From the importance of the portfolio management process has gained by its inclusion in quality models and standards, the amount of organization looking to implement this process effectively and efficiently has increased. Thus, this research seeks to assist in the implementation of portfolio management in small and medium-sized enterprises, reducing the difficulties and excessive documentation required in traditional processes. For this, a mapping between a portfolio management process framework and agile practices was made, the result was a guide defining how to implement this process framework with agile practices, focusing on the interaction between people.
{"title":"A Process Framework with Agile Practices for Implementation of Project Portfolio Management Process","authors":"L. Silva, S. Oliveira","doi":"10.1109/QUATIC.2016.037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QUATIC.2016.037","url":null,"abstract":"From the importance of the portfolio management process has gained by its inclusion in quality models and standards, the amount of organization looking to implement this process effectively and efficiently has increased. Thus, this research seeks to assist in the implementation of portfolio management in small and medium-sized enterprises, reducing the difficulties and excessive documentation required in traditional processes. For this, a mapping between a portfolio management process framework and agile practices was made, the result was a guide defining how to implement this process framework with agile practices, focusing on the interaction between people.","PeriodicalId":157671,"journal":{"name":"2016 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)","volume":"255 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114664772","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}
Measurement & analysis is one of the key areas for successful organizations. Process & product metrics are the main units for an effective measurement & analysis process. This study describes about the evolution of STM's process & product metrics based on information needs. Decisions leading to ineffective organizational measurement system, lessons learned gathered, and responses of the stakeholders will be shared.
{"title":"Evolution of Process & Product Metrics Based on Information Needs","authors":"Yakin Cenkler","doi":"10.1109/QUATIC.2016.036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QUATIC.2016.036","url":null,"abstract":"Measurement & analysis is one of the key areas for successful organizations. Process & product metrics are the main units for an effective measurement & analysis process. This study describes about the evolution of STM's process & product metrics based on information needs. Decisions leading to ineffective organizational measurement system, lessons learned gathered, and responses of the stakeholders will be shared.","PeriodicalId":157671,"journal":{"name":"2016 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116598522","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}
Nowadays, projects represent a significantinvestment for organizations, their intrinsic role asorganizational change mechanisms is being increasinglyrecognized. In this context, project portfolio management effortsare considered as a main efficiency and effectiveness mechanismto align the projects execution with the organization strategy. Thecomponents of a project portfolio management should bemeasured, ranked, and prioritized according to criteria preestablished. The main objective of the PhD research work is todevelop a new method for portfolio management of Informationand Technology projects, by taking into account the implicationsfrom Project Management Institute and Office of GovernmentCommerce project and program management reference models.
{"title":"Project and Program Management Implications in the Portfolio Management of IT Projects in Applied R&D Organizations","authors":"Ana Lima, G. Fernandes, R. J. Machado","doi":"10.1109/QUATIC.2016.056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QUATIC.2016.056","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, projects represent a significantinvestment for organizations, their intrinsic role asorganizational change mechanisms is being increasinglyrecognized. In this context, project portfolio management effortsare considered as a main efficiency and effectiveness mechanismto align the projects execution with the organization strategy. Thecomponents of a project portfolio management should bemeasured, ranked, and prioritized according to criteria preestablished. The main objective of the PhD research work is todevelop a new method for portfolio management of Informationand Technology projects, by taking into account the implicationsfrom Project Management Institute and Office of GovernmentCommerce project and program management reference models.","PeriodicalId":157671,"journal":{"name":"2016 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133250967","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}
The 6th edition of the Portuguese Software Engineering Doctoral Symposium (SEDES'2016), was held in September 16, 2016, in Lisboa, Portugal, co-located with the QUATIC'2016 conference. The aim of this symposium is to bring together Software Engineering PhD students supervised or co-supervised by faculty members of Portuguese Universities in a constructive environment, where they can present and discuss their ongoing PhD projects, receive feedback and valuable suggestions from faculty and peers, as well as network with other researchers in the field. It follows the tradition of previous editions, held in Coimbra, Caparica, Porto, Lisboa, and Guimarães.
{"title":"Foreword to the 6th Portuguese Software Engineering Doctoral Symposium (SEDES 2016)","authors":"P. Cunha, J. Fernandes","doi":"10.1109/QUATIC.2016.055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QUATIC.2016.055","url":null,"abstract":"The 6th edition of the Portuguese Software Engineering Doctoral Symposium (SEDES'2016), was held in September 16, 2016, in Lisboa, Portugal, co-located with the QUATIC'2016 conference. The aim of this symposium is to bring together Software Engineering PhD students supervised or co-supervised by faculty members of Portuguese Universities in a constructive environment, where they can present and discuss their ongoing PhD projects, receive feedback and valuable suggestions from faculty and peers, as well as network with other researchers in the field. It follows the tradition of previous editions, held in Coimbra, Caparica, Porto, Lisboa, and Guimarães.","PeriodicalId":157671,"journal":{"name":"2016 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122202850","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}
Foreword of the Thematic Track Quality Aspects in Verification and Validation.
专题轨道质量方面的验证与确认前言。
{"title":"Foreword to the Thematic Track: Quality Aspects in Verification and Validation","authors":"Gianluca Mezzetti","doi":"10.1109/QUATIC.2016.039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QUATIC.2016.039","url":null,"abstract":"Foreword of the Thematic Track Quality Aspects in Verification and Validation.","PeriodicalId":157671,"journal":{"name":"2016 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133515281","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}
We present a fully automated technique to detect nondeterminism in state diagrams. Although nondeterminism is a tool often adopted by requirement engineers for specification of a system under development (SUD), it is normally undesirable in actual implementation. Discovering nondeterminism manually is infeasible for industrial-sized systems. Solutions in the literature lack the capability to analyze infinite-state systems. We leverage the nuXmv model checker to analyze unbounded domains and implement an algorithm that systematically computes a minimal set of comparable transitions for the SUD yet eliminates false positives by model checking. To validate our approach, we analyze a real-world system and report discovered cases of nondeterminism. We employ Umple’s capability to convert state machines to nuXmv.
{"title":"A Fully Automated Approach to Discovering Nondeterminism in State Machine Diagrams","authors":"O. Adesina, T. Lethbridge, S. Somé","doi":"10.1109/QUATIC.2016.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QUATIC.2016.021","url":null,"abstract":"We present a fully automated technique to detect nondeterminism in state diagrams. Although nondeterminism is a tool often adopted by requirement engineers for specification of a system under development (SUD), it is normally undesirable in actual implementation. Discovering nondeterminism manually is infeasible for industrial-sized systems. Solutions in the literature lack the capability to analyze infinite-state systems. We leverage the nuXmv model checker to analyze unbounded domains and implement an algorithm that systematically computes a minimal set of comparable transitions for the SUD yet eliminates false positives by model checking. To validate our approach, we analyze a real-world system and report discovered cases of nondeterminism. We employ Umple’s capability to convert state machines to nuXmv.","PeriodicalId":157671,"journal":{"name":"2016 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124888176","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}
Applications of process assessment have been established in various domains that require also safety considerations regarding processes, products and services. Often, the scope of the applied process assessment model is inadequate in meeting safety assurance requirements. This paper presents some considerations, how assurance needs could be met with a process assessment method, including both the assessment process and assessment model. Our main domain of interest is nuclear power, and its requirements are used here as examples. The main result is an analysis of the assurance case for systems and software engineering, and how a process assessment method and results can be used as evidence in safety assurance. Our aim is to develop an integrated approach to manage assessment and assurance related evidence in an efficient way.
{"title":"Process Assessment in a Safety Domain - Assessment Method and Results as Evidence in an Assurance Case","authors":"T. Varkoi, R. Nevalainen, T. Mäkinen","doi":"10.1109/QUATIC.2016.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QUATIC.2016.017","url":null,"abstract":"Applications of process assessment have been established in various domains that require also safety considerations regarding processes, products and services. Often, the scope of the applied process assessment model is inadequate in meeting safety assurance requirements. This paper presents some considerations, how assurance needs could be met with a process assessment method, including both the assessment process and assessment model. Our main domain of interest is nuclear power, and its requirements are used here as examples. The main result is an analysis of the assurance case for systems and software engineering, and how a process assessment method and results can be used as evidence in safety assurance. Our aim is to develop an integrated approach to manage assessment and assurance related evidence in an efficient way.","PeriodicalId":157671,"journal":{"name":"2016 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130705720","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}
Agile Software Development (ASD) is a movement that emerged in the late 1990's and since then has been increasingly adopted by organizations. They are successful in projects characterized by rapid changes, small teams and small cycles. Implementing the same agile philosophy but with an increase of complexity, i.e., large-scale agile (LSA) development, are sometimes criticized of not being as effective as typical ASD, requiring additional concerns and the need to address new research challenges. This PhD research proposes an approach for embedding architecture design in agile development, first in early analysis and then during the iterations and by properly providing the mechanisms to deal with the changes in requirements. The main result is a method for adopting logical architectures, Four-Step-Rule-Set (4SRS), properly adapted to ASD contexts, to be used as complementary approaches to an ASD lifecycle, so that ASD teams can use that information as input for delivering the working software.
{"title":"Adopting Logical Architectures within Agile Projects","authors":"Nuno Santos, R. J. Machado, Nuno Ferreira","doi":"10.1109/QUATIC.2016.059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QUATIC.2016.059","url":null,"abstract":"Agile Software Development (ASD) is a movement that emerged in the late 1990's and since then has been increasingly adopted by organizations. They are successful in projects characterized by rapid changes, small teams and small cycles. Implementing the same agile philosophy but with an increase of complexity, i.e., large-scale agile (LSA) development, are sometimes criticized of not being as effective as typical ASD, requiring additional concerns and the need to address new research challenges. This PhD research proposes an approach for embedding architecture design in agile development, first in early analysis and then during the iterations and by properly providing the mechanisms to deal with the changes in requirements. The main result is a method for adopting logical architectures, Four-Step-Rule-Set (4SRS), properly adapted to ASD contexts, to be used as complementary approaches to an ASD lifecycle, so that ASD teams can use that information as input for delivering the working software.","PeriodicalId":157671,"journal":{"name":"2016 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116558030","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}
Software safety is checked today in regulatory audits, which verify software development process compliance to regulatory requirements. Ensuring safety is a critical task in complex life-supporting systems and despite many existing ways of assuring it, unanticipated failure will always be possible. Checking process compliance to required standards ensures the quality of the processes by which software is developed but does not necessarily indicate the quality of the resultant software. Since medical device domain is facing an increasing amount of device recalls due to software failures, our goal is to explore the underlying reasons for this and suggest two improvements within this paper. First, we will introduce complicated and complex systems to illustrate why there will always be unforeseeable and unanticipated situations that could cause the failure of the entire system. We will then describe how medical device software systems are reviewed for compliance and safety today, highlighting the shortcomings in the current methods adopted in the medical device domain and suggest the use of systems thinking. We then propose two improvements to medical device software development where process compliance is supported by safety cases and industry-wide learning from experience.
{"title":"Towards Safer Medical Device Software Systems: Industry-Wide Learning from Failures and the Use of Safety-Cases to Support Process Compliance","authors":"Marion Lepmets, T. McBride, F. McCaffery","doi":"10.1109/QUATIC.2016.049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QUATIC.2016.049","url":null,"abstract":"Software safety is checked today in regulatory audits, which verify software development process compliance to regulatory requirements. Ensuring safety is a critical task in complex life-supporting systems and despite many existing ways of assuring it, unanticipated failure will always be possible. Checking process compliance to required standards ensures the quality of the processes by which software is developed but does not necessarily indicate the quality of the resultant software. Since medical device domain is facing an increasing amount of device recalls due to software failures, our goal is to explore the underlying reasons for this and suggest two improvements within this paper. First, we will introduce complicated and complex systems to illustrate why there will always be unforeseeable and unanticipated situations that could cause the failure of the entire system. We will then describe how medical device software systems are reviewed for compliance and safety today, highlighting the shortcomings in the current methods adopted in the medical device domain and suggest the use of systems thinking. We then propose two improvements to medical device software development where process compliance is supported by safety cases and industry-wide learning from experience.","PeriodicalId":157671,"journal":{"name":"2016 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116851796","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}
Antonio Cesar Brandao Gomes da Silva, G. Carneiro, Antonio Carlos Marcelino de Paula, M. Monteiro, Fernando Brito e Abreu
Context: The need to accelerate software delivery, supporting faster time-to-market and frequent community developers/ users feedback are issues that have lead to relevant changes in software development practices. Many Open Source Software (OSS) projects have engaged to achieve this through the adoption of agile practices in software release practices. Problem: There is no secondary study in the literature discussing evidences of the influence of agile approaches in OSS projects release practices. Goal: Identify published reports in the literature that characterize to which extent agility has influenced release approaches in OSS projects. Method: The characterization of studies followed a fivephase process to present a panoramic view of software releases practices in the context of OSS projects. Results: The overall data collected from 14 studies published from January 2006 to January 2016 depicted the following scenario: nine issues that characterize the advantages/influence of agility in OSS release approaches; four challenge issues in this approach; three possibilities of implementation and two main motivations towards the adoption of software release approaches through agility; and finally three main strategies to implement it. Conclusion: This study provides an up-to-date and structured understanding of the influence of agility on OSS projects release approaches based on findings systematically collected from a list of relevant references in the last decade.
{"title":"Agility and Quality Attributes in Open Source Software Projects Release Practices","authors":"Antonio Cesar Brandao Gomes da Silva, G. Carneiro, Antonio Carlos Marcelino de Paula, M. Monteiro, Fernando Brito e Abreu","doi":"10.1109/QUATIC.2016.029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/QUATIC.2016.029","url":null,"abstract":"Context: The need to accelerate software delivery, supporting faster time-to-market and frequent community developers/ users feedback are issues that have lead to relevant changes in software development practices. Many Open Source Software (OSS) projects have engaged to achieve this through the adoption of agile practices in software release practices. Problem: There is no secondary study in the literature discussing evidences of the influence of agile approaches in OSS projects release practices. Goal: Identify published reports in the literature that characterize to which extent agility has influenced release approaches in OSS projects. Method: The characterization of studies followed a fivephase process to present a panoramic view of software releases practices in the context of OSS projects. Results: The overall data collected from 14 studies published from January 2006 to January 2016 depicted the following scenario: nine issues that characterize the advantages/influence of agility in OSS release approaches; four challenge issues in this approach; three possibilities of implementation and two main motivations towards the adoption of software release approaches through agility; and finally three main strategies to implement it. Conclusion: This study provides an up-to-date and structured understanding of the influence of agility on OSS projects release approaches based on findings systematically collected from a list of relevant references in the last decade.","PeriodicalId":157671,"journal":{"name":"2016 10th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC)","volume":"357 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132966773","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}
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