TSE
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
— As firms increasingly rely on information systems to perform critical functions the consequences of software defects can be catastrophic. Although the software engineering lite...
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SOFTWARE
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Much of the software engineering literature begins with an admonition that what practitioners are doing isn't enough--that the state-of-the-practice is creating bad software. ...
ASE
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
Software process improvement requires high level formalisms for describing project-specific, organizational and quality aspects. These formalisms must be convenient not only for ...
INFSOF
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
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 softw...
ESEM
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
Software organizations have increased their interest on software process improvement (SPI). In high maturity levels, SPI involves implementing statistical process control (SPC), w...
ASWEC
2001
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2001
IEEE
For many small software companies, full-scale software process improvement (SPI) initiatives are often out of reach due to prohibitive costs and lack of SPI knowledge. However, to...
PROFES
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2001
Springer
In this paper, we report from an experiment which compared the E3 PML with respect to the standard modelling language IDEF0 for the purpose of model construction. The experiment ha...
APSEC
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
Software process improvement (SPI) has emerged as a critical area for organizations involved in software development. There is now considerable evidence that SPI can provide subst...
ISPW
2010
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2010
IEEE
Pressures for more complex products, customer dissatisfaction and problems related to cost and schedule overruns increase the need for effective management response and for improve...