You are required to read and agree to the below before accessing a full-text version of an article in the IDE article repository.

The full-text document you are about to access is subject to national and international copyright laws. In most cases (but not necessarily all) the consequence is that personal use is allowed given that the copyright owner is duly acknowledged and respected. All other use (typically) require an explicit permission (often in writing) by the copyright owner.

For the reports in this repository we specifically note that

  • the use of articles under IEEE copyright is governed by the IEEE copyright policy (available at http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/rights/copyrightpolicy.html)
  • the use of articles under ACM copyright is governed by the ACM copyright policy (available at http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_policy/)
  • technical reports and other articles issued by M‰lardalen University is free for personal use. For other use, the explicit consent of the authors is required
  • in other cases, please contact the copyright owner for detailed information

By accepting I agree to acknowledge and respect the rights of the copyright owner of the document I am about to access.

If you are in doubt, feel free to contact webmaster@ide.mdh.se

Case Study: Software Product Integration Practices

Fulltext:


Authors:

Stig Larsson , Ivica Crnkovic

Research group:

Industrial Software Engineering

Publication Type:

Conference/Workshop Paper

Venue:

Product Focused Software Process Improvement: 6th International Conference, PROFES 2005

Publisher:

Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3547 / 2005

Abstract

Organizations often encounter problems in the Product Integration process. The difficulties include finding errors at integration related to mismatch between the different components and problems in other parts of the system than the one that was changed. The question is if these problems can be decreased if the awareness of the integration process is increased in other activities. To get better understanding of this problem we have analyzed the integration process in two product development organizations. One of the organizations has two different groups with slightly different integration routines while the other is basing the development on well defined components. The obstacles found in product integration are highlighted and related to best practices as described in the interim standard EIA-731.1. Our conclusion from this study is that the current descriptions for best practices in product integration are available in standards and models, but are insufficiently used and can be supported by technology to be accepted and utilized by the product developers.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Larsson822,
author = {Stig Larsson and Ivica Crnkovic},
title = {Case Study: Software Product Integration Practices},
month = {July},
year = {2005},
booktitle = {Product Focused Software Process Improvement: 6th International Conference, PROFES 2005},
publisher = {Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3547 / 2005},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/822-}
}