Software development improvement with SFIM
PROFES'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
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This paper is based on Siemens extensive experiencein the area of quality for software-based products, systems,and plants. It describes the "best practices" in thearea of software and quality that are used at Siemens.These techniques include Siemens' approaches in theareas of assessments and improvement of developmentprocesses, the use of metrics to measure such improvements,testing and quality engineering, inspections andreviews, software architecture as well as organizationissues associated with quality such as the sharing of bestpractices in these areas. The results are based on anumber of examples from a broad variety of applicationareas (e.g. telecommunications, industrial automation,medical engineering and transportation). Our experienceis that a focus on quality leads to reductions in cycle-time, effort, and costs and thus to business benefit.