Cognitive automation (CA) moves beyond rule-based business process automation to target
cognitive knowledge and service work. This allows the automation of tasks and processes …

In general, professionals still ignore scientific evidence in place of expert opinions in most of
their decision making. For this reason, it is still common to see the adoption of new software …

For software process improvement–SPI–there are few small organizations using models that
guide the management and deployment of their improvement initiatives. This is largely …

Many organizations are implementing process improvement models, seeking to increase
their organizational maturity for software development. However, implementing traditional …

Context Process assessments are performed to identify the current maturity of organizations
in relation to best practices. Existing process assessment methods, although widely used …

Software process engineering is a discipline, which aims to study and improve software
development and maintenance processes. The explicit definition of software processes is …

SUMMARY Software Process Engineering is a discipline which aims to study and improve
software development and maintenance processes. The explicit definition of software …

Context It has been observed that software process improvement (SPI) initiatives have been
around for more than a decade, yet many companies are still facing SPI implementation …

Risk orientation in testing is an important means to balance quality, time-to-market, and cost
of software. Especially for small and medium enterprises (SME) under high competitive and …

The goal of software process improvement (SPI) is to improve software processes and
produce high-quality software, but the results of SPI efforts in small-and medium-sized …