Aspects of systems integration
ISCI '90 Proceedings of the first international conference on systems integration on Systems integration '90
On the effective use of software standards in systems integration
ISCI '90 Proceedings of the first international conference on systems integration on Systems integration '90
An empirical investigation into the adoption of systems development methodologies
Information and Management
Enterprise application integration
Enterprise application integration
Integration in software intensive systems
Journal of Systems and Software
Software architecture: a roadmap
Proceedings of the Conference on The Future of Software Engineering
Enterprise Application Integration: A Wiley Tech Brief
Enterprise Application Integration: A Wiley Tech Brief
Enterprise Integration: An Architecture for Enterprise Application and Systems Integration
Enterprise Integration: An Architecture for Enterprise Application and Systems Integration
Classification and evaluation of defects in a project retrospective
Journal of Systems and Software
Integration Standards for Critical Software Intensive Systems
ISESS '97 Proceedings of the 3rd International Software Engineering Standards Symposium (ISESS '97)
Package-Based Software Development
EUROMICRO '03 Proceedings of the 29th Conference on EUROMICRO
A Fault Threshold Policy to Manage Software Development Projects
Information Systems Research
EUROMICRO '04 Proceedings of the 30th EUROMICRO Conference
Model-Based Integration of Reusable Component-Based Avionics Systems - A Case Study
ISORC '05 Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing
Essential Software Architecture
Essential Software Architecture
EUROMICRO '06 Proceedings of the 32nd EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications
Practice-driven approach for creating project-specific software development methods
Information and Software Technology
Product integration improvement based on analysis of build statistics
Proceedings of the the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering
Key Process Areas in Systems Integration
IT Professional
Case study: software product integration practices
PROFES'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
Systems integration via software risk management
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
Enhancing ISO/IEC 15288 with reuse and product management: An add-on process reference model
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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In software intensive systems the integration becomes complex since both software and hardware components are integrated and run in the execution environment for the first time. Support for this stage is thus essential. Practices for Product Integration are described in different reference models. We have investigated these and compared them with activities performed in seven product development projects. Our conclusion is that descriptions of best practices in product integration are available in different reference models, but need to be merged into one set of practices. Through case studies we see that the described practices are insufficiently used in industry, and that organizations would benefit from adhering to them. Our investigations indicate that a set of practices are necessary to be successful in software product integration: define and check criteria for integration, review interface descriptions and ensure coordination of interface changes, and deliver components as agreed. In addition to these, a set of practices are supporting the integration activities, including the definition of an integration strategy, and the establishment of a suitable integration environment.