Report on the first Japanese Software Process Symposium

This article reports on the first JSPS (Japanese Software Process Symposium) held on May 26-27, 1994 in Tokyo. Traditionally, process-oriented technologies, such as TQC and software factory, have been a part of culture embedded into Japanese software engineering. However, they are implicit and lack the “formal” approaches. The emergence of the software process concept such as process programming and ISO 9000-3 attracted the attentions of both academia and industry. Now, software process is one of the central topics of software engineering community in Japan. Just in time, the first JSPS was launched to present the current status of software process technologies to a large number of the researchers and practitioners and broaden the community