Supporting the Software Process Improvement in Very Small Entities through E-learning: The HEPALE! Project

In recent years, there has been an on‐going demand for better services and functionality in software products; as a consequence many models, techniques, and tools have been developed such as CMMI‐DEV v1.2, TSP, or Scrum. However, software products still suffer from excessive costs, delays in delivery, and low quality. Furthermore, there is a lack of educational material providing high levels of interaction between students and the software industry to learn about how enterprises adopt these models, techniques, and tools into their daily work. This article describes a web‐based Tool (EduSysProVAL) to support a graduate course in collaboration with the local software industry. The main goal of this research is to demonstrate that a Software Engineering course may use the EduSysProVAL tool to improve students' practical and professional skills, thus increasing their participation and effort in improvement initiatives, in comparison to traditional educational approaches which are only based on theory classes. This research uses a four‐category questionnaire and follow‐up interviews to evaluate a satisfactory level of tool effectiveness with undergraduate students and summarizes the industry's positive perceptions about its contribution to the course. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 23:117–136, 2015; View this article online at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae; DOI

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“…Research by Mendoza et al focuses its efforts on the development of a tool based on e‐learning standards: the HEPALE! Project.…”

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confidence: 99%

Software engineering education for a graduate course: A web‐based tool for conducting process improvement initiatives with local industry collaboration

García

Villalón

Pacheco

et al. 2013

Comp Applic In Engineering

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“…In this context, the ISO/IEC 29110 has been used as a lightweight reference model for steering VSEs in their SPI initiatives. In this sense, several experiences related to the ISO/IEC29110 have been supported by governments such as Connor and Sanders or by specific projects . Several experiences have been reported from an industrial point of view applying this ISO/IEC 29110 with specific basic profiles and some extensions for project management aspects including project management body of knowledge…”

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“…In this sense, several experiences related to the ISO/IEC29110 have been supported by governments such as Connor and Sanders 10 or by specific projects. 11 Several experiences have been reported from an industrial point of view applying this ISO/IEC 29110 12 with specific basic profiles 9,13,14 and some extensions for project management aspects 15,16 including project management body of knowledge. 17 Traditionally, the financial aspect of SPI initiatives is one of the main hurdles for VSEs.…”

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Correlations study and clustering from SPI experiences in small settings

Larrucea

Santamaría

2018

J Software Evolu Process

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Software Process Improvement (SPI) initiatives have been applied in a wide set of organisations including very small entities (VSE). In fact, this kind of organisations is facing several hurdles when overarching a SPI initiative. In this context, the ISO/IEC 29110 has been used as a lightweight reference model for steering VSEs in their SPI initiatives. The inherent uncertainty behind the SPI curtains blocks the organisations in their investments. Due to these reasons, we need to identify relationships and similarities in order to predict whether a SPI will succeed or not. We propose the use of Self‐Organising Maps for identifying patterns from these SPI studies. The aim of this paper is to identify correlations among SPI studies and to discover patterns from them.

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“…Also, these authors argue that KM is useful in the definition of the software process in the application of a processes approach for SE and in the adaptation of software processes for future uses. However, a detailed review of papers published in the last five years, whose main subject is KM in SPI, led to the conclusion that the predominant approach is the knowledge codification, as it is found in , 2008a, 2008bCapote, Llantén, Pardo, Gonzalez, & Collazos, 2008;Cruz Mendoza et al, 2009;Ivarsson & Gorschek, 2011;Montoni, Cerdeiral, Zanetti, & Cavalcanti da Rocha, 2008). Besides, there are works that treat the organizational knowledge mapping from the building of knowledge directories, as can be found in (Alagarsamy et al, 2008b;Li, Huang, & Gong, 2008), and in the creation and empowerment of organizational structures to promote the exchange and transfer of knowledge, as it is found in (Basri & O'Connor, 2011;Capote, Llantén, Pardo, & Collazos, 2009;Li et al, 2008;Nielsen & Tjørnehøj, 2010).…”

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A Critical Review of Knowledge Management in Software Process Reference Models

Galvis-Lista

Sánchez-Torres

2013

JISTEM USP

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Knowledge Management (KM) is a critical subject for software development organizations. For this reason, the purpose of this article is to provide a critical review on the way that KM is included in several models of reference of software process (SPRM). For this, five SPRM used in the Latin American countries were selected. Then, an analysis of each process of the SPRM was performed in order to identify features related to the KM. Finally, the KM aspects were mapped in relation to the KM schools (Earl) and the KM capacities (Gold et al). The main contribution of the paper is to show some breaches in SPRM content in relation to KM schools and capabilities.

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Supporting the Software Process Improvement in Very Small Entities through E-learning: The HEPALE! Project

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Software engineering education for a graduate course: A web‐based tool for conducting process improvement initiatives with local industry collaboration

Software engineering education for a graduate course: A web‐based tool for conducting process improvement initiatives with local industry collaboration

Correlations study and clustering from SPI experiences in small settings

A Critical Review of Knowledge Management in Software Process Reference Models

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