Software process improvement

by EuroSPI 2004 (2004 Trondheim, Norway)

This was the ?rst year that the European Software Process Improvement Conference – EuroSPI – had a separate research track with its own proceedings.The EuroSPI conf- ence is in its eleventh year, and has become the main meeting place in Europe for the software industry and academia to discuss software process improvement. The conf- ence deals with software process improvementin a broad sense, investigatingorgani- tional issues as well as methods and tools for software process improvement. EuroSPIisaninitiative?nancedbyaconsortiumofNordicresearchcentersanduser networks(SINTEF,DELTAandSTTF),ASQF, aGermanqualityassuranceassociation, and ISCN in Ireland, the coordinating network partner. The research papers describe innovative and signi?cant work in software process improvement, which is relevant to the software industry. The papers are readable for a scienti?c and industrial audience, and support claims with appropriately described evidence or references to relevant literature. Thirty-one