Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 7th International Conference, PROFES 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 12-14, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4034)

Frontmatter
Keynote Addresses
	Processes and the Software Business
	Controlling the Chaos of the CMMI Continuous Representation
	Evidence-Based Software Engineering and Systematic Literature Reviews
	Expanding the Scope of Software Product Families: Problems and Alternative Approaches
Decision Support
	Defining the Process for Making Software System Modernization Decisions
	Introducing Tool Support for Retrospective Analysis of Release Planning Decisions
	A Qualitative Evaluation Method for Business Process Tools
Embedded Software and System Development
	An Effective Source Code Review Process for Embedded Software
	Troubleshooting Large-Scale New Product Development Embedded Software Projects
	Software Process Improvement with Agile Practices in a Large Telecom Company
Measurement
	Assessing Software Product Maintainability Based on Class-Level Structural Measures
	Integrating Reuse Measurement Practices into the ERP Requirements Engineering Process
	Process Definition and Project Tracking in Model Driven Engineering
Industrial Experiences
	Difficulties in Establishing a Defect Management Process: A Case Study
	A Case Study on the Success of Introducing General Non-construction Activities for Project Management and Planning Improvement
	The Concerns of Prototypers and Their Mitigating Practices: An Industrial Case-Study
	An Industrial Case Study on the Choice Between Language Customization Mechanisms
	Preliminary Results from a Survey of Multimedia Development Practices in Australia
	An ISO 9001:2000 Certificate and Quality Awards from Outside -- What\'s Inside? -- A Case Study
Process Improvement
	Implementing Software Process Improvement Initiatives: An Empirical Study
	Using Linear Regression Models to Analyse the Effect of Software Process Improvement
	Taba Workstation: Supporting Software Process Deployment Based on CMMI and MR-MPS.BR
	Analysis of an Artifact Oriented Test Process Model and of Testing Aspects of CMMI
Agile Development Practices
	The Impact of Pair Programming and Test-Driven Development on Package Dependencies in Object-Oriented Design --- An Experiment
	Applying an Agility/Discipline Assessment for a Small Software Organisation
	Lessons Learned from an XP Experiment with Students: Test-First Needs More Teachings
	An Empirical Study on Design Quality Improvement from Best-Practice Inspection and Pair Programming
Product Line Engineering
	A Variability-Centric Approach to Instantiating Core Assets in Product Line Engineering
	Improving the Development of e-Business Systems by Introducing Process-Based Software Product Lines
	Assessing Requirements Compliance Scenarios in System Platform Subcontracting
Short Papers
	Software Inspections in Practice: Six Case Studies
	Productivity of Test Driven Development: A Controlled Experiment with Professionals
	Results and Experiences from an Empirical Study of Fault Reports in Industrial Projects
	Software Process Improvement: A Road to Success
	Characterization of Runaway Software Projects Using Association Rule Mining
	A Framework for Selecting Change Strategies in IT Organizations
	Building Software Process Line Architectures from Bottom Up
	Refinement of Software Architectures by Recursive Model Transformations
	A UML-Based Process Meta-model Integrating a Rigorous Process Patterns Definition
	Ad Hoc Versus Systematic Planning of Software Releases -- A Three-Staged Experiment
	A Software Process Tailoring System Focusing to Quantitative Management Plans
	An Extreme Approach to Automating Software Development with CBD, PLE and MDA Integrated
Workshops
	Experiences and Methods from Integrating Evidence-Based Software Engineering into Education
	Workshop on Embedded Software Development in Collaboration
Tutorials
	Software Product Metrics -- Goal-Oriented Software Product Measurement
	Art and Science of System Release Planning
	Multiple Risk Management Process Supported by Ontology
	Get Your Experience Factory Ready for the Next Decade: Ten Years After ``How to Build and Run One\'\'
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