This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement PROFES 2017 held in Innsbruck Austria in
November December 2017. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers 21
workshop papers. 3 posters and tool demonstrations papers and 4 tutorials were carefully
reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on :
Agile software Development Data science and analytics Software engineering processes and
frameworks Industry relevant qualitative research User and value centric approaches Software
startups Serum Software testing.
