Lutz Prechelt, Sebastian Jekutsch, and I have just submitted a paper on an agenda for
"Actual Process" research to the 2006 Software Process Workshop. Here's the abstract and
URL:
Abstract: Most process research relies heavily on the use of terms and concepts whose
validity depends on a variety of assumptions to be met. As it is difficult to guarantee
that they are met, such work continually runs the risk of being invalid. We propose a
different and complementary approach to understanding process: Perform all description
bottom-up and based on hard data alone. We call the approach actual process and the data
actual events. Actual events can be measured automatically. This paper describes what has
been done in this area already and what are the core problems to be solved in the future.
URL: http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/techreports/06-01/06-01.pdf
Cheers,
Philip
