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Experience Based Software Process Improvement: Have We Found the Silver Bullet?

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Information Intelligence, Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM 2011)

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Software product quality is colossally dependent upon the software development process. Software engineers have always been experimenting with various models in an endeavor to improve upon their software processes. Recently a new area of software process improvement through experience management has got attention of the software engineering community and developers are experimenting with experience management to improve software process. Though literature is abound with studies of problems faced by software organizations and strategies adopted by these firms but there is dearth of literature suggesting how experience and its management can support SPI efforts in an organization. This paper explores the role of experience management in mitigating the effects of software crisis and investigates the current state of EM in Indian software engineering environment.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala, 147002, Punjab, India

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    Kawaljeet Singh

  3. Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, 122007, Haryana, India

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  2. CISE Department, CSE 301, University of Florida, 32611, Gainesville, FL, USA

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Sharma, N., Singh, K., Goyal, D.P. (2011). Experience Based Software Process Improvement: Have We Found the Silver Bullet?. In: Dua, S., Sahni, S., Goyal, D.P. (eds) Information Intelligence, Systems, Technology and Management. ICISTM 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 141. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19423-8_8

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