Software Process and Product Improvement (SPPI)

Technical Track Scope

Motivation: The size, complexity, and criticality of software-intensive systems require innovative and economic approaches to development and evolution. In today’s competitive world, software quality is a key to success and stability of organizations. Software process and product improvement (SPPI) aims at significantly increasing both the quality of software-intensive systems and the productivity of software development. The SPPI track will bring together researchers and practitioners to share SPPI innovations and experiences. The track is an integral part of the 48th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) 2022.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

Organizational and business views on process improvement
Value-based software engineering
Global software engineering
Quality assurance, inspections, testing
Software process improvement and process standards
Process modeling, composition, and enactment/simulation
Quantitative models and big data for development processes and products
Essential system quality aspects, e.g., dependability, safety, security, or usability
Technical debt
Open source software and software quality
Agile and lean development
Software reuse, variability management, product lines, and software ecosystems
Software evolution
Continuous delivery/integration and DevOps, software process and product evolution with feedback from operation
Empirical studies and experimental approaches
Process improvement for innovative/emerging application areas (e.g., deep learning/AI, systems of systems, cloud/fog-based computing, big data systems, cyber-physical systems, IoT, Industry 4.0)

In particular, we encourage submissions demonstrating the benefits or limitations of SPPI approaches through case studies, experiments, and quantitative data.

Track Organizers

Stefan Biffl, Stefan.Biffl@tuwien.ac.at, TU Vienna, Austria, web
Dietmar Winkler, dietmar.winkler@tuwien.ac.at, TU Vienna, Austria web
Rick Rabiser, rick.rabiser@jku.at, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria web

Program Committee

Ove Armbrust, Intel Corporation, USA
Matthias Book, University of Iceland, Iceland
Jan Bosch, Chalmers & Gothenburg University, Sweden
Ruth Breu, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Michel Chaudron, TU Eindhoven Netherlands
Marcus Ciolkowski, QAware GmbH
Maya Daneva, Twente University, Netherlands
Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Marcela Genero, University Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Volker Gruhn, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Jens Heidrich, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Helena Holmström Olsson, Mälmö University, Sweden
Martin Höst, Lund University, Sweden
Frank Houdek, Daimler AG, Germany
Tomi Männistö, University of Helsinki, Finland
Maurizio Morisio, Politecnico di Torino. Italy
Juergen Muench, University of Reutlingen, Germany
Barbara Paech, Heidelberg University, Germany
Rudolf Ramler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria
Andreas Rausch, Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany