Software Change Management Processes in the Development of Embedded Software

摘要

The goal of the research presented in this thesis is to examine software changemanagement processes in order to identify essential change management problems and improvement requirements, to define processes which would aid in solving these problems, and give an example of how these processes can be implemented in practice. The subjects of the empirical research part of the study have been four Finnish companies which develop embedded software. Therefore, the focus of the study is on the processes which are used in developing embedded software. However, the literature study explores the problems of software change management from a more generic viewpoint, and can also be use as a reference for software development done for other purposes.