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In this plenary panel session, three distinguished scholars of design will provide a range of perspectives on a science of design for software and software-intensive systems. The session will include brief presentations by the panelists as well as dialog among the panelists and w…
Software engineering is foremost an engineering discipline. Engineering in general and software engineering specifically has to balance many factors to achieve viable tradeoffs - an understanding of the factors as well as the viability criteria is at the heart of the educational …
To enhance motivation of students to study software engineering, some way of finding balance between the scientific aspect and the practical aspect of software engineering is required. In this paper, we claim that teaching multiple software modeling techniques from a unified view…
To achieve the goal of realizing object adaptation to environments, a new role-based model Epsilon and a language EpsilonJ is proposed. In Epsilon, an environment is defined as a field of collaboration between roles and an object adapts to the environment assuming one of the role…
We present Binary Refactoring: a software engineering technique for improving the implementation of programs without modifying their source code. While related to regular refactoring in preserving a program's functionality, binary refactoring aims to capture modifications that ar…
During software evolution, programmers devote most of their effort to the understanding of the structure and behavior of the system. For Object-Oriented code, this might be particularly hard, when multiple, scattered objects contribute to the same function. Design views offer an …
At first glance it can look like Open Source Software development violates many, if not all, of the precepts of decades of careful research and teaching in Software Engineering. One could take a classic SE textbook and compare the activities elaborated and advocated in the variou…
In 1999, a new team at MARKET MAKER Software AG began to develop a software product line for managing and displaying stock market data and financial market news. The basic idea was to use web technology in all applications for delivering services to customers. It soon turned out …
This paper discusses an empirical assessment of pair programming.
Based on many years of teaching software engineering, I present a number of lessons I have learned over the years. I do so in the form of a series of myths, the reverse of which can be considered challenges to educators. The overall message I wish to convey is that there's more t…
The terms Ubiquitous and Pervasive computing were first coined at the beginning of the 90's, by Xerox PARC and IBM respectively, and capture the realization that the computing focus was going to change from the PC to a more distributed, mobile and embedded form of computing. Furt…
This work reports experience applying the process of Requirements Interaction Management (RIM) within the context of developing a commercial, internet-based software application in an industrial venue, employing the eXtreme Programming (XP) methodology. We describe our means of m…
To develop software on time and within budget is not good enough if the software produced is full of defects. As the software market matures, users want to be assured of quality. They no longer accept claims made by the IT department at face value, but expect concrete demonstrati…
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Developers of highly configurable performance-intensive software systems often use a type of in-house performance-oriented "regression testing" to ensure that their modifications have not adversely affected their software's performance across its large configuration space. Unfort…
Framework development is one of the most challenging software development tasks. Teaching framework development is even more challenging. In this paper, we propose a creative process to teach framework development. We propose using peer review in the process. We present the proce…
The Rational Unified Process lacks practical guidance for the development of object oriented applications. Model Driven Software Development (MDD) proposes to do most of these development steps at the model level of abstraction. This tutorial takes the MDD idea and examplifies su…
One of the most time consuming parts of debugging is trying to locate a bug. In this context, there are two powerful debugging aids which shorten debug time considerably: reverse execution and dynamic slicing. Reverse execution eliminates the need for repetitive program restarts …
Formal description of real-time requirements is a difficult and error prone task. Conceptual and tool support for this activity plays a central role in the agenda of technology transference from the formal verification engineering community to the real-time systems development pr…