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The First International Workshop on the Relationships between Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction was held on May 3-4, 2003 as part of the 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering, in Portland, OR, U.S.A. This workshop was motivated by a perception am…
As more business activities are being automated and an increasing number of computers are being used to store sensitive information, the need for secure computer systems becomes more apparent. This need is even more apparent as systems and applications are being distributed and a…
Software product-line engineering is one of the few approaches to software engineering that shows promise of improving software productivity by factors of 5 to 10. There are still few examples of its successful application on a large scale, partly because of the complexity of ini…
During recent years, the amount of variability that has to be supported by a software artifact is growing considerably and its management is developing as a main challenge during development, usage, and evolution of software artifacts. Successful management of variability in soft…
Computer systems provide us with a wide range of services upon which we have come to depend. Many computers are embedded in more complex devices that we use such as automobiles, aircraft, appliances, and medical devices. Others are part of sophisticated systems that provide us wi…
The series of EDSER workshops are a unique forum to discuss and advance the state-of-the-art research and practice in economics driven software engineering. The EDSER-5 will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to provide further understanding how economic and bus…
This paper presents a method developed in Nokia, for efficient document authoring in software development projects. The method is called RaPiD7 (Rapid Production of Documentation, 7 steps). The method improves the traditional approach for document authoring in which the work is t…
This tutorial presents a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art techniques for eliciting, modeling, specifying, analyzing and documenting high-quality system requirements.
Impact analysis, determining when a change in one part of a program affects other parts of the program, is time-consuming and problematic. Impact analysis is rarely used to predict the effects of a change, leaving maintainers to deal with consequences rather than working to a pla…
This workshop summary gives a brief overview of a one-day workshop on "Software Architectures for Dependable Systems" held in conjunctions with ICSE 2003.
Reflection remains a second-class citizen in current programming models, where it's assumed to be imperative and tightly bound to its implementation. In contrast, most object-oriented APIs allow interfaces to vary independently of their implementations. Components take this separ…
Objects and agents are abstractions that exhibit Points of similarity, but the development of multi-agent systems (MASs) poses other challenges to Software Engineering since software agents are inherently more complex entities. In addition, a large MAS needs to satisfy multiple s…
This paper describes the role of requirements discovery during the testing of a safety-critical software system. Analysis of problem reports generated by the integration and system testing of an embedded, safety-critical software system identified four common mechanisms for requi…
Source Viewer 3D is a software visualization framework that uses a 3D metaphor to represent software system and analysis data. The 3D representation is based on the SeeSoft pixel metaphor. It extends the original metaphor by rendering the visualization in a 3D space. New, object-…
Many methods and tools for the reengineering of software systems have been developed so far However, the domain-specific requirements of telecommunication Systems have not been addressed sufficiently. These systems are designed in a process- rather than in a data-centered way. Fu…
An information retrieval technique, latent semantic indexing, is used to automatically identify traceability links from system documentation to program source code. The results of two experiments to identify links in existing software systems (i.e., the LEDA library, and Albergat…
In a software development group of IBM Retail Store Solutions, we built a non-trivial software system based on a stable standard specification using a disciplined, rigorous unit testing and build approach based on the test-driven development (TDD) practice. Using this practice, w…
This study examined the effectiveness of pair programming in four lecture sections of a large introductory programming course. We were particularly interested in assessing how the use of pair programming affects student performance and decisions to pursue computer science related…
Reusable components equipped with strict guarantees of quality can help reestablish software development on a stronger footing, by taking advantage of the scaling effect of reuse to justify the extra effort of ensuring impeccable quality. This discussion examines work intended to…