This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement PROFES 2015 held in Bolzano Italy in December
2015. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers and 18 workshop papers
were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections on lessons learned from industry-researchcollaborations instruments to improve the
software developmentprocess requirements features and release management practices of
modern development processes human factors in modern software development effort and size
estimation validated by professionals empirical generalization software reliability and
testing in industry workshop on processes methods and tools for engineering embedded systems
workshop on human factors in software development processes and workshop on software startups:
state of the art and state of the practice.
