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SEKE 1999: Learning Software Organizations pp 210–226Cite as

Transferring and evolving experience: A practical approach and its application on software inspections

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Abstract

Experience and knowledge management are seen as key capabilities for systematic software development and process improvement. However, it is still not quite clear, how to get this vision to work. In this paper, a process for systematic experience transfer is presented. It covers the activities of experience acquisition, experience documentation and evolution, and experience reuse. This process is a result of the German publicly-funded project SoftQuali, and its practical use is demonstrated by two real project examples, dealing with experience transfer for software inspections. In general it is described how experience can be packaged, both to transfer the technique and to improve it.

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  1. Research and Technology, DaimlerCrysler AG, P.O. Box 23 60, D-89013, Ulm, Germany

    Frank Houdek

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Sauerwiesen 6, D-67661, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Christian Bunse

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Houdek, F., Bunse, C. (2000). Transferring and evolving experience: A practical approach and its application on software inspections. In: Ruhe, G., Bomarius, F. (eds) Learning Software Organizations. SEKE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1756. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0101423

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