19 May - Thursday
Session 2
11:00 AM

  Research Papers   Keynotes & Invited Talks
  Experience Reports   Panels
  Education & Training Reports   Research Demonstrations
  Awards & General Remarks   Meetings



Software Quality and Process
19 May @ 11:00 AM

St. Louis Ballroom D [Floor Plan]
Session Chair: George Heineman

> Predictors of Customer Perceived Software Quality
Audris Mockus, Ping Zhang, and Paul Li
> Automated Support for Process-aware Definition and Execution of Measurement Plans
Luigi Lavazza and Giancarlo Barresi
> A Quality-Driven Systematic Approach for Architecting Distributed Software Applications
Tariq Al-Naeem, Ian Gorton, Muhammed Ali Babar, Fethi Rabhi, and Boualem Benatallah

 


Software Evolution
19 May @ 11:00 AM

St. Louis Ballroom E [Floor Plan]
Session Chair: André van der Hoek

> Object Naming Analysis for Reverse-Engineered Sequence Diagrams
Atanas Rountev and Harkness Connell
> Binary Refactoring: Improving Code Behind the Scenes
Eli Tilevich and Yannis Smaragdakis
> CATCHUP! Capturing and Replaying Refactorings to Support API Evolution
Johannes Henkel and Amer Diwan

 


State of the Art & Practice
19 May @ 11:00 AM

St. Louis Ballroom C [Floor Plan]
Session Chair: Paola Inverardi and Mehdi Jazayeri

> Some Myths of Software Engineering Education
Hans van Vliet
> Software Engineering 2004: ACM/IEEE-CS Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Software Engineering
Joanne M. Atlee, Richard J. LeBlanc, Jr., Timothy C. Lethbridge, A. Sobel, and J. Barrie Thompson
> Towards Increasing the Compatibility of Student Pair Programmers
Neha Katira, Laurie Williams, and Jason Osborne
> Using Peer Reviews in Teaching Framework Development
Amir Zeid and Moemen Elswidi
> Process Issues in Course Projects
Wilson Paula Filho
> Towards an Effective Software Engineering Course Project
Zakarya Alzamil
> Conducting Empirical Software Engineering Research in Nigeria: The Posing Problems
Olalekan Akinola

 


James D. Herbsleb (Carnegie Melon University)
Beyond Computer Science
19 May @ 11:00 AM

St. Louis Ballroom A & B [Floor Plan]
Session Chair: Anthony Finkelstein
[Slides]

Biography: James D. Herbsleb is the A. Nico Haberman Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests lie primarily in the intersection of software engineering and computer-supported cooperative work, focusing on such areas as geographically-distributed development teams, open source software development, and more generally on oordination in software engineering. He holds a JD (1980), and a PhD (1984) in psychology from the University of Nebraska, and a MS (1991) in computer science from the University of Michigan.
After completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan, he moved to Carnegie Mellons Software Engineering Institute, where he led an effort to empirically validate the CMM for Software. He then joined the Software Production Research Department at Lucent Technologies, where he initiated and led the Bell Labs Collaboratory Project, which conducted empirical studies and designed collaborative technologies and practices for global software development.

Abstract: Computer science is necessary but not sufficient to understand and overcome the problems we face in software engineering. We need to understand not only the properties of the software itself, but also the limitations and competences humans bring to the engineering task. Rather than rely on commonsense notions, we need a deep and nuanced view of human capabilities in order to determine how to enhance them. I discuss what I regard as promising examples of cognitive and organizational theories and propose research directions to develop new ways of representing run-time behavior and ways of thinking about project coordination. I conclude with observations on creating an interdisciplinary culture.


Stephen Fickas (University of Oregon)
Clinical Requirements Engineering
19 May @ 11:00 AM

St. Louis Ballroom A & B [Floor Plan]
Session Chair: Anthony Finkelstein
[Slides]

Biography: Stephen Fickas is a Full Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Oregon. He began his interest in software engineering while a research assistant at USC/ISI in the early 1980s. Over the last ten years, he has focused on requirements engineering. During that time he helped establish the RE conference series and chaired the IFIP 2.9 Working Group on Requirements Engineering. Beyond the work reported in this paper, Fickas has an interest in GORE (goal-oriented RE), requirements monitoring, and the place of formal methods in the RE process.
Abstract: In this paper, I make a case for integration of requirements engineering (RE) with clinical disciplines. To back my case, I look at two examples that employ a clinical RE approach, first, that of introducing email into the life of a brain-injured individual, and second, introducing digital darkroom tools into my life. The former uses a Brownfield approach by starting with an existing clinical process, cognitive rehabilitation, and then defining an RE process that fits. The latter uses a Greenfield approach that postulates a new clinical RE process that focuses on the problems some of us have using digital darkroom tools.