TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Kuhrmann, Marco A1 - Konopka, Claudia A1 - Nellemann, Peter A1 - Diebold, Philipp A1 - Münch, Jürgen ED - Knoop, Jens T1 - Software process improvement : where is the evidence? T2 - Software engineering 2016 : 23. - 26. Februar 2016, Wien, Österreich N2 - Software process improvement (SPI) is around for decades: frameworks are proposed, success factors are studied, and experiences have been reported. However, the sheer mass of concepts, approaches, and standards published over the years overwhelms practitioners as well as researchers. What is out there? Are there new emerging approaches? What are open issues? Still, we struggle to answer the question for what is the current state of SPI and related research? We present initial results from a systematic mapping study to shed light on the field of SPI and to draw conclusions for future research directions. An analysis of 635 publications draws a big picture of SPI-related research of the past 25 years. Our study shows a high number of solution proposals, experience reports, and secondary studies, but only few theories. In particular, standard SPI models are analyzed and evaluated for applicability, especially from the perspective of SPI in small-to-medium-sized companies, which leads to new specialized frameworks. Furthermore, we find a growing interest in success factors to aid companies in conducting SPI. This summary refers to the paper Software process improvement : where is the evidence? [Ku15]. This paper was published as full research paper in the ICSSP’2015 proceedings. KW - software process KW - software process improvement KW - systematic mapping study Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-11980 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-11980 UR - http://subs.emis.de/LNI/Proceedings/Proceedings258/article13.html SN - 978-3-88579-646-6 SB - 978-3-88579-646-6 SP - 55 EP - 56 S1 - 2 PB - Gesellschaft für Informatik CY - Bonn ER -