Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination: 16th International Conference, SPICE 2016, Dublin, Ireland, June 9-10, 2016, Proceedings (Communications ... Computer and Information Science Book 609)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2016, held in Dublin, Ireland, in June 2016. The 28 full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: SPI in regulated and safety critical domains; gamification and education issues in SPI; SPI in agile and small settings; SPI and assessment; SPI and project management concerns; empirical research case studies of SPI; knowledge and human communications issues in SPI. Front Matter....Pages I-XII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Deriving Safety Case Fragments for Assessing MBASafe’s Compliance with EN 50128....Pages 3-16 Safety Critical Software Development – Extending Quality Management System Practices to Achieve Compliance with Regulatory Requirements....Pages 17-30 The Use of Maturity/Capability Frameworks for Healthcare Process Assessment and Improvement....Pages 31-42 Software Process Improvement Roadmaps – Using Design Patterns to Aid SME’s Developing Medical Device Software in the Implementation of IEC 62304....Pages 43-56 Front Matter....Pages 57-57 Coverage of ISO/IEC 12207 Software Lifecycle Process by a Simulation-Based Serious Game....Pages 59-70 A Gamification Approach to Improve the Software Development Process by Exploring the Personality of Software Practitioners....Pages 71-83 A Simulation and Gamification Approach for IT Service Management Improvement....Pages 84-97 Towards a Manifesto for Software Process Education, Training and Professionalism....Pages 98-105 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 A Maturity Model for Integrating Agile Processes and User Centred Design....Pages 109-122 Analysis of Tools for Assessing the Implementation and Use of Agile Methodologies in SMEs....Pages 123-134 Evaluation of Agility Assessment Tools: A Multiple Case Study....Pages 135-149 Exploring Processes in Small Software Companies: A Systematic Review....Pages 150-165 Front Matter....Pages 167-167 Developing Process Definition for Financial and Physical Resource Management Process in Government Domain....Pages 169-180 A Nominal Group Interview Technique to Support Lightweight Process Assessments: Description and Experience Report....Pages 181-194 The Issue of Reliability in Software Mediated Process Assessments....Pages 195-209 Towards a Process Capability Assessment Model for Government Domain....Pages 210-224 Front Matter....Pages 225-225 Measuring Global Distance: A Survey of Distance Factors and Interventions....Pages 227-240 MAMD: Towards a Data Improvement Model Based on ISO 8000-6X and ISO/IEC 33000....Pages 241-253 How to Integrate Risk Management in IT Settings Within Management Systems? Comparison and Integration Perspectives from ISO Standards....Pages 254-269 A Learning Tool for the ISO/IEC 29110 Standard: Understanding the Project Management of Basic Profile....Pages 270-283 Front Matter....Pages 285-285 The Role of Process in Early Software Defect Prediction: Methods, Attributes and Metrics....Pages 287-300 An Empirical Study on Software Testing Practices in Automotive....Pages 301-315 Empirically Derived Recommendations for Personalised Text-Based Technical Support....Pages 316-333 SPI Sustainment Model Validation: Two Exploratory Case Studies....Pages 334-348 Front Matter....Pages 349-349 An Investigation of Software Development Process Terminology....Pages 351-361 Representing Software Process in Description Logics: An Ontology Approach for Software Process Reasoning and Verification....Pages 362-376 A Behavior Tree-Based Model for Supporting the Analysis of Knowledge Transferred in Software R&D Teams....Pages 377-390 The Need for Obtaining Real Sponsor Satisfaction that Leads to Steady Generation of SPI Effects....Pages 391-405 Front Matter....Pages 407-407 Investigating the Suitability of Using Agile for Medical Embedded Software Development....Pages 409-416 Agile – Is it Suitable for Medical Device Software Development?....Pages 417-422 Using Enterprise SPICE in Very Small Entities....Pages 423-430 Smart Requirements: How Smart Can They Get?....Pages 431-436 Current Challenges and Proposed Software Improvement Process for VSEs in Developing Countries....Pages 437-444 Back Matter....Pages 445-446 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2014, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in November 2014. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on developing process models for assessment; software process and models; software models and product lines; assessment; agile processes; processes improvement and VSE.