1 Summary of Incremental and Component-Based Software Development (INCO) *

2 Goals *

3 Results *

4 Resources *

5 State-of-the-art *

6 Rationale and Approach *

7 Workplan *

8 Partner Description *

9 Associated Activities and Projects *

10 References *

1. Summary of Incremental and Component-Based Software Development (INCO)

The high costs and high failure rate of present software projects call for better technologies and work processes for software development and maintenance. Recently, incremental and component-based software development have been proposed as remedies – separate or combined – to reduce development time and cost, and to increase software quality (especially usability and reliability). However, there are few such technologies (methods, models, and tools) in industrial use, reflecting the immaturity of these technologies. For instance, incremental development needs better support on overall planning and on estimating risks and costs. Likewise, COTS (Component-Off-The-Shelf) based development suffers from poor integration with requirements engineering, architectural modelling and analysis, and cost/risk estimation.

 

Overall goals:

G1) Advancing the state-of-the-art of software engineering, focusing on technologies for incremental and component-based software development.

G2) Advancing the state-of-the-practice in software-intensive industry and for own students, focusing on technologies for incremental and component-based software development.

G3) Building up a national competence base around these themes.

G4) Disseminating and exchanging the knowledge gained.

 

Approach:

1) Propose, refine and validate enhanced technologies for incremental and component-based software development, focusing on UML and RUP with time-boxing, and COTS-based development (R1 below).

2) Derive a menu of PhD study topics in co-operation with industry serving as "software laboratory" (R2).

3) Conduct two phases of technology development and empirical studies, at univ. and in industry (R3).

4) Assemble and disseminate the results (R4).

Close contact with Norwegian, industrial projects (especially PROFIT) is envisaged, although we can run INCO solely based on existing industrial contacts and student projects.

 

Results – mainly as PhD theses, papers, reports, and Web material – and covering the following:

R1) A set of improved technologies for incremental and component-based software development.

R2) Guidelines for training software developers and for achieving organisational learning in incremental and component-based software development.

R3) A body of experiences from empirical studies of such technologies.

R4) General presentation material, new/revised courses, and a new national seminar on INCO themes

 

Partners: The software engineering groups at IDI, NTNU and Ifi, Univ. Oslo both have 3-4 teachers, 4-5 PhD students and 20 MSc students involved in related education and research. The two groups have been co-operating for over 7 years, the last 4 years on the national SPIQ and PROFIT projects (on software process improvement), with regular project and research meetings. Both groups have extensive connections to Norwegian industry, partly through the same projects. Together, the two groups have participated in more than a dozen EU projects in software engineering. The groups also participated in the NAWUS project (on software engineering education in "Norgesnettet") in 1998-1999.

 

Budget and management: INCO is planned for 4 years, with 3 PhD students and 1 postdoc/guest researcher per year financed by NFR – totally 7000 KNOK (1491 in year 2001). 3 PhD students will be financed internally by the two universities. In addition comes involvement of teachers, guest researchers and the surrounding university environment. Total capitalised effort is estimated to 7284 KNOK from the university side. Two main evaluations are envisaged, respectively after 2 and 4 years. Project management lies at UiO, and four quarterly common project meetings are planned, plus monthly status meetings among the co-ordinators.

 

Keywords: Software engineering, incremental development, component-based development, software quality, heterogeneous components (COTS), empirical studies.

2. Goals

The overall INCO goals are:

 

G1) Advancing the state-of-the-art of software engineering, focusing on technologies for incremental and component-based software development.

The focus is two-fold:

– Technologies (methods) for incremental development aim to substantially reduce the costs and risks associated with evolving requirements, due to rapid and unforeseen changes in markets or technologies.

– Technologies (methods) for component-based development cover both internal components and external COTS components, and aim to build new systems from existing parts in a more cost-effective and reliable manner.

 

G2) Advancing the state-of-the-practice in software-intensive industry and for own students, focusing on technologies for incremental and component-based software development.

The aim is to use our industrial contact network and our own students to perform a spectrum of empirical studies, from formal experiments to case studies, in order to influence present and future software practice.

 

G3) Building up a national competence base around these themes.

The aim is to strengthen the Norwegian academic and industrial IT community in the areas of incremental and component-based development.

 

G4) Disseminating and exchanging the knowledge gained.

The aim is to disseminate PhD theses, papers, reports, educational and presentation material etc. through the Web, in own education, and at appropriate national and international fora.

 

Note that research activities will have first priority, although we will need (and have) a tight coupling to industry to perform realistic studies and field work. Such practical work may be carried out in other projects under NFR's PROGIT program, or by company-internal projects.

3. Results

1. Resources

The table below shows the resources applied for. The units are PY (person-years) and KNOK (1000 Nkr). The effort and thus the resources will roughly be divided equally between NTNU and UiO. The applied amount from NFR is 7000 KNOK. In addition, 7140 KNOK are covered by the university partners on INCO related work. Standard NFR rates have been applied on wages.

 

 

Category	2001	2002	2003	2004	Sum PY	Sum KNOK
3 PhD fellows	1,5	3	3	1,5	9
1 Post-doc/guest researcher	0,75	1	0,25	0	2
Sum PY, NFR-part	3	4	4	2	13
Wages PhD students	595	1251	1251	625		3722
Wages post-docs/guest res.	378	529	132	0		1039
Overseas fellowship	0	0	140	70		210
Technical/administrative position (1/5)	68	68	68	68		272
Guest res./postdoc, travel	0	67	40	40		147
Travels	300	300	300	300		1200
Equipment	150	120	70	70		410
Sum KNOK, NFR-part	1491	2335	2001	1173		7000
3/4 of 4 PhD fellows	3	3	3	3	12
PhD advisors	1	1	1	1	4
Guest res., part-time	0,25	0,25	0,25	0,25	1
SUM PY, univ.-part.	4,25	4,25	4,25	4,25	17
SUM KNOK, univ.-part	1821	1821	1821	1821		7284

 

 

The technical/administrative person will be responsible for maintaining web-pages and developing experiment environments, code quality analysers, data capture tools etc. Equipment includes PCs and software for PhD students and post-doc/visiting researchers. Other operating costs include travel for project member and visiting researchers, and some costs of developing (electronic) teaching/presentation material. Candidates for post-docs may be our present PhD students or those of our colleagues.

 

As shown, NTNU and UiO each expects to have two additional PhD students financed by internal funds on the INCO topic. They are already in place in Oslo, and scholarships are being advertised at NTNU, thus 3/4 research share for 4 students. One post-doc is also included for two years. Marginal extra costs for guest researchers (two per year and 5 weeks per visit) are also included. The 3 PhD students are each expected to stay abroad for 6–8 months, and extra overseas fellowships of 70.000 KNOK per student are included.

 

Included in the budget are the contributions by academic employees (prof., assoc. prof.) who supervise PhD-students and conduct own research related to the project. The effect of mobilising own MSc students is not counted, but is expected to be considerable ("light-house effect" of a factor 2-3). No direct support from industry is included.

 

 

2. State-of-the-art

This section describes state-of-the-art, previous own work and research trends of respectively incremental development, component-based development, software process improvement and relevant research methods.

1. Incremental Development

1. Component-Based Development

Lastly, in all this, we have to consider normal software configuration and maintenance aspects [Lientz81]

NTNU/SINTEF work on component-based development started in the REBOOT/SER EU projects in 1990-95 [Karlsson95] and in an accompanying national strategic technology project (STP) on software reuse. In these two EU projects, 13 empirical studies were performed [Paci97]. See the NTNU publication list for more references, and e.g. [Conradi97] and [Larsen98] on versioning and [Conradi96a] on feedback in reuse processes.

There are also the industrial NFR-projects MAGMA in 1997-99 [Dahle96] and DAIM in 2000-02 [Dahle99], involving a future NTNU colleague, Tor Stålhane (an ex-SINTEF researcher), and many NTNU students supervised by Reidar Conradi. The MAGMA project has developed a standard application architecture and guidelines for business domain models, collected in a method book (see under www.ikt-norge.no).

1. Software Process Improvement

Horror stories about the software crisis are exemplified by e.g. the Standish report of 1995, claiming that 31% of all custom-tailored software development projects in the US are stopped before completion ("dead before delivery"), with annual losses of 81 bill. $ or 1% of GNP (cited in the PITAC report, see www.hppc.org).

1. Research Methods for Incremental and Component-Based Development

1. Rationale and Approach
1. General Focus and Position

The implicit goal of INCO is increased software quality, both on products and processes. The research focus of the project is to apply more rigorous (i.e. scientific) methods to study the effect of incremental and component-based software development.

 

It has recently been shown that published papers in computer science and software engineering rely on empirical studies to a much less degree than in other disciplines. [Tichy96] have found that only 15% of the research papers in some journals contain any practical validation. Recent studies in 1998 by [Tichy98] and [Zelkowitz98] corroborate these findings. That is, we rely too much on intuition and self-esteem, not scientific probing of stated hypothesis. The same is valid in industry: few companies have any organised recording and synthesis of experiences gained in order to achieve "organisational learning".

 

For instance, after almost 35 years of object-orientation, there is hardly any empirical paper to assess its advantages and disadvantages in a "controlled'' development and maintenance situation over 4–5 years. Recently, UML-related methods, of incremental and component-based software development are among the "in-methods", but strict validation is again lacking.

 

However, the lack of reproducible and stable "experiments'' (projects) is a fundamental problem for software engineering. Thus, TQM principles [Deming84] of Statistical Process Control (SPC) may be applied to manufacturing with stable production lines, but not to software or design work. That is, software development is characterised by unique and highly evolvable projects – with little repetition and stability. We therefore also need to refine our research methods, e.g. in how to define effective and perhaps "soft" metrics and to manage non-repetitive projects. Here, methods from statistics, data mining and social sciences (e.g. [Levin98]) may be applied.

 

Thus, a focus on empirical evaluation of technology for incremental and component-based software development is of mutual benefit for academia and industry.

2. Our Method platform

• Methods for empirical studies in software engineering, as in [Basili86] and [Zelkowitz98].
• The database of experimental methods and experiments, found at Univ. Maryland and Univ. Kaiserslautern, see http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/SoftEng/* and the affiliated Fraunhofer institute of Empirical Software Engineering (IESE), see http://www.iese.fhg.de and http://wwwagse.informatik.uni-kl.de/ISERN/isern.html.
• A textbook in Experimental Software Engineering, edited by prof. Claes Wohlin at Univ. Lund. See http://www.tts.lth.se [Wohlin00].
• Summaries found at European Software Institute (ESI) in Bilbao, e.g. at http://www.esi.es/VASIE.
• Textbooks on how to perform case studies [Lee89] [Yin94], and apply statistics [Miller98].

1. Collaboration between Academia and Industry

1. Workplan

The project consists of two research groups at NTNU and UiO that constitute a virtual centre for experimental software engineering. Three PhD students, two advisors, ca. 10 MSc students and part-time guest researchers and a shared post-doc (not placed) will have their daily work.

 

We foresee two one-month visits per year by international researchers, and that the PhD students spend 6–8 months abroad during their study.

 

At any time we will conduct ca. 5 empirical studies towards our industrial contacts, including formal experiments, case studies / pilot projects, and interviews. The themes (see below) will be research-oriented, thus supplementing the more pragmatic pilots in PROGIT-projects.

 

There will be joint project meetings every 3rd month. We will also arrange a new national seminar series on INCO themes every six months, co-ordinated with e.g. the ones by the PROGIT-projects PROFIT, DAIM, and similar.

 

The research will be made available in PhD and MSc theses, reports, internationally published articles, seminar presentations, and in revised university courses (including NAWUS and EEU-courses). A web-node will be present the activities and results of the project.

1. General phasing and work structure

1. WP1: Project Management (UiO coord.)

WP1 covers project coordination and reporting:

 

The groups at Trondheim and Oslo have both demonstrated ability to run international and national research projects (see Section 8 and the CVs in Enclosure 2). They have also demonstrated ability to collaborate, cf. the SPIQ and PROFIT projects, and in many less formal contexts. The project manager prof. Dag Sjøberg and the NTNU contact person, prof. Reidar Conradi, have both been managers of former successful research projects (see CVs).

1. T1.1 Project co-ordination

There will be monthly status meetings among the project coordinators, four annual common internal review/planning meetings.

Internal deliverables: Internal reports, work notes, drafts of technical reports and articles, presentations.

2. T1.2 Project reporting

This will be done formally towards NFR each year, and informally towards Norwegian IT-industry (see also WP3).

 

Internal/external deliverables: Status reports, news sheets – mainly on the Web (T4.4).

2. WP2: Revised Methods for Incremental and Component-Based Development (NTNU co-ord.) (for result R1)

"Change is constant, everything else is uncertain", Disraeli (after memory).

 

This work package will revise and supplement methods for incremental and component-based development, and their interaction. As for other INCO work, we will have a preliminary method revision ready after 0.5 year, and two major revisions after respectively 2 and 4 years. This workpackage will have a strong interplay with WP3 on empirical studies, and partly with WP4 on dissemination.

1. T2.1 Revised Methods for Incremental Development (UiO)

1. T2.2 Revised Methods for Component-based Development (NTNU)

1. WP3: Empirical Studies (UiO coord.) (for result R3, partly R2)

This work package consists of four tasks: T3.1 to define a set of suitable research methods, T3.2 and T3.3 for field studies of the two previous WP2 methods, and T3.4 for refining experiences in an experience base to promote organisational learning. The work will run in two major phases of 1.5 year each: one to apply the initial methods after 0.5 year, and one to use the refined methods after 2 years. Thus, there is a strong interaction with WP2, and some with WP3 on dissemination.

 

We will conduct industrial trials (mostly as case studies), as well as more formal experiments using own students. We cannot know in advance which companies and/or study profiles that will emerge in 1-2 years from now. However, we feel confident that the relevance of these topics and our previous working relations with industry will secure a good work mode with industry. So, to avoid loosing time, we will have a continuous dialog with relevant companies from the start of the project about possible study themes – finding compromises between hypotheses coming out of WP2/T3.1 and industrial needs and availability.

As mentioned, there is also half a dozen university courses, being candidates for more formal experiments, but we have to plan and make the exercise material almost from scratch.

1. T3.1 Research Methods for Incremental and Component-Based Development

1. T3.2 Empirical Studies of Incremental Software Development (UiO)

1. T3.3 Empirical Studies of Component-Based Development (NTNU, UiO)

1. T3.4 Collecting Experiences and Learning from Incremental and Component-based Development Projects (for result R2)

1. WP4: Dissemination and Contact (NTNU coord.) (for result R4, partly R2)

The material to be dealt with in WP4 mainly comes from WP2 and WP3, typically as published articles, technical reports, internal research notes, and processed experimental data. This workpackage may do some additional packing and classification of such material, and also produce new presentation material or educational material.All this material will be stored in the project Web site (T4.4), covering all relevant INCO documents. WP4 covers activities on conferences/travels (T4.1), courses (T4.2), a new semi-annual seminar series on INCO-related themes (T4.3), and a Web site (T4.4).

1. T4.1 International contact: presentations, visits and travels

Our research papers will regularly be presented at scientific seminars, workshops, specialist meetings etc.

Both research groups have a wide collegial network around the research themes of INCO (see Section 9). We expect that the INCO results will be used to consolidate and expand our research network in related areas, and thus improve our standing internationally. The planned guest researchers / postdocs may come from such collegial environments.

Internal deliverables: Regular travel reports.
External deliverables: Articles and reports from WP2 and WP3.

2. T4.2 New national, semi-annual seminar series on incremental/component-based development and empirical software engineering

Such a semi-annual (twice per year) workshop series will be sought established with other researchers within the IKT-2010 program, and possibly with foreign research groups. It may partly be co-located with the planned, annual IKT-2010 event.

Internal deliverables: Meeting summaries, agendas.
External deliverables: Semi-annual seminar presentations.

3. T4.3 New and revised educational material and courses

The experiences and new knowledge gained through INCO will be disseminated in several (upgraded) courses in software engineering and remote education given at NTNU and UiO (half a dozen relevant courses) and towards industry (although assuming extra resources from 3^rd parties). We can mention courses in software engineering, software quality, object-oriented methods, and software architecture (new one at NTNU). NTNU has also special project courses in the 4^th year of the engineering study, covering half a semester, and these project courses can be used for more special studies. There is also a NAWUS "Norgesnett for software engineering education", with UiO and NTNU as the prime partners (see Section 9). We also have an ambition to make a new MSc/PhD-level course in empirical software engineering, with emphasis on research methods – possibly in co-operation with Univ. Lund and Maryland.

 

In general: software engineering education needs interaction with software industry. Software engineering topics, in general, and software quality and improvement ones, in particular, cannot be thought in the same way as programming languages or logic. When teaching programming languages, the model can be: teach a construct; show examples; assign exercises; provide solutions, and iterate. When teaching software engineering, examples and exercises cannot be invented by teachers but must be elicited from real world projects. Moreover, software engineering educational projects can be regarded as experimental laboratories for assessing software technologies in semi-real contexts. The advantages of using student projects instead than real industrial settings are that we have more control on independent variables, such as resource allocation, tool and process choice etc.

 

External deliverables: New courses and presentation material, on a regular basis.

4. T4.4 Project Web Site

1. Partner Description

NAWUS [Sjøberg98] project in 1998-99 on "Norgesnett" for software engineering education. Both groups are membes of the International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN).

1. Ifi-UiO: A closer description

The Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, has had a group in software engineering and databases for several years. Recently, the two applicants have formed a new research group, "Industrial Systems Development", which focuses on empirical studies of system development in industry. The main competence of the new group is on (empirical studies of) methods, techniques and tools for software maintenance and evolution, software processes and effort estimation.

 

The PhD students in the group are partly funded internally and partly funded externally (the NFR projects SPIQ and GOODS). They already focus on topics that are related to INCO and will thus form a stimulating research environment for new PhD students in INCO. Both the applicants and their students have close contacts with, and conduct studies in collaboration with, companies such as Genera, Numerica-Taskon,

Ericsson, Storebrand, Telenor, Computas and Viewpoint. See also Section 9.

 

The group hosted NWPER’20000 (The Ninth Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research at Lillehammer in 28-30 May 2000 and will host POS9 (The Ninth International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems) in 6–8 September 2000.

2. IDI-NTNU: A closer description

1. Associated Activities and Projects

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Conference on Achieving Quality in Software, Venezia, Italy March 30 – April 2, 1998.

 

[Hofmeister00] Christine Hofmeister, Robert L. Nord, and Dilip Soni:

"Applied Software Architecture", Addison Wesley Object Technology Series, 2000, ISBN 0-201-32571-3, 397 p.

 

[Ince94] Darrel Ince:

"ISO 9001 and Software Quality Assurance", International Software Quality Assurance Series,

Quality Forum, McGraw Hill,London, 1994, 139 p.

 

[Jaccheri00] M. Letizia Jaccheri, Reidar Conradi, Bård H. Dyrnes:

"Software Process Technology and Software Organisations'',

In Reidar Conradi (Ed.): Proc. 7th European Software Process Workshop on Software Process

Technology (EWSPT'7), Kaprun near Salzburg, Austria, 21-25 Feb. 2000.

Springer Verlag LNCS 1780, p. 96-108.

 

[Jazayeri00] Mehdi Jazayeri, Alexander Ran, and Frank van der Linden:

"Software Architecture for Product Families", Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN-0-201-69967-2.

 

[Jørgensen95a] Magne Jørgensen:

"An empirical study of software maintenance tasks",

Software Maintenance: Research and Practice, 7:27–48, 1995.

 

[Jørgensen95b] Magne Jørgensen:

"The quality of questionnaire based software maintenance studies",

ACSM SIGSOFT - Software Engineering Notes, 20(1):71–73, 1995.

 

[Jørgensen95c] Magne Jørgensen:

"Experience with the accuracy of software maintenance task effort prediction models",

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 21(8):674–681, 1995.

 

[Jørgensen97] Magne Jørgensen:

"An empirical evaluation of the MkII FPA estimation model",

In Stein Krogdahl et al., editors, Proc. Norwegian Informatics Conference (NIK'97),

Voss, November 1997. Tapir forlag.

 

[Jørgensen99] Magne Jørgensen and S. Steinholt Bygdås:

"An empirical study of the correlation between development efficiency and software development tools",

Telektronikk, vol. 95, no. 1,1999, pp. 54-62.

 

[Jørgensen00] Magne Jørgensen, Dag Sjøberg, and Geir Kirkebøen:

"Human judgement in effort estimation of software projects",

In Janice Singer et al., editors, Beg, Borrow, or Steal Multi-Disciplinary Workshop at the International

Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2000), Limerick, Ireland, 5 June 2000. (forthcoming).

 

[Karlsson95] Even-André Karlsson (Ed.), editor:

"Software Reuse: A Holistic Approach" (The REBOOT Methodology Handbook),

Wiley Series in Software Based Systems. John Wiley. 510 p., 1995.

ISBN 0-471-95819-0, REBOOT report no. 8218.

 

[Larsen98] Jens-Otto Larsen and Helge M. Roald:

"Introducing ClearCase as a Process Improvement Experiment",

In Boris Magnusson, editor, Software Configuration Management – ECOOP'98 SCM-8 Symposium,

pages 1–12, Brussels, Belgium, 20-21 July 1998. Springer Verlag LNCS 1439.

 

[Lee89] Allen S. Lee:

"A Scientific Methodology for MIS Case Studies", MIS Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 1, p. 33-50, 1989.

 

[Levin98] Morten Levin and Davydd J. Greenwood:

"Introduction to Action Research – Social Research for Social Change", Sage, 1998.

 

[Lientz81] B. P. Lientz and E. B. Swanson:

"Problems in application software maintenance", Comm. of the ACM, 24(11):763–769, November 1981.

 

[Lim94] Wayne C. Lim:

"Effects of Reuse and Quality, Productivity and Economics" (from Hewlett-Packard),

IEEE Software (special issue on software reuse), pages 23–30, September 1994.

(Best paper in IEEE Software in 1994).

 

[Marciniak94] John J. Marciniak, editor:

"Encyclopedia of Software Engineering – 2 Volume Set", John Wiley and Sons, 1994.

 

[Miller98] J. Miller, J. Daly, M. Wood, M. Roper, and A. Brooks.

"Statistical power and its subcomponents – missing and misunderstood

concepts in empirical software engineering research",

Technical report, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, 1996. Report no. ISERN-96-12.

 

[Morisio99] Maurizio Morisio, Michel Ezran, and Colin Tully

"Introducing Reuse in Companies: A Survey of European Experiences",

Proc. Symposium on Software Reuse (SSR'99), LA, May 1999, 7 p.

 

[Morisio00] Maurizio Morisio, Carolyn Seaman, Amy Parra, Victor Basili, Steve Kraft, and Steve Condon:

"Investigating and Improving a COTS-Based Software Development Process",

Proc. 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’2000), pages 31-40,

ACM Order No. 592000.

 

[Nguyen97] Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Alf Inge Wang, and Reidar Conradi:

"Total Software Process Model Evolution in EPOS", In Richard N. Taylor and Alfonso Fuggetta (Eds.), editor,

Proc. 19th Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE'97), pages 390–399.

ACM[IEEE-CS Press, N.Y., May 1997.

 

[Nonaka95] Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi:

"The Knowledge-Creating Company", Oxford University Press, 1995.

 

[Nosek90] J. T. Nosek and P. Palvia:

"Software maintenance management: changes in the last decade",

Journal of Software Maintenance, 2(3):157–174, 1990.

 

[Paci97] M. Paci and Svein Hallsteinsen:

"Experiences in Software Evolution and Reuse", ESPRIT Research reports, Volume 1, Springer Verlag, 1997.

Case studies from 15 European Software Reuse Projects, done in

ESPRIT Project 9809, Software Evolution and Reuse (SER): Bull SA, ATC,

EP-Frameworks, Q-Labs, Sema-Group sae, Sintef, TTB, and TXT Ingegneria.

 

[Paulk95] Marc C. Paulk, Charles V. Weber, Bill Curtis, and Mary B. Chrissis:

"The Capability Maturity Model for Software: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process",

SEI Series in Software Engineering. 640 p. Addison–Wesley, 1995.

 

[Poulin95] Jeffrey S. Poulin:

"Populating Software Repositories: Incentives and Domain-Specific Software",

Journal of Systems and Software, 1995:30, p. 187-199.

 

[Reifer97] Donald J. Reifer:

"Practical Software Reuse: Strategies for Introducing Reuse Concepts in Your Organization",

John Wiley, 1997, 392 p. ISBN 0-471-57853-3.

See Deependra Moitra: "Reuse Strategies for Success" (book review),

IEEE Software, March/April 1999, p. 95-96.

 

[Royce 70] W. W. Royce:

"Managing the Development of Large Software Systems: Concept and Technique",

Proceedings of WesCon, Aug. 1970, p. 1—9.

(Reprinted in Proc. Int'l Conf. Software Eng., IEEE Computer Society Press, 1987, pp. 328—338.)

 

[Senge95] Peter M. Senge:

"The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization", Currency/Doubleday, 1995.

 

[Shaw96] Mary Shaw and David Garlan:

"Software Architecture – Perspectives of An Emerging Discipline", Prentice Hall, 1996.

 

[Sjøberg98] Dag Sjøberg and Reidar Conradi:

"NAWUS: NAsjonal Web-database for Undervisning i Systemutvikling",

August 1998. Forslag til Arbeidsgruppen for digitale læremidler, 6 p.

 

[Staalhane97] Tor Stålhane, Kjell Arnesen, and Per Christian Borgersen:

"In Search of the Customer's Quality View'',

Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 38, 1997, pp. 85-93.

 

[Tichy96] Walter F. Tichy, Paul Lukowicz, Lutz Prechelt, and Ernst A. Heinz"

"Experimental Evaluation in Computer Science: A Quantitative Study",

Journal of Systems and Software, 28(1):9–18, January 1995.

 

[Tichy98] Walter F. Tichy:

"Should Computer Scientists Experiment More", IEEE Computer, 31(5):32–40, May 1998.

 

[Ulsund96] Tor Ulsund et al.:

"SPIQ: Software Process Improvement for better Quality", November 1996.

Proposal to NFR for user-driven project.

 

[Ulsund99] Tor Ulsund et al.:

"PROFIT: Process Improvement for the IT Industry", November 1999.

Proposal to NFRs PROGIT program for user-driven project.

 

[Warren98] Ian Warren:

"The Renaissance of Legacy Systems: Method Support for Software System Evolution'',

Springer Practitioner Series, 1999, 182 p.

(The Method Book from the RENAISSANCE ESPRIT Project in 1996-98, project no. 22010;

NTNU contributed on the architectural modelling and method chapters).

 

[Wohlin00] Claes Wohlin, Per Runeson, M. Hoest, M. C. Ohlsson, Bjoern Regnell, and A.Wesslen:

"Experimentation in software engineering: An introduction", Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2000. ISBN 0-7923-8682-5.

[Yin94] Robert K. Yin.:

"Case Study Research Design and Methods", Sage Publications, John Wiley and Sons, London, UK, 1994.

 

[Zamperoni95] Zamperoni, A., Gerritsen, B. and Bril, B.:

Evolutionary Software Development: An experience Report on Technical and Strategic Requirements.

Technical Report TR-95-25, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 1995.

 

[Zelkowitz98] Marvin V. Zelkowitz and Dolores R. Wallace:

"Experimental Models for Validating Technology", IEEE Computer, 31(5):23–31, May 1998.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Enclosure 2 – Curriculum Vitaes and Publication Lists:
1. CV for Dag Sjøberg, UiO

Personalia: Dag Sjøberg, born: 24.01.61

 

Home address: Niels Henrik Abelsv. 19, 0851 Oslo, Phone: 22-568484.

 

Education:

- 1990-1993: PhD in Computing Science, University of Glasgow.

Thesis: "Thesaurus-Based Methodologies and Tools for Maintaining Persistent

Application Systems",

Supervisor: Malcolm P. Atkinson.

- 1986-1987: MSc in Computer Science, University of Oslo.

Thesis: "Database Concepts discussed in an Object-Oriented Perspective",

Supervisor: Kristen Nygaard.

- H1984: "Pedagogisk seminar" (half a year full time course in teaching).

Present job and work address: Professor, Department of

Informatics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1080 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo,

Norway, Phone.: 22-852742, E-mail: Dag.Sjoberg@ifi.uio.no.

 

Language skills: Fluent in Norwegian and English, some German.

Scientific profile:

Software Engineering, Web Engineering, Process Improvement,

Evolutionary Development, System Evolution, System measurements/

Empirical Studies, Software Process Improvement, Object-Oriented

development, Programming Environments, OODB and Persistent Programming.

 

Jobs held:

- 1999- present, Professor, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.

- 1995-1999: Associate Professor, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.

- 1993-1995: Postdoctoral scholarship from the Research Council of

Norway at Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.

- 1990-1993: PhD scholarship from the Research Council of Norway

at Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.

- 1987-1989: Group leader at Statistics Norway.

- 1986-1988: Consultant at the National University Hospital of Norway.

Projects:

- Local project leader at UiO, National project (NFR) Software Process Improvement for

better Quality (SPIQ) (1.1.1997-31.12.1999).

- Local project leader at UiO, Persistent Application Systems, Technologies, Environments and

Languages (PASTEL) (Esprit Project 22552),

Responsible for Research Theme Evaluation Technology and Experiments

(1.1.1997-31.12.1999)

- National project (NFR) General Object Oriented Distributed Systems (GOODS),

(1.1.1997-31.12.1999)

- Product Model for life-cycle information in the oil and gas industry (POSC/CAESAR)

(1.1.1999-31.12.1999)

- National project NAWUS education network for System Development.,

w/ prof. Reidar Conradi, NTNU (1998-1999).

- National project (SND) Supervision Policies for Automation of Computer Environments

(SPACE) (1996-1998).

- Research Council of Norway and British Council, Evaluation Methodology for Software

Maintenance Technology, University of Oslo, Norwegian Telecom, University of Glasgow, UK,

University of Central Lancashire/University of Lancaster, UK (1995-1996).

2. CV for Magne Jørgensen, UiO

Personalia: Magne Jørgensen, born 1964

 

Home address: Statsråd Ihlensv. 14A, 2010 Strømmen, Phone: 22.311314.

 

Education:

- PhD thesis: "Empirical studies of software maintenance",

University of Oslo Norway, supervisor Arne Maus, 1994.

 

Present job and work address: Associate Professor at Dept. of

Informatics, University of Oslo, Email magnej@ifi.uio.no.

 

Language skills: Norwegian, English and German.

 

Scientific profile:

Empirical studies in software Engineering, and software process improvement.

More than 10 international, refereed publications.

Jobs held:

- 1989 - 1998 Research scientist and group leader at Telenor R&D.

- 1998 - 1999 Technical manager at Storebrand in software process improvement.

- 1995 - Assoc. prof. at University of Oslo

 

Projects:

- Norwegian national project SPIQ (Software Project Improvement for better Quality) (from 1997).

- National project NAWUS education network for System Development., w/ prof. Reidar Conradi, NTNU (1998-1999).

3. CV for Reidar Conradi, NTNU

PERSONALIA: REIDAR CONRADI, born 23 July 1946, Oslo. Norwegian

 

HOME ADDRESS: Skule Bårdsons gate 11, N-7052 Trondheim, Norway. Phone +47 73.935862.

 

EDUCATION: M.Sc. (1970), Ph.D. (1976) – both from NTH (now NTNU),Trondheim.

Courses in Didactics and Technical writing, 1972-1985.

 

PRESENT JOB and WORK ADDRESS:

Professor at Dept. of Computer Science and Informatics (IDI).

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

N-7491 Trondheim, Norway

Phone +47 73 593444, Fax +47 73 594466, Email conradi@idi.ntnu.no

Leads software engineering group of 10 people at IDI.

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Fluent in Norwegian and English, good in German,

passable in French, some Italian from summer courses in Perugia 1992-94.

 

 

SCIENTIFIC PROFILE:

Programming languages, software engineering, database support for CASE, configuration management, software process modelling, software process improvement, software quality, object-orientation and reuse, architecture of distributed software systems.

150.000 lines of pograms written in Fortran, Algol, Simula, Mary, Bliss, Ada, Chill, C/C++, and Java.

Per April 2000: ca. 130 int'l published papers, 20 nat'l ones,

textbooks and 13 booklets, over 20 compendia, almost 100 technical reports.

JOBS HELD and STAYS ABROAD:

1972–75 Research scientist at SINTEF, Trondheim.

1975–79 Assistant professor at NTH, Trondheim.

1979–85 Associate professor at NTH.

1980–81 Visiting scientist at CMU, Pittsburgh.

(1981–83 Partly sick due to a back problem.)

1985- Full professor at NTH.

1985–87 Head of new Dept. of Computer Systems and Telematics (IDT), NTH.

1990 Guest researcher at U. of Pisa and at ENSIMAG, May-June 1990.

1997–98 Head of new Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI), NTNU.

1999-2000 Sabbatical at U. of Maryland and Politecnico di Milano.

 

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

1976- Member of IFIP WG2.4 on Programming Technology (prev. Systems Programming Languages).

1984–86 Work to initiate Norway's IT-program in 1987–90.

1985–99 Representative in the Norwegian Informatics Council.

1986 Organizer of International Workshop on Advanced Programming Environments,

Trondheim, 16-18 June 1986.

1988–90 Program chair for 1st, 2nd, 3rd Norwegian Informatics Conf.

1990–93, 95-96 Chair for Norwegian Informatics Council.

1991 Conf. chair 3rd Int'l SCM Workshop, Trondheim,12-14 June 1991.

1991 Co-arranger of 1st European SW Process Workshop, Milan, 30-31 May 1991.

1992 General chair for 2nd European SW Process Workshop, Trondheim, 7–8 Sept. 1992.

1997 Program chair for SCM'6 in Boston, May 1997.

1997– Member of ISERN, research network on Software Experimentation, coord. by U. Kaiserslautern.

1998–99 Nat'l NAWUS educ. network for System Dev., w/ prof. Dag Sjøberg, Univ. Oslo.

1999 Member of NFR committee to plan new, strategic IT program.

2000 Program chair for EWSPT'7 in Salzburg, Feb. 2000.

PC member of many workshops/conferences, e.g. the series SCM, EWSPT, SSR, partly ICSE, SIGSOFT and

ESEC – usually 4–5 memberships per year. Also in many univ. and nat'l committees.

 

PROJECTS etc.

1972–99 Textbooks and teaching. Tutored 180 M.Sc. and 12 Ph.D. stud.

Responsible for 2 MSc courses and 2 PhD courses.

1972–78 MARY programming language and its operating system.

1980–81 Production Quality Compiler-Compiler (PQCC), and SPICE at CMU.

1983–86 FORTRAN VERIFIER for error diagnosis and documentation of F-77 programs,

NTNF-supported.

1986–90 Project leader EPOS project with Veritas Research/Norsk Data, NTNF-supported.

1990–92 Bilateral ACM project NTH and LGI-ENSIMAG.

1991–94 Program leader of REBOOT National Strategic Technology Program in Norway.

1990–95 ESPRIT projects REBOOT, SER, PROTEUS, PROMOTER BRA and ASSET.

1996–99 ESPRIT projects PROMOTER2, CMEX, AMEX, and RENAISSANCE.

1996–99 Nat'l CAGIS basic R&D project on distributed information systems, coordinator.

1996–99 Nat'l SPIQ pre-project and main project on software process improvement, initiator.

1998–2002 Nat'l CSE-project on supercomputing, w/ OO modelling aspects, PhD advisor.

1999–2002 Nat'l KVALIS-project on quality of medical journal systems, co-worker.

 

CONTACTS:

Especially with U. Karlsruhe, RWTH Aachen, U. Manchester, U. Linkøping, U. Lund, U. Grenoble,

U. Pisa, P. di Milano, CMU, U.Maryland, and BPU in Beijing through guest researchers and students.

Also good contact with int'l companies, e.g. Bull, Siemens, Cap, Qlabs, and Intecs.

Many Norwegian industrial contacts in SPIQ project.

4. CV for Tor Stålhane, IDI, NTNU

Name: Tor Stålhane.

 

Year of birth: 1944.

 

Nationality: Norwegian.

 

Positions:

Principal Research Scientist, SINTEF Telecom and Informatics.

Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Stavanger College since 1997.

Soon to become full professor at IDI, NTNU (Autumn 2000).

 

Education: M.Sc. Technical University of Norway,

Dept. of Electrical Engineering,

Group for Physical Electronics, 1969.

 

Ph.D. Technical University of Norway,

Dept. of Mathematical Sciences,

Group for Mathematical Statistics, 1988.

 

Basic training in Quality Audits, Norwegian Association for Quality

(NFK), 1992.

 

Main fields of competence:

 

Software Process Improvement:

My work in this area includes participation in ESPRIT projects - PERFECT and Telmet plus improvement projects for several Norwegian companies, such as Norsonic, NFT-Ericsson, Kongsberg Aerospace and Alcatel Telecom. The work has been focused on software measurement. Its practical applications have been process description, definition of improvement experiments, data collection, statistical data analysis and process improvement proposals.

 

Software Safety and Reliability:

My work in this area includes work for several Scandinavian companies in the area of safety and reliability assessment and estimation. The systems have mainly been transport control systems for road, railway and air traffic. The work related to safety has included modeling, fault tree analysis, failure mode and effect analysis and HazOp analysis of software intensive systems. The work related to reliability has included testing, test plans and reliability estimation based on test results and system analysis.

 

Research interests:

Improvement of the software development process,

Software Reliability Analysis and Estimation,

Risk Assessments for Software Intensive Systems,

Testing, Debugging, Validation,

Software Certification,

Quality Assurance in software development and maintenance,

Investment problems in software development and use.

 

Professional memberships:

Member of IEEE, Reliability;

Member of Society of Reliability Engineers (SRE);

Member of Norwegian Statistical Society;

Member of the editorial board for "The Journal of Software Testing,

Verification and Reliability";

Member of the board for ITUF - The Information Technology Development

Forum 1990 - 1996;

Referee for IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering;

Referee for the Scandinavia Journal of Statistics;

Referee for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK;

Member of the organizing committee and technical committee for the

EuroSPI conference since 1997.

 

Experience:

 

2000-2002: Software process improvement for Norwegian industry - PROFIT,

PROcess improvement For IT industry.

2000: Software process improvement for DnB – major Norwegian bank.

1999-2000: Use of case-based reasoning (CBR) in process improvement.

1999: Use of UML for describing and analysing a safety critical system.

1999: Guidelines for Validation of Functional Safety for Systems containing

COTS component for the Nordtest organization (project leader).

1999-2000: Procedure for developing IEC 61508 conform component for

Siemens Oil and Gas Division.

1998-2000: QIS – Quality in Scandinavia: ESPINODE for project

experiments in Norway and Sweden (project leader).

1998: KPB-92 – Technical advice in law suite.

1998: Guidelines for Validation of Functional Safety according to IEC

61508 for the Nordtest organization.

1998: Basic Test methods for Safety Control Systems for the Nordtest organization.

1997-1999: Safety assessment for the SLS-system, a GPS based landing

system for NAVIA AVIATION.

1997-1999: Software process improvement for Norwegian industry - SPIQ.

1997-1998: ESSI software process improvement for MaXware - QARI.

1997-1998: ESSI software process improvement for NAVIA AVIATION - AMPIC.

1996-1998: Process improvement at Nera Tele Scada (Bergen) - TELMET.

1997: Methods and standards for safety assessment of railway signaling

systems - the ACRUDA project.

1997: Safety assessment for an ILS system.

1997: Process improvement through root cause analysis for Kongsberg Aerospace.

1996: Collection and statistical analysis of software metrics for ESA.

1996: Safety assessment of changes in train radio system for NSB.

1995-1996: SISU - Handbook for integrated software development, including process improvement.

1995-1996: Development of Quality Assurance Manual and course material

for subcontractor software development for Securitech.

1995-1996: Process improvement for Norsonic.

1994-1996: PROFF - a research project focusing on certifying software

quality according to customer needs and preferences.

1995: Process improvement for NFT-Ericsson.

1995: Safety assessment for an ILS system.

5. CV for M. Letizia Jaccheri, NTNU

Personalia: Maria Letizia Jaccheri, born 24 February 1965, Pisa, Italian.

 

Home address: Osloveien 6, N-7018 Trondheim, Norway. Phone +47 73.537573.

 

Education:

– Master thesis: "Software Development Environment: A Conceptual

Model Representing Software Systems" University of Pisa, Italy,

Department of Computer Science, February 1988, supervisor Prof. Vincenzo Ambriola.

– PhD thesis: "Software Process Modeling and Evolution",

Politecnico di Torino, Italy, supervisor Prof. Silvano Gai, January 1994.

 

Present job and work address:

Associate Professor at Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI),

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491 Trondheim, Norway,

Phone +47 73 593469, Fax +47 73 594466, Email letizia@idi.ntnu.no.

 

Language skills: Italian mother tongue, Norwegian and English proficiency.

 

Scientific profile:

Software Engineering and particularly in software process modelling, and Software engineering education.

37 international refereed publications.

 

Jobs held:

– Last position (from January 1993 to June 1997):

Assistent Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy (tenure from 1.1.1996).

– From 1988 to 1989: programmer and designer at Tecsiel S.P.A., Pisa Italy.

 

Projects:

– EPOS (from 1989 til 1992): Software Process Modeling and

Execution Environment based rule-base techniques. At NTH, Trondheim, Prof. Reidar Conradi.

– E3 (from 1992 to 1998): Software Process Modeling Environment based on object-oriented modeling,

at Politecnico di Torino, Italy

– Italian National Project ex 40% (from 1994 to 1998)

Methodologies for Verification and Validation of Software Product and

– Process Promoter ESPRIT BRA 7082 (from 1992 to 1995)

Promoter ESPRIT Working Group "European Research Working Group

on Software Process Technology" (from 1996 to 2000)

– ACTS AC003 VITAL Validation of Integrated Telecommunication

Architectures for the Long term (1995-1998). The project had the goal

of validating the TINA (Telecommunication Information Network Architecture) architecture.

– Norwegian national project SPIQ (Software Project Improvement for better Quality) (from 1997).

6. Relevant publications for 1993–2000 for ISU, Ifi, UiO

1. Relevant publications for 1993–2000 for IDI, NTNU

1. Reidar Conradi, M. Letizia Jaccheri, Cristina Mazzi:

"Variability of Process Models and Processes, and the EPOS Solution",

In Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): Proc. 8th International Software Process Workshop (ISPW'8), p. 43–46,

2–5 March 1993, Dagstuhl, FRG, IEEE-CS Press.

Also as EPOS TR 176, NTH, Trondheim, 27. Sept. 1992, 5 p.

 

2. Reidar Conradi, M. Letizia Jaccheri:

"Customization and Evolution of Process Models in EPOS", p. 23–39.

In N. Prakash, C. Rolland, B. Pernici (Eds.): "Proc. IFIP 8.1 Working Conference on Information System

Development Process (ISDP'93), Como, Italia, 1–3 Sept. 1993", North-Holland Publ., Amsterdam, 337 p.

Also as EPOS TR 174, NTH, Trondheim, 30 April 1993 (rev.), 12 p.

 

3. Reidar Conradi, Christer Fernstrøm, and Alfonso Fuggetta:

"A Conceptual Framework for Evolving Software Processes",

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Newsletter, Oct. 1993 (Vol. 18, No. 4), p. 26–34.

Also as EPOS TR 187, NTH, 9 Nov. 1992, 26 p., Trondheim.

 

4. M. Letizia Jaccheri, Reidar Conradi:

"Techniques for Process Model Evolution in EPOS",

In special issue of IEEE TSE on Software Process Model Evolution, Dec. 1993, p. 1145-1156.

Politecnico di Torino and NTH in Trondheim, 5 May 1993, 18 p. Also as EPOS TR 188.

 

5. Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Reidar Conradi:

"Workspace Management: Supporting Cooperative Work",

Proc. International Conference for Young Computer Scientists (ICYCS-93),

15–17 July 1993, Beijing (forthcoming), 4 p.

Also as EPOS TR 186, NTH, Trondheim, 25 April 1993.

 

6. Tor Stålhane and K.J. Wedde:

"The Quest for Reliability - A Case Study",

AQUiS'93 - 2nd International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software, Venice, Italy, October 18-20, 1993.

 

7. M. van der Meulen (NL), Tor Stålhane (N) and R. Code (UK):

"Programmable Electronic System Analysis Technique in Safety Critical Applications",

Safecomp'93, Poznan-Kiekrz, Poland, 27-29 October 1993.

 

8. Tor Stålhane (N), M. van der Meulen (NL), R. Cole (UK):

"Reliability assessment for programmable electronic systems using subjective and objective categorical data",

PCPI'93, Dusseldorf, Germany, March 29-31, 1993

 

9. Tor Stålhane, Alejandro de Mora, and Alfredo Cosculluela:

"Certification of Reusable Components",

Second International Workshop on Software Reusability, Pisa, Italy, March 24 - 26, 1993.

 

1994:

10. Reidar Conradi et al.:

"Object-Oriented and Cooperative Process Modelling in EPOS",

In PROMOTER book: Anthony Finkelstein, Jeff Kramer and Bashar A. Nuseibeh (Eds.):

"Software Process Modelling and Technology", 1994, p. 33–70. Advanced Software Development Series,

Research Studies Press Ltd. (John Wiley), ISBN 0-86380-169-2, 362 p.

 

11. Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Reidar Conradi:

"SPELL: A Logic Programming Language for Process Modelling", 10 p.

Proc. of Workshop on Logic Programming in Software Engineering, 18 June 1994, Santa Margherita Ligure, Genova, Italy (held after the ICLP conference). Also as EPOS TR 220.

 

12. Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Reidar Conradi:

"Meta-process in a Process Support Environment", 12 p.

Proc. 6th Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research (NWPER'94), Lund, Sweden, 1–3 June 1994. Also as EPOS TR 221.

 

13. Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Reidar Conradi:

"The Software Meta-process: Taxonomy and Assessment", p. 167–175,

Proc. 3rd Int'l Conference on Software Process (ICSP'3), IEEE-CS Press, 10-11 Oct. 1994 Washington. Also as EPOS TR 208.

 

14. Noureddine Belkhatir, Reidar Conradi:

"The Relationship between Software Processes and CSCW",

Workshop on Links between CSCW and Software Process, October 22, 1994 (held before CSCW'94), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, 2 p. (position paper).

 

15. Tor Stålhane, E. Ø. Øvstedal:

"Safety Assessment for a Positioning System",

NSDCS'94, Lyngby, Denmark, August 24-26, 1994.

 

16. Tor Stålhane and K.J. Wedde:

"The Quest for Reliability - A Case Study",

Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 26, no. 1, July 1994, pp. 69-76.

 

1995:

17. Reidar Conradi et al.:

"PSEE Architecture: EPOS process models and tools" (foils),

Alfonso Fuggetta (Ed.): Proc. Workshop on Process-centered Software Engineering Environment Architecture, 20–23 March 1995, Politecnico di Milano, 61 p. SU-report 3/95.

 

 

18. Reidar Conradi:

"Session on Change and Meta-process (introduction)",

In Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): "Proc. 4th European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'95),

3–5 Apr. 1995, Leiden, The Netherlands", Springer Verlag LNCS 913, 1995, ISBN 3-540-59205-9, p. 240-240. SU-report 5/95.

 

19. Terje Totland, Reidar Conradi:

"A Survey and Classification of Some Research Areas Relevant to Software Process Modeling",

In Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): "Proc. 4th European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'95),

3–5 Apr. 1995, Leiden, The Netherlands", Springer Verlag LNCS 913, 1995, ISBN 3-540-59205-9, p. 65–69. Also as EPOS TR 232, NTH, Trondheim, Jan. 1995, 5 p. SU-report 6/95.

 

20. Reidar Conradi, Chunnian Liu:

"Process Modelling Languages: One or Many",

In Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): "Proc. 4th European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'95),

3–5 Apr. 1995, Leiden, The Netherlands", Springer Verlag LNCS 913, 1995, ISBN 3-540-59205-9, p. 98–118. Also as EPOS TR 231, NTH, Trondheim, Jan. 1995, 19 p. SU-report 7/95.

 

21. Guttorm Sindre, Sivert Sørumgård, Even-Andre Karlsson:

"Managing a repository",

In Even-Andre Karlsson (ed.): Software Reuse: A Holistic Approach, Chapter 3 (p. 79–112),

ISBN 0 471-95489, John Wiley & Sons., 1995. SU-report 9/95.

 

22. Tor Ståhane and Magnus Ahlgren:

"Measuring the Effect of Reuse",

In Even-Andre Karlsson (ed.): Software Reuse: A Holistic Approach, Chapter 4 (p. 113–180),

ISBN 0 471-95489, John Wiley & Sons., 1995. SU-report 10/95.

 

23. Sigurd Thunem:

"Object-oriented development for reuse",

In Even-Andre Karlsson (ed.): Software Reuse: A Holistic Approach, Chapter 9 (p. 287–342), ISBN 0 471-95489, John Wiley & Sons., 1995. SU-report 11/95.

 

24. Eirik Tryggeseth, Bjørn Gulla, Reidar Conradi:

"Modelling Systems with Variability Using the PROTEUS Configuration Language",

In Jacky Estublier: "Software Configuration Management – ICSE SCM-4 and SCM-5 Workshops, Selected Papers", Springer LNCS 1005, p. 216–240. ISBN 3-540-60578-9. From SCM-5 workshop 24–25 April 1995 in Seattle. SU-report 12/95.

 

25. Patricia Lago, Reidar Conradi:

"Transaction Planning to support Coordination" (position paper),

In Jacky Estublier: "Software Configuration Management – ICSE SCM-4 and SCM-5 Workshops, Selected Papers", Springer LNCS 1005, p. 145–151. ISBN 3-540-60578-9. SU-report 13/95.

 

26. Reidar Conradi:

"Introduction to Session on Version Models",

In Jacky Estublier: "Software Configuration Management – ICSE SCM-4 and SCM-5 Workshops, Selected Papers", Springer LNCS 1005, p. 80–80. ISBN 3-540-60578-9. SU-report 14/95.

 

27. Reidar Conradi, Marianne Hagaseth, Chunnian Liu:

"Planning Support for Cooperating Transactions in EPOS",

Special Issue of Information Systems, Vol. 20, No. 4 (June 1995), p. 317-336. SU-report 15/95.

 

28. Jens-Otto Larsen, Bjørn P. Munch, Reidar Conradi, Patricia Lago:

"Improving Cooperation Support in the EPOS CM System",

In Proc. 8th ERCIM Database Research Group Workshop on Database Issues and Infrastructure in Cooperative Information Systems, p. 135–147. 23–25 Aug. 1995, NTH, Trondheim, Norway.

ERCIM report 95-W002, SINTEF. SU-report 21/95.

 

29. Guttorm Sindre, Reidar Conradi, Even-Andre Karlsson:

"The REBOOT Approach to Software Reuse",

Journal of Systems and Software – special issue on software reuse, Vol. 30, No. 3, Sept. 1995, p. 201–212.

SU-report 22/95.

 

30. Kari Juul Wedde, Tor Stålhane, and Inge Nordbø:

"Case Study of a Maintenance Support System",

International Conference on Software Maintenance. IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering, Opio (Nice) France, October 17-20, 1995.

 

31. Tor Stålhane:

"Development of a Model for Reusability Assessment",

Objective Quality – 1995, 29–31 May 1995, Firenze, Italy.

 

1996:

32. Reidar Conradi, Bernhard Westfechtel:

"Configuring Versioned Software Products",

In Ian Sommerville (Ed.): "Software Configuration Management, ICSE'96 SCM-6 Workshop, Berlin, Germany, March 1996 – Selected Papers", Springer Verlag LNCS 1167, 1996, p. 88-109. SU-report 3/96.

 

33. Reidar Conradi, Noureddine Belkhatir:

"Support for Cooperative Transactions in Process-centered Software Engineering Environments",

Proc. Seventh Nordic Workshop on Programming Engineering Environments (NWPER'96), 29–31 May 1996, Aalborg, Denmark, 14 p. SU-report 8/96.

 

34. Reidar Conradi:

"Process Support for Reuse",

In Barry Boehm, Marc Kellner, Dewayne Perry (Eds.): "Proc. 10th International Software Process Workshop (ISPW`10), 17–19 June 1996, Ventron, France", p. 57-61, IEEE Press, IEEE CS Order Number PR07725. SU-report 9/96.

 

35. Noureddine Belkhatir, Reidar Conradi:

"SCOOP: A Unified Model for Cooperative Transactions in Software Engineering",

8th Int'l Conf. on Computing and Information (ICCI'96), 19–22 June, 1996, Waterloo, Canada, 14 p.

SU-report 10/96.

 

36. Reidar Conradi:

"Metrics – Introduction to Session 5",

In Carlo Montangero (Ed.): "Software Process Technology – 5th European Workshop (EWSPT'96),

Nancy, France, October, 1996", Springer Verlag LNCS 1149, 1996, p. 144. SU-report 11/96.

 

37. Reidar Conradi:

"SPIQ: A Revised Agenda for Software Process Support",

In Carlo Montangero (Ed.): "Software Process Technology – 5th European Workshop (EWSPT'96),

Nancy, France, October, 1996", Springer Verlag LNCS 1149, 1996, p. 35–41. SU-report 12/96.

 

38. Minh N. Nguyen, Reidar Conradi:

"Towards a Rigorous Approach for Managing Process Evolution",

In Carlo Montangero (Ed.): "Software Process Technology – 5th European Workshop (EWSPT'96),

Nancy, France, October, 1996", Springer Verlag LNCS 1149, 1996, p. 18–35. SU-report 13/96.

 

39. Tor Stålhane:

"Process Improvement and Software Metrics",

chapter in TIMe Electronic Textbook, Richard Sanders (ed.), SINTEF, 1996.

 

40. Tor Stålhane, Kjell Arnesen and Per Christian Borgersen:

"In Search of the Customer's Quality View",

AQUiS'96 - 2nd International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software, Florence, Italy January 24 - 26, 1996.

 

1997:

41. Minh N. Nguyen, Alf Inge Wang, Reidar Conradi:

"Total Software Process Model Evolution in EPOS",

In Proc. ICSE'97, 21–23 May 1997, Boston, USA, p. 390-399. ACM/IEEE-CS Press. SU-report 8/97.

 

42. Reidar Conradi, Bernhard Westfechtel:

"Towards a Uniform Version Model for Software Configuration Management",

In Reidar Conradi (Ed.): "Software Configuration Management: Proceedings from SCM'7 workshop, Springer LNCS 1235". 18–19 May, 1997, Boston, USA, p. 1–17. SU-report 9/97.

 

43. Reidar Conradi (Ed.):

"Software Configuration Management: Proceedings from SCM'7 workshop",

18–19 May, 1997, Boston, USA. As Springer LNCS 1235, 234 p. ISBN 3-540-63014-7. SU-report 10/97.

 

44. Reidar Conradi (Ed.):

"Software Configuration Management, 7th International Workshop (SCM'7),

Boston, USA, May 18–19, 1997.

Supplementary Proceedings: additional full papers, all position papers, and address lists",

Issued by IDI, NTNU, Trondheim, 249 p. SU-report 11/97.

 

45. Reidar Conradi and Chunnian Liu:

"Revised PMLs and PSEEs for Industrial SPI", 6 p.,

In Jan Bosch and S. Mitchell (Eds.): "Object-Oriented Technology.

ECOOP'97 Workshop Reader", Springer Verlag LNCS 1357, 1997. ISBN 3-540-64039-8.

From ECOOP'97 Workshop on Software Process Technology, 10-11 June 1997, Jyvaskyla, Finland. SU-report 12/97.

 

46. Vincenzo Ambriola, Reidar Conradi, Alfonso Fuggetta:

"Assessing Process-centered Software Engineering Environments (OIKOS, EPOS and SPADE)",

ACM Trans. Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM), July 1997, Vol. 6, No. 3, p. 282-328.

SU-report 14/97.

 

47. M. Letizia Jaccheri, Patricia Lago:

"Applying Software Process Modeling and Improvement in Academic Setting",

Proc. of the 10th ACM/IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Virginia Beach, April 1997. SU-report 20/97.

 

48. M. Letizia Jaccheri, Patricia Lago:

"Metrics aspects of a software engineering course project",

Proc. Inspire II, 2nd International Conference on Software Process Improvement – Research into Education and Training, Sweden. September 1997. SU-report 21/97.

 

49. Tor Stålhane, Tore Dybå and Reidar Palmstrøm:

"Introduction of Goal-Oriented Measurement",

STEP'97, London, UK, July 15 - 18, 1997.

 

50. Tore Dybå, Tor Stålhane and Reidar Palmstrøm:

"Experience of Goal-Oriented Measurement using ami and GQM",

The European Software and Control Metrics Conference, Berlin, Germany, May 26-28, 1997.

 

51. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde:

"Modification of Safety Critical Systems – An Evaluation of three Approaches",

Microprocessors and Microsystems 21, 1998.

 

52. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde:

"Modification of Safety Critical Systems – An Evaluation of three Approaches",

ENCRESS'97, Athens, Greece, May 29-30, 1997.

 

53. Tor Stålhane, Kjell Arnesen and Per Christian Borgersen:

"In Search of the Customer's Quality View",

Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 38, 1997, pp. 85-93 (reworked from AQUIS'96 paper).

 

1998:

54. Reidar Conradi, Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Alf Inge Wang, Chunnian Liu:

"Planning Support to Software Process Evolution",

Proc. Eight International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'98), San Francisco, USA, 18–20 June 1998, 16 p. SU-report 1/98.

 

55. Reidar Conradi:

"Practical Software Experience Databases: Use the Web (position paper)", 3 p.

Proc. Eight International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), San Francisco, USA, 18–20 June 1998, 16 p. SU-report 2/98.

 

56. Bernhard Westfechtel and Reidar Conradi:

"Software Configuration Management and Engineering Data Management: Differences and Similarities",

In Boris Magnusson (Ed.): "Software Configuration Management", Springer LNCS 1439, p. 95–106.

ECOOP'98 SCM-8 Symposium, 20-21 June 1998, Brussels. SU-report 3/98.

 

57. Reidar Conradi, Bernhard Westfechtel:

"Version Models for Software Configuration Management",

ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 30, Number 2, July 1998, p. 232–282. SU-report 17/97.

 

58. Alf Inge Wang, Jens-Otto Larsen, Reidar Conradi, Bjørn Munch:

"Improving Cooperation Support in the EPOS CM System",

In Volker Gruhn (Ed.): "Software Process Technology, 6th European Workshop, EWSPT'98, Weybridge, UK, 16-18. Sept. 1998", Springer Verlag LNCS 1487, p. 75–91. SU-report 5/98.

 

59. Reidar Conradi, Alfonso Fuggetta, Maria Letizia Jaccheri:

"Six theses on Software Process Research",

In Volker Gruhn (Ed.): "Software Process Technology, 6th European Workshop, EWSPT'98, Weybridge, UK, 16-18. Sept. 1998", Springer Verlag LNCS 1487, p. 100–104. SU-report 6/98.

 

60. Letizia Jaccheri and Patricia Lago:

"How project-based courses face the challenge of educating software engineers",

Accepted at World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'98) and the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS'98), July 12-16, 1998, Orlando, USA. SU-report 8/98.

 

61. Chunnian Liu, Reidar Conradi:

"Process View of CSCW",

Proc. Int'l Symposium of Future Software Technologies (ISFST'98), Hangzhow, P.R. China, 28–30 Oct. 1998. SU-report 11/98.

 

62. M. Letizia Jaccheri, Patricia Lago, G.P. Picco:

"Eliciting Software Process Models with the E3 Language",

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 7, No. 4, October 1988, pp. 368-410.

SU-report 22/97.

 

63. M. Letizia Jaccheri, Patricia Lago:

"How Project-based Courses face the Challenge of educating Software Engineers",

Proc. of the Joint World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI98) and the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS98), Orlando, USA, July 1998.

 

64. Tor Stålhane, Kari Juul Wedde and Tore Dybå:

"Data Driven Improvement for SMEs",

EuroSPI'98, Gothenburg, Sweden October 17-18, 1998.

 

65. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde:

"Practical experience with the application of HazOp to a software intensive system",

Joint ESCOM and ENCRESS Conference, Roma, Italy, May 27-29, 1998.

 

66. Bjørn Haugrud, Tor Stålhane and Inger Venås:

"The Effect of Using Object-Oriented Methods in Specification and Design",

AQUiS'98 –3rd International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software, Venezia, Italy March 30 – April 2, 1998.

 

1999:

67. Reidar Conradi:

"Kommentar til UMLs nye Object Constraint Language (OCL)",

DND/Faggruppen for metoder (ed.): "UML – Unified Modeling Language og komponentbasert systemutvikling", DND, Oslo, foilsamling i eget hefte fra seminar på Geilo, 19-20 April 1999, 44 foiler.

SU-report 11/99.

 

68. Reidar Conradi and M. Letizia Jaccheri:

"Process Modelling Languages", p. 27–52.

In PROMOTER2 book: Jean-Claude Derniame, Badara Ali Kaba, David Wastell (Eds.): Software Process: Principles, Methodology, and Technology, Springer LNCS 1500, 307 p. SU-report 1/99.

 

69. Eirik Tryggeseth et al.:

"Chapter 5: Architectural Modeling for Evolution", 24 p.,

In Ian Warren: The Renaissance of Legacy Systems: Method Support for Software System Evolution" (The Method Book from the RENAISSANCE ESPRIT Project in 1996-98, project no. 22010), Springer Practitioner Series, 1999, 182 p. SU-report 2/99.

 

70. Alf Inge Wang, Reidar Conradi, Chunnian Liu:

"A Multi-Agent Architecture for Cooperative Software Engineering",

In Guenther Ruhe (ed.): "Proc. Eleventh International Conference of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'99)", Kaiserslautern, Germany, 16-19 June 1999, p. 162–169. SU-report 3/99.

 

71. Reidar Conradi:

"From software experience databases to learning organizations (panel introduction)",

In Gunther Ruhe (ed.): "Proc. Eleventh International Conference of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'99)", Kaiserslautern, Germany, 16-19 June 1999, p. 204–206. SU-report 4/99.

 

72. Reidar Conradi, Amarjit Singh Marjara, Børge Skåtevik:

"An Empirical Study of Inspection and Testing Data at Ericsson",

In Markku Oivo and Pasi Kuvaja: "Proc. Int'l Conf. on Product Focused Software Process Improvement

(PROFES'99)", Oulu, Finland, 22-24 June 1999, p. 263–284. VTT symposium 195, VTT, Espoo, Finland, 666 p., ISBN 951-38-5270-9; 951-38-5271-7 (URL: http://www.inf.vtt.fi/pdf). SU-report 5/99.

 

73. Reidar Conradi, Bernhard Westfechtel:

"SCM: Status and Future Challenges",

In Jacky Estublier (Ed.): "Proc. Int'l Workshop on Software Configuration Management (SCM'9)", Springer Verlag LNCS 1675, ISBN 3-540-66484-X, Toulouse, 5-7 Sept. 1999, p. 228-231. SU-report 7/99.

 

74. Torgeir Dingsøyr, M. Letizia Jaccheri, Alf Inge Wang:

"Teaching Software Process Improvement Through a Case Study", In Proc. International Conference on Engineering and Computer Education, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 9-12 Aug. 1999". Publisher: Mundo Virtual (CD-ROM), 5 p.

Also presented at Norsk Informatikk Konferanse (NIK'99), Trondheim, Nov. 1999. SU-report 8/99.

 

75. M. Letizia Jaccheri:

"A Software Quality and a Software Process Improvement Course",

Forum for Advancing Software engineering Education (FASE),

Vol. 9, No. 5 (112th issue), 15 May 1999. SU-report 9/99.

 

76. M. Letizia Jaccheri, Mario Baldi, Monica Divitini:

"Evaluating the requirements for software process modeling languages and systems",

WORLD MULTICONFERENCE SCI/ISAS'99, International Workshop on Process Support for Distributed Team-based Software Development (PDTSD'99), Orlando, USA, 31 July - 4 August, 1999. SU-report 10/99.

 

77. Torgeir Dingsøyr:

"A lifecycle process for experience databases",

In Sasha Schmitt and Ivo Vollrath (Eds.): "Challenges for Case-Based Reasoning: Proc. International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR'99), Seeon, Germany, 27-30 July 1999", p. 9-13.

Centre for Learning Systems and Applications, Kaiserslautern, Germany. SU-report 15/99.

 

78. Roxana Elena Diaconescu, Reidar Conradi:

"An Object-Oriented Approach to Numerical Calculation of Physical Entities", Proc. EUROPRIME, Warsaw, Poland, 12–13 Sep. 1999, 11 p. SU-report 16/99.

 

79. Alf Inge Wang:

"Experience paper: Using XML to implement a workflow tool",

Proc. IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA'99), Scottsdale, Arizona, 6-8 Oct. 1999. SU-report 13/99.

 

80. Reidar Conradi, Amarjit Singh Marjara, Børge Skåtevik:

"An Empirical Study of Inspection and Testing Data at Ericsson, Norway",

In "Proc. 24th NASA Software Engineering Workshop, Greenbelt/Washington, USA, 1–2 Dec. 1999", 16 p.

(URL: http://sel.gsfc.nasa.gov/sew). SU-report 18/99.

 

81. Christian P. Halvorsen:

"A Taxonomy for SPI Frameworks",

In "Proc. 24th NASA Software Engineering Workshop, Greenbelt/Washington, USA, 1–2 Dec. 1999", 4 p.

(http://sel.gsfc.nasa.org/sew). SU-report 19/99.

 

82. Hans Jørgen Lied and Tor Stålhane:

"Experience from process improvement in an SME",

EuroSPI'99, Pori, Finland, October 26–27, 1999.

 

83. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde:

"SPI – Why isn't it more used",

EuroSPI'99, Pori, Finland, October 26–27, 1999.

 

84. Tor Stålhane:

"The role of measurement in software and software development",

Telektronikk, Vol. 95, 1/99 (special issue on Software Quality in Telecommunication).

 

 

2000:

85. Torgeir Dingsøyr, Reidar Conradi:

"Metoder for å høste og spre erfaringer",

Som kap. 5 i Tore Dybå (red.): "SPIQ metodebok i prosessforbedring", Tanum forlag, 2000. SU-report 20/99.

 

86. Reidar Conradi, Alf Inge Wang:

"Beskrivelse av programvareprosesser",

Som kap. 10 i Tore Dybå (red.): "SPIQ metodebok i prosessforbedring", Tanum forlag, 2000,

IDI-rapport no. 2-2000, ISSN 0802-6394. SU-report 21/99.

 

87. Reidar Conradi:

"Terminologi",

Som vedlegg A i Tore Dybå (red.): "SPIQ metodebok i prosessforbedring", Tanum forlag, 2000,

IDI-rapport no. 2-2000, ISSN 0802-6394. SU-report 22/99.

 

88. Alf Inge Wang:

"Support for Mobile Processes in CAGIS",

In Reidar Conradi (Ed.): Proc. 7th European Software Process Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'7), Kaprun near Salzburg, Austria, 21-25 Feb. 2000. Springer Verlag LNCS 1780, p. 115-130. SU-report 1/2000.

 

89. M. Letizia Jaccheri, Reidar Conradi, Bård H. Dyrnes:

"Software Process Technology and Software Organisations",

In Reidar Conradi (Ed.): Proc. 7th European Software Process Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'7), Kaprun near Salzburg, Austria, 21-25 Feb. 2000. Springer Verlag LNCS 1780, p. 96-108. SU-report 2/2000.

 

90. Reidar Conradi (Ed.):

"Proc. 7th European Software Process Workshop on Software Process

Technology" (EWSPT'7), Kaprun near Salzburg, Austria, 21-25 Feb. 2000,

Springer Verlag LNCS 1780, Feb. 2000. SU-report 3/2000.

 

91. Reidar Conradi:

"Report from SEKE'99 panel on From Software Experience Databases to Learning Organizations",

Accepted for Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, year 2000, 4 p. SU-report 4/2000.

 

92. Alfonso Fuggetta, M. Letizia Jaccheri:

"Dynamic partitioning of complex process models",

Journal of Information and Software Technology, 42 (2000), p. 281-291. SU-report 5/2000.

 

93. Reidar Conradi (scribe):

"Summary from the 7th European Software Process Workshop (EWSPT'7),

Kaprun near Salzburg, 21-25 Feb. 2000",

ACM Software Engineering Notes, May 2000, p. 23. SU-report 6/2000.

 

94. Reidar Conradi, Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Alf Inge Wang, Chunnian Liu:

"Planning Support to Software Process Evolution",

Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE Journal), forthcoming May 2000.

SU-report 6/99.

 

95. Torgeir Dingsøyr:

"Knowledge Management for Software Process Improvement",

Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research (NWPER'2000), Lillehammer, Norway, 28-30 May, 2000. SU-report 7/2000.

 

96. Reidar Conradi, Mikael Lindvall, and Carolyn Seaman:

"Success Factors for Software Experience Bases: What We Need to Learn from Other Disciplines", 6 p.,

ICSE'2000 Workshop on "Beg, Borrow or Steal: Using Multidisciplinary Approaches in Empirical Software Engineering Research", Limerick, Ireland, 5 June 2000. SU-report 8/2000.

 

97. Reidar Conradi and Torgeir Dingsøyr:

"Software Experience Bases: A Consolidated Evaluation and Status Report",

Accepted at Second Int'l Conf. on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES'2000), Oulu, Finland, 20-22 June 2000, 14 p. SU-report 10/2000.

 

98. Alf Inge Wang:

"Experience paper: Implementing a Multi-Agent Architecture for Cooperative Software Engineering",

Accepted for Twelfth International Conference of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'2000), Chicago, 6–8 July, 2000. SU-report 9/2000.

 

99. Reidar Conradi and Torgeir Dingsøyr:

"Software Experience Bases: Some Results and Recommendations",

Accepted at 4th International FEAST Workshop, London, 10-12 July 2000, 9 p. SU-report 11/2000.

 

100. Alf Inge Wang:

"Using Software Agents to Support Evolution of Distributed Workflow Models",

Accepted at "International ICSC Symposium on INTERACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING

(ICC'2000)", at International ICSC Congress on INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

(ISA'2000), Wollongong (near Sydney), Australia, December 12-15, 2000, 7 pages.

 

101. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde:

"Safety Validation with Focus on Testing",

ICSTEST – International Conference on Software Testing, April 5–7, 2000, Bonn, Germany.

 

102. Kari Juul Wedde and Tor Stålhane: