data science

Measuring the Success of Software Process Improvement: The Dimensions

Early results indicate that change agents valued the process user satisfaction the most and the process improvement fit the least, confirming the need of having various stakeholders and dimensions acknowledged in a framework that is used to measure the overall success of an SPI initiative.

Software Product Size Measurement Methods: A Systematic Mapping Study

This study presents the results of a systematic mapping study on software size estimation metrics and methods. The methods are investigated based on the entity type(s) measured by the method, size attribute type, size measure(s), and theoretical/empirical validation status of the method, and restriction with respect to...

Feature Usage as a Value Indicator for Decision Making

Self-organized Learning in Software Factory: Experiences and Lessons Learned

A set of themes that can potentially explain self-organization from the learning viewpoint are identified, which include self-decided learning goals and personalized learning outcomes, peer teaching through active collaboration, diversity is the key and the personal attitude towards the learning matters.

Performance Alignment Work: How software developers experience the continuous adaptation of team performance in Lean and Agile environments

This paper aims to understand how software developers experience the continuous adaptation of performance in a modern, highly volatile environment using Lean and Agile software development methodology and generates a grounded theory, Performance Alignment Work, showing howSoftware developers experience performance.

What Can Software Startuppers Learn from the Artistic Design Flow? Experiences, Reflections and Future Avenues

This paper aims contributing to this gap by studying the artistic design flow and the tools utilized by architects, industrial designers and artists, and proposes concrete ways to improve the current state-of-practice.

Perceived Effects of Pair Programming in an Industrial Context

Agile Software Development of Mobile Information Systems

The need for agile methods in the focal domain is presented, their shortcomings are identified on the basis of three large-scale case studies from industry and all of the cases deal with the development of mobile information system.

A Comparative Case Study on the Impact of Test-Driven Development on Program Design and Test Coverage

The results show that the effect of TDD on program design was not as evident as expected, but the test coverage was significantly superior to iterative test-last development.

Perspectives on Global Software Development: special issue on PROFES 2007

The Profes conference series was established in 1999 to provide a venue for industry and academia to present and discuss the shift from model-based improvement to a product-oriented perspective in the field of software engineering and software process improvement, which includes a context-oriented understanding of the...

A Case Study on the Impact of Refactoring on Quality and Productivity in an Agile Team

Results indicate that refactoring not only increases aspects of software quality, but also improves productivity and is applicable to small teams working in similar, highly volatile domains.

‘Lots done, more to do’: the current state of agile systems development research

Agile research has lagged behind practice, as is often the case with new and emerging phenomena in Information Systems Development (ISD).