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IMPS: an experimentation based investigation of a nationwide software development reference model

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Marcos Kalinowski,

Kival Chaves Weber,

Guilherme Horta TravassosAuthors Info & Claims

ESEM '08: Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1414004.1414073

Published: 09 October 2008 Publication History

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Experimentation in software engineering represents a means to understand the impact of adopting software technologies. In this paper we describe an on-going experimentation work aiming at to address a real industry need in Brazil: the understanding of how performance variables (such as cost, productivity, and quality) are affected by the adoption of a nationwide software development reference model. The main strategy consists in integrating the application of carefully planned surveys into the model implementation and assessment procedures. Besides the expected performance results, we hope it can be useful to reinforce to the Brazilian software industry the importance of experimentation to support software technologies evaluation.

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ESEM '08: Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement

October 2008

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ISBN:9781595939715

DOI:10.1145/1414004

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Dieter Rombach
University of Kaiserslautern and Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Germany)
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Sebastian Elbaum
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)
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Jürgen Münch
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Germany)

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