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The role of commitment in software process improvement

This thesis suggests that the commitment phenomenon is better explained through what can be called strategic, operational and personal commitment nets, which can be used for analyzing the unfolding and alteration of commitment towards a specific entity, in this case a software process improvement endeavor, through time...

P. Abrahamsson · 51 citations · ⚡5
#computer vision Jun 2002

Personal Software Process: Classroom Experiences from Finland

Results from the University of Oulu in Finland, where PSP is a mandatory course for students majoring in software engineering, do not indicate a significant improvement in size or effort estimation skills, but the defects found in the unit test phase were decreased.

P. Abrahamsson, K. Kautz · 27 citations · ⚡3

Preface Agile Software Technologies Software Process Engineering Software Confi Guration Management Support for Extreme Programming Software Process Engineering

This report summarises the main research and development activities carried out on Embedded Software at VTT Electronics in 2002 and aims to enable the industry to utilize the change-driven (i.e., Agile) product …

P. Abrahamsson · 0 citations
#computer vision Conference Jan 2003

Experimental software engineering (STESE)

Software engineering theory and practice is still to a large extent based more on faith than on science. Only by contributing to the scientific and empirically grounded body of knowledge within a specific area of application, theory and practice can develop. Experimentation is an important scientific approach to collec...

K. Kautz, P. Abrahamsson · 1 citation

Is Open Source Software Development Essentially an Agile Method

The study shows that while from a legal perspective the OSS development paradigm could be seen more as a licensing structure exploiting the terms of the General Public License or similar, the O SS does in many ways follow the same lines of thought and practices as the main stream of existing agile methods.

J. Warsta, P. Abrahamsson · 62 citations · ⚡3
#computer vision Jun 2004

Self-Adaptability of Agile Software Processes: A Case Study on Post-iteration Workshops

Empirical results show that with less than 4% effort it is possible to hold post-iteration workshops that significantly help to improve and optimize practices and enhance the learning and satisfaction of the project team.

O. Salo, Kari Kolehmainen, Pekka Kyllönen et al. · 37 citations
#computer vision Conference Jul 2004

Software Reuse and the Test Development Process: A Combined Approach

This paper suggests a test development process model that takes software reuse techniques and activities into account and shows further that in order to produce reusable test material, the software entities must be expressed in terms of features, in which the test materials are attached to.

M. Karinsalo, P. Abrahamsson · 12 citations

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