predictive Performance of Regression-Based Effort Estimation Models Using Base Functional Components / Sousuke Amasaki and Tomoyuki Yokogawa -- Managing Process Model Compliance in Multi-standard Scenarios Using a Tool-Supported Approach / Martin Kowalczyk and Silke Steinbach -- Towards a Framework to Evaluate and Improve the Quality of Implementation of CMMI® Practices / Isabel Lopes Margarido, João Pascoal Faria, Raul Moreira Vidal and Marco Vieira -- INTEAMSE 2012 1st Workshop on Managing the Influence of People and Team Factors in SE / Silvia Teresita Acuña Castillo, Marta Gómez and Kostadin Koroutchev -- VALOIR 2012 2nd Workshop on Managing the Client Value Creation Process in Agile Projects: Message from the Chairs / Jennifer Pérez, Luigi Buglione and Maya Daneva -- Tutorial: Business IT Alignment Using the GQM+Strategies® Approach / Jens Heidrich and Martin Kowalczyk -- Requirements Meet Interaction Design / Hermann Kaindl.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

English.