{"title":"Software process reflexivity and business performance: initial results from an empirical study","authors":"Rory V. O'Connor, Paul M. Clarke","doi":"10.1145/2785592.2785607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2785592.2785607","url":null,"abstract":"Commercial software development organisations routinely operate in dynamic environments, with various situational factors that affect the software development approach undergoing recurring change. We therefore suggest that process reflexivity - the ability to reflect upon the suitability of a software process for a given context and to adapt the process according to changing situational circumstances – is an important capability for software development organizations.. In support of this position we conducted an exploratory industrial study of software development in practice. An initial analysis of our data suggests that software process reflexivity may exercise a strong influence over business success. Further work is required to fully examine our data, however, initial findings indicate that software process reflexivity is worthy of greater attention.","PeriodicalId":415950,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software and System Process","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124758877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructing hybrid software process simulation models","authors":"Chao Gao, He Zhang, Shu Jiang","doi":"10.1145/2785592.2785610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2785592.2785610","url":null,"abstract":"Software process simulation (SPS) has become an active research area for managing and improving software development processes since its introduction in the last two decades. Hybrid simulation, the combination of simulation paradigms to address a problem, is becoming more popular as the problems we are presented with become more complex. However, integrating multiple simulation paradigms faces the issues of compatibility, interoperatability and synchronization when executing simulation. The objective of this research is to present the state-of-the-art of this research area, the hybrid mechanism when integrating paradigms, and more importantly provide practical support for the effective adoption of hybrid simulation in SPS context. Based on an extended systematic literature review, this paper presents the preliminary results by answering the research questions. Depending upon the way these simulation paradigms represent different aspects and levels of software process and the context in which they can be modeled by SPS, two hybrid mechanisms: Hierarchical Mechanism and Interlinked Mechanism, have been frequently employed. The detailed discussions of integration strategies and recommendations when applying hybrid simulation may offer reference value to the SPS community.","PeriodicalId":415950,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software and System Process","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123857968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oisín Cawley, Ita Richardson, Xiaofeng Wang, M. Kuhrmann
{"title":"A conceptual framework for lean regulated software development","authors":"Oisín Cawley, Ita Richardson, Xiaofeng Wang, M. Kuhrmann","doi":"10.1145/2785592.2794401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2785592.2794401","url":null,"abstract":"A growing number of companies are discovering that their software development processes must be in compliance with some form of regulation. This is particularly so when it comes to safety-critical or business-critical systems such as Automotive Software, Robotics, Medical Devices or Finan- cial Management systems. These regulations aect the soft- ware development process itself in various forms. Further- more, much attention is being given to ways of improving the eciency of businesses, for example, by adopting lean principles. This raises the question for how to adopt lean principles for software development within a regulated envi- ronment? This poster presents the results of our empirical research into lean and regulated software development. Built from a combination of data sources, we have developed a conceptual framework comprising ve primary components. In addition the relationships they have with both the central focus of the framework (the situated software development practices) and with each other are indicated.","PeriodicalId":415950,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software and System Process","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133740933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do artifact models help direct SPI projects?","authors":"M. Kuhrmann, Ita Richardson","doi":"10.1145/2785592.2785616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2785592.2785616","url":null,"abstract":"To overcome shortcomings associated with software process improvement (SPI), we previously recommended that process engineers focus on the artifacts to be developed in SPI projects. These artifacts should define desired outcomes, rather than specific methods. During this prior research, we developed a model for Artifact-based Software Process Improvement & Management (ArSPI). We are now carrying out studies to confirm our claims that ArSPI will provide benefits such as quality assurance. In this paper, we report on an experimental setting in which we developed and analyzed a strategy to use artifact models to direct process model improvement. We analyzed a process specification, the realized model, and the generated electronic process guide. We used ArSPI v0.9 as our process model and the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) as an external reference to provide a set of overall improvement goals. We propose an effective approach to analyze and improve a process model. In addition, the analysis revealed issues with ArSPI realization, which will be corrected in the next major release.","PeriodicalId":415950,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software and System Process","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127054223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A preliminary study into research about open innovation with focus on the field of computer science","authors":"Huishi Yin, Dietmar Pfahl","doi":"10.1145/2785592.2795369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2785592.2795369","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes preliminary results regarding research on Open Innovation (OI) in peer reviewed literature. Special focus is put on the field of computer science as compared to other fields using the categorization scheme of Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science Core Collection (ISI Core Collection). The study was triggered by the observation that peer reviewed literature on OI seems to have a less distinct growth in recent years than publications included in Google Scholar which involves non-peer reviewed literature to a much larger extent. When analyzing peer reviewed literature on OI, we observed that the field of Computer Science seems to have significantly less diversity than all other fields with more than ten publications indexed in the ISI Core Collection. Our preliminary interpretation of this observation is that the topic ‘Open Innovation’ has not yet been researched and discussed in depth and breadth comparable to other fields, in particular Business Economics, Engineering, and Operations Research Management Science.","PeriodicalId":415950,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software and System Process","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121209341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wei Zhang, Yun Yang, Junchao Xiao, X. Liu, M. Babar
{"title":"Ant colony algorithm based scheduling for handling software project delay","authors":"Wei Zhang, Yun Yang, Junchao Xiao, X. Liu, M. Babar","doi":"10.1145/2785592.2785603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2785592.2785603","url":null,"abstract":"Delay on a critical path may cause the failure in meeting the software project deadline. By adding extra employees with similar skills for help, the delay is expected to be eliminated or reduced. However, the originally scheduled activities may be suspended due to reallocation of employees, which may lead to the problem of delay propagation. So how to minimize and even eliminate the delay without delay propagation is worth investigation. In this paper, we first use a simple scenario to demonstrate the problem of employee scheduling which shows that in the scheduling process, one activity can have many ways for selecting employees from another project. In fact, the searching path in a multi-branch tree and its complete traversal is a NP hard problem. Furthermore when the scale of the problem becomes large, it is impractical to generate a search tree for implementation. Therefore, we propose an ant colony algorithm to address such a problem. Both case studies and initial simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm can obtain feasible solutions under different circumstances.","PeriodicalId":415950,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software and System Process","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115864623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Silvana Togneri MacMahon, F. McCaffery, Frank Keenan
{"title":"Development and validation of the MedITNet assessment framework: improving risk management of medical IT networks","authors":"Silvana Togneri MacMahon, F. McCaffery, Frank Keenan","doi":"10.1145/2785592.2785599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2785592.2785599","url":null,"abstract":"The use of networked medical devices can provide a number of benefits such as improved patient safety, reduced costs of care and a reduction in adverse events. Traditionally, medical devices were placed onto a proprietary IT network provided by the manufacturer of the device. Today, medical devices are increasingly designed for incorporation into a hospital’s general IT network enabling devices to exchange critical information. However, this can introduce risks and negate the potential benefits to patients. While the IEC 80001-1 standard has been developed to aid Healthcare Delivery Organisations (HDOs) in addressing these risks, HDOs may struggle to understand and implement the requirements. The MedITNet framework has been developed to allow HDOs to assess the capability of their risk management processes against the requirements of IEC 80001-1. MedITNet provides a flexible assessment framework enabling HDOs to gain a greater understanding of the requirements of the standard and to improve risk management processes by determining their current state and highlighting areas for improvement. This paper examines the challenges faced by HDOs in the risk management of medical IT networks and briefly explains the components of the MedITNet framework and how the framework addresses these challenges. This paper also details how Action Design Research (ADR) was used in the development and validation of MedITNet.","PeriodicalId":415950,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software and System Process","volume":"438 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122790155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A large-scale survey on the effects of selected development practices on software correctness","authors":"Myroslava Stavnycha, Huishi Yin, T. Römer","doi":"10.1145/2785592.2785617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2785592.2785617","url":null,"abstract":"Releasing software with required quality is important for software producers in order to be successful. Therefore, understanding which development practices affect software quality has always been of high interest. However, little empirical evidence has been reported on this matter. The research presented in this paper aims at analyzing the effects of nine pre-selected development practices on the quality aspect correctness of software releases. To this end we collected data from software developers worldwide, using an online survey. 1006 valid responses were received and analyzed with the help of statistical methods. We found that four of the nine development practices show statistically significant effects on the correctness of released software, namely solving technical debt, test coverage, code reviews, and monitoring and fixing software quality problems. Our results indicate that using development practices specifically focusing on improving software quality shows a positive effect on the level of correctness of released software. Development practices that are more organizational in nature didn’t show similarly clear effects.","PeriodicalId":415950,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software and System Process","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126705754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Software testing in open innovation: an exploratory case study of the acceptance test harness for jenkins","authors":"Hussan Munir, P. Runeson","doi":"10.1145/2785592.2795365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2785592.2795365","url":null,"abstract":"Open Innovation (OI) has gained significant attention since the term was introduced in 2003. However, little is known whether general software testing processes are well suited for OI. An exploratory case study on the Acceptance Test Harness (ATH) is conducted to investigate OI testing activities of Jenkins. As far as the research methodology is concerned, we extracted the change log data of ATH followed by five interviews with key contributors in the development of ATH. The findings of the study are threefold. First, it highlights the key stakeholders involved in the development of ATH. Second, the study compares the ATH testing activities with ISO/IEC/IEEE testing process and presents a tailored process for software testing in OI. Finally, the study underlines some key challenges that software intensive organizations face while working with the testing in OI.","PeriodicalId":415950,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software and System Process","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127751993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The incremental commitment spiral model (ICSM): principles and practices for successful systems and software","authors":"B. Boehm, R. Turner","doi":"10.1145/2785592.2785619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2785592.2785619","url":null,"abstract":"This tutorial introduces the ICSM as a means of addressing the need for more flexible and responsive systems engineering. It describes the principles that guide the model, and leads attendees through a product development case study. Attendees will receive a copy of the book The Incremental Commitment Spiral Model: Principles and Practices for Successful Systems and Software.","PeriodicalId":415950,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Software and System Process","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123060947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}