Product-focused software process improvement : 14th international conference, PROFES 2013, Paphos, Cyprus, June 12-14, 2013 : proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2013, held in Paphos, Cyprus, in June 2013. The 22 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers and 2 tutorial papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on empirical software engineering, software process improvement, managing software processes, software measurement, decision support in software engineering, safety-critical software engineering, and software maintenance. Front Matter....Pages - Making Software Quality Visible....Pages 1-2 ECO-MAPS: Information Quality-Driven Enterprise Modeling....Pages 3-3 Implementation of an Online Multi-level and Device-Independent Time and Attendance System....Pages 4-4 How Applicable Is ISO/IEC 29110 in Game Software Development?....Pages 5-19 Supporting Cognitive Work in Software Development Workflows....Pages 20-34 Impediments in Agile Software Development: An Empirical Investigation....Pages 35-49 Are Happy Developers More Productive?....Pages 50-64 A Model-Driven Approach to Specifying and Monitoring Controlled Experiments in Software Engineering....Pages 65-79 Beyond Herding Cats: Aligning Quantitative Technology Evaluation in Large-Scale Research Projects....Pages 80-92 Software Process Improvement in Inter-departmental Development of Software-Intensive Automotive Systems – A Case Study....Pages 93-107 Improving Requirements Engineering by Artefact Orientation....Pages 108-122 Managing Constant Flow of Requirements: Screening Challenges in Very Large-Scale Requirements Engineering....Pages 123-137 Who Cares About Software Process Modelling? A First Investigation About the Perceived Value of Process Engineering and Process Consumption....Pages 138-152 Modeling Variabilities from Software Process Lines with Compositional and Annotative Techniques: A Quantitative Study....Pages 153-168 SMartySPEM: A SPEM-Based Approach for Variability Management in Software Process Lines....Pages 169-183 Aligning Corporate and IT Goals and Strategies in the Oil and Gas Industry....Pages 184-198 Evaluating Maintainability of MDA Software Process Models....Pages 199-213 The Evaluation of Weighted Moving Windows for Software Effort Estimation....Pages 214-228 Identifying Potential Risks and Benefits of Using Cloud in Distributed Software Development....Pages 229-239 A Cloud Adoption Decision Support Model Based on Fuzzy Cognitive Maps....Pages 240-252 Modeling and Decision Support of the Mobile Software Development Process Using Influence Diagrams....Pages 253-267 Authoring IEC 61508 Based Software Development Process Models....Pages 268-282 Challenges in Flexible Safety-Critical Software Development – An Industrial Qualitative Survey....Pages 283-297 Improving Process of Source Code Modification Focusing on Repeated Code....Pages 298-312 Assessing Refactoring Instances and the Maintainability Benefits of Them from Version Archives....Pages 313-323 Evaluation of Standard Reliability Growth Models in the Context of Automotive Software Systems....Pages 324-329 A Tool for IT Service Management Process Assessment for Process Improvement....Pages 330-333 Making Sense Out of a Jungle of JavaScript Frameworks....Pages 334-337 Software Processes with BPMN: An Empirical Analysis....Pages 338-341 A Generalized Software Reliability Model Considering Uncertainty and Dynamics in Development....Pages 342-346 Orienting High Software Team Performance: Dimensions for Aligned Excellence....Pages 347-350 An Experience Report: Trial Measurement of Process Independency between Infrastructure Construction and Software Development....Pages 351-354 How to Configure SE Development Processes Context-Specifically?....Pages 355-358 Improving IT Service Operation Processes....Pages 359-362 A Security Assurance Framework for Networked Medical Devices....Pages 363-366 Model-Based Transition from Requirements to High-Level Software Design....Pages 367-369 Software Effort Estimation and Risk Management....Pages 370-371 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2014, held in Helsinki, Finland, in December 2014. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agile development, decision-making, development practices and issues, product planning, and project management.