Advances in system, software and service process improvement and innovation
Miklós Bíró, Ricardo Colomo‐Palacios, Richard Messnarz · Journal of Software Evolution and Process · 2018
Advances in system, software and service process improvement and innovationEuroSPI is an annual conference series devoted to Software Process Improvement (SPI), and the exchange of best practices in related domains organized since 1994.In 2009, EuroSPI created the SPI manifesto [1][2][3][4] and, also, enriched the term SPI over the last 25 years: System, Software, Services, Safety, Security Process and Product Improvement, Innovation, and Infrastructure (S 5 P 2 I 3 ).From 2017 onwards, EuroSPI created a set of thematic workshops, which deal with specific knowledge areas for the European 2030 agenda.Big changes towards networked societies, self-driving cars and planes, new e-mobility concepts will arise, and more exchange of best practices will be needed to support these new developments.Lead papers from those thematic topics will be selected for the journal in the years to follow.EuroSPI 2017 received a large amount of submissions from authors.All submissions were peer reviewed by top experts in the given research area.From the set of accepted papers, seven articles were selected for their publication in this special issue based on established quality criteria, novelty, and interest.Editors hope this new set is able to provide insights on software process, its evolution, and new developments to practitioners and researchers alike.In what follows, the seven papers are presented and briefly discussed: