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Preface
The17thInternationalConferenceonProduct-FocusedSoftwareProcessImprovement
(PROFES 2016) brought together software researchers and industrial practitioners to
Trondheim in Norway, during November 22–24, 2016. The hosting organization was
the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI) from the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology. It is notable that this was the first time the
PROFES conference was held in Norway, which is a country known for its advanced
IT services and infrastructure. Norway is quickly becoming the hotspot of ICT
development and innovations in Scandinavia. In the spirit of the PROFES conference
series, PROFES 2016 focused on how the challenges of improving software devel-
opment within the different practice areas such as requirements, design, construction,
testing, maintenance, process, methods, management, etc. The conference has always
encouraged submissions of research papers based on empirical evidence ranging from
controlled experiments to case studies and from quantitative to qualitative studies.
Thisyearwereceived82submissionsofwhich24wereselectedasfullpapersand
21 as short papers. The scientific works were strictly scrutinized by international
Program Committee members. Scientific papers in the PROFES conference received
three or four reviews each.
Asanoveltyfor2016,weintroducedanewtrackfortheconferencecalled“Radical
Challenge Track.” The intent was to draw ideas from the scientific and professional
softwarecommunitieswhoaresearchingwaystobuildthenextparadigmforsoftware
development.Thecontributionsinsuchatrackarelessscientificintheirnaturebutare
argued ina compellingway. Wewantedto provide an opportunityfor thecommunity
topresentideasthatgeneratediscussionandhavethecapacitytopushthefieldforward
in an unexpected way. The submissions were still to be peer-reviewed to ensure the
qualityandtheyweretobeincludedinthetechnicalconferenceproceedings.Bothfull
papersandshortpapersonradicalchallengeswerewelcomed.However,itappearsthat
thecommunityisnotreadyforsuchtrackbecausewedidnotreceiveanysubmissions
under the heading of radical challenges. We were able to attract a few papers dealing
withthefutureofcomputingandwerethusabletoconcludetheconferencewiththese
presentations and a panel dealing with issues of tomorrow. We will continue to
motivatethecommunityandespeciallythemoreseniorscientiststobeginundertaking
ambitiousendeavorsdealingwithtomorrow’schallenges.Wearewellawareofthefact
the digitalization process, Internet of Things, and big data require a lot of software to
run them effectively and such issues should be raised under discussion sooner rather
than later.
Another topic in the academic circles in the past years, which also includes the
PROFES community, is the participation of the industrial community in the discus-
sions, presentations, and experience sharing. Since 10–15 years ago, the development
has actually been heading in the opposite direction. Industrial practitioners appear to
organize themselves organically among certain topics quite effectively and are less
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keen in participating in classic scientific conferences. PROFES 2016 recognized this
and organized tutorials on topics and themes of industrial interest. There were nine
tutorials held on topics such as regulated software development, DevOps, lean start-
ups, innovation, and software security. Scientific software engineering research needs
industrial attention to survive and prosper.
The keynote speakers this year were of high quality. Mikko Terho is the CTO for
Mobile Software and the site manager of Huawei’s R&D center in Finland. As one
of the founding board members of Symbian, at the time the leading open mobile
operating system, Mikko Terho has had a significant influence on, and made a sub-
stantialcontributionto,thedevelopmentofthemobileindustryasawhole.Hewasone
of the few persons who were appointed as Nokia Fellow. Dag Sjøberg is Professor in
Software Engineering and works at the Department of Informatics in University of
Oslo in Norway. He is one the brightest software researchers around and has had a
significant impact in the field. Dag Sjøberg sees that software systems form the
foundationoftheeconomic,political,social,cultural,andscientificspheresofmodern
information society. Such systems are, for example, crucial to solving global human-
itarian and environmental problems.
We are thankful for having had the opportunity to organize PROFES 2016 in
Trondheim. The Program Committee members and reviewers provided excellent
support in reviewing the papers. We are also grateful to the authors, presenters, and
session chairs for their time and effort that made PROFES 2016 a success. We are
especially thankful to Prof. Letizia Jaccheri, the head of the Department of Computer
and Information Science at NTNU, for providing the conference with the financial
backingandhelpingintheorganization.WewouldliketothankthePROFESsteering
group members and organizations (University of Oulu, VTT Technical Research
Centre of Finland and Fraunhofer IESE) for the guidance and support in the organi-
zation process. Finally, we would like to thank the NTNU IDI’s student and staff
volunteersformakingPROFES2016anexperiencethatwillliveinthememoryofthe
participants for years to come.
September 2016 Pekka Abrahamsson
Andreas Jedlitschka
Anh Nguyen Duc
Michael Felderer
Sousuke Amasaki
Tommi Mikkonen
Organization
PROFES 2016 was hosted by the Norwegian
UniversityofScienceandTechnology,Department
of Computer and Information Science.
General Chair
Tommi Mikkonen Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Program Co-chairs
Pekka Abrahamsson Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Andreas Jedlitschka Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Organization Chair
Jingyue Li Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Proceedings Chair
Anh Nguyen Duc Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Short Paper Co-chairs
Michael Felderer Innsbruck University, Austria
Sousuke Amasaki Okayama University, Japan
Publicity and Social Media Co-chairs
Daniel Méndez Technische Universität München, Germany
Daniel Graziotin University of Stuttgart, Germany
Poster Co-chairs
Tanja Suomalainen VTT Technical Research Center of Finland
Masud Fazal-Baqaie S&N CQM, Germany
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Design Chair
Juhani Risku Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
PhD Symposium Co-chairs
Xiaofeng Wang University of Bolzano, Italy
John Noll The Irish Software Research Center, Ireland
Workshop and Tutorial Co-chairs
Daniela S. Cruzes SINTEF, Norway
Sabrina Marczak PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Program Committee
Andreas Birk SWPM, Germany
Anh Nguyen Duc Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Andreas Jedlitschka Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering,
Germany
Barbara Russo Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
Bruno Rossi Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Daniel Rodriguez The University of Alcalá, Spain
Daniel Méndez Technische Universität München, Germany
Fernández
Daniel Graziotin University of Stuttgart, Germany
Davide Falessi Cal Poly, USA
Dietmar Pfahl University of Tartu, Estonia
Dietmar Winkler Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Frank Houdek Ulm University, Germany
Hironori Washizaki Waseda University, Japan
Jens Heidrich Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering,
Germany
Jingyue Li Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),
Norway
Jonas Eckhardt Technische Universität München, Germany
Jürgen Münch University of Helsinki, Finland
Klaus Schmid University of Hildesheim, Germany
Kurt Schneider Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Lech Madeyski Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Luigi Buglione Engineering.IT/ETS, Canada
Marco Kuhrmann University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Marco Torchiano Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Marcus Ciolkowski QAware GmbH, Germany
Maria Teresa Università degli Studi di Bari A. Moro, Italy
Baldassarre
Organization IX
Maurizio Morisio Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Masud Fazal-Baqaie S&N CQM, Germany
Maya Daneva University of Twente, The Netherlands
Michael Felderer University of Innsbruck, Austria
Noriko Hanakawa Hannan University, Japan
Oscar Dieste Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Paolo Panaroni INTECS, Rome, Italy
Reinhold Plösch Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
Rini van Solingen Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Risto Nevalainen FiSMA Association, Finland
Silvia Abrahão
Sousuke Amasaki Okayama Prefectural University, Japan
Tomi Mannisto University of Helsinki, Finland
Yoshiki Higo Osaka University, Japan
Main Sponsors
Department of Computer and Information
Science, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology
Norwegian Research Council
City of Trondheim
