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Pekka Abrahamsson Nathan Baddoo Tiziana Margaria Richard Messnarz (Eds.)

Software Process Improvement

14th European Conference, EuroSPI 2007 Potsdam, Germany, September 26-28, 2007 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Pekka Abrahamsson VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland E-mail: Pekka.Abrahamsson@vtt. Nathan Baddoo University of Hertfordshire, UK E-mail: [email protected] Tiziana Margaria University of Potsdam, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Richard Messnarz ISCN, Austria E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

This textbook is intended for use by SPI (software process improvement) managers and researchers, quality managers, and experienced project and research managers. The papers constitute the research proceedings of the 14th EuroSPI (European Software Process Improvement, www.eurospi.net) conference in Potsdam, September 26-28, 2007, Germany. Conferences in this series have been held since 1994 in Dublin, 1995 in Vienna (Austria), 1997 in Budapest (Hungary), 1998 in Gothenburg (Sweden), 1999 in Pori (Finland), 2000 in Copenhagen (Denmark), 2001 in Limerick (Ireland), 2002 in Nuremberg (Germany), 2003 in Graz (Austria), 2004 in Trondheim (Norway), 2005 in Budapest (Hungary), and 2006 in Joensuu (Finland). EuroSPI established an experience library (library.eurospi.net) which will be continuously extended over the next few years and will be made available to all attendees. EuroSPI also established an umbrella initiative for establishing a European Qualication Network in which dierent SPINs and national initiatives join mutually benecial collaborations (EQN EU Leonardo a Vinci network project). With a general assembly during October 1516, 2007 through EuroSPI partners and networks, in collaboration with the European Union (supported by the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme), a European certication association has been created for the IT and services sector to oer SPI knowledge and certicates to industry, establishing close knowledge transfer links between research and industry. The biggest value of EuroSPI lies in its function as a European knowledge and experience exchange mechanism for SPI know-how between research institutions and industry. September 2007 Richard Messnarz

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Organization Committee
EuroSPI 2007 was organized by the EuroSPI partnership (www.eurospi.net), internationally coordinated by ISCN, and locally supported by the University of Potsdam.

Program Committee
Conference Chair Scientic Program Chair Scientic Program Chair Scientic Program Chair Industrial Program Chair Industrial Program Chair Industrial Program Chair Industrial Program Chair Tutorial Chair Organizing Chair Organizing Chair Richard Messnarz (ISCN, IRL) Pekka Abrahamsson (University of Oulu, Finland) Nathan Baddoo (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Tiziana Margaria (University of Potsdam, Germany) Jorn Johansen (DELTA, Denmark) Mads Christiansen (DELTA, Denmark) Nils Brede Moe (SINTEF, Norway) Risto Nevalainen (STTF, Finland) Richard Messnarz (ISCN, Ireland) Stephan Goericke (ISQI, Germany) Adrienne Clarke (ISCN, Ireland)

Reviewers
Abrahamsson Pekka, VTT Electronics, Finland Ambriola Vincenzo, Universita di Pisa, Italy Aurum Aybke, University of New South Wales, Australia Baddoo Nathan, University of Hertfordshire, UK Bi Stefan, Technische Universitt Wien, Austria a Biro Miklos, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary Ciolkowski Marcus, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Dalcher Darren, School of Computing Science, UK Daughtrey Taz H., James Madison University, USA Desouza Kevin C., University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Dingsoyr Torgeir, SINTEF IKT, Norway Duncan Howard, Dublin City University, Ireland Dyba Tore, SINTEF Telecom and Informatics, Norway Gorschek Tony, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

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Gresse Von Wangenheim Christiane, Universidade do Vale do Itajai, Brazil Landes Dieter, Fachhochschule Coburg, Germany Mcquaid Patricia, California Polytechnic State University, USA Mueller Matthias, EnBW AG, Germany Muench Juergen, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Oivo Markku, University of Oulu, Finland Pries-Heje Jan, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Richardson Ita, University of Limerick, Ireland Ruhe Guenther, University of Calgary, Canada

Table of Contents

Introduction
Software Process Improvement EuroSPI 2007 Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . Pekka Abrahamsson, Nathan Baddoo, Margaria Tiziana, and Richard Messnarz 1

Enforcement, Alignment, Tailoring

Tailoring and Introduction of the Rational Unied Process . . . . . . . . . . . . Geir Kjetil Hanssen, Finn Olav Bjrnson, and Hans Westerheim Maintaining a Large Process Model Aligned with a Process Standard: An Industrial Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Martn Soto and Jrgen Mnch u u Synergies Between the Common Criteria and Process Improvement . . . . . Mikls Bir and Blint Molnr o o a a 7

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Focus on SME Issues

Determining Practice Achievement in Project Management Using a Two-Phase Questionnaire on Small and Medium Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . Garcia Ivan, Calvo-Manzano Jose A., Cuevas Gonzalo, and San Feliu Tomas Using Practice Outcome Areas to Understand Perceived Value of CMMI Specic Practices for SMEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xi Chen and Mark Staples SPI with Lightweight Software Process Modeling in a Small Software Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paula Savolainen, Hanna-Miina Sihvonen, and Jarmo J. Ahonen 46

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Improvement Analysis and Empirical Studies

A Practitioner Experiment in Understanding Software Process Improvement Using Systems Modular Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Narciso Cerpa, Javier Pereira, and June Verner Organizing Improvement Work: A Longitudinal Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan Pries-Heje and Malene M. Krohn 82

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An Experiment with a Release Planning Method for Web Application Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sven Ziemer and Ilaria Canova Calori

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New Avenues of SPI

Dening a Legal Risk Management Strategy: Process, Legal Risk and Lifecycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ricardo J. Rejas-Muslera, Juan.J. Cuadrado-Gallego, and Daniel Rodriguez iCharts: Charts for Software Process Improvement Value Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Romn Lpez-Cortijo, Javier Garca Guzmn, and a o a Antonio Amescua Seco Organizational Learning Through Project Postmortem Reviews An Explorative Case Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Torgeir Dingsyr, Nils Brede Moe, Joost Schalken, and Tor St alhane 118

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SPI Methodologies
Modelling Software Processes as Human-Centered Adaptive Work Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Levent Yilmaz Performance Comparision of Software Complexity Metrics in an Open Source Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Min Zhang and Nathan Baddoo A Methodology for Identifying Critical Success Factors That Inuence Software Process Improvement Initiatives: An Application in the Brazilian Software Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mariano Montoni and Ana Regina Rocha 148

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Testing and Reliability

Quality Impact of Introducing Component-Level Test Automation and Test-Driven Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lars-Ola Damm and Lars Lundberg The Impact of Test-Driven Development on Software Development Productivity An Empirical Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lech Madeyski and Lukasz Szala 187

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Investigating the Software Fault Prole of Industrial Projects to Determine Process Improvement Areas: An Empirical Study . . . . . . . . . . . Jon Arvid Brretzen and Jostein Dyre-Hansen Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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