Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 18th International Conference, PROFES 2017, Innsbruck, Austria, November 29–December 1, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (10611))

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2017, held in Innsbruck, Austria, in November/December 2017. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers, 21 workshop papers. 3 posters and tool demonstrations papers, and 4 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on : Agile software Development; Data science and analytics; Software engineering processes and frameworks; Industry relevant qualitative research; User and value centric approaches; Software startups; Serum; Software testing. Front Matter ....Pages I-XVI Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Is Task Board Customization Beneficial? (Oliver Karras, Jil Klünder, Kurt Schneider)....Pages 3-18 Influence of Software Product Management Maturity on Usage of Artefacts in Agile Software Development (Gerard Wagenaar, Sietse Overbeek, Garm Lucassen, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Kurt Schneider)....Pages 19-27 Real-Life Challenges on Agile Software Product Lines in Automotive (Philipp Hohl, Jürgen Münch, Kurt Schneider, Michael Stupperich)....Pages 28-36 Measuring Team Innovativeness: A Multiple Case Study of Agile and Lean Software Developing Companies (Richard Berntsson Svensson)....Pages 37-51 Front Matter ....Pages 53-53 What Can Be Learnt from Experienced Data Scientists? A Case Study (Leah Riungu-Kalliosaari, Marjo Kauppinen, Tomi Männistö)....Pages 55-70 A Virtual Study of Moving Windows for Software Effort Estimation Using Finnish Datasets (Sousuke Amasaki, Chris Lokan)....Pages 71-79 A Survival Analysis of Source Files Modified by New Developers (Hirohisa Aman, Sousuke Amasaki, Tomoyuki Yokogawa, Minoru Kawahara)....Pages 80-88 Top Management Support for Software Cost Estimation (Jurka Rahikkala, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Ville Leppänen, Tommi Mikkonen, Johannes Holvitie)....Pages 89-107 Front Matter ....Pages 109-109 The Choice of Code Review Process: A Survey on the State of the Practice (Tobias Baum, Hendrik Leßmann, Kurt Schneider)....Pages 111-127 Unwasted DASE: Lean Architecture Evaluation (Antti-Pekka Tuovinen, Simo Mäkinen, Marko Leppänen, Outi Sievi-Korte, Samuel Lahtinen, Tomi Männistö)....Pages 128-136 Towards a Usability Model for Software Development Process and Practice (Diego Fontdevila, Marcela Genero, Alejandro Oliveros)....Pages 137-145 More for Less: Automated Experimentation in Software-Intensive Systems (David Issa Mattos, Jan Bosch, Helena Holmström Olsson)....Pages 146-161 Front Matter ....Pages 163-163 The Evolution of Design Pattern Grime: An Industrial Case Study (Daniel Feitosa, Paris Avgeriou, Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Elisa Yumi Nakagawa)....Pages 165-181 Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Andreas Vogelsang, Tiago Amorim, Florian Pudlitz, Peter Gersing, Jan Philipps)....Pages 182-198 How Accountability is Implemented and Understood in Research Tools (Severin Kacianka, Kristian Beckers, Florian Kelbert, Prachi Kumari)....Pages 199-218 Front Matter ....Pages 219-219 Differentiating Feature Realization in Software Product Development (Aleksander Fabijan, Helena Holmström Olsson, Jan Bosch)....Pages 221-236 A Method to Transform Automatically Extracted Product Features into Inputs for Kano-Like Models (Huishi Yin, Dietmar Pfahl)....Pages 237-254 Feedback Gathering for Truck Parking Europe: A Pilot Study with the AppEcho Feedback Tool (Melanie Stade, Holger Indervoort)....Pages 255-262 Front Matter ....Pages 263-263 Towards Understanding Startup Product Development as Effectual Entrepreneurial Behaviors (Anh Nguven-Duc, Yngve Dahle, Martin Steinert, Pekka Abrahamsson)....Pages 265-279 Little Big Team: Acquiring Human Capital in Software Startups (Pertti Seppänen, Kari Liukkunen, Markku Oivo)....Pages 280-296 How Do Software Startups Approach Experimentation? Empirical Results from a Qualitative Interview Study (Matthias Gutbrod, Jürgen Münch, Matthias Tichy)....Pages 297-304 Front Matter ....Pages 305-305 A Study of the Scrum Master’s Role (John Noll, Mohammad Abdur Razzak, Julian M. Bass, Sarah Beecham)....Pages 307-323 An Exploratory Study on Applying a Scrum Development Process for Safety-Critical Systems (Yang Wang, Jasmin Ramadani, Stefan Wagner)....Pages 324-340 Exploring the Individual Project Progress of Scrum Software Developers (Ezequiel Scott, Dietmar Pfahl)....Pages 341-348 Front Matter ....Pages 349-349 Is 100% Test Coverage a Reasonable Requirement? Lessons Learned from a Space Software Project (Christian R. Prause, Jürgen Werner, Kay Hornig, Sascha Bosecker, Marco Kuhrmann)....Pages 351-367 Exploratory Testing of Large-Scale Systems – Testing in the Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipeline (Torvald Mårtensson, Daniel Ståhl, Jan Bosch)....Pages 368-384 Process and Tool Support for Internationalization and Localization Testing in Software Product Development (Rudolf Ramler, Robert Hoschek)....Pages 385-393 Front Matter ....Pages 395-395 2nd Workshop on Hybrid Development Approaches in Software Systems Development (Marco Kuhrmann, Philipp Diebold, Stephen MacDonell, Jürgen Münch)....Pages 397-403 Initial Results of the HELENA Survey Conducted in Estonia with Comparison to Results from Sweden and Worldwide (Ezequiel Scott, Dietmar Pfahl, Regina Hebig, Rogardt Heldal, Eric Knauss)....Pages 404-412 Hybrid Software and Systems Development in Practice: Perspectives from Sweden and Uganda (Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Benjamin Kanagwa, Regina Hebig, Rogardt Heldal, Eric Knauss)....Pages 413-419 HELENA Stage 2—Danish Overview (Paolo Tell, Rolf-Helge Pfeiffer, Ulrik Pagh Schultz)....Pages 420-427 HELENA Study: Reasons for Combining Agile and Traditional Software Development Approaches in German Companies (Jil Klünder, Philipp Hohl, Masud Fazal-Baqaie, Stephan Krusche, Steffen Küpper, Oliver Linssen et al.)....Pages 428-434 Hybrid Software and System Development in Practice: Initial Results from Austria (Michael Felderer, Dietmar Winkler, Stefan Biffl)....Pages 435-442 HELENA Study: Initial Observations of Software Development Practices in Argentina (Nicolás Paez, Diego Fontdevila, Alejandro Oliveros)....Pages 443-449 Front Matter ....Pages 451-451 3rd International Workshop on Human Factors in Software Development Processes (HuFo): Measuring System Quality (Silvia Abrahao, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Danilo Caivano, Yvonne Dittrich, Rosa Lanzilotti, Antonio Piccinno)....Pages 453-456 Don’t Underestimate the Human Factors! Exploring Team Communication Effects (Fabian Kortum, Jil Klünder, Kurt Schneider)....Pages 457-469 Applying Extreme Engineering and Personality Factors to Improve Software Development Under a Heavyweight Methodology (Mercedes Ruiz, Germán Fuentes)....Pages 470-481 A Systematic Literature Review of Social Network Systems for Older Adults (Bilal Ahmad, Ita Richardson, Sarah Beecham)....Pages 482-496 Different Views on Project Success (Jil Klünder, Oliver Karras, Fabian Kortum, Mathias Casselt, Kurt Schneider)....Pages 497-507 Front Matter ....Pages 509-509 1st QuASD Workshop: Managing Quality in Agile and Rapid Software Development Processes (Claudia Ayala, Silverio Martínez-Fernández, Pilar Rodríguez)....Pages 511-514 Non-functional Requirements Documentation in Agile Software Development: Challenges and Solution Proposal (Woubshet Behutiye, Pertti Karhapää, Dolors Costal, Markku Oivo, Xavier Franch)....Pages 515-522 Lessons Learned from the ProDebt Research Project on Planning Technical Debt Strategically (Marcus Ciolkowski, Liliana Guzmán, Adam Trendowicz, Felix Salfner)....Pages 523-534 Rapid Lean UX Development Through User Feedback Revelation (Frank Elberzhager, Konstantin Holl, Britta Karn, Thomas Immich)....Pages 535-542 Managing Development Using Active Data Collection (Michael Kläs, Frank Elberzhager)....Pages 543-547 Agile Quality Requirements Management Best Practices Portfolio: A Situational Method Engineering Approach (Lidia López, Woubshet Behutiye, Pertti Karhapää, Jolita Ralyté, Xavier Franch, Markku Oivo)....Pages 548-555 MultiRefactor: Automated Refactoring to Improve Software Quality (Michael Mohan, Des Greer)....Pages 556-572 Transition from Plan Driven to SAFe®: Periodic Team Self-Assessment (Mohammad Abdur Razzak, John Noll, Ita Richardson, Clodagh Nic Canna, Sarah Beecham)....Pages 573-585 Beneficial and Harmful Agile Practices for Product Quality (Sven Theobald, Philipp Diebold)....Pages 586-593 Front Matter ....Pages 595-595 Visual Programming Language for Model Checkers Based on Google Blockly (Seiji Yamashita, Masateru Tsunoda, Tomoyuki Yokogawa)....Pages 597-601 Improving Communication in Scrum Teams (Marvin Wyrich, Ivan Bogicevic, Stefan Wagner)....Pages 602-605 Tool Support for Consistency Verification of UML Diagrams (Salilthip Phuklang, Tomoyuki Yokogawa, Pattara Leelaprute, Kazutami Arimoto)....Pages 606-609 Front Matter ....Pages 611-611 Analyzing the Potential of Big Data (Andreas Jedlitschka)....Pages 613-616 Automatic Requirements Reviews - Potentials, Limitations and Practical Tool Support (Henning Femmer)....Pages 617-620 Need for Speed – Towards Real-Time Business (Janne Järvinen, Tommi Mikkonen)....Pages 621-624 From Zero to Hero: A Process Mining Tutorial (Andrea Janes, Fabrizio Maria Maggi, Andrea Marrella, Marco Montali)....Pages 625-629 Back Matter ....Pages 631-632