The purpose of this paper is to describe a maintenance documentation system with a number of features contributing significantly towards process improvement and software reuse. The system makes extensive use of techniques of logic programming [1] to enable effective software change management, requirements traceability and continuous creation of templates for cross project use. A repository of ...

Nowadays, when software has become part of most everyday appliances, the significance of the software industry and especially small software companies is growing. The vast majority of companies world-wide are Small or Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). In Finland, over half of the software companies have only two to ten employees. Improving the operations of a company is necessary in order to mai...

The majority of software development organizations all over the world are small and medium enterprises. These organizations have realized that it is crucial for their business to improve their processes and working methods but they are lacking the knowledge and resources to do it. Successful implementation of SPI methodologies in small and medium-sized software enterprises (SMEs) is generally n...

This paper presents a framework that draws on structuration theory and dialectical hermeneutics to explicate the dynamics of software process improvement (SPI) in a packaged software organisation. Adding to the growing body of qualitative research, this approach overcomes some of the criticisms of interpretive studies, especially the need for the research to be reflexive in nature. Our longitud...

This Paper relates some of the experiences gained from the initial stages of a trial software quality program undertaken in Australia’s largest government research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The program, known as Outreach, has assigned experienced software engineers and software process engineers to work alongside the research scientists an...

Visual Analytics enables analyses, assessments and communications of results from analytics on large complex multi-source, multi-type information sources. It goes beyond traditional information visualization for software engineering as seen in the recent special issue of Journal of Information Visualization Summer 2009 and at ACM SOFTVIZ 2008. This talk will provide an introduction to this scie...

Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is becoming a vital part of present day research in software process improvement (SPI). Nevertheless, there is no available study that provides detail review of the published software process improvement SLRs. Objective: The aim of this article is to classify the SLRs of SPI in order to identify the main research areas covered and evaluate the quality of the p...

When writing can change your life, when writing can enrich you by offering much money, why don't you try it? Are you still very confused of where getting the ideas? Do you still have no idea with what you are going to write? Now, you will need reading. A good writer is a good reader at once. You can define how you write depending on what books to read. This software process improvement practica...

CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504 (SPICE), the international standard for the assessment and improvement of software processes, provides a framework for the improvement of the organization of software development, whose application became a prerequisite for a software organization to be considered as a reliable business partner already in the 1990’s. They are related in this sense to the ISO 9001 standard...

Required) Over the past years Brazil has done significant investments in software process improvement. Among them, the long term MPS.BR program focuses on improving the software process quality of Brazilian companies. This paper describes the successful software process improvement (SPI) initiative that is being developed in Brazil, called the MPS.BR program, including its software process impr...