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University of Utah,
Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB,
155 S 1400 E RM 233,
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA,
Tel: +1 801 581 5254,
FAX: +1 801 581 4148,
e-mail: \path|beebe@math.utah.edu|,
\path|beebe@acm.org|,
\path|beebe@computer.org| (Internet),
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@Article{Neumann:2000:RPCa,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "22--26",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340856",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Demeyer:2000:WOO,
author = "Serge Demeyer and Harald Gall",
title = "{Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering
(WOOR'99)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "27",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340857",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rajlich:2000:RWS,
author = "V. T. Rajlich and S. Rank and N. Wilde and K. H.
Bennett",
title = "Report on a workshop on software change and
evolution",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "28--29",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340858",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper provides a brief overview and report on the
main out-comes of the software change and evolution
(SCE99) workshop held in Los Angeles on May 17, 1999,
as part of the International Conference on Software
Engineering 1999. The purpose of the workshop was to
gather the most active of researchers and practitioners
in the field of software evolution and change. The
overall conclusion of the workshop was that this is a
topic of enormous importance to industry, and there is
a growing community of both practitioners and
researchers who are working in the field. It would
therefore make sense to arrange further workshops to
support this expanding community.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Evangelist:2000:NIT,
author = "Michael Evangelist",
title = "The {NSF} information technology research program",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "30",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340859",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2000:NSE,
author = "Will Tracz and Wayne Stidolph",
title = "{NSF} software engineering and language program
summaries",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "30--32",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.352130",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Alur:2000:CAV,
author = "Rajeev Alur",
title = "Computer-aided verification of reactive systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "32--33",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340861",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ammann:2000:STM,
author = "Paul Ammann",
title = "System testing via mutation analysis of model checking
specifications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "33",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340862",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Attie:2000:EFM,
author = "Paul C. Attie",
title = "Efficient formal methods for the synthesis of
concurrent programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "34",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340864",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bastani:2000:RP,
author = "Farokh B. Bastani",
title = "Relational programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "34--35",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340865",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The objective of this research is to produce useful,
low-cost methods for developing correct concurrent
programs from formal specifications. In particular, we
address the design and verification of the
synchronization and communication portions of such
programs. Often, this portion can be implemented using
a fixed, finite amount of synchronization related data,
i.e., it is ``finite-state.'' Nevertheless, even when
each program component contains only one bit of
synchronization related data, the number of possible
global synchronization states for K components is about
$ 2^K $, in general. Because of this
``state-explosion'' phenomenon, the manual verification
of large concurrent programs typically requires
lengthy, and therefore error-prone, proofs. Using a
theorem prover increases reliability, but requires
extensive formal labor to axiomatize and solve
verification problems. Automatic verification methods
(such as reachability analysis and temporal logic model
checking) use state-space exploration to decide if a
program satisfies its specification, and are therefore
also subject to state-explosion. To date, proposed
techniques for ameliorating state-explosion either
require significant manual labor, or work well only
when the program is highly symmetric and regular (e.g.,
many functionally similar components connected in
similar ways). To overcome these drawbacks, we advocate
the synthesis of programs from specifications. This
approach performs the refinement from specifications to
programs automatically. Thus, the amount of formal
labor is reduced to writing a formal specification and
applying the appropriate synthesis step at each stage
of the derivation. While nontrivial, writing a formal
specification is necessary in any methodology that
guarantees correctness.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Binkley:2000:RCR,
author = "David Binkley",
title = "Reducing the cost of regression testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "35--36",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340866",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Boothe:2000:FCB,
author = "Bob Boothe",
title = "A fully capable bidirectional debugger",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "36--37",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340867",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The goal of this research project is to develop a
bidirectional program debugger with which one can move
as easily backwards as current debuggers move forward.
We believe this will be a vastly more useful debugger.
A programmer will be able to start at the manifestation
of a bug and proceed backwards investigating how the
program arrived at the incorrect state, rather than the
current and often tedious practice of the user stepping
and breakpointing monotonically forward and then being
forced to start over from the beginning if they skip
past a point of interest. Our experimental debugger has
been implemented to work with C and C++ programs on
Digital/Compaq Alpha based UNIX workstations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bultan:2000:CMC,
author = "Tevfik Bultan",
title = "A composite model checking toolset for analyzing
software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "37--38",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340868",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Burnett:2000:NAV,
author = "Margaret M. Burnett",
title = "{NYI} award: visual programming languages",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "38",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340870",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Carter:2000:CCR,
author = "Larry Carter and Jeanne Ferrante",
title = "{CROPS}: coordinated restructuring of programs and
storage",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "38--39",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340871",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Carver:2000:SBT,
author = "Richard H. Carver",
title = "Specification-based testing of concurrent programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "39--40",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340872",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cheng:2000:IOO,
author = "Betty H. C. Cheng",
title = "Integrating object-oriented analysis and formal
specifications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "40--41",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340873",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Clarke:2000:AVH,
author = "Edmund M. Clarke",
title = "Automatic verification of hardware and software
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "41--42",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340875",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cleaveland:2000:SFC,
author = "Rance Cleaveland",
title = "Specification formalisms for component-based
concurrent systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "42--43",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340876",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This project builds on my ongoing research into design
formalisms for, and the automatic verification of,
concurrent systems. The difficulties such systems pose
for system engineers are well-known and result in large
part from the the complexities of process interaction
and the possibilities for nondeterminism. My work is
motivated by a belief that mathematically rigorous
specification and verification techniques will
ultimately lead to better and easier-to-build
concurrent systems. My specific research interests lie
in the development of fully automatic analysis methods
and process-algebraic design formalisms for modeling
system behavior. I have worked on algorithms for
checking properties of, and refinement relations
between, system descriptions [CH93, CS93]; the
implementation and release of a verification tool, the
CWB-NC [CS96] (see http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~rance to
obtain the distribution); case studies [BCL99, ECB97];
and the formalization of system features, such as real
time, probability, and priority, in process algebra
[BCL99, CDSYar]. The aims of this project include the
development of expressive and usable formalisms for
specifying and reasoning about properties of open,
component-based concurrent systems. More specifically,
my colleagues and I have been investigating new
approaches for describing component requirements and
automated techniques for determining when finite-state
components meet their requirements. The key topics
under study include the following. A temporal logic for
open systems. We are working on a notation for
conveniently expressing properties constraining the
behavior of open systems. Implicit specifications.
Implicit specifications use system contexts, or ``test
harness,'' to define requirements for open systems. We
are studying expressiveness issues and model-checking
algorithms for such specifications. Automatic
model-checker generation. We have been developing a
model-checker generator that, given a temporal logic
and ``proof rules'' for the logic, automatically
produces an efficient model checker.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cleaveland:2000:PTD,
author = "Rance Cleaveland and Philip M. Lewis and Scott A.
Smolka",
title = "Practical techniques for the design, specification,
verification, and implementation of concurrent
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "43--44",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340878",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cook:2000:SPA,
author = "Jonathan E. Cook",
title = "Software process analysis: integrating models and
data",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "44",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340881",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Devanbu:2000:FDD,
author = "Premkumar Devanbu",
title = "Framework for debugging domain-specific languages",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "45",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340882",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dillon:2000:AST,
author = "Laura K. Dillon",
title = "Automated support for testing and debugging of
real-time programs using oracles",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "45--46",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340884",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dwyer:2000:APL,
author = "Matthew B. Dwyer and John Hatcliff",
title = "Adapting programming languages technologies for
finite-state verification",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "46--49",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340885",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Program verification and program transformation are
two research areas that have different goals. Program
verification aims to increase confidence in software
through the use of formal methods and systematic
testing. Program transformation rearranges the
structure of programs to increase their efficiency or
to make them more amenable to some other form of
processing. Despite being funded under different NSF
awards from the Software Engineering and Languages
program on the two different areas above the authors
are collaborating to apply results from both awards to
develop a set of tools, called Bandera, for
transforming Java programs into a form that is amenable
to verification using existing model checking tools.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Emerson:2000:AFM,
author = "E. Allen Emerson",
title = "Automated formal methods: model checking and beyond",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "49",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340886",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Felleisen:2000:CPA,
author = "Matthias Felleisen",
title = "Components and program analyses",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "49--50",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340887",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Model checking has been applied quite successfully to
hardware verification and shows promise for software
verification. The key obstacle is the well-known state
explosion problem. This report describes work done by
the investigator under NSF support, in particular
grants CCR 980-4736 and CCR 941-5496, to ameliorate
state explosion.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2000:AES,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "Assessing and enhancing software testing
effectiveness",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "50--51",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340888",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Although many techniques for testing software have
been proposed over the last twenty years, there is
still not enough solid evidence to indicate which (if
any) of these techniques are effective. It is difficult
to perform meaningful comparisons of the cost and
effectiveness of testing techniques; in fact, even
defining these terms in a meaningful way is
problematic. Consider an erroneous program P, its
specification S, and a test data adequacy criterion C
(such as 100\% branch coverage). Even if we restrict
the size of the test sets to be considered, there are a
huge number of different test sets that satisfy
criterion C for P and S. Since these adequate test sets
typically have different properties, in order to
investigate effectiveness (or other properties)
rigorously, the entire space of test sets must be
considered (according to some reasonable probability
distribution) and appropriate probabilistic analysis
and/or statistical sampling techniques must be used. In
earlier research, supported by NSF Grant CCR-9206910,
we developed analytical tools and an experiment design
to address these issues and applied them to comparing a
number of well-known testing techniques. The primary
measure of effectiveness considered was probability
that an adequate test set would detect at least one
fault and the most of the experiment subjects were
fairly small. The main thread of this research project
extends that work in several directions: additional
measures of cost and effectiveness are considered,
analytical and experimental tools are developed for
these measures, and experiments are conducted on larger
programs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Goguen:2000:HAC,
author = "Joseph Goguen",
title = "Hidden algebra and concurrent distributed software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "51--52",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340889",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Cleverly designed software often fails to strictly
satisfy its specifications, but instead satisfies them
behaviorally, in the sense that they appear to be true
under all possible experiments. Hidden algebra extends
prior work on abstract data types and algebraic
specification [2, 6] to concurrent distributed systems,
in a surprisingly simple way that also handles
nondeterminism, internal states, and more [4, 3].
Advantages of an algebraic approach include
decidability results for problems that are undecidable
for more expressive logics, and powerful algorithms
like term rewriting and unification, for implementing
equational logic tools. Much work in formal methods has
addressed code verification, but since empirical
studies show that little of software cost comes from
coding errors, our approach focuses on behavioral
specification and verification at the design level,
thus avoiding the distracting complications of
programming language semantics.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Goyal:2000:ADS,
author = "Deepak Goyal and Y. Annie Liu",
title = "Automated development of software for program analysis
and transformation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "52--53",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340890",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gunter:2000:AAS,
author = "Carl A. Gunter",
title = "Automated analysis of standard {ML}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "53",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340950",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gunter:2000:FSE,
author = "Carl A. Gunter and Elsa L. Gunter and Pamela Zave",
title = "Formal software engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "54",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340951",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gupta:2000:PIP,
author = "Gopal Gupta",
title = "Parallel implementation of {Prolog}: the {ACE}
project",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "54--55",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340954",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Heineman:2000:MDA,
author = "George T. Heineman",
title = "A model for designing adaptable software components",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "55--56",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340956",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "An important aim of software engineering is to produce
reliable and robust software systems. As software
systems grow in size, however, it becomes infeasible to
design and construct software systems from scratch.
Most software developers are familiar with reusing code
from component libraries to speed up tedious
programming tasks, such as constructing graphical user
interfaces. However, it is still an elusive goal to
construct applications entirely from pre-existing,
independently developed components. We believe that
such component-based development will only occur when
application builders can adapt software components to
suit their needs. The goal of this research is to
develop novel techniques for designing software
components that provide a mechanism for adapting their
behavior. We aim to achieve higher levels of component
use/reuse than existing approaches for reusing software
components. The Active Interface technique we propose
enables software components to provide two interfaces
--- one for behavior and one for adapting that behavior
as needed. We make a distinction between software
evolution, where the component designer modifies the
software component, and adaptation, where an
application builder adapts the component for a
different use. We also differentiate adaptation from
customization; an end-user customizes a software
component by choosing from a fixed set of options. An
end-user adapts a software component by writing new
code to alter existing functionality.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henzinger:2000:NDC,
author = "Thomas A. Henzinger",
title = "New directions in computer-aided verification",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "56--57",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340957",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hind:2000:NNP,
author = "Michael Hind",
title = "{NPIC} --- {New Paltz interprocedural compiler}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "57--58",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340958",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Horwitz:2000:DRT,
author = "Susan Horwitz",
title = "Debugging via run-time type checking",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "58",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340960",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Java programmers have the security of knowing that
errors like out-of-bounds array indexes or attempts to
dereference a null pointer will be detected and
reported at run time. C and C++ programmers count on
tools like Purify to achieve a similar level of
confidence. The run-time checks provided by Purify have
proved to be extremely useful to programmers in
debugging their programs. Java also provides security
via its strong type system. For example: * There are no
union types in Java, so it is not possible for a
program to write into a field of one type and then
access that value via a field of a different type. *
Only very restricted kinds of casting are allowed; for
example, it is not possible to treat a pointer as if it
were an integer or vice versa. * When an object is
down-cast to a subtype, a run-time check will be
performed to ensure that the actual type of the object
is consistent with the cast. However, tools like Purify
do not provide similar checks for C/C++ programs. This
research involves the design and implementation of a
tool to provide new kinds of run-time checks based on
type information. That is, the goal of the tool is to
help C/C++ programmers find errors in their programs
that manifest themselves as bad run-time types, in the
same way that Purify helps programmers find errors in
their programs that manifest themselves as bad run-time
memory accesses. The basic idea is to associate a
run-time type with every piece of data. Whenever data
is used by some operation, a check is performed to
ensure that its run-time type is consistent with the
type expected by the operation. For example, when a
pointer is dereferenced, its run-time type must be
``pointer'' (not ``int'', ``float'', ``uninitialized'',
etc). When an integer multiplication is performed, the
operands' run-time types must be ``int'' (not
``pointer'', ``float'', ``uninitialized'', etc).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hudak:2000:PFR,
author = "Paul Hudak",
title = "Principles of functional reactive programming",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "59",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340961",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jagadeesan:2000:TP,
author = "R. Jagadeesan and K. L{\"a}ufer and V. Gupta",
title = "The {Triveni} project",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "59",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340962",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jayaraman:2000:RSC,
author = "Bharat Jayaraman",
title = "Research on sets, constraints, and preferences",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "60",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340963",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Johann:2000:TEP,
author = "Patricia Johann",
title = "Testing and enhancing a prototype program fusion
engine",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "60--61",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340964",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Johnson:2000:PLL,
author = "Philip M. Johnson",
title = "Project {LEAP}: lightweight, empirical,
anti-measurement dysfunction, and portable software
developer improvement",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "61",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340966",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kfoury:2000:TTR,
author = "A. J. Kfoury",
title = "Type theory and rewriting theory for expressive,
efficient and reliable programming languages",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "61--62",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340968",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Leavens:2000:FMM,
author = "Gary T. Leavens",
title = "Formal methods for multimethod software components",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "62--63",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340971",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mairson:2000:PLF,
author = "Harry Mairson",
title = "Programming language foundations of computation
theory",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "63",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340972",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mancoridis:2000:TDE,
author = "Spiros Mancoridis",
title = "Toward a design environment for recovering and
maintaining the structure of software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "63--64",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340973",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mesenguer:2000:SIO,
author = "Jos{\'e} Mesenguer and Carolyn Talcott",
title = "Semantic interoperation of open systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "64--65",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340976",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Minsky:2000:TAI,
author = "Naftaly H. Minsky",
title = "Towards architectural invariants of evolving systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "65",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340977",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mislove:2000:SMC,
author = "Michael W. Mislove",
title = "Semantic models for concurrency",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "65--66",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340980",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nadathur:2000:FRD,
author = "Gopalan Nadathur",
title = "A framework for realizing derivation systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "66--67",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340982",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Necula:2000:LBA,
author = "George C. Necula and Shree Rahul",
title = "A logic-based approach to software system safety and
security",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "67--68",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340983",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Offutt:2000:STA,
author = "Jeff Offutt",
title = "Software testing and analysis of object-oriented
software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "68",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340986",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Our work has studied new language mechanisms for
accessing message invocations in message passing based
concurrent programming languages. Invocation handling
mechanisms in many concurrent languages have
significant limitations that make it difficult or
costly to solve common programming situations
encountered in program visualization, debugging, and
scheduling scenarios. We have defined and implemented
new such mechanisms within the SR concurrent language
and have gained some experience with them. This work
has led us to want a cleaner, higher-level way of
defining mechanisms for message invocation. We are,
therefore, now taking an object-oriented approach. As a
step toward that goal, we are currently applying our
ideas to Java. Below, we briefly summarize these two
areas.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Olsson:2000:CPL,
author = "Ronald A. Olsson",
title = "Concurrent programming language support for invocation
handling: design and implementation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "68--69",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340987",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pierce:2000:EO,
author = "Benjamin C. Pierce",
title = "The essence of objects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "69--71",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340989",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "``The Essence of Objects'' is an ongoing program of
research in programming languages, type systems, and
distributed programming at the University of
Pennsylvania, supported by the National Science
Foundation under Career grant CCR-9701826, Principled
Foundations for Programming with Objects. Papers on
most of the topics discussed in this outline can be
found via http://www.cis.upenn.edu/bcpierce/papers.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pontelli:2000:PDE,
author = "Enrico Pontelli",
title = "Parallel and distributed execution of constraint
programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "71--72",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340992",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The goal of this research project is to study
techniques and methodologies for execution of
Constraint logic programs on parallel and distributed
architectures. These models will be applied to implicit
and explicit parallelization of complex and irregular
symbolic applications, such as those arising in Natural
Language Processing, Knowledge-based Systems, and
Digital Libraries, and to provide novel frameworks for
advanced World-Wide Web programming and coordination of
software components.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rajlich:2000:MTC,
author = "V{\'a}clav Rajlich",
title = "A model and a tool for change propagation in
software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "72",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340993",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ramakrishnan:2000:TLP,
author = "C. R. Ramakrishnan",
title = "Tabled logic programming for verification and program
analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "73",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340996",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ramakrishnan:2000:SEL,
author = "C. R. Ramakrishnan and I. V. Ramakrishnan and Scott A.
Smolka and David S. Warren",
title = "Specification and evaluation of logic-based model
checking",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "73--74",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340997",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Redmiles:2000:IDI,
author = "David F. Redmiles",
title = "Improving the design of interactive software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "74--75",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.340999",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This NSF sponsored CAREER project combines elements of
research in human-computer interaction with research in
software engineering. Three objectives are (1) to
develop a model of software development as a process of
on-going communication; (2) to support this model
through active mechanisms in software tools; and (3) to
improve the accessibility and acceptance of usability
methods by software practitioners. In general, the
objectives reflect a theory of human-centered software
development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Reynolds:2000:DDI,
author = "John C. Reynolds",
title = "The design, definition and implementation of
programming languages",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "75",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341002",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rine:2000:PCB,
author = "D. Rine and N. Nada",
title = "Public case-base and tool kit using a validated
{RRM}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "76",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341003",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software systems are important, yet poorly understood
entities. Users, and at times even developers, do not
always understand what is occurring within the software
in use. The Exploratory Visualization project attempts
to address the technical issues involved in helping
users understand running computations, especially
long-lived distributed computations. The three facets
of this problem that we investigate in our project are
(1) creating accurate views of a running execution, (2)
providing comprehensive and efficient access to a
computation, and (3) responding to the user's
interactions to promote understanding and optimize data
collection.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Roman:2000:EV,
author = "Gruia-Catalin Roman and Delbert Hart and Eileen
Kraemer",
title = "Exploratory visualization",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "76--77",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341005",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Roman:2000:RDD,
author = "Gruia-Catalin Roman and Amy L. Murphy",
title = "Rapid development of dependable applications over Ad
hoc networks",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "77--78",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341007",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Advances in wireless communication and network
computing technologies make possible new kinds of
applications involving transient interactions among
physical components that move across a wide range of
spaces, from the confines of a room to the airspace
across an ocean, and require no fixed networking
infrastructure to communicate with one another. Such
components may come together to form ad hoc networks
for the purpose of exchanging information or in order
to engage in cooperative task-oriented behaviors. Ad
hoc networks are assembled, reshaped and taken apart as
components move in and out of communication range; all
interactions are transient; computations become highly
decoupled and rely on weak forms of data consistency;
disconnections are frequent and unpredictable; and
component behavior is sensitive to changes in location,
context, quality of service, or administrative domain.
Our objective is to develop software engineering
methods and an associated software infrastructure that
will facilitate rapid development of dependable mobile
applications executing over ad hoc networks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rosenblum:2000:CME,
author = "David S. Rosenblum",
title = "{CAREER}: mechanisms for ensuring the integrity of
distributed object systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "78--79",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341008",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rothermel:2000:TME,
author = "Gregg Rothermel",
title = "Testing and maintaining evolving software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "79--80",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341012",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rugaber:2000:SEI,
author = "Spencer Rugaber and Linda Wills",
title = "Software evolution and interleaving",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "80",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341015",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Scedrov:2000:LBS,
author = "Andre Scedrov",
title = "A language-based security analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "80--81",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341016",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schmidt:2000:AIP,
author = "David Schmidt",
title = "Abstract interpretation and program modelling",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "81--82",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341017",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Shao:2000:TCI,
author = "Zhong Shao",
title = "Typed common intermediate format",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "82",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341019",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Shull:2000:EVP,
author = "Forrest Shull and Victor R. Basili and Marvin
Zelkowitz",
title = "The experimental validation and packaging of software
technologies",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "82--83",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341021",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sistla:2000:FMC,
author = "A. Prasad Sistla",
title = "Formal methods in concurrent and distributed systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "84",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341022",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Smidts:2000:AAG,
author = "Carol S. Smidts",
title = "An approach to the automatic generation of software
functional architecture",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "84--85",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341025",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Smith:2000:BRI,
author = "Geoffrey Smith and Dennis Volpano",
title = "Basic research in information privacy",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "86",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341026",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Stewart:2000:AAF,
author = "David B. Stewart",
title = "Automated analysis and fine-tuning of timing
properties in embedded real-time systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "86--87",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341028",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "An extremely time-consuming task of producing an
embedded real-time system is the final analysis and
fine-tuning of the system's timing. Existing CASE tools
focus on the software specification and design of
embedded systems. They provide little, if any, support
after the software has been implemented. Even if the
developer uses a CASE tool to design their system, it
likely does not meet the timing specifications on the
first try. This happens because the CASE tool's
software design and real-time analysis is based only on
estimated data and idealized models. The tools do not
take into account practical concerns such as operating
system overhead, interrupt handling, limitations of the
programming language or processor, inaccuracies in
estimating worst-case execution time of each process,
and software errors introduced at the implementation
phase by the programmers. Performance monitoring tools
allow developers to obtain raw data from the underlying
embedded system in real-time. These tools provide most,
if not all, of the data needed to pinpoint the problem.
Such data, however, is not provided in a symbolic
fashion, and thus could be very difficult to
understand. The monitors only show what happened during
run-time, without correlating those results to the
original specifications. Performance monitors also do
not perform any analysis on the data that is collected.
As a result, there is no means to easily differentiate
between parts of the execution that are ``normal''
versus those parts that have difficult-to-detect timing
errors. Only an expert's eye can quickly spot the
differences. We are investigating tools that can help
embedded system designers analyze, debug, and fine-tune
the timing characteristics of their embedded
implementations. Such a tool can have a major impact,
by allowing designers whose expertise is in an area
other than real-time system analysis, such as
communications, controls, or hardware design, to use
the tool and obtain valuable information on how to fix
their code that is not performing according to
specifications.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Swift:2000:PPA,
author = "Terrance Swift",
title = "Principles, practice, and applications of tabled logic
programming",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "87--88",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341031",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tai:2000:ATC,
author = "K. C. Tai",
title = "Analysis and testing of concurrent object-oriented
software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "88",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341033",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tian:2000:EMI,
author = "Jeff Tian",
title = "Early measurement and improvement of software
reliability",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "89",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341034",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{VanHentenryck:2000:CP,
author = "Pascal {Van Hentenryck}",
title = "Constraint programming",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "89--90",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341036",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{VanderZanden:2000:NVD,
author = "Bradley T. {Vander Zanden}",
title = "New visualization and debugging technology for one-way
dataflow constraints",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "90--91",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341038",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wand:2000:ABP,
author = "Mitchell Wand",
title = "Analysis-based program transformations",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "91--92",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341041",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wand:2000:OMU,
author = "Mitchell Wand and William D. Clinger",
title = "Optimizing memory usage in higher-order programming
languages: theoretical and experimental studies",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "92",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341042",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{White:2000:GSD,
author = "Elizabeth L. White",
title = "General strategies for dynamic reconfiguration",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "93",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341044",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In recent years there has been a great deal of
attention in the software engineering community on the
development of techniques and tools that provide
support for dynamic reconfiguration, the ability to
make changes to a running application. The changes of
interest include (1) adding/removing/moving components;
(2) adding/removing bindings (communication channels);
(3) changing the characteristics of the components or
bindings. My work in this area has focused both on
software support for dynamic reconfiguration of
parallel applications and on frameworks and static
software analysis techniques for determining the
validity of component-level adaptations in the context
of dynamic reconfiguration.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zeil:2000:RGM,
author = "Steven J. Zeil",
title = "Reliability growth modeling from fault failure rates",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "94",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341045",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A variety of reliability growth models provide
quantified measures of test effectiveness in terms that
are directly relevant to project management [Lyu96],
but at the cost of restricting testing to
representative selection, in which test data is chosen
to reflect the operational distribution of the
program's inputs. During testing, data is collected on
the observed times between program failures (or,
similarly, numbers of failures within a time interval).
These observations are fitted to one of various models,
which can then be used to estimate the current
reliability of the program.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Stidolph:2000:EDC,
author = "Wayne Stidolph",
title = "{Evolutionary Design of Complex Software (EDCS)}
demonstration days 1999",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "95",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341046",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report summarizes the Product/Technology
demonstrations given at Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) Evolutionary Design of Complex
Software (EDCS) Program Demonstration Days, held 28-29
June 1999 at the Sheraton National Hotel, Arlington,
VA.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2000:AA,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "{Acme} and {AcmeStudio}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "96",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341049",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Scherlis:2000:ACT,
author = "William L. Scherlis",
title = "Adaptation and commitment technology {(ACT)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "96",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341051",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Taylor:2000:Aa,
author = "Richard Taylor and David Redmiles",
title = "Arabica",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "96",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341053",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Stavridou:2000:AAC,
author = "Victoria Stavridou",
title = "Architectural analysis of component-based systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "96--97",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341061",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2000:AAS,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "{ARGUS-1}: ``All-Seeing'' architectural analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "97",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341066",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Taylor:2000:Ab,
author = "Richard Taylor and David Redmiles",
title = "{ArchStudio}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "97",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341063",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Taylor:2000:AU,
author = "Richard Taylor and David Redmiles",
title = "{Argo\slash {UML}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "97",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341065",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Brannum:2000:CPA,
author = "Garry Brannum",
title = "Capability packages for avionics software {(CPAS)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "98",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341070",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Carlson:2000:E,
author = "Bill Carlson and Chris Garrity",
title = "Ewatch",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "98",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341069",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kaiser:2000:IBIa,
author = "Gail E. Kaiser",
title = "{Internet}-based information management technology",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "98",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341073",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Taylor:2000:C,
author = "Richard Taylor and David Redmiles",
title = "{Chimera}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "98",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341074",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Heimbigner:2000:DSE,
author = "Dennis Heimbigner and Alexander L. Wolf",
title = "Distributed software engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "99",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341078",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Luckham:2000:CEP,
author = "David Luckham",
title = "Complex event processing {(CEP)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "99",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341080",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Teitelbaum:2000:C,
author = "Tim Teitelbaum",
title = "{CodeSurfer}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "99",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341076",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wiederhold:2000:CMS,
author = "Gio Wiederhold and Dorothea Beringer and Neal Sample
and Laurence Melloul",
title = "Composition of multi-site software {(CHAIMS)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "99--100",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341082",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Blazer:2000:CBD,
author = "Bob Blazer",
title = "A {COTS-based} design editor for user specified
domains",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "100",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341084",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Richardson:2000:BDA,
author = "Debra Richardson",
title = "{DAS-BOOT}: design-, architecture- and
specification-based approaches to object-oriented
testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "100",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341085",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lieberherr:2000:DAP,
author = "Karl J. Lieberherr",
title = "{Demeter}\slash adaptive programming",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "100--101",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341088",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rugaber:2000:ECS,
author = "Spencer Rugaber",
title = "Esprit de {Corps} Suite",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "101",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341094",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Taylor:2000:E,
author = "Richard Taylor and David Redmiles",
title = "Endeavors",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "101",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341092",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Taylor:2000:EDE,
author = "Richard Taylor and David Redmiles",
title = "Expectation-driven event monitoring",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "101",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341095",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Vestal:2000:D,
author = "Steve Vestal",
title = "{DoME}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "101",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341089",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Osterweil:2000:F,
author = "Leon Osterweil and Lori A. Clarke",
title = "{FLAVERS}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "101--102",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341098",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bailin:2000:FAM,
author = "Sidney Bailin and Dean Allemang",
title = "Formal alternative management integrating logical
inference and rationals {(FAMILIAR)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "102",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341100",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Vestal:2000:ICE,
author = "Steve Vestal",
title = "Incremental constraint engine",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "102--103",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341102",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kaiser:2000:IBIb,
author = "Gail E. Kaiser",
title = "{Internet}-based information management technology",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "103",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341107",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lehoczky:2000:IIS,
author = "John Lehoczky",
title = "{INSERT} --- {Incremental Software Evolution for
Real-Time Systems}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "103",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341104",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Batory:2000:JTS,
author = "Don Batory",
title = "{Jakarta Tool Suite (JTS)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "103--104",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341108",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Meseguer:2000:M,
author = "Jose Meseguer and Carolyn Talcott",
title = "{Maude}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "104",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341115",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Osterweil:2000:LJ,
author = "Leon Osterweil and Lori A. Clarke",
title = "{Little-JIL}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "104",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341113",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Taylor:2000:KD,
author = "Richard Taylor and David Redmiles",
title = "Knowledge depot",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "104",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341111",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Boehm:2000:MBS,
author = "Barry Boehm and Neno Medvidovic",
title = "Model-based (systems) architecting and software
engineering {(MBASE)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "104--105",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341117",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Johnson:2000:MAG,
author = "Lewis Johnson and Stacy Marsella",
title = "{MediaDoc}: automated generation of multimedia
explanatory presentations",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "105",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341121",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Karsai:2000:MIC,
author = "Gabor Karsai",
title = "Model integrated computing {(MIC)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "105",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341125",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Vestal:2000:M,
author = "Steve Vestal",
title = "{MetaH}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "105",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341124",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Reed:2000:OVC,
author = "Daniel Reed and Simon Kaplan",
title = "{ORBIT\slash VIRTUE} --- collaboration and
visualization support for complex systems evolution",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "105--106",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341127",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Boehm:2000:SAA,
author = "Barry Boehm and Neno Medvidovic",
title = "Software architecture, analysis, generation, and
evolution {(SAAGE)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "106",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341131",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Young:2000:HAT,
author = "Michal Young",
title = "High assurance technologies",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "106",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341130",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Balzer:2000:SWC,
author = "Bob Balzer",
title = "Securely wrapping {COTS} products",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "106--107",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341134",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Richardson:2000:SAT,
author = "Debra Richardson",
title = "Siddhartha --- automated test driver-oracle
synthesis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "106--107",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341136",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{McDonald:2000:S,
author = "Jim McDonald",
title = "Specware",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "107",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341139",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Richardson:2000:SSB,
author = "Debra Richardson",
title = "{SoBelt}: structural and behavioral execution
instrumentation tool",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "107",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341138",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Egyed:2000:UAS,
author = "Alexander Egyed",
title = "{UML\slash Analyzer} --- a system for defining and
analyzing the conceptual integrity of {UML} models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "108",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341142",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Richardson:2000:TST,
author = "Debra Richardson",
title = "{TestTalk}: software test description language",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "108",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341141",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Taylor:2000:W,
author = "Richard Taylor and David Redmiles",
title = "{WebDAV}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "108",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341143",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Raccoon:2000:WNK,
author = "L. B. S. Raccoon",
title = "A whole new kind of engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "109--113",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341144",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "There is a lot of momentum for software engineering to
become a title act branch of engineering. A brochure
from McMaster University
(www.cas.mcmaster.ca/cas/undergraduate/SEbrochure.pdf,
Fall 1999), reads, ``At McMaster we have taken the
position that software engineering is a branch of
engineering and have applied well established
principles of engineering education in this new
specialty.'' And, the Texas Board of Professional
Engineers is certifying software engineers as title act
engineers, today. If other states follow then software
engineering will become a title act branch of
engineering by fiat. While I agree that software
engineering resembles traditional engineering in many
ways, I also believe that software engineering is a
whole new kind of engineering that is equal to,
parallel to, and independent of traditional
engineering. I believe that if software engineers want
to be licensed, they should recognize their unique
reality and become licensed in a way that reflects this
reality. Software engineers should be professionalized
on their own terms, with their own regulatory
structure. Software engineers should create a whole new
kind of engineering, and not just follow the path
trodden by traditional engineers. In the first section,
I argue that software engineering is a real profession
that stands on its own and that its culture differs
substantially from that of traditional engineering.
Software engineering is big: it counts nearly as many
practitioners as traditional engineering; diverse: it
has many areas of specialized practice; and enduring:
it has grown steadily for more than fifty years. Every
facet of software engineering, from technology to
attitude to origins, differs from traditional
engineering, which profoundly affects the culture of
software engineering. Software engineering is not a
branch of traditional engineering. In the second
section, I argue that
all-of-software-engineering-combined should resemble
all-of-traditional-engineering-combined. Four kinds of
traditional engineering regulation are practiced today
that software engineering can emulate: unregulated,
title-act, practice-act, and
all-of-engineering-combined. Of these four kinds,
title-act and all-of-engineering-combined are the most
likely outcomes. There is a lot of momentum to regulate
software engineering as a title-act branch of
engineering. However, regulating software engineering
like all-of-engineering-combined will give software
engineers more control over their destiny, let them
define their own identity and culture, wield their own
power, and set their own curriculum and immigration
policy.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Traas:2000:SCM,
author = "Vincent Traas and Jos van Hillegersberg",
title = "The software component market on the {Internet}:
current status and conditions for growth",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "1",
pages = "114",
month = jan,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/340855.341145",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component Based Development (CBD) promises a large
step forward in the quest for maximizing reuse in
software development. Although a variety of definitions
of CBD exists, key to CBD is the process of building
systems by way of combination and integration of
pre-engineered and pre-tested software components. For
CBD to be the long awaited breakthrough in software
development, the efficient reuse of software components
has to be organized by a market system; ``Components
develop their full potential only in a component
market'' [5]. Organizations may benefit from organizing
an internal component market. Software components can
then be reused over multiple projects saving valuable
resources. However, the most appropriate marketplace to
buy and sell components would be the Internet: an
international, freely accessible network, which is
perfectly suited for offering, promoting and
distributing components. A flourishing component market
on the Internet would really allow organizations to buy
and reuse against low-costs. Developers would only need
to focus on functionality specific to the project, and
on locating and integrating available components.
Industry watchers have predicted huge growth figures
for the software component market. Gartner predicts the
component market will grow to \$7 billion in 2001, of
which \$2 billion directly comes from component sales
[1]. Giga information group predicts an off-the-shelf
component market of \$3,3 billion in 2001 [6]. Ovum
goes further by estimating the size of the software
component market to be \$64 billion in 2002 [3]. But
does a component market on the Internet already exist,
and if so, what is its status? Also, if a component
market is so important for CBD to fulfil its promises,
what are the conditions for growth towards maturity?
Apart from rough estimations of the future size of the
market, little research has been done to investigate
the current component market and its growth. It is the
objective of the research reported on in this paper to
gain insight into these questions. The research
described in this article contained two phases: First,
an overview of the current status of the component
market on the Internet was created. Next, based on this
overview and a literature study, conditions for growth
of the market were developed. An email-survey was held
in which experts were asked to rate these conditions by
importance and comment on them. Section two and three
describe the results of these research phases
respectively.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Griswold:2000:GVC,
author = "William G. Griswold",
title = "Guilds or virtual countries? the future of software
professionals",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "2--2",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346061",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2000:SNSa,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "8--16",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346062",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2000:RPCb,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "17--21",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346063",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pulvermuller:2000:TGC,
author = "Elke Pulverm{\"u}ller and Andreas Speck",
title = "Towards generative components",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "22--24",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346064",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "On September, 28 --- 30, 1999, the First International
Symposium on Generative and Component-based Software
Engineering (GCSE'1999) took place at Erfurt,
Germany. This was the origin of a new international
forum bundling the research on all generative
techniques within the software development process,
especially those focused on components. The next
Symposium GCSE'2000 is intended to take place on
October, 10--12, 2000, Erfurt. This time co-hosted with
NET.OBJECTDAYS'2000.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Munson:2000:RTS,
author = "Ethan V. Munson",
title = "Representations, tools, and services for the complete
integration of software development documents",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "25--25",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346065",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mamone:2000:DT,
author = "Salvatore Mamone",
title = "Documentation testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "26--29",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346066",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "One definition of documentation is 'Any written or
pictorial information describing, defining, specifying,
reporting, or certifying activities, requirements,
procedures, or results.' (1). Documentation is as
important to a product's success as the product itself.
If the documentation is poor, non-existent, or wrong,
it reflects on the quality of the product and the
vendor. At the Bell Atlantic Systems Integration \&
Testing Center documentation testing is an important
function that receives as much attention as the testing
of software and hardware. Because the Bell Atlantic
Systems Integration \& Testing Center is ISO9001
certified, an enormous effort was undertaken to ensure
quality assurance of all products including
documentation. Both a test procedure and test plan for
documentation has been implemented to ensure this
quality. This article will describe what documentation
is, why document testing is important, and how document
testing is performed at the Bell Atlantic Systems
Integration \& Testing Center. Other information
pertaining to documentation, such as human factors, how
to achieve document comprehensiveness, and
comprehensibility, although important, are beyond the
reach of this report.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Adams:2000:GI,
author = "Tom Adams",
title = "The {God} of inspection",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "30--30",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346067",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Agarwal:2000:OEL,
author = "Rakesh Agarwal and Arup Ratan Raha and Bhaskar Ghosh",
title = "Our experience and learning in {ERP} implementation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "31--34",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346068",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Information systems developed to support the
functional units of a complete enterprise (referred in
this paper as ``application package'') only serve
standard industry processes. Very often, the business
processes that differentiate an organization from
another are the processes that define their competitive
edge. This competitive edge can be achieved if the
implemented processes are based on the best practices
supported by these packages. This requires a strong
knowledge of Business Processes, adept IT capability
and a sound, tested implementation. This paper
describes our experience in using the COTS package
application MAC-PAC v10 for TOSHIBA sales \& services
(a subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Juric:2000:ILS,
author = "Matjaz B. Juric and Ivan Rozman and Marjan Hericko and
Tomaz Domajnko",
title = "Integrating legacy systems in distributed object
architecture",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "35--39",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346069",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The ability of a new technology to reuse legacy
systems is very important for its economic success.
This paper presents a method for integrating legacy
systems within distributed object architectures. The
necessary steps required for integration are defined.
It is explained how to define object interfaces. A
detailed overview of how to implement the wrappers is
given. The paper also answers the question which
distributed object model is most suitable for legacy
integration. Therefore a decision model is defined and
the evaluation results are presented.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mei:2000:CAR,
author = "Hong Mei",
title = "A complementary approach to requirements
engineering---software architecture orientation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "40--45",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346070",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents the idea of Software Architecture
Oriented Requirements Engineering, a complementary
approach to existing requirements engineering processes
and methods. The main objective is to introduce
concepts and principles of software architecture into
requirement analysis and requirement specification,
supporting requirement reuse, traceability between
requirement specifications and system design, and
consistency in the whole software development process
more effectively. The paper views connectors as the
first-class entities in the problem space, not just in
the solution space as most of current research on
software architecture does, hence the connector
recognition and specification are same important as
component recognition and specification in requirements
engineering. Based on this idea, the paper presents a
new software development process and corresponding
requirements engineering process, gives some guidelines
for connector recognition, and borrows the notations of
software architecture description to specify the
functional and behavioural requirements at a high
abstraction level. It must be pointed out that the
approach presented in this paper is not a substitute
for existing ones, but a complement to them from
another perspective and at a different abstraction
level.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Albizuri-Romero:2000:RVC,
author = "Miren Bego{\~n}a Albizuri-Romero",
title = "A retrospective view of {CASE} tools adoption",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "46--50",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346071",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper provides a retrospective view of the
adoption of CASE tools in organizations using some
empirical data from various research studies in this
field. First, relevant factors that influence the
decision to adopt such a tool are discussed. Such
factors include elements related to the organization
adopting such a technology, as well as other
characteristics associated with the application
environment and the alternative development methods
being used. Then, the advantages and disadvantages of
using CASE tools are discussed and some critical
success factors are identified. Finally, a taxonomy of
CASE tools in the 90's is presented. The paper provides
some explanations of why some organizations are
successful in adopting CASE tools and gives
recommendations for making a better use of such a
technology.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ramaswamy:2000:LDS,
author = "Ramkumar Ramaswamy",
title = "Latency in distributed, sequential application
designs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "51--55",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346072",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Despite advances in hardware, communications and
software technology, latency remains a pressing problem
for designers of distributed applications. Even after
application functionality has been carefully
distributed amongst multiple sites, there is the
problem of the detailed design of client requests so
that network trips are efficiently made. Most solution
approaches (or compromises) for detailed design that
are encountered in practice either tend to be ad-hoc,
or are intended for use with a specific class of
development environment, such as object-oriented
languages. In this paper we take a fresh look at the
problem of designing client requests in the presence of
latency. We treat the client machine as a black box,
thus ignoring the details of intra-machine
communication and staying clear of specific
environments such as OO. We propose a generic,
intuitively appealing principle for the sequential
design of client requests that allows a designer to
systematically work around latency to meet
response-time requirements. Applicability of this
principle is shown using some simple but realistic
examples of business transactions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Yuan:2000:OCH,
author = "Xiaodong Yuan and Ying Feng",
title = "The optimization of class hierarchy in object-oriented
design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "56--59",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346073",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Constructing class hierarchies is an important step in
object-oriented design, but no formal and effective
methods of optimizing class hierarchies were previously
established. In this paper, we first divide the
relationship between object sets into four categories:
inclusion, superposition, separation, and cross. Then
the genres of inheritance are discussed from the point
of view of object set. Following that, we introduce the
concept of maximal uncrossed set used to optimize a
class hierarchy. Through finding all of these maximal
uncrossed sets, we present the method and steps of
constructing a reasonable, clear, and complete class
hierarchy. Various representations of inheritance
relationship in a class hierarchy diagram and a
recursion algorithm to get all the maximal uncrossed
sets are also provided in this paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Han:2000:CSO,
author = "Yan Han and Xu Chun-Gen and Zhang Gong-Xuan and Liu
Feng-Yu",
title = "Constraint specification for object model of access
control based on role",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "60--63",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346074",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Constraint specifications for access control organize
a set of constraints to control human-computer
interaction for users to perform their duties securely
and efficiently. Constraint specifications are
imperative for the access control and security
management of large and complex multi-user interactive
applications. Existing specifications of Role-based
Access Control are incomplete and complicated. This
paper proposes a framework of well-defined constraint
specifications for developers to build
application-level access control based on users' roles.
They ensure that each role is configured with
consistent privileges, each actor is authorized to
proper roles and then each actor can activate and play
his authorized roles without interest conflicts. These
formal specifications are consistent and inferable,
complete and simplified, abundant and scalable for
diversified multi-user applications.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Han:2000:OOM,
author = "Yan Han and Liu Fengyu and Zhang Hong",
title = "An object-oriented model of access control based on
role",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "2",
pages = "64--68",
month = mar,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/346057.346075",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:56 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "At present, majority access control models mainly deal
with data-protection at the back-end of applications.
However, they are not applicable for large and complex
multi-user applications. Though Object Technology has
turned into one of the mainstream approaches for large
and complex applications development, it still lacks a
general model of application-level access control.
While the existing models of role-based access control
could simplify privilege management, they neglect the
dynamic features of activated roles. This paper
proposes an object-oriented model in Unified Modeling
Language supporting application-level access control
based on users' roles. In the model, an interface type
is provided containing a set of operations as user
services, which are authorized to users via their
roles. To represent the activated roles, Role-Playing
is introduced, and it is modeled as an active class.
Every object of Role-Playing runs in particular
context, which restrict users' rights dynamically and
control users' interaction actively. The model is
suitable for multi-user interactive computing and
distributed information-processing systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Notkin:2000:SNS,
author = "David Notkin",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "5--10",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505865",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2000:RPCc,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "15--23",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505866",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Conradi:2000:SES,
author = "Reidar Conradi",
title = "Summary from {7th European Software Process Workshop
(EWSPT'7), Kaprun near Salzburg, 21--25 Feb. 2000}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "23--23",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505868",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kumar:2000:SAM,
author = "Bharath M. Kumar and R. Lakshminarayanan and Y. N.
Srikant",
title = "A study of automatic migration of programs across the
{Java} event models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "24--29",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505870",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Evolution of a framework forces a change in the design
of an application, which is based on the framework. The
same is the case when the Java event model changed from
the Inheritance model to the Event Delegation model. We
summarize our experiences when attempting an automatic
and elegant migration across the event models. Further,
we also necessitate the need for extra documentation in
patterns that will help programs evolve better.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lather:2000:SAS,
author = "Anu Singh Lather and Shakti Kumar and Yogesh Singh",
title = "Suitability assessment of software developers: a fuzzy
approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "30--31",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505871",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The right selection of software personnels helps keep
project cost low, deliver better quality software and
avoids the schedule slippage of a software project. We
have identified the 3 most essential
abilities/aptitudes which can decide comparative merit
of the software developers. These are Verbal Reasoning
(VR), Numerical Ability (NA) and Abstract Reasoning
(AR). As a fuzzy model is a best choice for managing
ambiguous, doubtful, contradicting and diverging
opinions we propose a three input and single output
fuzzy model to unify the crisp output of the 3 tests
(i.e., VR, NA, AR). The output of the proposed fuzzy
model a single numerical value that decides the merit
of a developer based on the scores he obtains in VR, NA
and AR.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chen:2000:EME,
author = "Wang Chen and Zhou Ying and Zhang Defu",
title = "An efficient method for expressing active object in
{C++}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "32--35",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505872",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Object-Oriented technology is fit for the construction
of open systems. However, how to express distributed or
concurrent objects has not been resolved in nowadays OO
language. The active object concept is one kind of
generalization of concurrent or distributed objects. We
analyzed the characters of active objects in detail and
propose an efficient method to express active behaviors
in Object-Oriented language such as C++. What we lay
stress on is to express active objects' two major
features: concurrency and cooperative, especially the
latter. The reusability of active objects is emphasized
as well.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{PanYunhe:2000:AOA,
author = "Zhou Yonglin PanYunhe",
title = "Agent-oriented analysis and modeling",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "36--40",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505873",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Traditional requirements engineering (RE) are facing
challenge. With the continuous change of application
environment and software market, as well as the
development of new design approaches (e.g. software
architecture and component-based software engineering),
RE should also move its eyes from product-oriented and
function-centered view to problem-domain-oriented and
structure-centered view. In this paper we proposed a
new analysis and modeling approach: Agent-Oriented
Approach (AOA). AOA is problem-domain-oriented and
implementation-independent. It searches for a solution
strategy for a families of problems rather than a
special software requirements specification(SRS). It
focuses on entities with active behavior in problem
domain and pay attention to their interaction. It can
describe parallel and distributed entities commonly
existing in problem domains and it is more stable and
reuseful than SRS.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kokol:2000:ASS,
author = "Peter Kokol and Vili Podgorelec and Ana Isabel Cardoso
and Francis Dion",
title = "Assessing the state of the software process
development using the chaos theory",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "41--43",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505874",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Computer software and the software development process
belong to the class of complex systems. As a
consequence software development process can be
analysed by techniques and concepts used in the chaos
theory. It is the aim of this paper to present how we
can use the chaos theory (in particular the Logistic
map concept) to identify the state of the software
development process.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kokol:2000:IES,
author = "Peter Kokol and Vili Podgorelec and Francis Dion and
Rich de Loach",
title = "Intellectual energy in software design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "44--45",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505875",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In the paper we use the sequential study approach to
empirical software engineering to research a novel idea
about assessing the intellectual energy built into the
software products. The study showed that we can use
product of Function Points and {\alpha} metric to
calculate both the intellectual energy reflected in the
software and the intellectual energy spend during the
software design.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Milicev:2000:COG,
author = "Dragan Milicev",
title = "Customizable output generation in modeling
environments using pipelined domains",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "46--50",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505876",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Domain-specific modeling and metamodeling environments
most often base their output generation capability on
wizards, output templates, grammar-based transformers,
or hard-coded output generators. The complexity of the
specification process for such generators, and their
dependence on the domain do not encourage
customization, flexibility, and reuse. This paper
proposes a solution to this problem. In the proposed
approach, the domains are (meta) modeled using the
standard object-oriented paradigm. Second, the
generation of a model in the target domain from a model
in the source domain is specified using extended UML
object diagrams that allow specification of
conditional, repetitive, and sequential creation of
instances of the target domain's abstractions. Finally,
the transformation of models may be performed in a
pipelined fashion, where each domain model and mapping
may be either created from the scratch or reused from
the repository. This approach allows more efficient,
incremental building of more abstract domains and their
mapping into less abstract domains, because each
transformation step is much less complicated to
specify, maintain, and reuse. Furthermore, by simple
choosing another pipeline, different versions of the
ultimate implementation from the same initial
high-level, user-defined model may be obtained
automatically. A prototypical supporting tool has been
implemented and briefly presented in the paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mondal:2000:CMW,
author = "Sakib Abdul Mondal and Kingshuk Das Gupta",
title = "Choosing a middleware for web-integration of a legacy
application",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "50--53",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505877",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Business applications today often face two
contradictory constraints: they have to deal with
heterogeneous platforms and at the same time meet the
quality requirements. A larger number of middleware
products are available to meet the first objective. An
architect invariably faces a problem of picking up the
right kind of middleware for the problem at hand.
Fortunately, the second objective of quality
requirements help an architect narrow down the choices
of middleware. In this article, we demonstrate this
fact through a project of web-integration of a legacy
invoicing system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zhao:2000:SQR,
author = "Luyin Zhao and Sebastian Elbaum",
title = "A survey on quality related activities in open
source",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "54--57",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505878",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anantharam:2000:MS,
author = "Parasuram Anantharam",
title = "Modelling systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "58--58",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505880",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anderson:2000:DSS,
author = "Tom Anderson",
title = "The distributed {Smalltalk} survival guide",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "58--58",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505881",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Benedicenti:2000:RSO,
author = "Luigi Benedicenti",
title = "Rethinking smart objects: building artificial
intelligence with objects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "59--59",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505882",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Boyer:2000:TPI,
author = "Kenneth W. {Boyer, Jr.}",
title = "Test process improvement: a practical step-by-step
guide to structured testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "59--60",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505883",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Caci:2000:TOO,
author = "Claude Caci",
title = "Testing object-oriented systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "60--61",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505884",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Claussen:2000:TPL,
author = "Peter Claussen",
title = "Theories of programming languages",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "61--62",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505885",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Claussen:2000:CPM,
author = "Peter Claussen",
title = "Concurrent programming in {ML}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "62--63",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505886",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dinishak:2000:OIF,
author = "Ron Dinishak",
title = "The optimal implementation of functional programming
languages",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "63--63",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505887",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Liu:2000:TRA,
author = "Chang Liu",
title = "Term rewriting and all that",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "63--63",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505888",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nedunuri:2000:FAP,
author = "Srinivas Nedunuri",
title = "The functional approach to programming",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "63--65",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505889",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Varma:2000:AST,
author = "Tathagat Varma",
title = "Automated software testing: introduction, management
and performance",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "65--65",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505890",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Weber-Wulff:2000:OOS,
author = "Debora Weber-Wulff",
title = "Object-oriented software engineering: conquering
complex and changing systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "65--66",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505891",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Green:2000:STA,
author = "Bradley S. Green",
title = "Software test automation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "3",
pages = "66--66",
month = may,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505863.505892",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:57 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2000:RPCd,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "4",
pages = "7--11",
month = jul,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/352342.352344",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:59 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2000:SNSb,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "4",
pages = "12--20",
month = jul,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/352342.352345",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:59 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schmietendorf:2000:MBA,
author = "Andreas Schmietendorf and Reiner Dumke and Erik
Foltin",
title = "Metrics based asset assessment",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "4",
pages = "51--55",
month = jul,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/352342.352347",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:59 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The re-use of software components during the software
development is considered to be an important factor to
improve the quality and productivity and thus to reduce
the time to market of the final product. In this paper
we will present a proposal for a description model for
re-usable components. We will also present the results
of case studies concerned with both telecom specific
and ``generic'' IT-components. These components have
been examined using the description model and a further
set of (empirical) criterions. Based on the results a
model concept for the empirical assessment of
JavaBeans, which is currently under development, is
presented.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bojic:2000:REU,
author = "Dragan Bojic and Dusan Velasevic",
title = "Reverse Engineering of Use Case Realizations in
{UML}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "4",
pages = "56--61",
month = jul,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/352342.2317216",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:59 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We propose a novel technique for recovering certain
elements of the UML model of a software system. These
include relationships between use cases as well as
class roles in collaborations that realize each use
case, identifying common functionality and thus
establishing a hierarchical view of the model. The
technique is based on dynamic analysis of the system
for the selected test cases that cover relevant use
cases. The theory of formal concept analysis is applied
to obtain classification of model elements, obtained by
a static analysis of code, in terms of use case
realizations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cimpan:2000:OLS,
author = "Sorana C{\^\i}mpan and Flavio Oquendo",
title = "{OMEGA}: a language and system for on-line monitoring
of software-intensive processes",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "4",
pages = "62--68",
month = jul,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/352342.352350",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:59 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents an environment for monitoring
software-intensive processes: the Omega environment
(Omega stands for On-line Monitoring Environment:
General and Adaptable). The environment provides the
language Omega/MDL (Monitoring Definition Language) for
defining monitoring models as well as a mechanism for
the execution of such models Omega/EM (Execution
Mechanism). The executing monitoring models (i.e.
monitoring systems), observe the subject process and
detect deviations between it and an expected behavior,
i.e. indicated by the process model instantiation. For
monitoring modeling, Omega proposes a novel approach
based on fuzzy logic. This approach allows to establish
the level of conformance between the process enactment
and the process model for different aspects of the
process, like progress, cost, structure (order between
activities), etc. The use of fuzzy logic enables the
system to cope with uncertain and imprecise
information.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Manolescu:2000:BRP,
author = "Dragos Manolescu",
title = "Book Review: {{\booktitle{Production Workflow-Concepts
and Techniques}} by Frank Leymann and Dieter Roller
(Prentice Hall PTR, 2000, ISBN 0-13-02175-0, 479
pp.)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "4",
pages = "69",
month = jul,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/352342.",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:13:59 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pincus:2000:ANF,
author = "Jon Pincus",
title = "Analysis is necessary, but far from sufficient
(abstract only): Experiences building and deploying
successful tools for developers and testers",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "1--1",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.347826",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Why are there so few successful ``real-world''
programming and testing tools based on academic
research? This talk focuses on program analysis tools,
and proposes a surprisingly simple explanation with
interesting ramifications. For a tool aimed at
developers or testers to be successful, people must use
it --- and must use it to help accomplish their
existing tasks, rather than as an end in itself. If the
tool does not help them get their job done, or the
effort to learn and/or use the tool is too great, users
will not perceive enough value; the tool will not get
significant usage, even if it is free. This talk
focuses on the often-overlooked consequences of this
seemingly basic statement in two major areas: program
analysis, and the work beyond core analysis that must
be done to make a successful tool. Examples will be
drawn from tools that have been successfully used in
industry (sold commercially, and developed for internal
use).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bhargavan:2000:VFA,
author = "Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Carl A. Gunter and Moonjoo
Kim and Insup Lee and Davor Obradovic and Oleg Sokolsky
and Mahesh Viswanathan",
title = "{Verisim}: Formal analysis of network simulations",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "2--13",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.347833",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Why are there so few successful ``real-world''
programming and testing tools based on academic
research? This talk focuses on program analysis tools,
and proposes a surprisingly simple explanation with
interesting ramifications. For a tool aimed at
developers or testers to be successful, people must use
it --- and must use it to help accomplish their
existing tasks, rather than as an end in itself. If the
tool does not help them get their job done, or the
effort to learn and/or use the tool is too great, users
will not perceive enough value; the tool will not get
significant usage, even if it is free. This talk
focuses on the often-overlooked consequences of this
seemingly basic statement in two major areas: program
analysis, and the work beyond core analysis that must
be done to make a successful tool. Examples will be
drawn from tools that have been successfully used in
industry (sold commercially, and developed for internal
use).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jackson:2000:FBC,
author = "Daniel Jackson and Mandana Vaziri",
title = "Finding bugs with a constraint solver",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "14--25",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.383378",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lev-Ami:2000:PSA,
author = "Tal Lev-Ami and Thomas Reps and Mooly Sagiv and
Reinhard Wilhelm",
title = "Putting static analysis to work for verification: a
case study",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "26--38",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348031",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A method for finding bugs in code is presented. For
given small numbers j and k, the code of a procedure is
translated into a relational formula whose models
represent all execution traces that involve at most j
heap cells and k loop iterations. This formula is
conjoined with the negation of the procedure's
specification. The models of the resulting formula,
obtained using a constraint solver, are
counterexamples: executions of the code that violate
the specification. The method can analyze millions of
executions in seconds, and thus rapidly expose quite
subtle flaws. It can accommodate calls to procedures
for which specifications but no code is available. A
range of standard properties (such as absence of null
pointer dereferences) can also be easily checked, using
predefined specifications.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Buy:2000:ATC,
author = "Ugo Buy and Alessandro Orso and Mauro Pezze",
title = "Automated Testing of Classes",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "39--48",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348870",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Programs developed with object technologies have
unique features that often make traditional testing
methods inadequate. Consider, for instance, the
dependence between the state of an object and the
behavior of that object: The outcome of a method
executed by an object often depends on the state of the
object when the method is invoked. It is therefore
crucial that techniques for testing of classes exercise
class methods when the method's receiver is in
different states. The state of an object at any given
time depends on the sequence of messages received by
the object up to that time. Thus, methods for testing
object-oriented software should identify sequences of
method invocations that are likely to uncover potential
defects in the code under test. However, testing
methods for traditional software do not provide this
kind of information. In this paper, we use data flow
analysis, symbolic execution, and automated deduction
to produce sequences of method invocations exercising a
class under test. Since the static analysis techniques
that we use are applied to different subproblems, the
method proposed in this paper can automatically
generate information relevant to testing even when
symbolic execution and automated deduction cannot be
completed successfully.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Souter:2000:OST,
author = "Amie L. Souter and Lori L. Pollock",
title = "{OMEN}: a strategy for testing object-oriented
software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "49--59",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348871",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents a strategy for structural testing
of object-oriented software systems with possibly
unknown clients and unknown information about invoked
methods. By exploiting the combined points-to and
escape analysis developed for compiler optimization,
our testing paradigm does not require a whole program
representation to be in memory simultaneously for
testing analysis. Potential effects from outside the
component under test are easily identified and reported
to the tester. As client and server methods become
known, the graph representation of object relationships
is easily extended, allowing the computation of test
tuples to be performed in a demand-driven manner,
without requiring unnecessary computation of test
tuples based on predictions of potential clients.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hartmann:2000:UBI,
author = "Jean Hartmann and Claudio Imoberdorf and Michael
Meisinger",
title = "{UML-Based} integration testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "60--70",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348872",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Increasing numbers of software developers are using
the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and associated
visual modeling tools as a basis for the design and
implementation of their distributed, component-based
applications. At the same time, it is necessary to test
these components, especially during unit and
integration testing. At Siemens Corporate Research, we
have addressed the issue of testing components by
integrating test generation and test execution
technology with commercial UML modeling tools such as
Rational Rose; the goal being a design-based testing
environment. In order to generate test cases
automatically, developers first define the dynamic
behavior of their components via UML Statecharts,
specify the interactions amongst them and finally
annotate them with test requirements. Test cases are
then derived from these annotated Statecharts using our
test generation engine and executed with the help of
our test execution tool. The latter tool was developed
specifically for interfacing to components based on
COM/DCOM and CORBA middleware. In this paper, we
present our approach to modeling components and their
interactions, describe how test cases are derived from
these component models and then executed to verify
their conformant behavior. We outline the
implementation strategy of our TnT environment and use
it to evaluate our approach by means of a simple
example.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hamlet:2000:STP,
author = "Dick Hamlet",
title = "On subdomains: Testing, profiles, and components",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "71--76",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348873",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Subdomains of a program's input space are a concept
around which ideas about testing can be organized. This
paper considers the questions, ``What are the best
subdomains for testing to detecting failures defining
operational profiles measuring component
reliability?''",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Peters:2000:RBM,
author = "Dennis K. Peters and David L. Parnas",
title = "Requirements-based monitors for real-time systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "77--85",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348874",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Before designing safety- or mission-critical real-time
systems, a specification of the required behaviour of
the system should be produced and reviewed by domain
experts. After the system has been implemented, it
should be thoroughly tested to ensure that it behaves
correctly. This is best done using a monitor, a system
that observes the behaviour of a target system and
reports if that behaviour is consistent with the
requirements. Such a monitor can be used both as an
oracle during testing and as a supervisor during
operation. Monitors should be based on the documented
requirements of the system. If the target system is
required to monitor or control real-valued quantities,
then the requirements, which are expressed in terms of
the monitored and controlled quantities, will allow a
range of behaviours to account for errors and
imprecision in observation and control of these
quantities. Even if the controlled variables are
discrete valued, the requirements must specify the
timing tolerance. Because of the limitations of the
devices used by the monitor to observe the
environmental quantities, there is unavoidable
potential for false reports, both negative and
positive. This paper discusses design of monitors for
real-time systems, and examines the conditions under
which a monitor will produce false reports. We describe
the conclusions that can be drawn when using a monitor
to observe system behaviour.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kolano:2000:CSA,
author = "Paul Z. Kolano and Richard A. Demmerer",
title = "Classification schemes to aid in the analysis of
real-time systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "86--95",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348875",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents three sets of classification
schemes for processes, properties, and transitions that
can be used to assist in the analysis of real-time
systems. These classification schemes are discussed in
the context of ASTRAL, which is a formal specification
language for real-time systems. Eight testbed systems
were specified in ASTRAL, and their proofs were
performed to determine proof patterns that occur most
often. The specifications were then examined in an
attempt to derive specific characteristics that could
be used to statically identify each pattern within a
specification. Once the classifications were obtained,
they were then used to provide systematic guidance for
analyzing real-time systems by directing the prover to
the proof techniques most applicable to each proof
pattern. This paper presents the set of classification
schemes that were developed and discusses how they can
be used to assist the proof process.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cobleigh:2000:VPP,
author = "Jamieson M. Cobleigh and Lori A. Clark and Leon J.
Osterweil",
title = "Verifying properties of process definitions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "96--101",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348876",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "It seems important that the complex processes that
synergize humans and computers to solve widening
classes of societal problems be subjected to rigorous
analysis. One approach is to use a process definition
language to specify these processes and to then use
analysis techniques to evaluate these definitions for
important correctness properties. Because humans demand
flexibility in their participation in complex
processes, process definition languages must
incorporate complicated control structures, such as
various concurrency, choice, reactive control, and
exception mechanisms. The underlying complexity of
these control abstractions, however, often confounds
the users' intuitions as well as complicates any
analysis. Thus, the control abstraction complexity in
process definition languages presents analysis
challenges beyond those posed by traditional
programming languages. This paper explores some of the
difficulties of analyzing process definitions. We
explore issues arising when applying the FLAVERS finite
state verification system to processes written in the
Little-JIL process definition language and illustrate
these issues using a realistic auction example.
Although we employ a particular process definition
language and analysis technique, our results seem more
generally applicable.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Elbaum:2000:PTC,
author = "Sebastian Elbaum and Alexey G. Malishevsky and Gregg
Rothermel",
title = "Prioritizing test cases for regression testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "102--112",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348910",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Test case prioritization techniques schedule test
cases in an order that increases their effectiveness in
meeting some performance goal. One performance goal,
rate of fault detection, is a measure of how quickly
faults are detected within the testing process; an
improved rate of fault detection can provide faster
feedback on the system under test, and let software
engineers begin locating and correcting faults earlier
than might otherwise be possible. In previous work, we
reported the results of studies that showed that
prioritization techniques can significantly improve
rate of fault detection. Those studies, however, raised
several additional questions: (1) can prioritization
techniques be effective when aimed at specific modified
versions; (2) what tradeoffs exist between fine
granularity and coarse granularity prioritization
techniques; (3) can the incorporation of measures of
fault proneness into prioritization techniques improve
their effectiveness? This paper reports the results of
new experiments addressing these questions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hind:2000:WPA,
author = "Michael Hind and Anthony Pioli",
title = "Which pointer analysis should I use?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "113--123",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348916",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "During the past two decades many different pointer
analysis algorithms have been published. Although some
descriptions include measurements of the effectiveness
of the algorithm, qualitative comparisons among
algorithms are difficult because of varying
infrastructure, benchmarks, and performance metrics.
Without such comparisons it is not only difficult for
an implementor to determine which pointer analysis is
appropriate for their application, but also for a
researcher to know which algorithms should be used as a
basis for future advances. This paper describes an
empirical comparison of the effectiveness of five
pointer analysis algorithms on C programs. The
algorithms vary in their use of control flow
information (flow-sensitivity) and alias data
structure, resulting in worst-case complexity from
linear to polynomial. The effectiveness of the analyses
is quantified in terms of compile-time precision and
efficiency. In addition to measuring the direct effects
of pointer analysis, precision is also reported by
determining how the information computed by the five
pointer analyses affects typical client analyses of
pointer information: Mod/Ref analysis, live variable
analysis and dead assignment identification, reaching
definitions analysis, dependence analysis, and
conditional constant propagation and unreachable code
identification. Efficiency is reported by measuring
analysis time and memory consumption of the pointer
analyses and their clients.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Frankl:2000:CDR,
author = "Phyllis G. Frankl and Yuetang Deng",
title = "Comparison of delivered reliability of branch, data
flow and operational testing: a case study",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "124--134",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348926",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many analytical and empirical studies of software
testing effectiveness have used the probability that a
test set exposes at least one fault as the measure of
effectiveness. That measure is useful for evaluating
testing techniques when the goal of testing is to gain
confidence that the program is free from faults.
However, if the goal of testing is to improve the
reliability of the program (by discovering and removing
those faults that are most likely to cause failures
when the software is in the field) then the measure of
test effectiveness must distinguish between those
faults that are likely to cause failures and those that
are unlikely to do so. Delivered reliability was
previously introduced as a means of comparing testing
techniques in that setting. This paper empirically
compares reliability delivered by three testing
techniques, branch testing, the all-uses data flow
testing criterion, and operational testing. The subject
program is a moderate-sized C-program (about 10,000
LOC) produced by professional programmers and
containing naturally occurring faults.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hildebrandt:2000:SFI,
author = "Ralf Hildebrandt and Andreas Zeller",
title = "Simplifying failure-inducing input",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "135--145",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348938",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Given some test case, a program fails. Which part of
the test case is responsible for the particular
failure? We show how our delta debugging algorithm
generalizes and simplifies some failing input to a
minimal test case that produces the failure. In a case
study, the Mozilla web browser crashed after 95 user
actions. Our prototype implementation automatically
simplified the input to 3 relevant user actions.
Likewise, it simplified 896 lines of HTML to the single
line that caused the failure. The case study required
139 automated test runs, or 35 minutes on a 500 MHz
PC.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Clarke:2000:FSV,
author = "Lori A. Clarke",
title = "Finite state verification (abstract only): an emerging
technology for validating software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "146--146",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348946",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Ever since formal verification was first proposed in
the late sixties, the idea of being able to
definitively determine if a program meets its
specifications has been an appealing, but elusive,
goal. Although verification systems based on theorem
proving have improved considerably over the years, they
are still inherently undecidable and require
significant guidance from mathematically astute users.
The human effort required for formal verification is so
significant that it is usually only applied to the most
critical software components. Alternative approaches to
theorem proving based verification have also been under
development for some time. These approaches usually
restrict the problem domain in some way, such as
focusing on hardware descriptions, communication
protocols, or a limited specification language. These
restrictions allow the problem to be solved by using
reasoning algorithms that are guaranteed to terminate
and by representing the problem with a finite state
model, and thus these approaches have been called
finite state verification. Systems based on these
approaches are starting to be effectively applied to
interesting software systems and there is increasing
optimism that such approaches will become widely
applicable. In this presentation, I will overview some
of the different approaches to finite state
verification. In particular I will describe symbolic
model checking, integer necessary constraints, and
incremental data flow analysis approaches. The
strengths and weaknesses of these approaches will be
described. In addition, I will outline the major
challenges that must be addressed before finite state
verification will become a common tool for the typical
well-trained software engineer.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chays:2000:FTD,
author = "David Chays and Saikat Dan and Phyllis G. Frankl and
Filippos I. Vokolos and Elaine J. Weyuker",
title = "A framework for testing database applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "147--157",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348954",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Database systems play an important role in nearly
every modern organization, yet relatively little
research effort has focused on how to test them. This
paper discusses issues arising in testing database
systems and presents an approach to testing database
applications. In testing such applications, the state
of the database before and after the user's operation
plays an important role, along with the user's input
and the system output. A tool for populating the
database with meaningful data that satisfy database
constraints has been prototyped. Its design and its
role in a larger database application testing tool set
are discussed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Steven:2000:JCR,
author = "John Steven and Pravir Chandra and Bob Fleck and Andy
Podgurski",
title = "{jRapture}: a Capture\slash Replay tool for
observation-based testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "158--167",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.348993",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/virtual-machines.bib",
abstract = "We describe the design of jRapture: a tool for
capturing and replaying Java program executions in the
field. jRapture works with Java binaries (byte code)
and any compliant implementation of the Java virtual
machine. It employs a lightweight, transparent capture
process that permits unobtrusive capture of a Java
programs executions. jRapture captures interactions
between a Java program and the system, including GUI,
file, and console inputs, among other types, and on
replay it presents each thread with exactly the same
input sequence it saw during capture. In addition,
jRapture has a profiling interface that permits a Java
program to be instrumented for profiling --- after its
executions have been captured. Using an XML-based
profiling specification language a tester can specify
various forms of profiling to be carried out during
replay.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Woodward:2000:TFS,
author = "Martin R. Woodward and Zuhoor A. Al-Khanjari",
title = "Testability, fault size and the domain-to-range ratio:
an eternal triangle",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "168--172",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.349016",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A number of different concepts have been proposed
that, loosely speaking, revolve around the notion of
software testability. Indeed, the concept of
testability itself has been interpreted in a variety of
ways by the software community. One interpretation is
concerned with the extent of the modifications a
program component requires, in terms of its input and
output variables, so that the entire behaviour of the
component is observable and controllable. Another
interpretation is the ease with which faults, if
present in a program, can be revealed by the testing
process and the propagation, infection and execution
(PIE) model has been proposed as a method of estimating
this. It has been suggested that this particular
interpretation of testability might be linked with the
metric domain-to-range ratio (DRR), i.e. the ratio of
the cardinality of the set of all inputs (the domain)
to the cardinality of the set of all outputs (the
range). This paper reports work in progress exploring
some of the connections between the concepts mentioned.
In particular, a simple mathematical link is
established between domain-to-range ratio and the
observability and controllability aspects of
testability. In addition, the PIE model is
re-considered and a relationship with fault size is
observed. This leads to the suggestion that it might be
more straightforward to estimate PIE testability by an
adaptation of traditional mutation analysis. The latter
suggestion exemplifies the main goals of the work
described here, namely to seek greater understanding of
testability in general and, ultimately, to find easier
ways of determining it.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schroeder:2000:BBT,
author = "Patrick J. Schroeder and Bogdan Korel",
title = "Black-box test reduction using input-output analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "173--177",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.349042",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Test reduction is an important issue in black-box
testing. The number of possible black-box tests for any
non-trivial software application is extremely large.
For the class of programs with multiple inputs and
outputs, the number of possible tests grows very
rapidly as combinations of input test data are
considered. In this paper, we introduce an approach to
test reduction that uses automated input-output
analysis to identify relationships between program
inputs and outputs. Our initial experience with the
approach has shown that it can significantly reduce the
number of black-box tests.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wittenberg:2000:PTC,
author = "Craig H. Wittenberg",
title = "Progress in testing component-based software (abstract
only)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "178",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.349099",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software components enable practical reuse of software
parts and amortization of investments over multiple
applications. Each part or component is well defined
and independently deployable. Composition is the key
technique by which systems of software components are
constructed. The composition step can be done before or
after the delivery of the system. It is this late
composition (or at least the possibility of it) which
yields the greatest challenges from a testing
standpoint. That is, a component-based application may
be composed out of parts that were never tested
together. Thus the most useful and reliable parts are
those which have been tested independently in as many
ways as possible. The Component Applications Group in
Microsoft Research is developing tools, techniques, and
a large component library to enable the development of
sophisticated office, home and web-based applications.
For the past three and a half years we have been
working on two main efforts. First, we have created a
prototype of a highly factored (i.e., customizable,
flexible, etc.) architecture for the construction of
the UI of applications. Our work can be applied to
traditional window-ed applications as well as to the
look and feel of Web applications. During this effort
we have developed a variety of design techniques, two
different composition mechanisms, a visual tool for
compositions, and have built several application
prototypes out of the same set of components. Most of
our time has been spent on tools and techniques for
building reliable components. Certain pieces of our
infrastructure formed the domain in which we tried out
our ideas. The first component we tested was one of our
composition mechanisms. That was followed by the
testing of a dynamic, binary, aspect composition
mechanism and of a particularly generic implementation
of collection classes. Our well-factored, versioned
build system will also be described. All of the results
of our work are compatible with COM. The talk will
focus on our key lessons in composition, specification,
processes, and tools with a particular emphasis on our
test harness and our results in testing. A discussion
of the last few bugs found in each of several projects
should prove interesting. Some comparisons will be made
with other projects inside and outside Microsoft. Since
we can only claim progress, not perfection, there are
still many areas for further research. As an example,
we are looking at ways we can use language annotations
to simplifying whole classes of problems (e.g., tests
for reentrancy). One of the points here is that we can
improve our ability to create reliable components by
improving the languages used to implement them (like
Java has popularized the use of a garbage collector).
Another example is that we hope to improve the
automation of the sequencing of test cases. Finally, as
a tribute to the power of standing on other's
shoulders, many of the roots of our ideas will be
traced to techniques published elsewhere. You might say
we only composed together many already good ideas. Our
group includes people who developed COM itself (myself
and Tony Williams), many people from within Microsoft
who have delivered successful component-based products
(e.g., in Visual Studio), and world-renowned
component-ologist (:-) Clemens Szyperski who wrote
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented
Programming.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dill:2000:MCJ,
author = "David Dill",
title = "Model checking {Java} programs (abstract only)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "179",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.349113",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/multithreading.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Automatic state exploration tools (model checkers)
have had some success when applied to protocols and
hardware designs, but there are fewer success stories
about software. This is unfortunate, since the software
problem is worsening even faster than the hardware and
protocol problems. Model checking of concurrent
programs is especially interesting, because they are
notoriously difficult to test, analyze, and debug by
other methods. This talk will be a description of our
initial efforts to check Java programs using a model
checker. The model checker supports dynamic allocation,
thread creation, and recursive procedures (features
that are not necessary for hardware verification), and
has some special optimizations and checks tailored to
multi-threaded Java program. I will also discuss some
of the challenges for future efforts in this area.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nanda:2000:SCP,
author = "Mangala Gowri Nanda and S. Ramesh",
title = "Slicing concurrent programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "180--190",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.349121",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Slicing is a well-known program analysis technique for
analyzing sequential programs and found useful in
debugging, testing and reverse engineering. This paper
extends the notion of slicing to concurrent programs
with shared memory, interleaving semantics and mutual
exclusion. Interference among concurrent threads or
processes complicates the computation of slices of
concurrent programs. Further, unlike slicing of
sequential programs, a slicing algorithm for concurrent
programs needs to differentiate between
loop-independent data dependence and certain
loop-carried data dependences. We show why previous
methods do not give precise solutions in the presence
of nested threads and loops and describe our solution
that correctly and efficiently computes precise slices.
Though the complexity of this algorithm is exponential
on the number of threads, a number of optimizations are
suggested. Using these optimizations, we are able to
get near linear behavior for many practical concurrent
programs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Siegel:2000:IPI,
author = "Stephen F. Siegel and George S. Avrunin",
title = "Improving the precision of {INCA} by preventing
spurious cycles",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "191--200",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.349130",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Inequality Necessary Condition Analyzer (INCA) is
a finite-state verification tool that has been able to
check properties of some very large concurrent systems.
INCA checks a property of a concurrent system by
generating a system of inequalities that must have
integer solutions if the property can be violated.
There may, however, be integer solutions to the
inequalities that do not correspond to an execution
violating the property. INCA thus accepts the
possibility of an inconclusive result in exchange for
greater tractability. We describe here a method for
eliminating one of the two main sources of these
inconclusive results.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schulz:2000:TAD,
author = "Daniel Schulz and Frank Mueller",
title = "A thread-aware debugger with an open interface",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "5",
pages = "201--211",
month = sep,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/347636.349141",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:00 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "While threads have become an accepted and standardized
model for expressing concurrency and exploiting
parallelism for the shared-memory model, debugging
threads is still poorly supported. This paper
identifies challenges in debugging threads and offers
solutions to them. The contributions of this paper are
threefold. First, an open interface for debugging as an
extension to thread implementations is proposed.
Second, extensions for thread-aware debugging are
identified and implemented within the Gnu Debugger to
provide additional features beyond the scope of
existing debuggers. Third, an active debugging
framework is proposed that includes a
language-independent protocol to communicate between
debugger and application via relational queries
ensuring that the enhancements of the debugger are
independent of actual thread implementations. Partial
or complete implementations of the interface for
debugging can be added to thread implementations to
work in unison with the enhanced debugger without any
modifications to the debugger itself. Sample
implementations of the interface for debugging have
shown its adequacy for user-level threads, kernel
threads and mixed thread implementations while
providing extended debugging functionality at improved
efficiency and portability at the same time.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{DeMillo:2000:SDN,
author = "Richard A. DeMillo",
title = "Software development for next generation communication
networks",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "1",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355047",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Even casual observes have to notice the dramatic
changes in the telecommunications industry that have
taken place in the last five years. Giant companies
split, merge and are sometimes displaced by newer ones
that did not exist a decade ago. The business of
running the mighty circuit-switched telephone netwok is
under constant assault on one side from packet networks
and on the other side from the bewildering array of
wireless networks. Service providers compete for
customer sometimes with no network infrastructure at
all.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Robillard:2000:DRJ,
author = "Martin P. Robillard and Gail C. Murphy",
title = "Designing robust {Java} programs with exceptions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "2--10",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355046",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Exception handling mechanisms are intended to help
developers build robust systems. Although an exception
handling mechanism provides a basis for structuring
source code dealing with unusual situations, little
information is available to help guide a developer in
the appropriate application of the mechanism. In our
experience, this lack of guidance leads to complex
exception structures. In this paper, we reflect upon
our experiences using the Java exception handling
mechanism. Based on these experiences, we discuss two
issues we believe underlie the difficulties
encountered: exceptions are a global design problem,
and exception sources are often difficult to predict in
advance. We then describe a design approach, based on
work by Litke for Ada programs, which we have used to
simplify exception structure in existing Java
programs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hollingsworth:2000:ERU,
author = "Joseph E. Hollingsworth and Lori Blankenship and Bruce
W. Weide",
title = "Experience report: using {RESOLVE\slash C++} for
commercial software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "11--19",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355048",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Academic research sometimes suffers from the ``ivory
tower'' problem: ideas that sound good in theory do not
necessarily work well in practice. An example of
research that potentially could impact practice over
the next few years is a novel set of component-based
software engineering design principles, known as the
RESOLVE discipline. This discipline has been taught to
students for several years [23], and previous papers
(e.g., [24]) have reported on student-sized software
projects constructed using it. Here, we report on a
substantial commercial product family that was
engineered using the same principles --- an application
that we designed, built, and continue to maintain for
profit, not as part of a research project. We discuss
the impact of adhering to a very prescriptive set of
design principles and explain our experience with the
resulting applications. Lessons learned should benefit
others who might be considering adopting such a
component-based software engineering discipline in the
future.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Behrends:2000:UMA,
author = "Reimer Behrends and R. E. Kurt Stirewalt",
title = "The universe model: an approach for improving the
modularity and reliability of concurrent programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "20--29",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355049",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We present the universe model, a new approach to
concurrency management that isolates concurrency
concerns and represents them in the modular interface
of a component. This approach improves program
comprehension, module composition, and reliability for
concurrent systems. The model is founded on
designer-specified invariant properties, which declare
a component's dependencies on other concurrent
components. Process scheduling is then automatically
derived from these invariants. We illustrate the
advantages of this approach by applying it to a
real-world example.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Memon:2000:ATO,
author = "Atif M. Memon and Martha E. Pollack and Mary Lou
Soffa",
title = "Automated test oracles for {GUIs}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "30--39",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355050",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are critical
components of today's software. Because GUIs have
different characteristics than traditional software,
conventional testing techniques do not apply to GUI
software. In previous work, we presented an approach to
generate GUI test cases, which take the form of
sequences of actions. In this paper we develop a test
oracle technique to determine if a GUI behaves as
expected for a given test case. Our oracle uses a
formal model of a GUI, expressed as sets of objects,
object properties, and actions. Given the formal model
and a test case, our oracle automatically derives the
expected state for every action in the test case. We
represent the actual state of an executing GUI in terms
of objects and their properties derived from the GUI's
execution. Using the actual state acquired from an
execution monitor, our oracle automatically compares
the expected and actual states after each action to
verify the correctness of the GUI for the test case. We
implemented the oracle as a component in our GUI
testing system, called Planning Assisted Tester for
grapHical user interface Systems (PATHS), which is
based on AI planning. We experimentally evaluated the
practicality and effectiveness of our oracle technique
and report on the results of experiments to test and
verify the behavior of our version of the Microsoft
WordPad's GUI.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Godefroid:2000:AST,
author = "Patrice Godefroid and Lalita J. Jagadeesan and Radha
Jagadeesan and Konstantin L{\"a}ufer",
title = "Automated systematic testing for constraint-based
interactive services",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "40--49",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355051",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Constraint-based languages can express in a concise
way the complex logic of a new generation of
interactive services for applications such as banking
or stock trading, that must support multiple types of
interfaces for accessing the same data. These include
automatic speech-recognition interfaces where inputs
may be provided in any order by users of the service.
We study in this paper how to systematically test
event-driven applications developed using such
languages. We show how such applications can be tested
automatically, without the need for any
manually-written test cases, and efficiently, by taking
advantage of their capability of taking unordered sets
of events as inputs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Butkevich:2000:CTS,
author = "Sergey Butkevich and Marco Renedo and Gerald
Baumgartner and Michal Young",
title = "Compiler and tool support for debugging object
protocols",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "50--59",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355052",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We describe an extension to the Java programming
language that supports static conformance checking and
dynamic debugging of object ``protocols,'' i.e.,
sequencing constraints on the order in which methods
may be called. Our Java protocols have a statically
checkable subset embedded in richer descriptions that
can be checked at run time. The statically checkable
subtype conformance relation is based on Nierstrasz'
proposal for regular (finite-state) process types, and
is also very close to the conformance relation for
architectural connectors in the Wright architectural
description language by Allen and Garlan. Richer
sequencing properties, which cannot be expressed by
regular types alone, can be specified and checked at
run time by associating predicates with object states.
We describe the language extensions and their
rationale, and the design of tool support for static
and dynamic checking and debugging.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ye:2000:IAI,
author = "Yunwen Ye and Gerhard Fischer and Brent Reeves",
title = "Integrating active information delivery and reuse
repository systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "60--68",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355053",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Although software reuse can improve both the quality
and productivity of software development, it will not
do so until software developers stop believing that it
is not worth their effort to find a component matching
their current problem. In addition, if the developers
do not anticipate the existence of a given component,
they will not even make an effort to find it in the
first place. Even the most sophisticated and powerful
reuse repositories will not be effective if developers
don't anticipate a certain component exists, or don't
deem it worthwhile to seek for it. We argue that this
crucial barrier to reuse is overcome by integrating
active information delivery, which presents information
without explicit queries from the user, and reuse
repository systems. A prototype system, CodeBroker,
illustrates this integration and raises several issues
related to software reuse.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Walker:2000:ICE,
author = "Robert J. Walker and Gail C. Murphy",
title = "Implicit context: easing software evolution and
reuse",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "69--78",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355054",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software systems should consist of simple,
conceptually clean software components interacting
along narrow, well-defined paths. All too often, this
is not reality: complex components end up interacting
for reasons unrelated to the functionality they
provide. We refer to knowledge within a component that
is not conceptually required for the individual
behaviour of that component as extraneous embedded
knowledge (EEK). EEK creeps into a system in many
forms, including dependences upon particular names and
the passing of extraneous parameters. This paper
proposes the use of implicit context as a means for
reducing EEK in systems by combining a mechanism to
reflect upon what has happened in a system, through
queries on the call history, with a mechanism for
altering calls to and from a component. We demonstrate
the benefits of implicit context by describing its use
to reduce EEK in the Java{\TM} Swing library.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pethia:2000:BP,
author = "Richard D. Pethia",
title = "Bugs in the programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "79",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355056",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Security on the Internet is receiving increasing
attention as more and more organizations are becoming
dependent on the network. The use of the Internet for
electronic commerce, government operations, research
activities, and entertainment has now reached the point
that attacks against the network and the systems
connected to it have become major news items. While the
press highlights a few high-profile incidents, the
actual number of attacks is much higher. The CERT
Coordination Center works with the Internet community
to deal with incidents and responded to over 8,000
incidents in 1999. The incident projection for year
2000 is 17,000 to 20,000. At the same time, the amount
of damage resulting from the incidents is also
increasing. While the press often focuses on cases of
web site graffiti, more serious cases of financial
fraud, extortion, and debilitating denial of service
attacks are being reported at increasing rates.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Yamamoto:2000:AVF,
author = "Tetsuo Yamamoto and Makoto Matsushita and Katsuro
Inoue",
title = "Accumulative versioning file system Moraine and its
application to metrics environment {MAME}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "80--87",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355057",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "It is essential to manage versions of software
products created during software development. There are
various versioning tools actually used in these days,
although most of them require the developers to issue
management commands for consistent versioning. In this
paper, we present a novel versioning file system
Moraine, which accumulatively and automatically
collects all files created or modified. Those files are
versioned and stored as compressed forms. The older
versions are easily retrieved from Moraine by the
time-stamps or tags if required. Using Moraine system,
we have developed a metrics (measurement) environment
called MAME (Moraine As a Metrics Environment). MAME
can collect various metrics data for on-going or past
projects, since its basis, Moraine, is able to retrieve
all versions of all products (files). Both Moraine and
MAME have been implemented. Using these systems, we
have evaluated the performance of Moraine and MAME with
various test data and student project data. The result
shows that disk space required by this approach is
several times larger than ordinary approaches; however,
it is acceptable at the current tendency of disk price
decrease. By this approach, an ideal metrics
environment has been easily established by developing
simple data-collection tools for version files.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chu-Carroll:2000:CBB,
author = "Mark C. Chu-Carroll and Sara Sprenkle",
title = "{Coven}: brewing better collaboration through software
configuration management",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "88--97",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355058",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Our work focuses on building tools to support
collaborative software development. We are building a
new programming environment with integrated software
configuration management which provides a variety of
features to help programming teams coordinate their
work. In this paper, we detail a hierarchy-based
software configuration management system called Coven,
which acts as a collaborative medium for allowing teams
of programmers to cooperate. By providing a family of
inter-related mechanisms, our system provides powerful
support for cooperation and coordination in a manner
which matches the structure of development teams.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sweeney:2000:ELB,
author = "Peter F. Sweeney and Frank Tip",
title = "Extracting library-based object-oriented
applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "98--107",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355059",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In an increasingly popular model of software
distribution, software is developed in one computing
environment and deployed in other environments by
transfer over the internet. Extraction tools perform a
static whole-program analysis to determine unused
functionality in applications in order to reduce the
time required to download applications. We have
identified a number of scenarios where extraction tools
require information beyond what can be inferred through
static analysis: software distributions other than
complete applications, the use of reflection, and
situations where an application uses separately
developed class libraries. This paper explores these
issues, and introduces a modular specification language
for expressing the information required for extraction.
We implemented this language in the context of Jax, an
industrial-strength application extractor for Java, and
present a small case study in which different
extraction scenarios are applied to a commercially
available library-based application.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Osterweil:2000:IPP,
author = "Leon J. Osterweil and Lori A. Clarke and Michael
Evangelist and Jeffrey Kramer and Dieter Rombach and
Alexander L. Wolf",
title = "The impact project (panel session): determining the
impact of software engineering research upon practice",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "108--109",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355060",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The purpose of this panel is to introduce the Impact
Project to the community, and to engage the community
in a broad ranging discussion of the project's goals,
approaches, and methods. Some of the project's early
findings and directions will be presented.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hay:2000:CFR,
author = "Jonathan D. Hay and Joanne M. Atlee",
title = "Composing features and resolving interactions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "110--119",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355061",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "One of the accepted techniques for developing and
maintaining feature-rich applications is to treat each
feature as a separate concern. However, most features
are not separate concerns because they override and
extend the same basic service. That is, ``independent''
features are coupled to one another through the
system's basic service. As a result, seemingly
unrelated features subtly interfere with each other
when trying to override the system behaviour in
different directions. The problem is how to coordinate
features' access to the service's shared variables.
This paper proposes coordinating features via feature
composition. We model each feature as a separate
labelled-transition system and define a 1conflict-free
(CF) composition operator that prevents enabled
transitions from synchronizing if they interact: if
several features' transitions are simultaneously
enabled but have conflicting actions, a non-conflicting
subset of the enabled transitions are synchronized in
the composition. We also define a conflict- and
violation-free (CVF) composition operator that prevents
enabled transitions from executing if they violate
features' invariants. Both composition operators use
priorities among features to decide whether to
synchronize transitions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Luttgen:2000:CAS,
author = "Gerald L{\"u}ttgen and Michael von der Beeck and Rance
Cleaveland",
title = "A compositional approach to statecharts semantics",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "120--129",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355062",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Statecharts is a visual language for specifying
reactive system behavior. The formalism extends
traditional finite-state machines with notions of
hierarchy and concurrency, and it is used in many
popular software design notations. A large part of the
appeal of Statecharts derives from its basis in state
machines, with their intuitive operational
interpretation. The classical semantics of Statecharts,
however, suffers from a serious defect; it is not
compositional, meaning that the behavior of system
descriptions cannot be inferred from the behavior of
their subsystems. Compositionality is a prerequisite
for exploiting the modular structure of Statecharts for
simulation, verification, and code generation, and it
also provides the necessary foundation for reusability.
This paper suggests a new compositional approach to
formalizing Statecharts semantics as flattened labeled
transition systems in which transitions represent
system steps. The approach builds on ideas developed
for timed process calculi and employs structural
operational rules to define the transitions of a
Statecharts expression in terms of the transitions of
its subexpressions. It is first presented for a simple
dialect of Statecharts, with respect to a variant of
Pnueli and Shalev's semantics, and is illustrated by
means of a small example. To demonstrate its
flexibility, the proposed approach is then extended to
deal with practically useful features available in many
Statecharts variants, namely state references, history
states, and priority concepts along state
hierarchies.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jackson:2000:AFO,
author = "Daniel Jackson",
title = "Automating first-order relational logic",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "130--139",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355063",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "An automatic analysis method for first-order logic
with sets and relations is described. A first-order
formula is translated to a quantifier-free boolean
formula, which has a model when the original formula
has a model within a given scope (that is, involving no
more than some finite number of atoms). Because the
satisfiable formulas that occur in practice tend to
have small models, a small scope usually suffices and
the analysis is efficient. The paper presents a simple
logic and gives a compositional translation scheme. It
also reports briefly on experience using the Alloy
Analyzer, a tool that implements the scheme.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bernardo:2000:FAT,
author = "Marco Bernardo and Paolo Ciancarini and Lorenzo
Donatiello",
title = "On the formalization of architectural types with
process algebras",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "140--148",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355064",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Architectural styles play an important role in
software engineering as they convey codified principles
and experience which help the construction of software
systems with high levels of efficiency and confidence.
We address the problem of formalizing and analyzing
architectural styles in an operational setting by
introducing the intermediate abstraction of
architectural type. We develop the concept of
architectural type in a process algebraic framework
because of its modeling adequacy and the availability
of means, such as Milner's weak bisimulation
equivalence, which allow us to reason compositionally
and efficiently about the well formedness of
architectural types.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jackson:2000:CRT,
author = "Daniel Jackson and Kevin Sullivan",
title = "{COM} revisited: tool-assisted modelling of an
architectural framework",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "149--158",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355065",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Designing architectural frameworks without the aid of
formal modeling is error prone. But, unless supported
by analysis, formal modeling is prone to its own class
of errors, in which formal statements fail to match the
designer's intent. A fully automatic analysis tool can
rapidly expose such errors, and can make the process of
constructing and refining a formal model more
effective. This paper describes a case study in which
we recast a model of Microsoft COM's query interface
and aggregation mechanism into Alloy, a lightweight
notation for describing structures. We used Alloy's
analyzer to simulate the specification, to check
properties and to evaluate changes. This allowed us to
manipulate our model more quickly and with far greater
confidence than would otherwise have been possible,
resulting in a much simpler model and a better
understanding of its key properties.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Naumovich:2000:CPA,
author = "Gleb Naumovich and Lori A. Clarke",
title = "Classifying properties: an alternative to the
safety-liveness classification",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "159--168",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355066",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Traditionally, verification properties have been
classified as safety or liveness properties. While this
taxonomy has an attractive simplicity and is useful for
identifying the appropriate analysis algorithm for
checking a property, determining whether a property is
safety, liveness, or neither can require significant
mathematical insight on the part of the analyst. In
this paper, we present an alternative property
taxonomy. We argue that this taxonomy is a more natural
classification of the kinds of questions that analysts
want to ask. Moreover, most classes in our taxonomy
have a known, direct mapping to the safety-liveness
classification, and thus the appropriate analysis
algorithm can be automatically determined.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rashid:2000:STC,
author = "Richard F. Rashid",
title = "The shape of things to come?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "25",
number = "6",
pages = "169",
month = nov,
year = "2000",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355067",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:02 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The future of software engineering isn't what it used
to be. The nature of the software we write, the reasons
we write it and the way we write it and maintain it
have changed rapidly and dramatically over the last few
years. And software development is likely change even
faster over the next decade. In this talk I will
reflect on how commercial software has evolved and what
it might look like in the not-to-distant future.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bagert:2001:FSE,
author = "Donald J. Bagert",
title = "{FASE}: a software engineering, education, training
and professional issues publication",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "6--6",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505896",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "FASE (pronounced like ``phase''), the Forum for
Advancing Software engineering Education, was started
in 1991 by members of the software engineering
education community in order to have a electronic forum
for the dissemination and discussion of events related
to software engineering education. The original acronym
for FASE was Forum for Academic Software Engineering,
but was subsequently changed so that it was more
inclusive to industrial and government training issues
(which led to a co-editor in that area). In recent
years, FASE has also covered a wide variety of
professional issues (e.g. licensing, certification,
ethics, body of knowledge, and accreditation), which
has also led to the addition of yet another co-editor
for this area.FASE is an independently-published
newsletter, not affiliated with ACM, IEEE-CS or any
other organization. As of October 2000, 129 issues have
been published. Since August 1997, FASE has been
published monthly, and is released on the 15th of each
month in ASCII format. FASE has several hundred
subscribers in over 50 countries and provinces. There
is also a FASE-TALK discussion list. The FASE web page
is at http://www.cs.ttu.edu/fase. It contains
subscription information, article submission
guidelines, and an archive of all FASE issues and
FASE-TALK postings to date. The FASE Staff: Thomas B.
Hilburn, Academic Editor Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University David Carter, Corporate/Government Editor
Independent Consultant Donald J. Bagert, P.E.,
Professional Issues Editor Texas Tech University Laurie
Werth, Advisory Committee Member The University of
Texas at Austin Nancy Mead, Advisory Committee Member
Software Engineering Institute",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Omitol:2001:AFP,
author = "Tope Omitol",
title = "{ACM Fellow} profile: {Roger Needham}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "7--10",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505898",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2001:SNSa,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "11--13",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505899",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2001:RPCa,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "14--38",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505900",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Meseguer:2001:RE,
author = "Jos{\'e} Meseguer",
title = "Report on {ETAPS} 2000",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "39--39",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505902",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Penix:2001:FIW,
author = "John Penix and Nigel Tracey and Willem Visser",
title = "The {First International Workshop on Automated Program
Analysis, Testing and Verification}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "40--40",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505903",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper reports on the First International Workshop
on Automated Program Analysis, Testing and Verification
(WAPATV) held in Limerick on the 4th-5th June 2000, as
part of the International Conference on Software
Engineering 2000. We begin by presenting an overview of
the workshop aims and then focus on the workshop's
technical program.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jahnke:2001:ITI,
author = "Jens H. Jahnke and Joerg P. Wadsack",
title = "{ISE3: the Third International Workshop on Intelligent
Software Engineering} open issues, new techniques,
challenge problems in software engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "43--43",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505904",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sim:2001:WWS,
author = "Susan Elliot Sim and Rainer Koschke",
title = "{WoSEF: Workshop on Standard Exchange Format}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "44--49",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505905",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A workshop was held at ICSE 2000 in Limerick, Ireland
to further efforts in the development of a standard
exchange format (SEF) for data extracted from and about
source code. WoSEF (Workshop on Standard Exchange
Format) brought together people with expertise in a
variety of formats, such as RSF, TA, GraX, FAMIX, XML,
and XMI, from across the software engineering
discipline. We had five sessions consisting of a
presentation and discussion period and a working
session with three subgroups. The five sessions were:
(1) Survey and Overview, (2) Language-level schemas and
APIs, (3) High-level schemas, (4) MOF/XMI/UML and CDIF,
and (5) Meta schemas and Typed Graphs. During that time
we reviewed previous work and debated a number of
important issues. This report includes descriptions of
the presentations made during these sessions. The main
result of the workshop is the agreement of the majority
of participants to work on refining GXL (Graph eXchange
Language) to be the SEF. GXL is an XML-based notation
that uses attributed, typed graphs as a conceptual data
model. It is currently a work in progress with
contributors from reverse engineering and graph
transformation communities in multiple countries. There
is a great deal of work to be done to finalise the
syntax and to establish reference models for schemas.
Anyone interested is welcome to join the effort and
instructions on how to get involved are found at the
end of the workshop report. Three papers from the
workshop have been reprinted here to promote reflection
and encourage participation in the work to develop an
SEF.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Godfrey:2001:PDE,
author = "Michael W. Godfrey",
title = "Practical data exchange for reverse engineering
frameworks: some requirements, some experience, some
headaches",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "50--52",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505906",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Reverse engineering systems hold great promise in
aiding developers regain control over long-lived
software projects whose architecture has been allowed
to ``drift''. However, it is well known that these
systems have relative strengths and weaknesses, and to
date relatively little work has been done on
integrating various subtools within other reverse
engineering systems. The design of a common interchange
format for data used by reverse engineering tools is
therefore of critical importance. In this position
paper, we describe some of our previous work with
TAXFORM (Tuple Attribute eXchange FORMat) [2,6], and in
integrating various ``fact extractors'' into the PBS
reverse engineering system. For example, we have
recently created translation mechanisms that enable the
Acacia system's C and C++ extractors to be used within
PBS, and we have used these mechanisms to create
software architecture models of two large software
systems: the Mozilla web browser (2.2 MLOC of C++ and
C) and the VIM text editor (150 KLOC of C) [6]. We also
describe our requirements for an exchange format for
reverse engineering tools and some problems that must
be resolved.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lapierre:2001:DTS,
author = "S{\'e}bastien Lapierre and Bruno Lagu{\"e} and Charles
Leduc",
title = "Datrix {\TM} source code model and its interchange
format: lessons learned and considerations for future
work",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "53--56",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505907",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Datrix team within Bell Canada has been offering
its source code analysis tools to the research
community for a number of years. These tools perform a
number of analyses that revolve around a central model
(Datrix-ASG) developed by the Datrix team, and use an
interchange format similar to TA, which we call
Datrix-TA. This paper intends to communicate the
modeling choices that were made when creating this
information model, and the lessons learned over a few
years of usage.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kienle:2001:EFB,
author = "Holger M. Kienle",
title = "Exchange format bibliography",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "56--60",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505908",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper gives a brief bibliographical overview of
exchange formats and related research areas. We
classify exchange formats and try to give a brief
assessment of the more interesting ones.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dean:2001:CWC,
author = "John Dean and Patricia Oberndorf and Mark Vigder and
Chris Abts and Hakan Erdogmus and Neil Maiden and
Michael Looney and George Heineman and Michael
Guntersdorfer",
title = "{COTS} workshop: continuing collaborations for
successful {COTS} development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "61--73",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505909",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In early June of 2000 a COTS Workshop entitled
``Continuing Collaborations for Successful COTS
Development'' was held in Limerick, Ireland in
conjunction with ICSE 2000. The purpose of the workshop
was to collect experience reports regarding the use of
commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software to build
systems, identify best-practices for the use of COTS
software, and to establish a research agenda for those
researchers interested in COTS-based software systems.
This one and a half day workshop was an extension of
the work begun during the workshop entitled ``Ensuring
Successful COTS Development'' held in conjunction with
ICSE '99. Results from that workshop demonstrated that
there were a number of common research areas, including
acquisition, planning and management, architecture and
implementation, and evaluation and testing, for which
researchers saw the possibility of collaboration. These
areas included specific topics such as estimating the
effort required to implement COTS-based systems,
classification of architectural styles, and
certification of COTS products for reliability and
safety. The group will reconvene at ICSE'01
(www.csr.uvic.ca/icse2001) to discuss further the
results achieved. The ICSE 2000 Workshop had about 26
participants and was formatted as a combination of
plenary sessions and small breakout groups that worked
on specific issues related to COTS-based systems. The
breakout groups investigated the impact of COTS
software usage in the following areas: Economic and
financial issues. Requirements definition Software
engineering process. Integration, maintenance and
system management. Business models. Each breakout group
tried to identify the current state of the art in COTS
software usage as well as open questions that could
provide the basis for further research in the coming
years. Each group was responsible for producing a
written summary of their discussions which are
included, without major editing, below. A more complete
description of the workshop, as well as all the
participants' position papers, can be found
at:http://seg.iit.nrc.ca/projects/cots/icse2000wkshp/index.html",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Palanque:2001:DSV,
author = "Philippe Palanque and Fabio Patern{\`o}",
title = "Design, specification, and verification of interactive
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "74--75",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505910",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "More and more software applications are being
developed to allow users to access data and communicate
information. The parts of such applications dedicated
to supporting user interactions is increasingly
important and requires novel methods and techniques to
develop effective user interfaces. DSV-IS'2000 provided
experts from many countries of the world with the
unique opportunity to meet and discuss the current
state of art and new research results in this area.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Deshpande:2001:SSI,
author = "Yogesh Deshpande and San Murugesan",
title = "Summary of the {Second ICSE workshop on Web
Engineering}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "76--77",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505911",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The series of workshops on Web Engineering started in
1998 with the World Wide Web Conference WWW7 in
Brisbane, Australia, and has continued with WWW8
(Toronto, 1999) and WWW9 (Amsterdam, 2000). The first
such workshop with the International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE) took place in 1999 in Los
Angeles. The second workshop was held on 4-5 June 2000
in Limerick, Ireland and attracted about 30
participants. The main purpose behind these workshops
is to share and pool the collective experience of
people, both academics and practitioners, who are
actively working on Web-based systems. This workshop
consisted of two keynote addresses, 11 contributed
papers and two sessions of open discussions. The call
for papers elicited 18 submissions of which 11 were
accepted after peer reviews. The papers presented at
the workshop appear in the book Web Engineering (San
Murugesan and Yogesh Deshpande (eds.), LNCS,
Springer-Verlag, 2000).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tarr:2001:WMD,
author = "Peri Tarr and William Harrison and Harold Ossher and
Anthony Finkelsteiin and Bashar Nuseibeh and Dewayne
Perry",
title = "{Workshop on Multi-Dimensional Separation of Concerns
in Software Engineering}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "78--81",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505912",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Separation of concerns has been central to software
engineering for decades, yet its many advantages are
still not fully realized. A key reason is that
traditional modularization mechanisms do not allow
simultaneous decomposition according to multiple kinds
of (overlapping and interacting) concerns. This
workshop was intended to bring together researchers
working on more advanced modularization mechanisms, and
practitioners who have experienced the need for them,
as a step towards a common understanding of the issues,
problems and research challenges.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Raccoon:2001:DD,
author = "L. B. S. Raccoon",
title = "Definitions and demographics",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "82--91",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505914",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Who are software engineers? Answering this question
properly, by defining the profession clearly and
counting practitioners accurately, will help all
software engineers. Practitioners will better
understand the career paths that are available.
Managers will better understand the jobs that employees
fill. Researchers will better predict how the field
will evolve. The software engineering community will
better understand its identity and will better wield
its influence. And, everyone will be able to make more
responsible distinctions between who is and is not a
software engineer. In the first section, I propose a
definition of software engineers as those who focus
primarily on software development and who have some
depth and breadth of experience in the process, and I
propose a scaling model of software engineering
demographics. In the second section, I discuss the
difficulty of distinguishing between software engineers
and non-engineers. I believe that credentials will
evolve to help clarify this distinction. And in the
third section, I call for a new demographic study
tailored to the needs of software engineers. This study
should create a complete portrait of the field.I also
respond to several criticisms of A Whole New Kind of
Engineering: I explain why I believe that in 1998,
about 1,000,000 software engineers existed in the U.S.
and why software engineers do not need computer science
or even technical degrees to prove themselves today,
though this will surely change in the future.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Raccoon:2001:CEG,
author = "L. B. S. Raccoon",
title = "A conversation with Erwin Goodhack",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "92--92",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505915",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Abrahams:2001:PRT,
author = "Alan Abrahams",
title = "Planning for real time event response management",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "93--94",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505917",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2001:WEU,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Writing effective use cases",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "94--95",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505918",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Boyer:2001:MCG,
author = "Kenneth W. {Boyer, Jr.}",
title = "More {C++} gems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "95--95",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505919",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Frazer:2001:ACP,
author = "Ken Frazer",
title = "Accelerated {C++}: practical programming by example",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "95--96",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505920",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Huber:2001:CHP,
author = "Andy Huber",
title = "Creating high performance software development teams",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "96--97",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505921",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Larsen:2001:JPB,
author = "Albert L. Larsen",
title = "{Java} programming: from the beginning",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "97--98",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505922",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Law:2001:SPA,
author = "Jim Law",
title = "Selected papers on analysis of algorithms",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "98--99",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505923",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Madrigal:2001:FOD,
author = "Victor M. {Madrigal III}",
title = "Fundamentals of {OOP} and data structures in {Java}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "99--99",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505924",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Manolescu:2001:PWC,
author = "Dragos Manolescu",
title = "Production workflow: concepts and techniques",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "99--100",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505925",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kulak:2001:UCR,
author = "Daryl Kulak and Eamonn Guiney",
title = "Use cases: requirements in context",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "1",
pages = "101--101",
month = jan,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505894.505926",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:04 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2001:RPCb,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "5--11",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505778",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cooper:2001:AFPa,
author = "Greg Cooper",
title = "{ACM Fellow} profile: {Frank L. Friedman}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "12--13",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505779",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2001:SNSb,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "14--23",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505780",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Systa:2001:SRO,
author = "Tarja Syst{\"a} and Rudolf K. Keller and Kai
Koskimies",
title = "Summary report of the {OOPSLA 2000 Workshop on
Scenario-Based Round-Trip Engineering}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "24--28",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505782",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report summarizes the Workshop on Scenario-Based
Round-Trip Engineering held in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
USA, on October 16, 2000, in conjunction with the
International Conference on Object-Oriented
Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications
(OOPSLA 2000). The workshop consisted of a keynote and
seven presentations, which were organized into three
sessions: From Interaction Diagrams to State Machines,
Forward Engineering, and Reverse Engineering.
Altogether nine position papers were accepted. The
workshop web page, including the papers, the
presentations, and the electronic version of this
report, can be found at
\url{http://www.cs.uta.fi/~cstasy/oopsla2000/workshop.html}.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Knauber:2001:PSP,
author = "Peter Knauber and Giancarlo Succi",
title = "Perspectives on software product lines: report on
{First International Workshop on Software Product
Lines: Economics, Architectures, and Implications
Workshop} \#15 at {22nd International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "29--33",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505783",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Product line engineering is a concept that has emerged
in the 80's in the business schools and is now among
the hottest topics in software engineering. Software
product lines aim at achieving scope economies through
synergetic development of software products. Diverse
benefits like cost reduction, decreased time-to-market,
and quality improvement can be expected from reuse of
domain-specific software assets. But also non-technical
benefits can be expected as result of network
externalities, product branding, and sharing
organizational costs. Product lines introduce
additional complexity. In a sense they go against the
common adage of ``divide and conquer.'' Planning and/or
developing of more than one product at a time have to
be managed technically and organizationally. However,
the rate of innovation of the technology and the
intrinsic nature of software products do not let
alternatives to developers: users like to jump into the
bandwagon of new products, and old products often drive
preferences to new products. Research has been
conducted in software product lines for the past few
years. Some of it has focused on demonstrating that
existing systems and approaches were indeed
instrumental for product line development, such as
generative techniques, domain analysis and engineering
and software components. Another portion of the
research effort has tried to determine how it is
possible to create a comprehensive methodology and an
associated tool for product lines, starting from the
business idea of line of products down to the
development of a product and trying to exploit all the
possible synergies existing at each phase, from network
externalities to component reuse.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bernstein:2001:TOS,
author = "Lawrence Bernstein and David Klappholz",
title = "Teaching old software dogs, old tricks",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "33--34",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505785",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Laguna:2001:URE,
author = "Miguel Angel Laguna and Jos{\'e} Manuel Marqu{\'e}s
and Francisco Jos{\'e} Garc{\'\i}a",
title = "A user requirements elicitation tool",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "35--37",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505786",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Use cases are nowadays the favoured technique for
defining the functional requirements of a software
system. Their use implies that most of the desired
functionality of the new system is well known. The aim
of this work is a methodological proposal (and a tool
to support it) to accurately define this functionality,
starting from the way the end users currently do their
work. This method and tool are independent of the
development paradigm and could generate useful results
for the most frequently used CASE tools with the
addition of the appropriate translators.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mihajlovic:2001:TSP,
author = "Zorica Mihajlovic and Dusan Velasevic",
title = "Tracking software projects with the integrated version
control in {SMIT}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "38--43",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505787",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The purpose of the software project tracking and
oversight process is to provide visibility into actual
progress so that management can take corrective actions
when the project's performance deviates significantly
from the plans. The sequence of the project's
performances forms the project's change history. The
new SMIT tool for planning and tracking software
projects with the additional capability to process the
project's change history is presented in the paper.
This additional capability is based upon the
integration of version control into the standard
planning and tracking capabilities of the tool. It
facilitates the project's post-mortem analysis and
helps us to manage future projects. Since the history
contains valuable data it enables us to learn from
mistakes and good examples. Comparing two performances
is the important type of processing the project's
change history. SMIT accomplishes this type of
processing in the context of tracking and thus
surpasses the solution based on the standard tools for
project management and version control. In addition,
SMIT reduces the number of interactions needed to
compare two performances from 61\% to 88\% for the
example projects considered.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zhang:2001:VUC,
author = "Lu Zhang and Dan Xie and Wei Zou",
title = "Viewing use cases as active objects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "44--48",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505788",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we propose an idea of viewing use cases
as active objects in the analysis model. Based on the
idea, we present a new approach to use case-driven
object-oriented analysis. This approach gives a
systematic and natural way of incorporating use cases
into the analysis model, and an effective way of
localizing the effect of requirement changes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Shaofeng:2001:RJR,
author = "Wang Shaofeng",
title = "The role of {Java RMI} in designing workflow
management system",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "49--52",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505789",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The development of the workflow management
system(WfMS) has become one of the most important
research areas in information system. The design of the
WfMS is a very complicated process, involving many
difficult tasks. In this paper, We discuss the design
of Java RMI-based workflow management system JWfMS,
mainly on the designing framework of the JWfMS.
According to our experience, we found that Java RMI is
suitable and practical for the design of heterogeneous,
distributed system such as WfMS because Java RMI makes
the design and maintenance work much simpler.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mei:2001:SCM,
author = "Hong Mei and Lu Zhang and Fuqing Yang",
title = "A software configuration management model for
supporting component-based software development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "53--58",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505790",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software configuration management (SCM) is viewed as
an important key technology in software development and
is being adopted in software industry more and more
widely. And component-based software development (CBSD)
is an emerging paradigm in software development.
However, the traditional SCM method can not support
CBSD effectively and efficiently. In this paper, we
analyze the objects that need to be managed in CBSD and
present a component-based SCM model to improve CBSD
with effective SCM support. In this model, components,
as the integral logical constituents in a system, are
managed as the basic configuration items in SCM, and
relationships between/among components are defined and
maintained, in order to support version control of
large objects and logical modeling of system
architecture. Also some key issues in the model are
discussed and an SCM system that supports this model is
introduced.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sukhodolsky:2001:OSP,
author = "Jacob Sukhodolsky",
title = "Optimizing software process control",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "59--63",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505791",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "An important problem in software project management is
taking control decisions when a schedule slip occurs.
Usually such decisions are based only on the manager's
experience and intuition. They are often prohibitively
costly and still do not guarantee the project's
success. This article presents a method for finding the
optimal control actions the manager should take to meet
a project's deadline in a situation when a schedule
slip occurs. The method is based on using a discrete
optimization technique, such as dynamic programming.
Validation of the method's effectiveness is also
included.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bird:2001:XBA,
author = "Colin Bird and Andrew Sermon",
title = "An {XML-based} approach to automated software
testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "64--65",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505792",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The advantages of automating the functional testing of
application software are well-known, but the manner of
automation can lead to difficulties in authenticating
the test coverage. In this paper we consider the class
of automated tests in which a driver tool simulates the
input and responses of a human operator and
sequentially checks the output generated by the
application software. The driver tool commonly employs
its own language to describe the tasks it can be
required to perform, for example: $ \bullet $ Issue a
sequence of characters that simulate input from the
keyboard. $ \bullet $ Verify that a segment of the
display buffer contains the expected bit pattern.
Although these tasks are simply stated, the language to
effect them in a test script can become complex and
hard to maintain. Furthermore, reading the driver tool
program is not an effective way to confirm that the
test script performs its tasks to the test
specification. XML (eXtensible Markup Language) [1]
scripts offer a rigorous intermediate description that
can be readily translated into both the driver tool
test script and a readable statement of the task the
test performs. The advantages accruing from the use of
XML are: $ \bullet $ The XML scripts are easy to edit,
simplifying basic script maintenance. New steps can be
included for testing bug fixes. $ \bullet $ Content
review becomes much easier, as the relevant aspects of
the script can be rendered in a readily readable form,
such as HTML; $ \bullet $ Global changes become
feasible, as the structured nature of XML documents
makes it possible to search for specific element
content; $ \bullet $ The structure of the XML document
can itself be checked, for example using a validating
editor such as Xeena [2]. In the next section we
describe an example of automated testing using a driver
tool, based on XML scripts. The application being
tested is called Wired for Learning [3] and provides
the IT infrastructure for schools to: $ \bullet $
Enhance communication between teachers, students and
parents. $ \bullet $ Enable teachers to plan and share
ideas for lessons and activities, linking in with
national standards. $ \bullet $ Organize team projects
involving teachers and students across classes and
schools, with the option of inviting members of the
community to provide additional information. $ \bullet
$ Provide an events calendar to keep everyone up to
date with what is happening in the school. $ \bullet $
Allow teachers easily to create their own home pages
for information dissemination.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Romanovsky:2001:CAA,
author = "Alexander Romanovsky",
title = "Coordinated atomic actions: how to remain {ACID} in
the modern world",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "66--68",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505793",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bowen:2001:ETZ,
author = "Jonathan P. Bowen",
title = "Experience teaching Z with tool and web support",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "69--75",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505794",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This short paper describes experiences of presenting
the formal Z notation on one and later two course
modules to computer science undergraduates, especially
with respect to providing supporting web-based
resources and using tool support. The modules were part
of a more general course unit on formal methods.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anantharam:2001:EJP,
author = "Parasuram Anantharam",
title = "Essentials of the {Java} programming language: a
hands-on guide",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "76--76",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505796",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pentinmaki:2001:SCI,
author = "Isaac Pentinmaki",
title = "{Standard C++ IOStreams} and locales: advanced
programmer's guide and reference",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "76--77",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505797",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tanuan:2001:BAS,
author = "Meyer Tanuan",
title = "Building application servers",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "2",
pages = "77--77",
month = mar,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505776.505798",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:06 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sitaraman:2001:PSS,
author = "Murali Sitaraman and Greg Kulczycki and Joan Krone and
William F. Ogden and A. L. N. Reddy",
title = "Performance specification of software components",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "3--10",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375223",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component-based software engineering is concerned with
predictability in both functional and performance
behavior, though most formal techniques have typically
focused their attention on the former. Reasoning about
the (functional or performance) behavior of a
component-based system must be compositional in order
to be scalable. Compositional performance reasoning
demands that components include performance
specifications, in addition to descriptions of
functional behavior. Unfortunately, as explained in
this paper, classical techniques and notations for
performance analysis are either unsuitable or unnatural
to capture performance behaviors of generic software
components. They fail to work in the presence of
parameterization and layering. The paper introduces
elements of a compositional approach to performance
analysis using a detailed example. It explains that
performance specification problems are so basic that
there are unresolved research issues to be tackled even
for the simplest reusable components. These issues must
be tackled by any practical proposal for sound
performance reasoning. Only then will software
developers be able to engineer new systems by choosing
and assembling components that best fit their
performance (time and space) requirements.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rakic:2001:ICS,
author = "Marija Rakic and Nenad Medvidovic",
title = "Increasing the confidence in off-the-shelf components:
a software connector-based approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "11--18",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375228",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The promise of component-based software development is
that larger, more complex systems can be built
reasonably quickly and reliably from pre-fabricated (``
off-the-shelf'') building blocks. Additionally, such
systems can be upgraded incrementally, simply by
replacing individual components with their new
versions. However, practice has shown that while it may
improve certain aspects of an existing component, a new
component version frequently introduces unforeseen
problems. These problems include less efficient
utilization of system resources, errors in the newly
introduced functionality, and even new errors in the
functionality carried over from the old version. This
paper presents an approach intended to alleviate such
problems. Our approach is based on explicit software
architectures and leverages flexible software
connectors in ensuring that component versions can be
added and removed in the deployed, running system. Our
connectors, called multi-versioning connectors, also
unintrusively collect and compare the execution
statistics of the running component versions (e.g.,
execution time and results of invocations). We
illustrate our approach with the help of an example
application.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Braga:2001:UMO,
author = "Regina M. M. Braga and Marta Mattoso and Cl{\'a}udia
M. L. Werner",
title = "The use of mediation and ontology technologies for
software component information retrieval",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "19--28",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375229",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component Based Developed aims at constructing
software through the inter-relationship between
pre-existing components. However, these components
should be bound to a specific application domain in
order to be effectively reused. Reusable domain
components and Their related documentation are usually
stored in a great variety of data sources. Thus, a
possible solution for accessing this information is to
use a software layer that integrates different
component information sources. We present a component
information integration data layer, based on mediators.
Through mediators, domain ontology acts as a
technique/formalism for specifying ontological
commitments or agreements between component users and
providers, enabling more accurate software component
information search.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Maruyama:2001:AME,
author = "Katsuhisa Maruyama",
title = "Automated method-extraction refactoring by using
block-based slicing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "31--40",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375233",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Refactoring improves the design of existing code but
is not complex to do by hand. This paper proposes a
mechanism that automatically refactors methods of
object-oriented programs by using program slicing. To
restructure a method without changing its observable
behavior, the mechanism uses block-based slicing that
does not extract the fragments of code from the whole
program but from the region consisting of some
consecutive basic-blocks of the program. A refactoring
tool implementing the mechanism constructs a new method
that contains the extracted code and re-forms the
source method that contains this tool, a programmer
indicates only a variable of interest in the code that
he/she wants to refactor and then selects a suitable
method from among the candidates created by the tool.
The programmer does not have to test the refactored
code since the mechanism is based on data-and
control-flow analysis. Thus the tool enables
programmers to avoid manual refactoring whose process
is error-prone and time-consuming",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Price:2001:PRO,
author = "Margaretha W. Price and Donald M. Needham and Steven
A. {Demurjian, Sr.}",
title = "Producing reusable object-oriented components: a
domain-and-organization-specific perspective",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "41--50",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375236",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Developing reusable object-oriented software requires
a designer to determine how to structure a software
system so as to achieve the necessary functionality,
while at the same time increasing the reuse potential
of the software. We introduce a set of reusability
metrics intended to be iteratively applied during the
design and implementation parts of the software
life-cycle to help guide the production and
identification of reusable components. Component
identification centers on the application's domain,
with reuse focusing specifically on an organization's
future systems. Our approach requires the developer to
subjectively categorize classes, identify component
boundaries, and specify where components are related.
Our metrics provide reuse valuations on the couplings
between components. Based upon the results of applying
our metrics, we provide refactoring guidelines to
increase the separation between components in a manner
that improves component reusability. We include an
application of our metrics to a commercial
object-oriented framework.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Butler:2001:CRF,
author = "Greg Butler and Lugang Xu",
title = "Cascaded refactoring for framework",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "51--57",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375239",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Refactoring of source code has been studied as a
preliminary step in the evolution of object-oriented
software. We extend the concept of refactoring to the
whole range of models used to describe a framework in
our methodology: feature model, use case model,
architecture, design, and code. We view framework
evolution as a two-step process: refactoring and
extension. The refactoring step is a set of
refactorings, one for each model, that cascades through
them. The refactorings chosen for a model become the
rationale or constraints for the choice of refactorings
of the next model. The cascading of refactorings is
aided by the alignment of the models. Alignment is a
traceable mapping between models that preserves the
commonality-variability aspects of the models.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jang:2001:ADR,
author = "Jun-Jang Jang",
title = "An approach to designing reusable service frameworks
via virtual service machine",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "58--66",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375242",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper proposes a new service-computing platform
named Virtual Service Machine (VSM). Service computing
is a new paradigm for manufacturing IT artifacts,
lifting up traditional focus of software development
from the level of applications to that of services.
Applications are constructed for machines; services are
built for people. Applications are targeted to run on a
particular platform; services are aimed for serving
user's needs. While service computing is getting much
more attention than before, its progress is slow and
outcomes are not so gratifying. Many service-computing
developers are striving to solve the same problems
encountered in their counterparts on application
development. Middleware is one of many means to address
the issue of development barriers for services.
However, current forms and functions of middleware
software are still impeded by customary mindsets that
have been exercised for last couple of decades. We need
a new breed of platforms that can further relieve the
developers from low-level platform concerns, e.g.
hardware, OS, or even middleware itself. VSM is a way
towards more effective service- computing development.
It provides developers with a reusable service-
computing platform to develop their service- based
frameworks and applications. This paper proposes an
approach of designing reusable service- computing
platform via VSM. VSM works by taking incoming service
requests and converting them to the executable tasks of
the underlying middleware or machine that it is running
on. This paper emphasizes on presenting the
functionality and major components inside VSM. The
comparative study with other service- computing
platforms with not be the focus of this paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gomaa:2001:RCI,
author = "Hassan Gomaa and Daniel A. Menasc{\'e} and Michael E.
Shin",
title = "Reusable component interconnection patterns for
distributed software architectures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "69--77",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375252",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper investigates the design of reusable
component interconnection in client/ server systems. In
particular, the paper describes the design of component
interconnection patterns, which define and encapsulate
the way client and server components communicate with
each other. This paper uses the Unified Modeling
Language (UML) to describe the component
interconnection patterns for synchronous, asynchronous,
and brokered communication. When designing a new
distributed application, the appropriate component
interaction patterns may then be selected and reused.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tahara:2001:SEM,
author = "Yasuyuki Tahara and Nobukazu Toshiba and Akihiko
Ohsuga and Shinichi Honiden",
title = "Secure and efficient mobile agent application reuse
using patterns",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "78--85",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375255",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "As wide-area open networks like the Internet and
intranets grow larger, mobile agent technology is
attracting more attention. Mobile agents are units of
software that can deal with environmental changes and
the various requirements of open networks through
features such as autonomy, mobility, intelligence,
cooperation, and reactivity. In addition, some people
consider the agent technology as a promising solution
to the reuse issue because of the aspect of the agents
as highly adaptable software components. However, since
the usual development methods of secure mobile agent
applications are not sufficiently investigated, the
technology is not yet widespread. In this paper, we
propose a formal framework that supports mobile agent
application development and reuse with consideration of
the trade-offs between the security issues and the
performance issues. In our framework, we design a
mobile agent application by building a computational
cost model and a security model, and combining patterns
so that the combination satisfies the models. Therefore
we can develop the application considering the security
and the performance trade-offs. Since the models and
the patterns are presented according to a formal
framework, we can make sure that the pattern
combination satisfies the models rigorously. In
addition, if the security policy of the new environment
is different from the old one in reusing the system in
a new organization, we can easily modify and adapt the
behavior because the pattern application can be figured
out automatically by an algorithm.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Stirewalt:2001:GVC,
author = "R. E. Kurt Stirewalt and Laura K. Dillon",
title = "Generation of visitor components that implement
program transformations",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "86--94",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375258",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The visitor pattern is appealing to developers of
program-analysis tools because it separates the design
of the data structures that represent a program from
the design of software that traverses these structures.
Unfortunately, the visitor pattern is difficult to
apply when the analysis involves transformation logic
that involves multiple program fragments
simultaneously. We encountered this problem in our work
on the {\proj} project and discovered a novel way to
use multiple cooperating visitor objects to
systematically implement such functions when they are
specified via a set of transformation rules. This paper
introduces our {\em curried-visitor framework} and
illustrates how we applied it to implement a key
component in the {\proj} framework. We are working on a
code generator that will automatically synthesize
curried-visitor frameworks from a description of a
program's abstract syntax and a set of pattern-matching
transformation rules.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mittermeir:2001:GDC,
author = "Roland T. Mittermeir and Andreas Bollin and Heinz
Pozewaunig and Dominik Rauner-Reithmayer",
title = "Goal-driven combination of software comprehension
approaches for component based development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "95--102",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375264",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper reports on our approaches to combine
various software comprehension techniques (and
technologies) in order to establish confidence whether
a given reusable component satisfies the needs of the
intended reuse situation. Some parts of the problem we
are addressing result from differences in knowledge
representation about a component depending on whether
this component is a well documented in-house
development, some externally built componentry, or a
COTS-component.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gacek:2001:IPL,
author = "Critina Gacek and Michalis Anastasopoules",
title = "Implementing product line variabilities",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "109--117",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375269",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software product lines have numerous members. Thus, a
product line infrastructure must cover various systems.
This is the significant difference to usual software
systems and the reason for additional requirements on
the various assets present during software product line
engineering. It is imperative that they support the
description of the product line as a whole, as well as
its instantiation for the derivation of individual
products. Literature has already addressed how to
create and instantiate generic product line assets,
such as domain models and architectures to generate
instance specific ones [1, 2, 3], yet little attention
has been given on how to actually deal with this
genericity at the code level. This paper addresses the
issue of handling product line variability at the code
level. To this end various implementation approaches
are examined with respect to their use in a product
line context.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Niemela:2001:PLS,
author = "Eila Niemel{\"a} and Tuomas Ihme",
title = "Product line software engineering of embedded
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "118--125",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375271",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In order to be able to determine whether the product
line approach is suitable, a company needs to analyse
its business drivers, commonality of existing products,
domain knowledge owned by the engineering staff, and
quality of the representations of existing software
artefacts. In this paper we present evaluation criteria
for the development of a product line and give an
overview of the current state of practices in the
embedded software area. Evaluation criteria are divided
into three classes. Business drivers of a product line
are defined by analysing product assortment and
business manners. Domains and personnel are considered
in the analysis of the preconditions and targets of a
product line. In the development of core assets,
elements that affect assets engineering are considered
as well as the mechanisms needed in their maintenance.
A product line architecture that brings about a balance
between subdomains and their most important properties
is an investment that must be looked after. However,
the subdomains need flexibility to use, change and
manage their own technologies, and evolve separately,
but in a controlled way.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bachmann:2001:MVS,
author = "Felix Bachmann and Len Bass",
title = "Managing variability in software architectures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "126--132",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375274",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents experience with explicitly
managing variability within a software architecture.
Software architects normally plan for change and put
mechanisms in the architecture to support those
changes. Understanding the situations where change has
been planned for and recording the options possible
within particular situations is usually not done
explicitly. This becomes important if the architecture
is used for many product versions over a long period or
in a product line context where the architecture is
used to build a variety of different products. That is,
it is important to explicitly represent variation and
indicate within the architecture locations for which
change has been allowed. We will describe how the
management of variations in an architecture can be made
more explicit and how the use of variation points
connected to the choices a customer has when ordering a
product can help to navigate to the appropriate places
in the architecture.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Savolainen:2001:VAF,
author = "Juha Savolainen and Juha Kuusela",
title = "Violatility analysis framework for product lines",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "133--141",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375277",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Evolution of a software intensive system is
unavoidable. In fact, evolution can be seen as a part
of reuse process. During the evolution of the software
asset, the major part of the system functionality is
normally reused. So the key issue is to identify the
volatile parts of the domain requirements.
Additionally, there is promise that tailored tool
support may help supporting evolution in software
intensive systems. In this paper, we describe the
volatility analysis method for product lines. This
highly practical method has been used in multiple
domains and is able to express and estimate common
types of evolutional characteristics. The method is
able to represent volatility in multiple levels and has
capacity to tie the volatility estimation to one
product line member specification. We also briefly
describe current tool support for the method. The main
contribution of this paper is a volatility analysis
framework that can be used to describe how requirements
are estimated to evolve in the future. The method is
based on the definition hierarchy framework.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Eckstein:2001:TLC,
author = "Silke Eckstein and Peter Ahlbrecht and Karl Neumann",
title = "Techniques and language constructs for developing
generic informations systems: a case study",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "145--154",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375279",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "When creating a family of systems, i.e. several
systems of similar type which differ within some
aspects, it is desirable to be able to express these
differences already at the level of the specification,
and to automatically obtain systems from it which are
ready to run. The use of generic methods may lead to
substantial progress in this area. This report explores
two aspects: parameterization concepts at the
specification level, which can be used to describe
variants of a system, and generator programs, which
produce runnable systems from prefabricated
components.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Daneva:2001:EVA,
author = "Maya Daneva",
title = "Evaluating the value-added benefits of using
requirements reuse metrics in {ERP} projects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "155--163",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375283",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Measurement programs often go astray and fail to reach
full success because of misconceptions and differences
in expectations about the benefits to be realized as a
result of a measurement exercise. This paper suggests
how to plan and apply requirements reuse measurement in
a business focussed way, by doing frequent benefits
assessments. We describe an approach to analyzing,
evaluating and tracking the reuse metrics usage
patterns in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects
and the benefits gained from integrating requirements
reuse measurement practices in the ERP requirements
elicitation--modelling--negotiation cycle.
Relationships between requirements measurement
activities and requirements engineering activities and
deliverables are studied in the context of SAP R/ 3
implementation projects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wong:2001:XIF,
author = "Tak Wong and Stan Jarzabek and Soe Myat Swe and Ru
Shen and Hongyu Zhang",
title = "{XML} implementation of frame processor",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "164--172",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375285",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A quantitative study has shown that frame technology
[1] supported by Fusion toolset can lead to reduction
in time-to-market (70\%) and project costs (84\%).
Frame technology has been developed to handle large
COBOL-based business software product families. We
wished to investigate how the principle of frame
approach can be applied to support product families in
other application domains, in particular to build
distributed component-based systems written in
Object-Oriented languages. As Fusion is tightly coupled
with COBOL, we implemented our own tools based on frame
concepts using the XML technology. In our solution, a
generic architecture for a product family is a
hierarchy of XML documents. Each such document contains
a reusable program fragment instrumented for change
with XML tags. We use a tool built on top of XML
parsing framework JAXP to process documents in order to
produce a custom member of a product family. Our
solution is cost-effective and extensible. In the
paper, we describe our solution, illustrating its use
with examples. We intend to make our solution available
to public in order to encourage investigation of frame
concepts in other application domains, implementation
languages and platforms.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zand:2001:CPP,
author = "Manzour Zand and Paul Bassett and Rub{\'e}n
Prieto-D{\'\i}az",
title = "Closing panel (panel session): where are we standing?
can we say ``reuse is dead, long live reuse'' or is it
too soon?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "173--175",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.375289",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Desikan:2001:MEE,
author = "Rajagopalan Desikan and Doug Burger and Stephen W.
Keckler",
title = "Measuring experimental error in microprocessor
simulation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "3",
pages = "266--277",
month = may,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/379377.379271",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2001:RPCc,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "3--12",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505484",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cooper:2001:AFPb,
author = "Greg Cooper",
title = "{ACM Fellow} profile: {Eugene H. Spafford}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "13--16",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505485",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2001:SNSc,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "17--26",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505486",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mens:2001:FFS,
author = "Tom Mens and Michel Wermelinger",
title = "{Formal Foundations of Software Evolution}: workshop
report",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "27--29",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505488",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The workshop on Formal Foundations of Software
Evolution was co-located with the 5th European
Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
(CSMR 2001), which took place at the Centro de
Congressos do Instituto Superior Tcnico in Lisbon,
Portugal, March 14 to 16, 2001. The workshop was
organised in the context of the Scientific Research
Network on Foundations of Software Evolution. This is a
research consortium coordinated by the Programming
Technology Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(Belgium), and it involves 9 research institutes from
universities in 5 different European countries
(Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Portugal).
The consortium is financed by the Fund for Scientific
Research --- Flanders (Belgium). One full day was
allocated for the workshop (March 13, 2001). There were
14 participants, that all contributed with a position
paper which was reviewed and revised before the
workshop. Next to the submissions of the research
consortium partners, there were also participants from
research institutes in Spain, United Kingdom, Finland,
and Japan. In preparation to the workshop, participants
were requested to read all other submissions, and asked
to prepare a clear position statement and questions
that were likely to stimulate discussion. The goal of
the workshop was to get more insight into how formal
techniques can alleviate software evolution problems,
and how they can lead to tools for the evolution of
large and complex software systems that are more robust
and more widely applicable without sacrificing
efficiency. Preferably, the evolution-support tools
should not be restricted to a particular phase of
software evolution [BR00], but should be generally
applicable throughout the entire application lifetime.
The tools should also provide support for different
aspects of software engineering, such as forward
engineering, reverse engineering, re-engineering, and
team engineering. In order to stimulate discussions,
three general important questions were posed to the
participants at the beginning of the workshop: Which
aspects of software evolution need to be automated by
tools? Where and how can formalisms help us to achieve
tool support? How can we build formally-founded tools
that are as general and flexible as possible? Note that
the generality and flexibility of a tool involves many
different aspects: --- independence of the programming
language for which support should be provided; ---
customisability by the user of the tool;---
applicability in or across different stages of software
evolution; --- interoperability with other tools; ---
scalability to large and complex software systems with
multiple developers; --- usable for static
(design-time) as well as dynamic (runtime) evolution;
--- applicable to forward, reverse, and re-engineering;
--- usable before, during, and after evolution; ---
usable for facilitating, supporting, as well as
analysing evolution; --- to deal with the what and why
as well as the how of software evolution",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2001:LSE,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "Limits to software estimation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "54--59",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505490",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Algorithmic (KCS) complexity results can be
interpreted as indicating some limits to software
estimation. While these limits are abstract they
nevertheless contradict enthusiastic claims
occasionally made by commercial software estimation
advocates. Specifically, if it is accepted that
algorithmic complexity is an appropriate definition of
the complexity of a programming project, then claims of
purely objective estimation of project complexity,
development time, and programmer productivity are
necessarily incorrect.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2001:ESP,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "Estimating software projects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "60--67",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505491",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software Cost Estimation (SCE) continues to be a weak
link in software project management. It is the
responsibility of the project manager to make accurate
estimations of effort and cost. This is particularly
true for projects subject to competitive bidding where
a bid too high compared with competitors would result
in loosing the contract or a bid too low could result
in a loss to the organization. From an estimate, the
management often decides whether to proceed with the
project. Industry has a need for accurate estimates of
effort and size at a very early stage in a project.
However, when software cost estimates are done early in
the software development process the estimate can be
based on wrong or incomplete requirements. Software
cost estimate process is the set of techniques and
procedures that organizations use to arrive at an
estimate. Why SCE is difficult and error prone?-
Software cost estimation requires a significant amount
of effort to perform it correctly.- SCE is often done
hurriedly, without an appreciation for the effort
required.- You need experience at developing estimates,
especially for large projects.- Human bias i.e. an
Estimator is likely to consider how long a certain
portion of the system would take, and then to merely
extrapolate this estimate to the rest of the system,
ignoring the non-linear aspects of software
development.- Costs and schedules are often
pre-determined by an outside source.- An in-depth
analysis of the software development process was not
undertaken or in many cases, is not fully understood.
There is a general lack of acceptance that developing
software is an expensive endeavor. The causes of poor
and inaccurate estimation are: (a) imprecise and
drifting requirements. (b) New software projects are
nearly always different form the last. (c) Software
practitioners don't collect enough information about
past projects. (d) Estimates are forced to match the
resources available. The software estimation process
discussed in this paper describes the steps required
for establishing initial software Life Cycle Cost
estimates and then tracking and refining those
estimates throughout the life of the project.
Establishment of this process early in the life cycle
will result in greater accuracy and credibility of
estimates and a clearer understanding of the factors
that influence software development costs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Long:2001:SRA,
author = "John Long",
title = "Software reuse antipatterns",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "68--76",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505492",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software reuse is a productivity technique attempted
by many development organizations, with mixed success.
In analyzing reuse failures, a number of antipatterns
emerge. Antipatterns are obvious, but wrong, solutions
to recurring problems. This article outlines a number
of reuse antipatterns that have been observed within
the software industry.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rangarajan:2001:PQF,
author = "Krishnan Rangarajan and N. Swaminathan and Vishu Hegde
and Jacob Jacob",
title = "Product quality framework: a vehicle for focusing on
product quality goals",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "77--82",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505493",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Quality focus is generally on process quality, the
avoidance and elimination of defects. This is the most
relevant for manufacturing processes. In engineering
design, there is as much emphasis also on product
quality aspects, such as availability, performance,
usability, maintainability etc. Current systems and
software engineering practice generally puts the burden
of optimizing these attributes solely on the knowledge,
intuition and ability of architects and designers. The
product quality framework provides a systematic
approach that includes techniques for specifying,
optimizing, analyzing and measuring these attributes.
The framework also puts explicit emphasis on tradeoffs
between attributes, providing a direct relationship
between design and customer concerns. This paper
describes the framework and its use as a vehicle for
the engineering of high availability systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2001:AOV,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "An automated oracle for verifying {GUI} objects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "83--88",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505494",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Recently, software testers have relied more on
automated testing to test software. Automated testing
method consists of the three modules: test case design,
execution, and verification. Yet, to accomplish these
three phases, we are always in a dilemma due to a lack
of a verification function. Nearly all the commercial
automated testing tools cannot efficiently compare
graphic objects though GUI (Graphic User Interface)
software is now more crucial than text based user
interface. This research develops a technique that aids
automatic behavior verification for a particularly
difficult problem: determining the correction of screen
output. Methodology to capture and compare screen
output is presented and a case study using
Microsoft{\reg} PowerPoint{\reg} is described.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anantharam:2001:PR,
author = "Parasuram Anantharam",
title = "Programming ruby",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "89--89",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505496",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Boyer:2001:FPA,
author = "Kenneth W. {Boyer, Jr.}",
title = "Function point analysis: measurement practices for
successful software projects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "90--90",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505497",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Horning:2001:BRS,
author = "Jim Horning",
title = "Book Review: {{\booktitle{Software fundamentals:
collected papers}} by David L. Parnas}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "91--91",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505498",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Law:2001:QCQ,
author = "Jim Law",
title = "Quantum computation and quantum information",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "4",
pages = "91--91",
month = jul,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505482.505499",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:09 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rosenblum:2001:TAE,
author = "David Rosenblum",
title = "Taming architectural evolution",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "1--10",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503211",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In the world of software development everything
evolves. So, then, do software architectures. Unlike
source code, for which the use of a configuration
management (CM) system is the predominant approach to
capturing and managing evolution, approaches to
capturing and managing architectural evolution span a
wide range of disconnected alternatives. This paper
contributes a novel architecture evolution environment,
called Mae, which brings together a number of these
alternatives. The environment facilitates an
incremental design process in which all changes to all
architectural elements are integrally captured and
related. Key to the environment is a rich system model
that combines architectural concepts with those from
the field of CM. Not only does this system model form
the basis for Mae, but in precisely capturing
architectural evolution it also facilitates automated
support for several innovative capabilities that rely
on the integrated nature of the system model. This
paper introduces three of those: the provision of
design guidance at the architectural level, the use of
specialized software connectors to ensure run-time
reliability during component upgrades, and the creation
of component-level patches to be applied to deployed
system configurations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Morisawa:2001:ASP,
author = "Yoshitomi Morisawa and Koji Torii",
title = "An architectural style of product lines for
distributed processing systems, and practical selection
method",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "11--20",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503212",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "When implementing an application system in a
distributed computing environment, several
architectural questions arise, such as how and where
computing resources are arranged, and how the
communication among computing resources are
implemented. To simplify the process of making these
choices, we have developed an architectural style for
distributed processing system. The style classifies
product lines for distributed processing systems into
nine categories based on the location of data storage
and the style of processing between client and server.
This paper describes our architectural style and
proposes a simple but practical method to select an
appropriate architectural style for developing an
application system. We apply this selection method in
concrete real application systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wermelinger:2001:GBA,
author = "Michel Wermelinger and Ant{\'o}nia Lopes and Jos{\'e}
Luiz Fiadeiro",
title = "A graph based architectural (Re)configuration
language",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "21--32",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503213",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "For several different reasons, such as changes in the
business or technological environment, the
configuration of a system may need to evolve during
execution. Support for such evolution can be conceived
in terms of a language for specifying the dynamic
reconfiguration of systems. In this paper, continuing
our work on the development of a formal platform for
architectural design, we present a high-level language
to describe architectures and for operating changes
over a configuration (i.e., an architecture instance),
such as adding, removing or substituting components or
interconnectons. The language follows an imperative
style and builds on a semantic domain established in
previous work. Therein, we model architectures through
categorical diagrams and dynamic reconfiguration
through algebraic graph rewriting.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sliski:2001:AFE,
author = "Timothy J. Sliski and Matthew P. Billmers and Lori A.
Clarke and Leon J. Osterweil",
title = "An architecture for flexible, evolvable process-driven
user-guidance environments",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "33--43",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503214",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Complex toolsets can be difficult to use. User
interfaces can help by guiding users through the
alternative choices that might be possible at any given
time, but this tends to lock users into the fixed
interaction models dictated by the user-interface
designers. Alternatively, we propose an approach where
the tool utilization model is specified by a process,
written in a process definition language. Our approach
incorporates a user-interface specification that
describes how the user-interface is to respond to, or
reflect, progress through the execution of the process
definition. By not tightly binding the user-guidance
process, the associated user-interfaces, and the
toolset, it is easy to develop alternative processes
that provide widely varying levels and styles of
guidance and to be responsive to evolution in the
processes, user interfaces, or toolset. In this paper,
we describe this approach for developing process-driven
user-guidance environments, a lossely coupled
architecture for supporting this separation of
concerns, and a generator for automatically binding the
process and the user interface. We report on a case
study using this approach. Although this case study
used a specific process definition language and a
specific toolset, the approach is applicable to other
process definition languages and toolsets, provided
they meet some basic, sound software engineering
requirements.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kaveh:2001:DDD,
author = "Nima Kaveh and Wolfgang Emmerich",
title = "Deadlock detection in distribution object systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "44--51",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503216",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The behaviour of a distributed system is largely
determined by the use of synchronization primitives and
threading policies of the underlying middleware. The
inherent parallel nature of distributed systems may
cause liveness problems, such as deadlocks and
livelocks. An increasing number of distributed systems
is built using object middleware. We exploit the fact
that modern object middleware offers only a few
built-in synchronization and threading primitives by
suggesting UML stereotypes to represent each of these
primitives in distributed object design. We define the
semantics of the stereotypes using a process algebra.
We use that semantics to translate UML diagrams into
behaviourally equivalent process algebra
representations and can then use model checking
techniques to find potential deadlocks. The paper also
shows how the model checking results can be related
back to the original UML diagrams.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jagannathan:2001:ICS,
author = "Ramesh Jagannathan and Paolo A. G. Sivilotti",
title = "Increasing client-side confidence in remote component
implementations",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "52--61",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503217",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "When a client makes use of a remote component, it does
not have direct access to the remote component's
implementation or state information. By observing the
component's interactions with its environment, however,
the client can determine whether the component's
behavior conforms to its promised specification. We
present a distributed infrastructure with which a
client can make these observations and thereby increase
its confidence in the correctness of the remote
component. This infrastructure supports temporal
specifications of distributed components with
autonomous threads of control. It also supports
multiple levels of confidence, with commensurate
performance costs. As a proof-of-concept for this
design, we have implemented a prototype in Java for
distributed systems built using CORBA.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jackson:2001:MM,
author = "Daniel Jackson and Ilya Shlyakhter and Manu
Sridharan",
title = "A micromodularity mechanism",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "62--73",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503219",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A simple mechanism for structuring specifications is
described. By modelling structures as atoms, it remains
entirely first-order and thus amenable to automatic
analysis. And by interpreting fields of structures as
relations, it allows the same relational operators used
in the formula language to be used for dereferencing.
An extension feature allows structures to be developed
incrementally, but requires no textual inclusion nor
any notion of subtyping. The paper demonstrates the
flexibility of the mechanism by application in a
variety of common idioms.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Uchitel:2001:DIS,
author = "Sebastian Uchitel and Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee",
title = "Detecting implied scenarios in message sequence chart
specifications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "74--82",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503220",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Scenario-based specifications such as Message Sequence
Charts (MSCs) are becoming increasingly popular as part
of a requirements specification. Scenario describe how
system components, the environment and users work
concurrently and interact in order to provide system
level functionality. Each scenario is a partial story
which, when combined with other scenarios, should
conform to provide a complete system description.
However, although it is possible to build a set of
components such that each component behaves in
accordance with the set of scenarios, their composition
may not provide the required system behaviour. Implied
scenarios may appear as a result of unexpected
component interaction. In this paper, we present an
algorithm that builds a labelled transition system
(LTS) behaviour model that describes the closest
possible implementation for a specification based on
basic and high-level MSCs. We also present a technique
for detecting and providing feedback on the existence
of implied scenarios. We have integrated these
procedures into the Labelled Transition System Analyser
(LTSA), which allows for model checking and animation
of the behaviour model.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wendorff:2001:FAA,
author = "Peter Wendorff",
title = "A formal approach to the assessment and improvement of
terminological models used in information systems
engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "83--87",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503221",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In the design and implementation of any information
system identifiers are used to designate concepts.
Typical examples are names of classes, variables,
modules, database fields, etc. A terminological model
is a set of identifiers together with a set of
abstractions and a set of links between identifiers and
abstractions. Naturally, terminological models embody
important knowledge of a system, and therefore they
play an important role during the development of
information systems. In this paper we propose a
metamodel for terminological models that is based on
category theory as conceptual and notational
framework.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Coady:2001:UAI,
author = "Yvonne Coady and Gregor Kiczales and Mike Feeley and
Greg Smolyn",
title = "Using {aspectC} to improve the modularity of
path-specific customization in operating system code",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "88--98",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503223",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Layered architecture in operating system code is often
compromised by execution path-specific customizations
such as prefetching, page replacement and scheduling
strategies. Path-specific customizations are difficult
to modularize in a layered architecture because they
involve dynamic context passing and layer violations.
Effectively they are vertically integrated slices
through the layers. An initial experiment using an
aspect-oriented programming language to refactor
prefetching in the FreeBSD operating system kernal
shows significant benefits, including easy
(un)pluggability of prefetching modes, independent
development of prefetching modes, and overall improved
comprehensibility.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sullivan:2001:SVM,
author = "Kevin J. Sullivan and William G. Griswold and Yuanfang
Cai and Ben Hallen",
title = "The structure and value of modularity in software
design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "99--108",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503224",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The concept of information hiding modularity is a
cornerstone of modern software design thought, but its
formulation remains casual and its emphasis on
changeability is imperfectly related to the goal of
creating added value in a given context. We need better
explanatory and prescriptive models of the nature and
value of information hiding. We evaluate the potential
of a new theory---developed to account for the
influence of modularity on the evolution of the
computer industry---to inform software design. The
theory uses design structure matrices to model designs
and real options techniques to value them. To test the
potential utility of the theory for software we apply
it to Parnas's KWIC designs. We contribute an extension
to design structure matrices, and we show that the
options results are consistent with Parnas's
conclusions. Our results suggest that such a theory
does have potential to help inform software design.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{deAlfaro:2001:IA,
author = "Luca de Alfaro and Thomas A. Henzinger",
title = "Interface automata",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "109--120",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503226",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Conventional type systems specify interfaces in terms
of values and domains. We present a light-weight
formalism that captures the temporal aspects of
software component interfaces. Specifically, we use an
automata-based language to capture both input
assumptions about the order in which the methods of a
component are called, and output guarantees about the
order in which the component calls external methods.
The formalism supports automatic compatability checks
between interface models, and thus constitutes a type
system for component interaction. Unlike traditional
uses of automata, our formalism is based on an
optimistic approach to composition, and on an
alternating approach to design refinement. According to
the optimistic approach, two components are compatible
if there is some environment that can make them work
together. According to the alternating approach, one
interface refines another if it has weaker input
assumptions, and stronger output guarantees. We show
that these notions have game-theoretic foundations that
lead to efficient algorithms for checking compatibility
and refinement.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Inverardi:2001:ASD,
author = "Paola Inverardi and Massimo Tivoli",
title = "Automatic synthesis of deadlock free connectors for
{COM\slash DCOM} applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "121--131",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503227",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many software projects are based on the integration of
independently designed software components that are
acquired on the market rather than developed within the
project itself. Sometimes interoperability and
composition mechanisms provided by component based
integration frameworks cannot solve the problem of
binary component integration in an automatic way.
Notably, in the context of component based concurrent
systems, the binary component integration may cause
deadlocks within the system. In this paper we present a
technique to allow connectors synthesis for
deadlock-free component based architectures [2] in a
real scale context, namely in the context of COM/DCOM
applications. This technique is based on an
architectural, connector-based approach which consists
of synthesizing a COM/DCOM connector as a COM/DCOM
server that can route requests of the clients through a
deadlock free policy. This work also provides guide
lines to implement an automatic tool that derives the
implementation of routing dead-lock-free policy within
the connector from the dynamic behavior specification
of the COM components. It is then possible to avoid the
deadlock by using COM composition mechanisms to insert
the synthesized connector within the system while
letting the system COM servers unimodified. We present
a successful application of this technique on the (COM
version of the) problem known as ``The dining
philosophers''. Depending on the type of deadlock we
have a strategy that automatically operates on the
connector part of the system architecture in order to
obtain a suitably equivalent version of the system
which is deadlock-free.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Davis:2001:NPA,
author = "L. Davis and R. Gamble and J. Payton and G.
J{\'o}nsd{\'o}ttir and D. Underwood",
title = "A notation for problematic architecture interactions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "132--141",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503228",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The progression of component-based software
engineering (CBSE) is essential to the rapid,
cost-effective development of complex software systems.
Given the choice of well-tested components, CBSE
affords reusability and increases reliability. However,
applications developed according to this practice can
often suffer from difficult maintenance and control,
problems that stem from improper or inadequate
integrate solutions. Avoiding such unfortunate results
requires knowledge of what causes the interoperability
problems in the first place. The time for this
assessment is during application design. In this paper,
we define problematic architecture interactions using a
simple notation with extendable properties.
Furthermore, we delineate a multi-phase process for
pre-integration analysis that relies on this notation.
Through this effort, potential problematic architecture
interactions can be illuminated and used to form the
initial requirements of an integration architecture.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Coen-Porisini:2001:USE,
author = "Alberto Coen-Porisini and Giovanni Denaro and Carlo
Ghezzi and Mauro Pezz{\'e}",
title = "Using symbolic execution for verifying safety-critical
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "142--151",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503230",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Safety critical systems require to be highly reliable
and thus special care is taken when verifying them in
order to increase the confidence in their behavior.
This paper addresses the problem of formal verification
of safety critical systems by providing empirical
evidence of the practical applicability of symbolic
execution and of its usefulness for checking
safety-related properties. In this paper, symbolic
execution is used for building an operational model of
the software on which safety properties, expressed by
means of a Path Description Language (PDL), can be
assessed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fisler:2001:MVC,
author = "Kathi Fisler and Shriram Krishnamurthi",
title = "Modular verification of collaboration-based software
designs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "152--163",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503231",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Most existing modular model checking techniques betray
their hardware roots: they assume that modules compose
in parallel. In contrast, collaboration-based software
designs, which have proven very successful in several
domains, are sequential in the simplest case. Most
interesting collaboration-based designs are really
quasi-sequential compositions of parallel compositions.
These designs demand and inspire new verification
techniques. This paper presents algorithms that exploit
the software's modular decomposition to verify
collaboration-based designs. Our technique can verify
most properties locally in the collaborations; we also
characterize when a global state space construction is
unavoidable. We have validated our proposal by testing
it on several designs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Choi:2001:AAM,
author = "Yunja Choi and Sanjai Rayadurgam and Mats P. E.
Heimdahl",
title = "Automatic abstraction for model checking software
systems with interrelated numeric constraints",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "164--174",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503232",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Model checking techniques have not been effective in
important classes of software systems characterized by
large (or infinite) input domains with interrelated
linear and non-linear constraints over the input
variables. Various model abstraction techniques have
been proposed to address this problem. In this paper,
we wish to propose domain abstraction based on data
equivalence and trajectory reduction as an alternative
and complement to other abstraction techniques. Our
technique applies the abstraction to the input domain
(environment) instead of the model and is applicable to
constraint-free and deterministic constrained data
transition system. Our technique is automatable with
some minor restrictions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ramsey:2001:AAF,
author = "Norman Ramsey and El{\H{o}}d Csirmaz",
title = "An algebraic approach to file synchronization",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "175--185",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503233",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A file synchronizer restores consistency after
multiple replicas of a filesystem have been changed
independently. We present an algebra for reasoning
about operations on filesystems and show that it is
sound and complete with respect to a simple model. The
algebra enables us to specify a file-synchronization
algorithm that can be combined with several different
conflict-resolution policies. By contrast, previous
work builds the conflict-resolution policy into the
specification, or worse, does not specify the
synchronizer's behavior precisely. We classify
synchronizers by asking whether conflicts can be
resolved at a single disconnected replica and whether
all replicas are identical after synchronization. We
also discuss timestamps and argue that there is no good
way to propagate timestamps when there is severe clock
skew between replicas.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Engels:2001:MSA,
author = "Gregor Engels and Jochem M. K{\"u}ster and Reiko
Heckel and Luuk Groenewegen",
title = "A methodology for specifying and analyzing consistency
of object-oriented behavioral models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "186--195",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503235",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Object-oriented modeling favors the modeling of object
behavior from different viewpoints and the successive
refinement of behavioral models in the development
process. This gives rise to consistency problems of
behavioral models. The absence of a formal semantics
for UML models and the numerous possibilities of
employing behavioral models within the development
process lead to the rise of a number of different
consistency notions. In this paper, we discuss the
issue of consistency of behavioral models in the UML
and present a general methodology how consistency
problems can be dealt with. According to the
methodology, those aspects of the models relevant to
the consistency are mapped to a semantic domain in
which precise consistency tests can be formulated. The
choice of the semantic domain and the definition of
consistency conditions can be used to construct
different consistency notions. We show the
applicability of our methodology by giving an example
of a concrete consistency problem of concurrent
object-oriented models.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lavazza:2001:CUF,
author = "Luigi Lavazza and Gabriele Quaroni and Matteo
Venturelli",
title = "Combining {UML} and formal notations for modelling
real-time systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "196--206",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503236",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This article explores a dual approach to real-time
software development. Models are written in UML, as
this is expected to be relatively easy and economic.
Then models are automatically translated into a formal
notation that supports the verification of properties
such as safety, utility, liveness, etc. In this way,
developers can exploit the advantages of formal
notations while skipping the complex and expensive
formal modelling phase. The proposed approach is
applied to the Generalised Railroad Crossing (GRC)
problem, one of the best known benchmarks proposed in
the literature. A UML model of the GRC is built, and
then translated into TRIO (a first order temporal
logic). The resulting specification properties are
tested by a history checking tool which exploits the
formality of TRIO. The work described here highlights
the shortcomings of UML as a real-time modelling
language, proposes enhancements and workarounds to
overcome UML limitations, and demonstrates the
viability of using UML as a front-end for a formal
real-time notation. By translating the GRC model into
TRIO, we also give formal semantics to some of the UML
constructs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Luer:2001:WEC,
author = "Chris L{\"u}er and David S. Rosenblum",
title = "{WREN} --- an environment for component-based
development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "207--217",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503238",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Prior research in software environments focused on
three important problems---tool integration, artifact
management, and process guidance. The context for that
research, and hence the orientation of the resulting
environments, was a traditional model of development in
which an application is developed completely from
scratch by a single organization. A notable
characteristic of component-based development is its
emphasis on integrating independently developed
components produced by multiple organizations. Thus,
while component-based development can benefit from the
capabilities of previous generations of environments,
its special nature induces requirements for new
capabilities not found in previous environments. This
paper is concerned with the design of component-based
development environments, or CBDEs. We identify seven
important requirements for CBDEs and discuss their
rationale, and we describe a prototype environment
called WREN that we are building to implement these
requirements and to further evaluate and study the role
of environment technology in component-based
development. Important capabilities of the environment
include the ability to locate potential components of
interest from component distribution sites, to evaluate
the identified components for suitability to an
application, to incorporate selected components into
application design models, and to physically integrate
selected components into the application.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jahnke:2001:ECB,
author = "Jens H. Jahnke",
title = "Engineering component-based net-centric systems for
embedded applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "218--228",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503239",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The omnipresence of the Internet and the World Wide
Web (Web) via phone lines, cable-TV, power lines, and
wireless RF devices has created an inexpensive media
for telemonitoring and remotely controlling distributed
electronic appliances. The great variety of potential
benefits of aggregating and connecting embedded systems
over the Internet is matched by the currently unsolved
problem of how to design, test, maintain, and evolve
such heterogeneous, collaborative systems. Recently,
component-oriented software development has shown great
potential for cutting production costs and improving
the maintainability of systems. We discuss
component-oriented engineering of embedded control
software in the light of emerging requirements of
distributed, net-centric systems. Our approach is baed
on applying the graphical specification language SDL
for composing complex networks of embedded software
components. From the SDL specification, we generate
internet-aware connector components to local embedded
controller networks. The described research is carried
out in a collaborative effort between industry and
academia.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Findler:2001:BCB,
author = "Robert Bruce Findler and Mario Latendresse and
Matthias Felleisen",
title = "Behavioral contracts and behavioral subtyping",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "229--236",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503240",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component-based software manufacturing has the
potential to bring division-of-labor benefits to the
world of software engineering. In order to make a
market of software components viable, however,
producers and consumers must agree on enforceable
software contracts. In this paper, we show how to
enforce contracts if components are manufactured from
class and interface hierarchies. In particular, we
focus on one style of contract: pre- and
post-conditions. Programmers annotate class and
interface methods with pre- and post-conditions and the
run-time system checks these conditions during
evaluation. These contracts guarantee that methods are
called properly and provide appropriate results. In
procedural languages, the use of pre- and
post-condition contracts is well-established and
studies have demonstrated its value. In object-oriented
languages, however, assigning blame for pre- and
post-condition failures poses subtle and complex
problems. Specifically, assigning blame for malformed
class and interface hierarchies is so difficult that
none of the existing contract monitoring tools
correctly assign blame for these failures. In this
paper, we show how to overcome these problems in the
context of Java. Our work is based on the notion of
behavioral subtyping.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Edvardsson:2001:ACS,
author = "Jon Edvardsson and Mariam Kamkar",
title = "Analysis of the constraint solver in {UNA} based test
data generation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "237--245",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503242",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In a series of articles Gupta et al. develop a
framework for automatic test data generation for
computer programs. In general, their approach consists
of a branch predicate collector, which derives a system
of linear inequalities representing the branch
predicates for a given path in the program. This system
is solved using a solving technique of theirs called
the Unified Numerical Approach (UNA) [5, 7]. In this
paper we show that in contrast to traditional
optimization methods the UNA is not bounded by the size
of the solved system. Instead it depends on how input
is composed. That is, even for very simple systems
consisting of one variable we can easily get more than
a thousand iterations. We will also give a formal proof
that UNA does not always find a mixed integer solution
when there is one. Finally, we suggest using some
traditional optimization method instead, like the
simplex method in combination with branch-and-bound
and/or a cutting-plane algorithm as a constraint
solver.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dickinson:2001:PFD,
author = "William Dickinson and David Leon and Andy Podgurski",
title = "Pursuing failure: the distribution of program failures
in a profile space",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "246--255",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503243",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Observation-based testing calls for analyzing profiles
of executions induced by potential test cases, in order
to select a subset of executions to be checked for
conformance to requirements. A family of techniques for
selecting such a subset is evaluated experimentally.
These techniques employ automatic cluster analysis to
partition executions, and they use various sampling
techniques to select executions from clusters. The
experimental results support the hypothesis that with
appropriate profiling, failures often have unusual
profiles that are revealed by cluster analysis. The
results also suggest that failures often form small
clusters or chains in sparsely-populated areas of the
profile space. A form of adaptive sampling called
failure-pursuit sampling is proposed for revealing
failures in such regions, and this sampling method is
evaluated experimentally. The results suggest that
failure-pursuit sampling is effective.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Memon:2001:CCG,
author = "Atif M. Memon and Mary Lou Soffa and Martha E.
Pollack",
title = "Coverage criteria for {GUI} testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "256--267",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503244",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A widespread recognition of the usefulness of
graphical user interfaces (GUIs) has established their
importance as critical components of today's software.
GUIs have characteristics different from traditional
software, and conventional testing techniques do not
directly apply to GUIs. This paper's focus is on
coverage criteria for GUIs, important rules that
provide an objective measure of test quality. We
present new coverage criteria to help determine whether
a GUI has been adequately tested. These coverage
criteria use events and event sequences to specify a
measure of test adequacy. Since the total number of
permutations of event sequences in any non-trivial GUI
is extremely large, the GUI's hierarchical structure is
exploited to identify the important event sequences to
be tested. A GUI is decomposed into GUI components,
each of which is used as a basic unit of testing. A
representation of a GUI component, called an event-flow
graph, identifies the interaction of events within a
component and intra-component criteria are used to
evaluate the adequacy of tests on these events. The
hierarchical relationship among components is
represented by an integration tree, and inter-component
coverage criteria are used to evaluate the adequacy of
test sequences that cross components. Algorithms are
given to construct event-flow graphs and an integration
tree for a given GUI, and to evaluate the coverage of a
given test suite with respect to the new coverage
criteria. A case study illustrates the usefulness of
the coverage report to guide further testing and an
important correlation between event-based coverage of a
GUI and statement coverage of its software's underlying
code.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Conradi:2001:ESU,
author = "Reidar Conradi and Tore Dyb{\aa}",
title = "An empirical study on the utility of formal routines
to transfer knowledge and experience",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "268--276",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503246",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Most quality and software process improvement
frameworks emphasize written (i.e. formal)
documentation to convey recommended work practices.
However, there is considerable skepticism among
developers to learn from and adhere to prescribed
process models. The latter are often perceived as
overly ``structured'' or implying too much ``control''.
Further, what is relevant knowledge has often been
decided by ``others''---often the quality manager. The
study was carried out in the context of a national
software process improvement program in Norway for
small- and medium-sized companies to assess the
attitude to formalized knowledge and experience
sources. The results show that developers are rather
skeptical at using written routines, while quality and
technical managers are taking this for granted. This is
an explosive combination. The conclusion is that formal
routines must be supplemented by collaborative, social
processes to promote effective dissemination and
organizational learning. Trying to force a
(well-intended) quality system down the developers'
throats is both futile and demoralizing. The wider
implications for quality and improvement work is that
we must strike a balance between the ``disciplined'' or
``rational'' and the ``creative'' way of working.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Freimut:2001:ICS,
author = "Bernd Freimut and Susanne Hartkopf and Peter Kaiser
and Jyrki Kontio and Werner Kobitzsch",
title = "An industrial case study of implementing software risk
management",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "277--287",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503247",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Explicit risk management is gaining ground in
industrial software development projects. However,
there are few empirical studies that investigate the
transfer of explicit risk management into industry, the
adequacy of the risk management approaches to the
constraints of industrial contexts, or their
cost-benefit. This paper presents results from a case
study that introduced a systematic risk management
method, namely the Riskit method, into a large German
telecommunication company. The objective of the case
study was (1) to analyze the usefulness and adequacy of
the Riskit method and (2) to analyze the cost-benefit
of the Riskit method in this industrial context. The
results of (1) also aimed at improvement and
customization of the Riskit method. Moreover, we
compare our findings with results of previous case
studies to obtain more generalized conclusions on the
Riskit method. Our results showed that the Riskit
method is practical, adds value to the project, and
that its key concepts are understood and usable in
practice. Additionally, many lessons learned are
reported that are useful for the general audience who
wants to transfer risk management into new projects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Shull:2001:EMI,
author = "Forrest Shull and Jeffrey Carver and Guilherme H.
Travassos",
title = "An empirical methodology for introducing software
processes",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "288--296",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503248",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "There is a growing interest in empirical study in
software engineering, both for validating mature
technologies and for guiding improvements of
less-mature technologies. This paper introduces an
empirical methodology, based on experiences garnered
over more than two decades of work by the Empirical
Software Engineering Group at the University of
Maryland and related organizations, for taking a newly
proposed improvement to development processes from the
conceptual phase through transfer to industry. The
methodology presents a series of questions that should
be addressed, as well as the types of studies that best
address those questions. The methodology is illustrated
by a specific research program on inspection processes
for Object-Oriented designs. Specific examples of the
studies that were performed and how the methodology
impacted the development of the inspection process are
also described.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Brada:2001:CRI,
author = "P{\v{r}}emysl Brada",
title = "Component revision identification based on {IDL\slash
ADL} component specification",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "297--298",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503250",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Although software components have become one of the
mainstream technologies, they still lack a supportive
versioning scheme. This paper describes a system for
revision identification of released components with
well defined semantics. It is based on the analysis of
changes in the component IDL or ADL specification
structured into a hierarchy of traits and categories of
declarations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Estublier:2001:MMS,
author = "J. Estublier and H. Verjus and P. Y. Cunin",
title = "Modelling and managing software federations",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "299--300",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503251",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Building large software applications from Commercial
Off The Shelf tools (COTS) is not an industrial reality
so far. This work presents a new approach to solve the
different problems found when building a federation of
COTS.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Clarke:2001:STG,
author = "Duncan Clarke and Thierry J{\'e}ron and Vlad Rusu and
Elena Zinovieva",
title = "{STG}: a tool for generating symbolic test programs
and oracles from operational specifications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "301--302",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503252",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We report on a tool we have developed that automates
the derivation of tests from specifications. The tool
implements conformance testing techniques to derive
symbolic tests that incorporate their own oracles from
formal operational specifications. It was applied for
testing a simple version of the CEPS (Common Electronic
Purse Specification).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Basin:2001:FDM,
author = "David Basin and Frank Rittinger and Luca Vigan{\`o}",
title = "A formal data-model of the {CORBA} security service",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "303--304",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503253",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We use the formal language Z to specify and analyze
the security service of CORBA. In doing so, we tackle
the problem of how one can apply lightweight formal
methods to improve the precision and aid the analysis
of a substantial, informal specification. Our approach
is scenario-driven: we use representative scenarios to
determine which parts of the informal specification
should be formalized and then verify the formal
specification against the requirements of these
scenarios.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sreedhar:2001:YPS,
author = "Vugranam C. Sreedhar",
title = "{York}: programming software components",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "305--306",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503254",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ambriola:2001:EWS,
author = "Vincenzo Ambriola and R. Mark Greenwood",
title = "{8th European Workshop on Software Process
Technology}: report and future directions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "307--308",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503256",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper we report on the 8th European Workshop
on Software Process Technology held in Witten (Germany)
in June 2001. We also report on the outcome of a
working session about the future directions of research
in software process technology that will be addressed
in the next workshop of this series.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nord:2001:SAC,
author = "Robert L. Nord and Daniel J. Paulish and Robert W.
Schwanke and Dilip Soni",
title = "Software architecture in a changing world: developing
design strategies that anticipate change",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "309--310",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503258",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "It is now generally accepted that separating software
architecture into multiple views can help in reducing
complexity and in making sound decisions about design
trade-offs. Our four views are based on current
practice; they are loosely coupled, and address
different engineering concerns [1]. This tutorial will
teach you how global analysis can improve your design,
and how to use UML to describe these views. You will
learn: (1) the purpose of having separate software
architecture views, (2) the difference between using
UML for software architecture and the use of UML for
designing OO implementations, (3) how to apply global
analysis to analyze factors that influence the
architecture and to develop strategies that guide the
design, (4) the importance of designing for anticipated
change to produce more maintainable architectures, and
(5) how to incorporate software architecture design in
your software process. This tutorial is aimed at
experienced software engineers, architects, and
technical managers. It is assumed that participants
know the basic UML diagrams. Experience in developing
models and software design is helpful.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Emmerich:2001:CTJ,
author = "Wolfgang Emmerich and Nima Kaveh",
title = "Component technologies: {Java Beans}, {COM}, {CORBA},
{RMI}, {EJB} and the {CORBA Component Model}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "311--312",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503259",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This one-day tutorial is aimed at software engineering
practitioners and researchers, who are familiar with
object-oriented analysis, design and programming and
want to obtain an overview of the technologies that are
enabling component-based development. We introduce the
idea of component-based development by defining the
concept and providing its economic rationale. We
describe how object-oriented programming evolved into
local component models, such as Java Beans and
distributed object technologies, such as the Common
Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Java Remote
Method Invocation (RMI) and the Component Object Model
(COM). We then address how these technologies matured
into distributed component models, in particular
Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and the CORBA Component
Model (CCM). We give an assessment of the maturity of
each of these technologies and sketch how they are used
to build distributed architectures.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kiczales:2001:AOP,
author = "Gregor Kiczales and Erik Hilsdale",
title = "Aspect-oriented programming",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "313",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503260",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a technique for
improving separation of concerns in software design and
implementation. AOP works by providing explicit
mechanisms for capturing the structure of crosscutting
concerns. This tutorial shows how to use AOP to
implement crosscutting concerns in a concise modular
way. It works with AspectJ, a seamless aspect-oriented
extension to the Java(tm) programming language, and
with AspectC, an aspect-oriented extension to C in the
style of AspectJ. It also includes a description of
their underlying model, in terms of which a wide range
of AOP languages can be understood.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wallnau:2001:HDT,
author = "Kurt Wallnau and Scott Hissam and Robert C. Seacord",
title = "Half day tutorial in methods of component-based
software engineering essential concepts and classroom
experience",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "314--315",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503262",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The question of which design methods are appropriate
for component-based development (CBD) is complicated by
different understandings of the end objectives CBD. A
further complication is different understandings of
what is meant by ``component.'' These differences lead
to entirely distinct classes of design problem. The aim
of this tutorial is to, first, outline the differing
interpretations of CBD, and, second, to outline the
required methodological responses to these design
problems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lippert:2001:AXC,
author = "Martin Lippert and Stefan Roock",
title = "Adapting {XP} to complex application domains",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "316--317",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503263",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Extreme programming (XP) works well for small software
projects in not-too-complex application domains. In
many of these projects the rather simple requirements
engineering of XP (customers write story cards) has
proved suitable. But today we are more often faced with
complex application domains in which the classical XP
techniques will not suffice. The tutorial shows how to
adapt extreme programming to complex application
domains and to demanding development tasks. We focus
mainly on the requirements engineering part and show
how to enhance XP with interviews, scenarios and system
visions. We also integrate the management perspective
into the ``planning game'' reconciling this perspective
to users' needs. We propose a set of best-practice
methods we have used in a number of industrial
high-risk projects for different complex application
domains.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kirda:2001:EWS,
author = "Engin Kirda",
title = "Engineering of {Web} services with {XML} and {XSL}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "318--319",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503264",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The important role of Web services in businesses and
organizations is undisputed today. The construction and
management of large Web services is still a challenge.
The life cycle of a Web service includes the analysis,
design, implementation and maintenance stages and Web
service engineering covers all phases of Web service
life cycle. The majority of Web tools developed so far
only address the implementation phase and lack support
for the other stages. Furthermore, emerging
requirements such as the support for mobile devices
have introduced new challenges and problems developers
have to deal with. The World Wide Web Consortium's
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and the eXtensible
Stylesheet Language (XSL) are standards defined in the
interest of multi-purpose publishing and content reuse
and are increasingly being deployed in the construction
of Web services. This tutorial shows how to design,
implement, and manage adaptable XML/XSL-based Web
services. It discusses and presents our experiences in
maintaining and building the Vienna International
Festival Web service. It gives a brief overview of
popular Web engineering technologies and some tools we
have developed. The tutorial also examines the common
difficulties, non-difficulties, and solutions of Web
service engineering and presents work being done in the
area.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Grunbacher:2001:EGS,
author = "Paul Gr{\"u}nbacher and Barry Boehm",
title = "{EasyWinWin}: a groupware-supported methodology for
requirements negotiation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "320--321",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503265",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "EasyWinWin is a requirements definitions methodology
that builds on the win-win negotiation approach and
leverages collaborative technology to improve the
involvement and interaction of key stakeholders. With
EasyWinWin, stakeholders move through a step-by-step
win-win negotiation where they collect, elaborate, and
prioritize their requirements, and then surface and
resolve issues.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mannion:2001:RBP,
author = "Mike Mannion and Hermann Kaindl",
title = "Requirements-based product line engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "322--323",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503266",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Reuse and requirements are very important for
efficient and successful systems development. This
tutorial presents the experiences of requirements reuse
using a Method for Requirements Authoring and
Management (MRAM). MRAM is a method for establishing
and selecting from product line requirements. A product
line is a group of products within the same market
segment e.g. mobile phones. TRAM (Tool for Requirements
Authoring and Management) is a software tool to support
MRAM that utilises current proven office technology
(MS-Word, MS-Access). The tutorial presents the results
of MRAM/TRAM as it has been applied to product line
engineering of a real-world application.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zundorf:2001:UCC,
author = "Albert Z{\"u}ndorf",
title = "From use cases to code --- rigorous software
development with {UML}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "324--325",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503267",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Rational Unified Process lacks technical guidance
for the development of object-oriented applications.
This tutorial fills this gap. We first use UML scenario
diagrams to analyze use-cases. Next, we show a method
to analyze scenarios and to derive UML class diagrams
and UML behavior modeling for active classes and
methods. We show how to choose and embed design
patterns in a design and how to employ different
architectural styles. From such a precise design, smart
CASE tools generate fully functional implementations.
We explain state-of-the-art code generation concepts
for UML and assess current CASE tools for their code
generation capabilities and for their support through
all software development phases more generally.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Aberer:2001:PPI,
author = "Karl Aberer and Manfred Hauswirth",
title = "Peer-to-peer information systems: concepts and models,
state-of-the-art, and future systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "326--327",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503268",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The limitations of client/server systems become
evident in an Internet-scale distributed environment.
P2P systems offer an alternative to traditional
client/server systems: Every node acts both as a client
and a server and ``pays'' its participation by
providing access to its computing resources. Systems
such as Napster and Gnutella have proven their
practical applicability. In this tutorial we position
the P2P paradigm in the design space of distributed
information systems, present underlying models and
concepts, and show the structure, protocols, and
algorithms of current systems. Then we elaborate on the
novel requirements for P2P algorithms (resource
discovery, complexity, and scalability) and present
future research areas.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ran:2001:FCP,
author = "Alexander Ran",
title = "Fundamental concepts for practical software
architecture",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "5",
pages = "328--329",
month = sep,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/503271.503269",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:10 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Architecture of software is a collection of design
decisions that are expensive to change. How to identify
which design decisions are expensive to change? What
are architecture views and which views are needed to
adequately describe the architecture of a specific
system? How to create and manage software architecture
for a product family? This tutorial offers answers to
these and other questions that arise in the context of
complex software development. We introduce a system of
concepts useful in order to understand, design, and
evaluate architecture of software intensive systems and
system families. Our approach utilizes different
software structures in order to control important
system qualities related to its development,
performance, and evolution. We draw our experience
primarily from software embedded in voice and data
communication systems. However the same principles can
be applied to software architecture in other domains.
This tutorial should be useful to engineers and
technical managers involved in construction or
evaluation of complex software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2001:RPCd,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "6--15",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505534",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pfleeger:2001:PSR,
author = "Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Barbara A. Kitchenham",
title = "Principles of survey research: part 1: turning lemons
into lemonade",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "16--18",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505535",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2001:SNSd,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "19--28",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505536",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Maurer:2001:IWS,
author = "Frank Maurer and Carmen Zannier",
title = "{4th ICSE workshop on ``Software Engineering over the
Internet''}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "29--31",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505538",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The 4th ICSE workshop on ``Software Engineering over
the Internet'' brought together researchers and
practitioners that are trying to use Internet
technologies to overcome problems in distributed
software development. The goal of the workshop was to
exchange ideas how distributed projects can utilize the
Internet to overcome communication, collaboration, and
coordination problems. We summarize the presented
papers of the workshop",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tiako:2001:PSD,
author = "Pierre F. Tiako and Tim Lindquist and Volker Gruhn",
title = "{Process Support for Distributed Team-Based Software
Development Workshop}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "31--33",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505539",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report summarizes the 2$^{nd}$ International
Workshop on Process Support for Distributed Team-based
Software Development held at the Sheraton World Resort
of Orlando, Florida, on July 25, 2000 in conjunction
with the Information Systems, Analysis and Synthesis
(ISAS2000) International Conference. An overall twenty
people attended the workshop consisting of seven
technical presentations in two plenary sessions. In the
following, we outline the presentations and subsequent
discussions, which included modeling and distributing
process component, evolution and change, web-based
framework, consistency management, and reuse and
interoperability. The hardcopy of the papers selected
for PDTSD'00 are published by the International
Institute of Informatics and Systemics as a part of the
`` Industrial Systems '' volume of ISAS 2000, ISBN
980-07-6695-2.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Crnkovic:2001:IWC,
author = "Ivica Crnkovic and Heinz Schmidt and Judith Stafford
and Kurt Wallnau",
title = "{4th ICSE Workshop on Component-Based Software
Engineering: Component Certification and System
Prediction}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "33--40",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505540",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper gives a short overview of the 4th ICSE
Workshop on Component-based Software Engineering. The
workshop brought together researchers and practitioners
from three communities: component technology, software
architecture, and software certification. The goal of
the workshop was to find a common understanding and to
discuss the topics related to the component
composition. The workshop was divided in eight sessions
held in sequence, starting with invited talks and ended
with a final discussion. A model problem, to be used
for further research and work in future workshops, was
discussed and later selected. The paper gives a
comprehensive summary of the sessions and plans for
future work.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Thompson:2001:IWC,
author = "J. Barrie Thompson",
title = "{ICSE2001} workshop to consider global aspects of
software engineering professionalism",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "40--44",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505541",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The prime aim of the workshop was to provide a forum
to consider global aspects of a Software Engineering
profession and determine the relevance and usefulness
of an initiative concerning the harmonization of
professional standards which had been produced under
the auspices of the International Federation of
Information Processing. In particular the workshop
addressed: the current situation with regard to models
of certification and/or licensing in different
countries, the drivers and constraints regarding
Software Engineering professionalism, the roles of:
international bodies and organisations, professional
bodies, and learned societies. Also open questions and
actions for the future were identified. The planned and
the actual operation of the workshop are described. The
discussion sessions are outlined and the major issues
resulting from these discussions are presented. Post
workshop conclusions are reported, as are relevant
international developments that have occurred in the
three months following the workshop. Also included are
two appendices: one providing background information to
the workshop the other providing a copy of the IFIP
harmonization document.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Castro:2001:SRA,
author = "Jaelson Castro and Jeff Kramer",
title = "From software requirements to architectures
{(STRAW01)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "49--51",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505542",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The First International Workshop From SofTware
Requirements to Architectures (STRAW'01) was held in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 14, 2001, just before
the 23$^{rd}$ International Conference on Software
Engineering (ICSE). In the following we give an
overview of the motivation, goals, selection process
and participation, workshop structure and activities,
which includes a summary of presentations and
discussions that took place during the workshop.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Feller:2001:MSB,
author = "Joseph Feller and Brian Fitzgerald and Andr{\'e} van
der Hoek",
title = "Making sense of the bazaar: {1st Workshop on Open
Source Software Engineering}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "51--52",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505543",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Since the coining of the term ``Open Source'' in 1998,
there has been a surge of academic and industrial
research on the topic. Making Sense of the Bazaar:
1$^{st}$ Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering
brought together 30 researchers and practitioners from
8 countries to discuss Open Source Software as an
emerging Software Engineering paradigm. The full
proceedings of the workshop have been made available
online, and the full workshop report will be published
in a special issue of IEE Proceedings --- Software on
Open Source Software Engineering.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Loconsole:2001:RMS,
author = "Annabella Loconsole and Daniel Rodriguez and
J{\"u}rgen B{\"o}rstler and Rachel Harrison",
title = "Report on metrics 2001: the science and practice of
software metrics conference",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "52--57",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505544",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper reports on the IEEE 7$^{th}$ International
Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 2001), held in
London, England, from the 4$^{th}$ to 6$^{th}$ April
2001 and co-hosted with the 12$^{th}$ European Software
Control and Metrics conference (ESCOM 2001). Metrics
Symposia are the premier event in the area of software
metrics and attract most of the leading researchers and
industrial practitioners.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{vanderHoek:2001:IWS,
author = "Andr{\'e} van der Hoek",
title = "{International Workshop on Software Configuration
Management (SCM-10)}: new practices, new challenges,
and new boundaries",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "57--58",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505545",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report provides a brief summary of SCM-10, the
ICSE 2001 10$^{th}$ International Workshop on Software
Configuration Management. The primary goal of this
workshop was to broaden the scope of SCM and establish
ties with other disciplines that are strongly related
to SCM---whether requiring some form of novel, advanced
SCM functionality or influencing the field of SCM with
newly available technology. As demonstrated by the
accepted set of position papers and the lively
discussion in the workshop, SCM-10 succeeded in
achieving this goal and raised many new and important
questions to be addressed in the years to come.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hansen:2001:SDE,
author = "W. J. Hansen and J. T. Foreman and C. C. Albert and E.
Axelband and L. L. Brownsword and E. C. Forrester",
title = "Spiral development and evolutionary acquisition: the
{SEI-CSE} workshop",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "59--59",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505546",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mascolo:2001:FIW,
author = "Cecilia Mascolo and Wolfgang Emmerich and Anthony
Finkelsteiin",
title = "{First ICSE 2001 Workshop on XML Technologies and
Software Engineering}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "59--61",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505547",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Harman:2001:SWR,
author = "Mark Harman and Bryan F. Jones",
title = "The {SEMINAL} workshop: reformulating software
engineering as a metaheuristic search problem",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "62--66",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505548",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper reports on the first international Workshop
on Software Engineering using Metaheuristic INnovative
ALgorithms. The aim of the workshop was to bring
together researchers in search-based metaheuristic
techniques with researchers and practitioners in
Software Engineering. The workshop sought to support
and develop the embryonic community which straddles
these two communities and which is working on the
application of metaheuristic search-based techniques to
problems in Software Engineering. The paper outlines
the nature of the nascent field of Search-Based
Software Engineering, and briefly outlines the papers
presented at the workshop and the discussions which
took place.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Roman:2001:WSE,
author = "Gruia-Catalin Roman and Gian Pietro Picco",
title = "{Workshop on Software Engineering and Mobility}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "67--70",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505549",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Mobility is redefining the hardware and software
fabric of distributed systems. Wireless communication
allows network hosts to participate in a distributed
computation while on the move. Novel middleware
technologies allow software components to migrate
across hosts for enhanced flexibility or performance.
Workshop participants were invited to analyze the
software engineering implications of this wave of
technological changes, by discussing fundamental
models, emerging themes, research opportunities,
technological trends, and market
forces.http://www.elet.polimi.it/~picco/ICSE01mobility",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{vanDeursen:2001:CIE,
author = "Arie van Deursen",
title = "Customer involvement in extreme programming: {XP2001}
workshop report",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "70--73",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505550",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper covers customer involvement challenges in
light-weight software development processes. The report
summarizes the presentations and discussions of the
Workshop on Customer Involvement held during XP2001,
the Second International Conference on Extreme
Programming and Flexible Processes in Software
Engineering, Cagliari, Italy, May 21, 2001.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Butler:2001:GTP,
author = "Greg Butler",
title = "Generative techniques for product lines",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "74--76",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505551",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A software product line leverages the knowledge of one
or more domains in order to achieve short
time-to-market, cost savings, and high quality
software. The highest level of reuse comes by using
domain-specific languages or visual builders to
describe a member of the product line, and to generate
the member from the description. Generative techniques
can help us to capture the configuration knowledge for
a product line and use it to generate concrete family
members. This workshop focuses on technical issues of
product lines, rather than economic issues.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Easterbrook:2001:IWL,
author = "Steve Easterbrook and Marsha Chechik",
title = "{2nd International Workshop on Living with
Inconsistency (IWLWI01)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "76--78",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505552",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "IWLWI-01 --- The Second International Workshop on
Living with Inconsistency, took place in Toronto,
Canada, on May 13, 2001 as part of ICSE-01. The
following is a short overview of this workshop.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kruchten:2001:IWD,
author = "Philippe Kruchten and Wojtek Kozaczynski and Bran
Selic",
title = "{ICSE 2001 Workshop on Describing Software
Architecture with UML}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "78--79",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505553",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Srinivasa:2001:CPS,
author = "Srinath Srinivasa",
title = "Connotations of problem solving",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "80--82",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505555",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A lot of interest has been focused on analysis and
design models during information system (IS) design.
But fundamentally, information systems are tools of
``problem solving'' where the term ``problem solving''
can take on different connotations. In this paper, we
introduce seven different connotations of problem
solving that describe IS functionality. Such a
knowledge can help the system designer in transitioning
between the analysis and design phases.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dash:2001:DMD,
author = "Ashiss Kumar Dash and Rakesh Agarwal",
title = "Dimensional modeling for a data warehouse",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "83--84",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505556",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A multidimensional database stores data as groups of
field category values into dimensions, and then groups
these dimensions into multidimensional arrays. Specific
field category values that may occur in data identify
either the rows or columns of array dimensions. The
specific grouped field categories themselves identify
the row or column array dimensions. This view, when
presented to the end user, bring in more relevance and
business sense for practical decision making than the
views presented by standard relational tables and flat
file databases. On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is
based on the multidimensional representation of data
which is supported by multidimensional databases,
relational engines or a combination of both. In this
paper we propose a model for multidimensional databases
that we had used and implemented.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Stalica:2001:MCO,
author = "Mark Stalica",
title = "Mobile commerce: opportunities, applications, and
technologies of wireless business",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "85--85",
month = nov,
year = "2001",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505558",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:13 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2002:RPCa,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "1",
pages = "7--17",
month = jan,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566493.566494",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:16 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kitchenham:2002:PSRa,
author = "Barbara A. Kitchenham and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger",
title = "Principles of survey research part 2: designing a
survey",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "1",
pages = "18--20",
month = jan,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566493.566495",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:16 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This second article of our series looks at the process
of designing a survey. The design process begins with
reviewing the objectives, examining the target
population identified by the objectives, and deciding
how best to obtain the information needed to address
those objectives. However, we also need to consider
factors such as determining the appropriate sample size
and ensuring the largest possible response rate. To
illustrate our ideas, we use the three surveys
described in Part 1 of this series to suggest good and
bad practice in software engineering survey research.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2002:SNSa,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "1",
pages = "21--29",
month = jan,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566493.566496",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:16 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kim:2002:VRE,
author = "Hyoseob Kim",
title = "Visit report: {2nd European COTS User Working Group
Workshop (ECUA2001)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "1",
pages = "30--30",
month = jan,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566493.1148025",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:16 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{dAdderio:2002:PEC,
author = "Luciana d'Adderio and Rick Dewar and Ashley Lloyd and
Perdita Stevens",
title = "Has the pattern emperor any clothes?: a controversy in
three acts",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "1",
pages = "31--35",
month = jan,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566493.1148026",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:16 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The following is a light-hearted attempt to expose
some difficulties in the use of patterns, including
some places where naive ways of thinking about how they
are used may be insufficient. We'd very much welcome
comments, to feed into a more ``academic'' paper on the
same subject.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Garcia:2002:PLV,
author = "Francisco Jos{\'e} Garc{\'\i}a and Juan-Antonio Barras
and Miguel {\'A}ngel Laguna and Jos{\'{}}e Manuel
Marqu{\'e}s",
title = "Product line variability support by {FORM} and Mecano
model integration",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "1",
pages = "35--38",
month = jan,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566493.1148027",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:16 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A product line definition must cover several systems,
for this reason additional requirements are included as
product line assets during domain engineering. Generic
assets are presented to cover all components the
product line instances are built from, and their
corresponding composition rules. These generic assets
embrace common and variable product aspects supporting
the variability in product line definition and
instantiation. This paper is devoted to present the
problem of handling product line variability in every
life-cycle stage by the integration of the ideas of the
domain engineering method FORM (Feature-Oriented Reuse
Method) and the Mecano Model, which defines a
coarse-grained reusable element structure.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Duran:2002:VSR,
author = "Amador Dur{\'a}n and Antonio Ruiz and Beatriz
Bern{\'a}rdez and Miguel Toro",
title = "Verifying software requirements with {XSLT}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "1",
pages = "39--44",
month = jan,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566493.1148028",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:16 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this article, we present an approach for the
automatic verification of software requirements
documents. This approach is based on the representation
of software requirements in XML and the usage of the
XSLT language not only to automatically generate
requirements documents, but also to verify some desired
quality properties and to compute some metrics. These
ideas have been implemented in REM, an experimental
requirements management tool that is also described in
this paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{M:2002:UCL,
author = "Bharath Kumar M. and Y. N. Srikant and
Lakshminarayanan R.",
title = "On the use of connector libraries in distributed
software architectures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "1",
pages = "45--52",
month = jan,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566493.1148029",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:16 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Recent developments in the field of software
architecture have emphasized the concept of first class
connectors, which capture the interaction between
components. The concept of first class connectors aids
the development of distributed software architectures
since it can be used to separate concerns of remote
interaction between components. A library of prewritten
connectors would help prototype, develop, maintain and
reconfigure distributed software architectures.
Completely automating the usage of connector libraries
in distributed software architectures is not trivial
since code fragments implementing the connectors have
to be partitioned, deployed and instantiated in
different machines. In this paper we discuss these
issues in connector refinement and instantiation
imposed by distributed software architectures and
present the construction of a tool that works alongside
a connector library to automatically partition, deploy
and instantiate architectural entities in various
machines. Scalability of the tool to allow for new
connector types has been an important issue in its
design and function. We also demonstrate the high
flexibility and reconfigurability achieved on an
interesting application by using a connector library
along with our tool.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Xiaochun:2002:AIN,
author = "Xu Xiaochun and Xu Guanghui and Xu Yongsen",
title = "Architectural issues in network-centric computing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "1",
pages = "53--57",
month = jan,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566493.1148030",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:16 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The widespread use of the Internet has led to great
changes in traditional computational models. The
concept of the network-centric computing is becoming
more and more popular. Software architecture, as an
emerging discipline, focuses on the high-level
structures of large complex software systems. With the
critical challenges from the new computational model,
many open issues of software architectures emerge. In
this paper, we present some requisite technologies that
are still not completely settled and offer some
suggestions based on a survey of relevant study
experience to date.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bo:2002:EOO,
author = "Gao Bo and Fei Qi and Chen Xueguang",
title = "Exploiting object-oriented methodologies to model
{MAS} on organizations",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "1",
pages = "58--62",
month = jan,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566493.1148031",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:16 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Researchers have recognized multi-agent systems (MAS)
as being a promising means to cope with distributed and
complex problems. However, how to analyze and design an
agent-based system in practical environments is still
difficult. Based on the inherent consistency between
objects and agents, MAS and human social organizations,
we propose an approach using comparatively mature
object-oriented (OO) methodologies and tools (mostly
UML) to model MAS from the point of view of
organization depiction. This paper uses a distributed
logistics management system (DLMS) as an example and
describes a method to model MAS based on extended UML
from the following three aspects: $ \bullet $
extracting roles for agent organizations based on the
theory of use cases, $ \bullet $ depicting the static
organizational structures of MAS based on the semantics
and syntax of class diagrams, and $ \bullet $ extending
collaboration diagrams, sequence diagrams and state
chart diagrams to portray the interactive behaviors
among agent roles and the reasoning behaviors within
agent roles themselves.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Aggarwal:2002:CPW,
author = "K. K. Aggarwal and Yogesh Singh and Jitender Kumar
Chhabra",
title = "Computing program weakness using module coupling",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "1",
pages = "63--65",
month = jan,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566493.566497",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:16 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, a method has been developed to measure
the weakness of the program using module weakness and
different types of module coupling. The paper justifies
the need of considering coupling effect on program
weakness. Various types of coupling are computed using
parameters/variables and module weakness is found using
average number of live variables and average life of
variables in the module. The module coupling and module
weakness values are used to compute program weakness,
which can be used to indicate the maintainability and
testability of the program.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Benedicenti:2002:SCM,
author = "Luigi Benedicenti",
title = "Software Configuration Management Strategies and
Rational {ClearCase(r)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "1",
pages = "67--67",
month = jan,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566493.566499",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:16 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2002:RPCb,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "5--19",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511154",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kitchenham:2002:PSRb,
author = "Barbara A. Kitchenham and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger",
title = "Principles of survey research: part 3: constructing a
survey instrument",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "20--24",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511155",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this article, we discuss how to construct a
questionnaire. We point out the need to use any
previous research results to reduce the overheads of
survey construction. We identify a number of issues to
consider when selecting questions, constructing
questions, deciding on the type of question and
finalizing the format of the questionnaire.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2002:SNSb,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "25--34",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511156",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{BenAchour-Salinesi:2002:RWS,
author = "Camille {Ben Achour-Salinesi} and Andreas Opdahl and
Matti Rossi",
title = "{REFSQ '2001} workshop summary: {Seventh International
Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundations for
Software Quality}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "35--49",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511158",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Seventh International Workshop on RE: Foundation
for Software Quality (REFSQ'2001) was held in
conjunction with CAiSE*01 in Interlaken, Switzerland on
June 4th and 5th 2001. The workshop was organised by
Camille Ben Achour --- Salinesi, Andreas L. Opdahl and
Matti Rossi, with Eric Dubois and Klaus Pohl serving on
the REFSQ Advisory Board. This workshop summary gives
an overview of the presentations and numerous fruitful
discussions that took place at REFSQ'2001",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Knauber:2002:PSP,
author = "Peter Knauber and Giancarlo Succi",
title = "Perspectives on Software Product Lines: report on
{Second International Workshop on Software Product
Lines: Economics, Architectures, and Implications
Workshop} at {23rd International Conference on Software
Engineering (ICSE)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "40--45",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511159",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Product line engineering is a recent concept and one
of the hottest topics in software engineering aiming at
synergy effects in software development. Diverse
benefits like cost reduction, decreased time-to-market,
and quality improvement can be expected from reuse of
domain-specific software assets, several successful
product line projects have been performed and
documented [3]. Also non-technical benefits as result
of network externalities, product branding, and sharing
organizational costs have been observed. Following the
remarkable success of the ``First International
Workshop on Software Product Lines: Economics,
Architectures, and Implications'' held at ICSE 2000 in
Limerick [1], this second workshop stresses more the
non-technical, that is, business and organizational
aspects of product line adoption and
institutionalization. Another major topic of interest
are product line tools, as tool support seems to become
more and more critical for the success of product line
approaches. Different tool concepts have been proposed
and discussed during the workshop. Requirements for
tools and respective solutions seem to become more
concrete, maybe resulting from the fact that the
technical concepts and solutions of product line
approaches are better understood and can therefore be
better supported with tools. The strong emphasis on
establishing contacts and giving experts and
practitioners from academia and industry a platform for
discussion has been continued during this second
workshop. Section 2 of this workshop summary describes
the formal structure of the workshop. In Section 3, a
short summary of the invited talk on issues and
opportunities in product line research is given.
Section 4 summarizes key points of the presentations of
the workshop participants that were given based on
their submitted papers that are fully available at [2].
In Section 5, the plenary discussion is described and
its major lessons learned are summarized. Section 6
concludes this paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Raccoon:2002:PDG,
author = "L. B. S. Raccoon",
title = "Practitioners do good work",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "46--52",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511160",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "I believe that software engineers have done, are
doing, and will continue to do good work. Practitioners
contribute to the well-being of society and add value
to the economy. Working applications enable hundreds of
millions of users around the world to productively do
things that would otherwise be impossible.I do not
claim that software engineers are perfect. Bugs seem to
lurk in almost all programs. Reliable schedules and
budgets remain elusive. And, software has created whole
new slates of problems, like hacking and viruses. For
now, I rely on Peter Neumann and his Risks columns to
document these concerns. I consider this paper a
companion to counterpoint Neumann's columns. My primary
purpose is to claim that software engineers are
successful, in spite of their shortcomings. In the
first section, I argue that practitioners create
enormous social and economic value. In the second
section, I discuss the ongoing improvement that
software engineers make in their practice. In the third
section, I propose documenting the greatest twenty
achievements of software engineering to show the
success of practitioners. And in the fourth section, I
argue that practitioners earn their keep. My secondary
propose is to respond to and elaborate on comments made
at the Why Don't We Get More (Self?) Respect panel at
ICSE 2000 and the Impact Project Panel at ICSE 2001. I
discuss how software engineers contribute to projects
like the world wide web, and I echo Larry Bernstein's
comments that software engineers deliver value.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Workman:2002:CMT,
author = "David A. Workman",
title = "A class and method taxonomy for object-oriented
programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "53--58",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511161",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The object-oriented approach to software design
together with the programming languages (C++, Java, and
Ada95) and design notations (e.g. UML) that support
this paradigm, have precipitated new interest in
developing and tailoring software metrics to more
effectively quantify properties of OO systems. To be
specific, this research on OO software is motivated by
two related problems. (1) In many computer science
courses instructors are torn between two conflicting
goals: (a) increasing the number and difficulty of
programming assignments to raise students' problem
solving skills and maturity, while on the other hand,
(b) giving meaningful feedback on the correctness and
quality of programs they write. To address this
problem, we are developing an automated Java program
grading system. This system will compare student
programs to an oracle program prepared by the
instructor for a given assignment. The oracle program
represents the ``ideal'' solution. In addition to
computing a quantitative score for a student program,
the grading program will also provide feedback on
modifications or changes the student could or should
make to improve the quality of the design of his or her
solution. (2) A problem that is all too common in the
computing industry is software theft. This has led to
much copyright infringement litigation within our court
system. As an expert witness in such cases, one of the
tasks I have been frequently asked to perform is
evaluate two programs to determine the nature and
extent of their similarity. A tool, such as our planned
program grading system, is needed to facilitate the
kind of analysis required in such cases. In the
academic world, the equivalent to software theft is
plagiarism. Therefore, as an application complementary
to program grading, our proposed system will also serve
as a tool for identifying ``cheaters'' by comparing two
student programs to one another, rather than to the
oracle. So, in summary, our goal is to develop the key
algorithms and eventually a program analysis system
that will effectively determine the similarity of two
programs written in the same language. Since Java is
becoming one of the most widely used programming
languages, and because of its relatively ``clean''
syntax and semantics, Java will provide the focus for
our initial investigation. Java programs are composed
of three essential building blocks: packages, classes,
and methods. Methods are the functional or procedural
units that perform or realize the algorithms necessary
to solve a computational problem. Methods are grouped
with encapsulated data to define classes -new types
that extend Java's set of primitive types. Finally,
classes are organized into subsystems or libraries
using packages. Thus, when comparing two Java programs
to determine their similarity, we must establish a
correspondence between the packages, classes, and
methods of the two programs under consideration. This
suggests we must ascertain for a given pair of units,
one from each program whether or not they are
sufficiently similar to warrant being identified as
``matching'' in our correspondence analysis. To be
similar, they must be ``doing the essentially the same
thing'' -that is, they must both serve the same
computational purpose. Assuming we are successful in
developing some technique for determining similarity of
purpose, we are still faced with the potentially large
numbers of unit-pairs that must be considered in our
analysis. The sheer magnitude of our computational
problem thus looms as a major obstacle to obtaining any
real practical solution. Using the names of units to
limit what pairs need to be compared, while certainly
reducing the potential computational load, is not a
very reliable strategy --- particularly if the author
of one program has made a deliberate attempt to
disguise similarity with another program by uniformly
changing names. Thus, in an attempt to address the
computational load problem and the identification
problem for comparison analysis, we plan to make an
initial pass over each program to categorize methods
and classes according to their purpose. The rationale
for this is: two units will be selected for detailed
comparison analysis only if they belong to of the same
purpose category. The focus of this paper, therefore,
is to present definitions and examples of the purpose
categories for methods and classes. How these purpose
categories will be used in a larger comparison strategy
is beyond the scope of this work. Refer to Lan[13] for
further a more complete and detailed description of our
methodology.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sagheb-Tehrani:2002:SDP,
author = "Mehdi Sagheb-Tehrani and Arbi Ghazarian",
title = "Software development process: strategies for handling
business rules and requirements",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "58--62",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511162",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A successful project demands a correct and thorough
requirements specification. This paper proposes
techniques and strategies for handling business rules
and requirements. The guidelines we provide are based
on our own experiences with the development of
large-scale enterprise applications as well as research
we have done on best practices for requirements
management proposed by other authors. The techniques
are based on recursively classifying software
requirements into logical coherent classes of
requirements so that they improve developers'
conception of the requirements and streamline the
navigation to the next steps in the process. The
techniques proposed in this paper, provide a mechanism
for keeping track of requirements and help the
development team to test the software in a more
efficient way.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Vogt:2002:IEC,
author = "Christian Vogt",
title = "Intractable {ERP}: a comprehensive analysis of failed
enterprise-resource-planning projects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "62--68",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511163",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "An enterprise-resource-planning system --- or ERP
system, for short --- is by definition ``any software
system designed to support and automate the business
processes of medium and large businesses.'' [16]
Integrated ERP systems became popular in the early
1990's. Single monolithic pieces of software, ERP
systems promised to do away with inconsistent data,
incompatible formats, and uncooperative applications.
Still, ERP systems come with their own, unexpected
difficulties. Their tremendous generality and enormous
complexity make them prone to glitches and low
performance, difficult to maintain, and nightmarish to
implement. This study takes a close look at four
ERP-implementation failures, all of which occurred
recently in American industry. It analyses possible
causes that led to the disasters, and suggests
software-engineering processes that help avoiding such
outcomes. The Model-Based Architecting and Software
Engineering (MBASE) guidelines, developed by Professors
Barry Boehm and Daniel Port at the Center for Software
Engineering (CSE) at USC, provide a base for these
elaborations. The original workout is actually far more
extensive than the abridgement published here. It can
be downloaded from the CSE web page. Alternatively, it
may be ordered from the author directly through
email.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anantharam:2002:PWD,
author = "Parasuram Anantharam",
title = "Practical {WAP}: developing applications for the
wireless web",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "69--69",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511165",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bielikova:2002:WWM,
author = "M{\'a}ria Bielikov{\'a}",
title = "Wireless {Web}: a manager's guide",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "69--70",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511166",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Boyer:2002:CD,
author = "Kenneth W. {Boyer, Jr.}",
title = "{CMMI} distilled",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "70--70",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511167",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Boyer:2002:AUC,
author = "Kenneth W. {Boyer, Jr.}",
title = "Advanced use case modeling: software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "71--71",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511168",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Frazer:2002:BSS,
author = "Ken Frazer",
title = "Building secure software: how to avoid security
problems the right way",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "71--72",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511169",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Huber:2002:PRS,
author = "Andy Huber",
title = "Peer reviews in software: a practical guide",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "72--73",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511170",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pentinmaki:2002:MED,
author = "Isaac Pentinmaki",
title = "Mastering {ENVY\slash Developer}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "73--73",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511171",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Shakir:2002:TAB,
author = "Maha Shakir",
title = "Technology acquisition: buying the future of your
business",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "2",
pages = "73--74",
month = mar,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/511152.511172",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2002:RPCc,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "5--19",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638578",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kitchenham:2002:PSRc,
author = "Barbara Kitchenham and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger",
title = "Principles of survey research part 4: questionnaire
evaluation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "20--23",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638580",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This article discusses how to avoid biased questions
in survey instruments, how to motivate people to
complete instruments and how to evaluate instruments.
In the context of survey evaluation, we discuss how to
assess survey reliability i.e. how reproducible a
survey's data is and survey validity i.e. how well a
survey instrument measures what it sets out to
measure.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2002:SNSc,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "24--33",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638582",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lawrie:2002:IDO,
author = "Tony Lawrie and Cristina Gacek",
title = "Issues of dependability in open source software
development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "34--37",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638584",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents issues raised by the articles,
presentations, and discussions concerning Open Source
Software, Trustworthiness, and Dependability at the
Open Source Development Workshop held in Newcastle upon
Tyne, UK, on the 25$^{th}$ and 26$^{th}$ of February
2002.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Inverardi:2002:SPS,
author = "Paola Inverardi",
title = "The {SALADIN} project: summary report",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "38--43",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638585",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "It is apparent that, in the near future, software
production will be more and more involved with
applications running on heterogeneous networks, often
with mobile components. Witness the increasing
availability of reliable broadband communication
networks, which span local, metropolitan and worldwide
areas, and the high popularity of newly conceived
applications on Internet, such as the World Wide Web.
The development of applications for heterogeneous
distributed networks that support mobile components (in
short, programming mobile agents) demands innovative
design and programming techniques. In this report we
summarize the activities and results achieved in the
SALADIN project, an Italian National project funded by
the Italian Ministry of University and Research. We
consider our experience interesting for the Software
Engineering community because it has been a successful
experiment in putting together teams whose expertise
was sensibly different and complementary. This has
allowed us to exploit the cooperation of different
complementary competencies that are needed to reach
significant results in an area where methods and tools,
which are specific of several area of computing come
naturally together.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Liu:2002:RDR,
author = "Chang Liu and Debra J. Richardson",
title = "Research directions in {RAIC}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "43--46",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638586",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Redundant arrays of independent components (RAIC) was
a technology developed to use groups of similar
software components to build reliable applications. The
principles of RAIC, however, can be applied to other
types of components. This paper briefly introduces RAIC
and discusses future research directions in RAIC.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Crnkovic:2002:CBS,
author = "Ivica Crnkovic and Stig Larsson and Judith Stafford",
title = "Component-based software engineering: building systems
from components at {9th IEEE Conference and Workshops
on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "47--50",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638587",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper gives a short overview of the Workshop on
Component-based Software Engineering --- Building
Systems from Components held at 9th IEEE Conference and
Workshops on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems in
Lund, Sweden, April, 2002. The aim of the workshop was
to bring together researches and practitioners from
system engineering, software architecture and from
component-based software engineering communities in
order to exchange experiences and research results from
these domains.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Vogt:2002:ACR,
author = "Christian Vogt",
title = "Admission control and resource reservation on the
internet",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "80--87",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638575",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software engineers used to have a hard time developing
real-time and interactive Web applications, Most of
such software requires high and stable throughput, a
prerequisite which the Internet's best-effort service
does not provide. Hence, a large body of effort has
recently gone, and is currently going, into
modifications to the Internet architecture. Software
engineers should closely monitor this research, and
leverage new technologies to build applications that
get the most from the Web. This study explains how the
Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) working groups
IntServ and DiffServ seek to transition the Internet
into a robust platform for high quality of service. It
elaborates on the Resource Reservation Protocol's
(RSVP) method of procedure to reserve bandwidth and
buffer space in IP routers along a data flow's
sender-receiver path. It presents the Subnet Bandwidth
Manager's (SBM) mapping of RSVP functionality onto
local- and metropolitan-area networks that use a shared
medium. Furthermore, it discovers a way to implement
demanding, yet adaptive, Web applications that are
content with traditional best effort. The paper
concludes with the Common Open Policy Service (COPS), a
framework for policy decision-making and enforcement.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Han:2002:VIM,
author = "Hong Han and Jun Lu and Xianliang Lu",
title = "Virtual Interface Machine: a design pattern to solve
the problem of coupling and efficiency in software
design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "88--92",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638576",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we try to tackle three relative
problems in software design. The first one is the
separation of user interface (UI) from logic layer. The
second one is the decoupling of components of UI. The
last one is how to combine high reusability design with
efficiency of drag-and-drop mode of rapid application
development (RAD) tools. As far as decoupling is
concerned, there are many design patterns to tackle it,
such as MVC (Model-View-Controller), Mediator,
Observer, Visual Proxy, etc, which are not satisfying,
because of the obvious disadvantage that collaborative
components are actually tightly coupled by a specific
object (like mediator, controller, etc). As for the
last problem, many hold that drag-and-drop mode of RAD
would compromise the reusability and maintainability of
OO design. We use a method called drag-drop-and-add to
achieve both reusability and efficiency. This paper
presents a pattern called Virtual Interface Machine
that let us separate UI from logic layer, decouple
components of UI entirely and enjoy efficiency of RAD
in UI design without compromising reusability and
maintainability of the whole design. By the thorough
decoupling, we could even change both logic layer and
UI at run time, which is impossible to other patterns.
In practice, we implemented the pattern in our
Intrusion Detection System (IDS).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Law:2002:MDI,
author = "James Law",
title = "Mechatronics and the design of intelligent machines
and systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "93--93",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638589",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2002:ERP,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Effective requirements practices",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "93--94",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638590",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tanuan:2002:LSD,
author = "Meyer Tanuan",
title = "Leading a software development team",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "94--94",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638591",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Weber-Wulff:2002:HCI,
author = "Debora Weber-Wulff",
title = "Human-computer interaction in the new millennium",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "3",
pages = "94--95",
month = may,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/638574.638592",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:18 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Milanova:2002:POS,
author = "Ana Milanova and Atanas Rountev and Barbara G. Ryder",
title = "Parameterized object sensitivity for points-to and
side-effect analyses for {Java}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "1--11",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566174",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The goal of points-to analysis for Java is to
determine the set of objects pointed to by a reference
variable or a reference objet field. Improving the
precision of practical points-to analysis is important
because points-to information has a wide variety of
client applications in optimizing compilers and
software engineering tools. In this paper we present
object sensitivity, a new form of context sensitivity
for flow-insensitive points-to analysis for Java. The
key idea of our approach is to analyze a method
separately for each of the objects on which this method
is invoked. To ensure flexibility and practicality, we
propose a parameterization framework that allows
analysis designers to control the tradeoffs between
cost and precision in the object-sensitive analysis.
Side-effect analysis determines the memory locations
that may be modified by the execution of a program
statement. This information is needed for various
compiler optimizations and software engineering tools.
We present a new form of side-effect analysis for Java
which is based on object-sensitive points-to analysis.
We have implemented one instantiation of our
parameterized object-sensitive points-to analysis. We
compare this instantiation with a context-insensitive
points-to analysis for Java which is based on
Andersen's analysis for C [4]. On a set of 23 Java
programs, our experiments show that the two analyses
have comparable cost. In some cases the
object-sensitive analysis is actually faster than the
context-insensitive analysis. Our results also show
that object sensitivity significantly improves the
precision of side-effect analysis, call graph
construction, and virtual call resolution. These
experiments demonstrate that object-sensitive analyses
can achieve significantly better precision than
context-insensitive ones, while at the same time
remaining efficient and practical.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Groce:2002:MCJ,
author = "Alex Groce and Willem Visser",
title = "Model checking {Java} programs using structural
heuristics",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "12--21",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566175",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We describe work introducing heuristic search into the
Java PathFinder model checker, which targets Java
bytecode. Rather than focusing on heuristics aimed at a
particular kind of error (such as deadlocks) we
describe heuristics based on a modification of
traditional branch coverage metrics and other structure
measures, such as thread inter-dependency. We present
experimental results showing the utility of these
heuristics, and argue for the usefulness of structural
heuristics as a class.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Liang:2002:EPS,
author = "Donglin Liang and Maikel Pennings and Mary Jean
Harrold",
title = "Evaluating the precision of static reference analysis
using profiling",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "22--32",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566176",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Program analyses and optimizations of Java programs
require reference information that determines the
instances that may be accessed through dereferences.
Reference information can be computed using reference
analysis. This paper presents a set of studies that
evaluate the precision of two existing approaches for
identifying instances and one approach for computing
reference information in a reference analysis. The
studies use dynamic reference information collected
during run-time as a lower bound approximation to the
precise reference information. The studies measure the
precision of an existing approach by comparing the
information computed using the approach with the lower
bound approximation. The paper also presents case
studies that attempt to identify the cases under which
an existing approach is not effective. The presented
studies provide information that may guide the usage of
existing reference-analysis techniques and the
development of new reference analysis techniques.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Naumovich:2002:CAC,
author = "Gleb Naumovich",
title = "A conservative algorithm for computing the flow of
permissions in {Java} programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "33--43",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566178",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Open distributed systems are becoming increasingly
popular. Such systems include components that may be
obtained from a number of different sources. For
example, Java allows run-time loading of software
components residing on remote machines. One unfortunate
side-effect of this openness is the possibility that
``hostile'' software components may compromise the
security of both the program and the system on which it
runs. Java offers a built-in security mechanism, using
which programmers can give permissions to distributed
components and check these permissions at run-time.
This security model is flexible, but using it is not
straightforward, which may lead to insufficiently tight
permission checking and therefore breaches of security.
In this paper, we propose a data flow algorithm for
automated analysis of the flow of permissions in Java
programs. Our algorithm produces, for a given
instruction in the program, a set of permissions that
are checked on all possible executions up to this
instruction. This information can be used in program
understanding tools or directly for checking properties
that assert what permissions must always be checked
before access to certain functionality is allowed. The
worst-case complexity of our algorithm is low-order
polynomial in the number of program statements and
permission types, while comparable previous approaches
have exponential costs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Stoller:2002:DPO,
author = "Scott D. Stoller",
title = "Domain partitioning for open reactive systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "44--54",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566179",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Testing or model-checking an open reactive system
often requires generating a model of the environment.
We describe a static analysis for Java that computes a
partition of a system's inputs: inputs in the same
equivalence class lead to identical behavior. The
partition provides a basis for generation of code for a
most general environment of the system, i.e., one that
exercises all possible behaviors of the system. The
partition also helps the generated environment avoid
exercising the same behavior multipletimes. Many
distributed systems with security requirements can be
regarded as open reactive systems whose environment is
an adversary-controlled network. We illustrate our
approach by applying it to a fault-tolerant and
intrusion-tolerant distributed voting system and
model-checking the system together with the generated
environment.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ostrand:2002:DFL,
author = "Thomas J. Ostrand and Elaine J. Weyuker",
title = "The distribution of faults in a large industrial
software system",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "55--64",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566181",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A case study is presented using thirteen releases of a
large industrial inventory tracking system. Several
types of questions are addressed in this study. The
first involved examining how faults are distributed
over the different files. This included making a
distinction between the release during which they were
discovered, the lifecycle stage at which they were
first detected, and the severity of the fault. The
second category of questions we considered involved
studying how the size of modules affected their fault
density. This included looking at questions like
whether or not files with high fault densities at early
stages of the lifecycle also had high fault densities
during later stages. A third type of question we
considered was whether files that contained large
numbers of faults during early stages of development,
also had large numbers of faults during later stages,
and whether faultiness persisted from release to
release. Finally, we examined whether newly written
files were more fault-prone than ones that were written
for earlier releases of the product. The ultimate goal
of this study is to help identify characteristics of
files that can be used as predictors of
fault-proneness, thereby helping organizations
determine how best to use their testing resources.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Orso:2002:GSC,
author = "Alessandro Orso and Donglin Liang and Mary Jean
Harrold and Richard Lipton",
title = "Gamma system: continuous evolution of software after
deployment",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "65--69",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566182",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we present the GAMMA system, which
facilitates remote monitoring of deployed software
using a new approach that exploits the opportunities
presented by a software product being used by many
users connected through a network. GAMMA splits
monitoring tasks across different instances of the
software, so that partial information can be collected
from different users by means of light-weight
instrumentation, and integrated to gather the overall
monitoring information. This system enables software
producers (1) to perform continuous, minimally
intrusive analyses of their software's behavior, and
(2) to use the information thus gathered to improve and
evolve their software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Briand:2002:IUA,
author = "L. C. Briand and Y. Labiche and H. Sun",
title = "Investigating the use of analysis contracts to support
fault isolation in object oriented code",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "70--80",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566183",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A number of activities involved in testing software
are known to be difficult and time consuming. Among
them is the isolation of faults once failures have been
detected. In this paper, we investigate how the
instrumentation of contracts could address this issue.
Contracts are known to be a useful technique to specify
the precondition and postcondition of operations and
class invariants, thus making the definition of
object-oriented analysis or design elements more
precise. Our aim in this paper is to reuse and
instrument contracts to ease testing. A thorough case
study is run where we define contracts, instrument them
using a commercial tool, and assess the benefits and
limitations of doing so to support the isolation of
faults. We then draw practical conclusions regarding
the applicability of the approach and its
limitations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hiller:2002:PEE,
author = "Martin Hiller and Arshad Jhumka and Neeraj Suri",
title = "{PROPANE}: an environment for examining the
propagation of errors in software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "81--85",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566184",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In order to produce reliable software, it is important
to have knowledge on how faults and errors may affect
the software. In particular, designing efficient error
detection mechanisms requires not only knowledge on
which types of errors to detect but also the effect
these errors may have on the software as well as how
they propagate through the software. This paper
presents the Propagation Analysis Environment (PROPANE)
which is a tool for profiling and conducting fault
injection experiments on software running on desktop
computers. PROPANE supports the injection of both
software faults (by mutation of source code) and data
errors (by manipulating variable and memory contents).
PROPANE supports various error types out-of-the-box and
has support for user-defined error types. For logging,
probes are provided for charting the values of
variables and memory areas as well as for registering
events during execution of the system under test.
PROPANE has a flexible design making it useful for
development of a wide range of software systems, e.g.,
embedded software, generic software components, or
user-level desktop applications. We show examples of
results obtained using PROPANE and how these can guide
software developers to where software error detection
and recovery could increase the reliability of the
software system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tikir:2002:EIC,
author = "Mustafa M. Tikir and Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth",
title = "Efficient instrumentation for code coverage testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "86--96",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566186",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Evaluation of Code Coverage is the problem of
identifying the parts of a program that did not execute
in one or more runs of a program. The traditional
approach for code coverage tools is to use static code
instrumentation. In this paper we present a new
approach to dynamically insert and remove
instrumentation code to reduce the runtime overhead of
code coverage. We also explore the use of dominator
tree information to reduce the number of
instrumentation points needed. Our experiments show
that our approach reduces runtime overhead by 38-90\%
compared with purecov, a commercial code coverage tool.
Our tool is fully automated and available for download
from the Internet.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Srivastava:2002:EPT,
author = "Amitabh Srivastava and Jay Thiagarajan",
title = "Effectively prioritizing tests in development
environment",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "97--106",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566187",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software testing helps ensure not only that the
software under development has been implemented
correctly, but also that further development does not
break it. If developers introduce new defects into the
software, these should be detected as early and
inexpensively as possible in the development cycle. To
help optimize which tests are run at what points in the
design cycle, we have built Echelon, a test
prioritization system, which prioritizes the
application's given set of tests, based on what changes
have been made to the program. Echelon builds on the
previous work on test prioritization and proposes a
practical binary code based approach that scales well
to large systems. Echelon utilizes a binary matching
system that can accurately compute the differences at a
basic block granularity between two versions of the
program in binary form. Echelon utilizes a fast, simple
and intuitive heuristic that works well in practice to
compute what tests will cover the affected basic blocks
in the program. Echelon orders the given tests to
maximally cover the affected program so that defects
are likely to be found quickly and inexpensively.
Although the primary focus in Echelon is on program
changes, other criteria can be added in computing the
priorities. Echelon is part of a test effectiveness
infrastructure that runs under the Windows environment.
It is currently being integrated into the Microsoft
software development process. Echelon has been tested
on large Microsoft product binaries. The results show
that Echelon is effective in ordering tests based on
changes between two program versions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Vaysburg:2002:DAR,
author = "Boris Vaysburg and Luay H. Tahat and Bogdan Korel",
title = "Dependence analysis in reduction of requirement based
test suites",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "107--111",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566188",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Requirement-based automated test case generation is a
model-based technique for generating test suites
related to individual requirements. The technique
supports test generation from EFSM (Extended Finite
State Machine) system models. Several requirement-based
selective test generation techniques were proposed.
These techniques may significantly reduce a number of
test cases with respect to a requirement under test as
opposed to a complete system testing. However, the
number of test cases may still be very large especially
for large systems. In this paper, we present an
approach of reduction of requirement based test suites
using EFSM dependence analysis. Different types of
dependencies are identified between elements of the
EFSM system model. These dependencies capture potential
interactions between elements of the model and are used
to determine parts of the model that affect a
requirement under test. This information is used to
reduce the test suite by identifying repetitive tests,
i.e., tests that exhibit the same pattern of
interactions with respect to the requirement under
test. Our initial experience shows that this approach
may significantly reduce the size of selective test
suites.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Grieskamp:2002:GFS,
author = "Wolfgang Grieskamp and Yuri Gurevich and Wolfram
Schulte and Margus Veanes",
title = "Generating finite state machines from abstract state
machines",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "112--122",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566190",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We give an algorithm that derives a finite state
machine (FSM) from a given abstract state machine (ASM)
specification. This allows us to integrate ASM specs
with the existing tools for test case generation from
FSMs. ASM specs are executable but have typically too
many, often infinitely many states. We group ASM states
into finitely many hyperstates which are the nodes of
the FSM. The links of the FSM are induced by the ASM
state transitions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Boyapati:2002:KAT,
author = "Chandrasekhar Boyapati and Sarfraz Khurshid and Darko
Marinov",
title = "{Korat}: automated testing based on {Java}
predicates",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "123--133",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566191",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents Korat, a novel framework for
automated testing of Java programs. Given a formal
specification for a method, Korat uses the method
precondition to automatically generate all
(nonisomorphic) test cases up to a given small size.
Korat then executes the method on each test case, and
uses the method postcondition as a test oracle to check
the correctness of each output. To generate test cases
for a method, Korat constructs a Java predicate (i.e.,
a method that returns a boolean) from the method's
pre-condition. The heart of Korat is a technique for
automatic test case generation: given a predicate and a
bound on the size of its inputs, Korat generates all
(nonisomorphic) inputs for which the predicate returns
true. Korat exhaustively explores the bounded input
space of the predicate but does so efficiently by
monitoring the predicate's executions and pruning large
portions of the search space. This paper illustrates
the use of Korat for testing several data structures,
including some from the Java Collections Framework. The
experimental results show that it is feasible to
generate test cases from Java predicates, even when the
search space for inputs is very large. This paper also
compares Korat with a testing framework based on
declarative specifications. Contrary to our initial
expectation, the experiments show that Korat generates
test cases much faster than the declarative
framework.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Friedman:2002:PSM,
author = "G. Friedman and A. Hartman and K. Nagin and T.
Shiran",
title = "Projected state machine coverage for software
testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "134--143",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566192",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Our research deals with test generation for software
based on finite state machine (FSM) models of the
program specification. We describe a set of coverage
criteria and testing constraints for use in the
automatic generation of test suites. We also describe
the algorithms used to generate test suites based on
these coverage criteria, and the implementation of
these algorithms as an extension of the {Mur$ \phi $ v}
model checker[4]. The coverage criteria are simple but
powerful in that they generate test suites of high
quality and moderate volume, without requiring the user
to have a sophisticated grasp of the test generation
technology. The testing constraints are used to combat
the endemic problem of state explosion, typically
encountered in FSM techniques. We illustrate our
techniques on several well-known problems from the
literature and describe two industrial trials, to
demonstrate the validity of our claims.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Latella:2002:TCR,
author = "Diego Latella and Mieke Massink",
title = "On testing and conformance relations for {UML}
statechart diagrams behaviours",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "144--153",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566194",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper we study the formal relationship between
testing preorder/equivalences for a behavioural subset
of UML Statechart Diagrams and a conformance relation
for implementations with respect to specifications
given using such diagrams. We study the impact of
stuttering on the above mentioned relationship. In the
context of UMLSDs, stuttering occurs when no transition
of the UMLSD is enabled by the current event in the
current (global) state of the underlying state-machine.
We consider both the case in which the semantics
underlying the testing relations does not model
stuttering explicitly --- we call it the non-stuttering
semantics --- and the case in which it does it --- i.e.
the stuttering semantics. We show that in the first
case the conformance relation is stronger than the
reverse of the MUST preorder and, consequently,
stronger than the MAY preorder. Much more interesting
results can be proven in the second case, possibly
under proper conditions on the sets of events under
consideration. In fact the conformance relation is
shown to coincide with the MAY preorder, and thus be
implied by the reverse MUST preorder. Finally, we show
important substitutivity properties which hold in the
case of stuttering semantics.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Moors:2002:EAT,
author = "Tim Moors and Malathi Veeraraghavan and Zhifeng Tao
and Xuan Zheng and Ramesh Badri",
title = "Experiences in automating the testing of {SS7}
signalling transfer points",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "154--158",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566195",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Signalling System 7 (SS7) is widely used for telephone
signalling. Service providers need to frequently test
their Signalling Transfer Points (STPs), which switch
SS7 messages, for both protocol conformance and
interoperability. This paper describes a system that
automatically analyzes the data collected during STP
tests. It consists of files that describe how the STPs
are expected to behave during the test, and Perl code
that translates this Expected Behavior into a program
that can search the data collected during the test for
the expected events, and report on whether the system
passed the test. The system readily processed over
30,000 events for each test run, and identified
abnormal behavior that could interfere with
interoperability and protocol conformance.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cardell-Oliver:2002:CTE,
author = "Rachel Cardell-Oliver",
title = "Conformance test experiments for distributed real-time
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "159--163",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566196",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper introduces a new technique for testing that
a distributed real-time system satisfies a formal timed
automata specification. It outlines how to write test
specifications in the language of Uppaal timed
automata, how to translate those specifications into
program code for executing the tests, and describes the
results of test experiments on a distributed real-time
system with limited hardware and software resources.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cheng:2002:RDM,
author = "Yung-Pin Cheng",
title = "Refactoring design models for inductive verification",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "164--168",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566198",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Systems composed of many identical processes can
sometimes be verified inductively using a network
invariant, but systems whose component processes vary
in some systematic way are not amenable to direct
application of that method. We describe how variations
in behavior can be ``factored out'' into additional
processes, thus enabling induction over the number of
processes. The process is semi-automatic: The designer
must choose from among a set of idiomatic
transformations, but each transformation is applied and
checked automatically.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Yavuz-Kahveci:2002:SVS,
author = "Tuba Yavuz-Kahveci and Tevfik Bultan",
title = "Specification, verification, and synthesis of
concurrency control components",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "169--179",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566199",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Run-time errors in concurrent programs are generally
due to the wrong usage of synchronization primitives
such as monitors. Conventional validation techniques
such as testing become ineffective for concurrent
programs since the state space increases exponentially
with the number of concurrent processes. In this paper,
we propose an approach in which (1) the concurrency
control component of a concurrent program is formally
specified, (2) it is verified automatically using model
checking, and (3) the code for concurrency control
component is automatically generated. We use monitors
as the synchronization primitive to control access to a
shared resource by multipleconcurrent processes. Since
our approach decouples the concurrency control
component from the rest of the implementation it is
scalable. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach
by applying it to a case study on Airport Ground
Traffic Control. We use the Action Language to specify
the concurrency control component of a system. Action
Language is a specification language for reactive
software systems. It is supported by an infinite-state
model checker that can verify systems with boolean,
enumerated and unbounded integer variables. Our code
generation tool automatically translates the verified
Action Language specification into a Java monitor. Our
translation algorithm employs symbolic manipulation
techniques and the specific notification pattern to
generate an optimized monitor class by eliminating the
context switch overhead introduced as a result of
unnecessary thread notification. Using counting
abstraction, we show that we can automatically verify
the monitor specifications for arbitrary number of
threads.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bishop:2002:RRB,
author = "Peter G. Bishop",
title = "Rescaling reliability bounds for a new operational
profile",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "180--190",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566201",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "One of the main problems with reliability testing and
prediction is that the result is specific to a
particular operational profile. This paper extends an
earlier reliability theory for computing a worst case
reliability bound. The extended theory derives a
re-scaled reliability bound based on the change in
execution rates of the code segments in the program. In
some cases it is possible to derive a maximum failure
rate bound that applies to any change in the profile.
It also predicts that (in principle) a ``fair'' test
profile can be derived where the reliability bounds are
relatively insensitive to the operational profile. In
addition the theory allows unit and module test
coverage measures to be incorporated into an
operational reliability bound prediction. The
implications of the theory are discussed, and the
theory is evaluated by applying it to two example
programs with known faults.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chen:2002:SPI,
author = "T. Y. Chen and T. H. Tse and Zhiquan Zhou",
title = "Semi-proving: an integrated method based on global
symbolic evaluation and metamorphic testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "191--195",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566202",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We present a semi-proving method for verifying
necessary conditions for program correctness. Our
approach is based on the integration of global symbolic
evaluation and metamorphic testing. It is relatively
easier than conventional program proving, and helps to
alleviate the problem that software testing cannot show
the absence of faults.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hamlet:2002:CSS,
author = "Dick Hamlet",
title = "Continuity in software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "196--200",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566203",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Most engineering artifacts behave in a continuous
fashion, and this property is generally believed to
underlie their dependability. In contrast, software
systems do not have continuous behavior, which is taken
to be an underlying cause of their undependability. The
theory of software reliability has been questioned
because technically the sampling on which it is based
applies only to continuous functions. This paper
examines the role of continuity in engineering,
particularly in testing and certifying artifacts, then
considers the analogous software situations and the
ways in which software is intrinsically unlike other
engineered objects. Several definitions of software
'continuity' are proposed and related to ideas in
software testing. It is shown how 'continuity' can be
established in practice, and the consequences for
testing and analysis of knowing that a program is
'continuous. Underlying any use of software
'continuity' is the continuity of its specification in
the usual mathematical sense. However, many software
applications are intrinsically discontinuous and one
reason why software is so valuable is its natural
ability to handle these applications, where it makes no
sense to seek software 'continuity' or to blame poor
dependability on its absence.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bertolino:2002:IPI,
author = "Antonia Bertolino",
title = "{ISSTA} 2002 panel: is {ISSTA} research relevant to
industrial users?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "201--202",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566205",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "ISSTA is at its twelfth edition. Also this year,
researchers from academy and industry have contributed
with many interesting studies and experience reports in
software analysis and testing. We --- the ISSTA
partakers --- have (or at least believe to have) clear
ideas about which are the problems to be solved, which
are the real challenges, and probably each of us has
already settled an agenda of the next steps to take for
solving them looking ahead to the next ISSTA edition.
Are we doing right? Do we know which are the real
issues in the field? Is our research addressing
relevant points, or just aesthetic questions? Do, and
how much, industrial users ---the ISSTA addressees-
value our papers and our achievements? This panel will
address such questions by grouping a set of managers
from different industries around a table and asking
their opinions. As the above questions are very
general, in the intent to tackle the theme in a
concrete way, we will trigger the discussion by looking
at the research results in terms of their potential
impact in their respective enterprises. We would like
to know which are currently the costs of testing and
analysis activities in their industries, which are the
items summing up such costs, and how we ISSTA
researchers could help improving them.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Encontre:2002:IRR,
author = "Vincent Encontre",
title = "Is {ISSTA} research relevant to industrial users?
{Panel} --- {ISSTA 2002}: empowering the developer to
be a tester too!",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "203--204",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566206",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper --- scoped for the panel discussion at
ISSTA 2002 --- we are discussing some techniques to
ease the adoption of testing techniques by the
developers, by extending the debugging activity. We
also briefly discuss a longer term vision where the
same paradigm applies but at model level, when coding
will be achieved using visual notations such as UML.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hartman:2002:IRR,
author = "A. Hartman",
title = "Is {ISSTA} research relevant to industry?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "205--206",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566207",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Peciola:2002:ELI,
author = "Emilia Peciola",
title = "{Ericsson} lab {Italy}: is {ISSTA} research relevant
to industrial users?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "207--207",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566208",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sreenivas:2002:PDI,
author = "Ashok Sreenivas",
title = "Panel discussion: is {ISSTA} testing research relevant
to industrial users?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "208--209",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566209",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We discuss the direct relevance of on-going testing
research to the 'users' of the research, namely the
industrial practitioners. The current
state-of-the-practice in software testing is quite
ad-hoc and provides little or no assertions about the
quality of the delivered software product. We propose
the view that research that is aligned with formal
approaches to software development is the best bet to
achieve this goal.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Choi:2002:IFI,
author = "Jong-Deok Choi and Andreas Zeller",
title = "Isolating failure-inducing thread schedules",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "210--220",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566211",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/multithreading.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Consider a multi-threaded application that
occasionally fails due to non-determinism. Using the
DEJAVU capture/replay tool, it is possible to record
the thread schedule and replay the application in a
deterministic way. By systematically narrowing down the
difference between a thread schedule that makes the
program pass and another schedule that makes the
program fail, the Delta Debugging approach can pinpoint
the error location automatically---namely, the
location(s) where a thread switch causes the program to
fail. In a case study, Delta Debugging isolated the
failure-inducing schedule difference from 3.8 billion
differences in only 50 tests.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Whaley:2002:AEO,
author = "John Whaley and Michael C. Martin and Monica S. Lam",
title = "Automatic extraction of object-oriented component
interfaces",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "218--228",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566212",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/virtual-machines.bib",
abstract = "Component-based software design is a popular and
effective approach to designing large systems. While
components typically have well-defined interfaces,
sequencing information---which calls must come in which
order---is often not formally specified. This paper
proposes using multiple finite statemachine (FSM)
submodels to model the interface of a class. A submodel
includes a subset of methods that, for example,
implement a Java interface, or access some particular
field. Each state-modifying method is represented as a
state in the FSM, and transitions of the FSMs represent
allow able pairs of consecutive methods. In addition,
state-preserving methods are constrained to execute
only under certain states. We have designed and
implemented a system that includes static analyses to
deduce illegal call sequences in a program, dynamic
instrumentation techniques to extract models from
execution runs, and a dynamic model checker that
ensures that the code conforms to the model. Extracted
models can serve as documentation; they can serve as
constraints to be enforced by a static checker; they
can be studied directly by developers to determine if
the program is exhibiting unexpected behavior; or they
can be used to determine the completeness of a test
suite. Our system has been run on several large code
bases, including the joeq virtual machine, the basic
Java libraries, and the Java 2 Enterprise Edition
library code. Our experience suggests that this
approach yields useful information.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nimmer:2002:AGP,
author = "Jeremy W. Nimmer and Michael D. Ernst",
title = "Automatic generation of program specifications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "4",
pages = "229--239",
month = jul,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/566171.566213",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Producing specifications by dynamic (runtime) analysis
of program executions is potentially unsound, because
the analyzed executions may not fully characterize all
possible executions of the program. In practice, how
accurate are the results of a dynamic analysis? This
paper describes the results of an investigation into
this question, determining how much specifications
generalized from program runs must be changed in order
to be verified by a static checker. Surprisingly, small
test suites captured nearly all program behavior
required by a specific type of static checking; the
static checker guaranteed that the implementations
satisfy the generated specifications, and ensured the
absence of runtime exceptions. Measured against this
verification task, the generated specifications scored
over 90\% on precision, a measure of soundness, and on
recall, a measure of completeness. This is a positive
result for testing, because it suggests that dynamic
analyses can capture all semantic information of
interest for certain applications. The experimental
results demonstrate that a specific technique, dynamic
invariant detection, is effective at generating
consistent, sufficient specifications for use by a
static checker. Finally, the research shows that
combining static and dynamic analyses over program
specifications has benefits for users of each
technique, guaranteeing soundness of the dynamic
analysis and lessening the annotation burden for users
of the static analysis.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2002:RPCd,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "5",
pages = "6--16",
month = sep,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/571681.571685",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:22 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kitchenham:2002:PSRd,
author = "Barbara Kitchenham and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger",
title = "Principles of survey research: part 5: populations and
samples",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "5",
pages = "17--20",
month = sep,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/571681.571686",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:22 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This article is the fifth installment of our series of
articles on survey research. In it, we discuss what we
mean by a population and a sample and the implications
of each for survey research. We provide examples of
correct and incorrect sampling techniques used in
software engineering surveys.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2002:SNSd,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "5",
pages = "21--30",
month = sep,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/571681.571687",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:22 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Estublier:2002:IRC,
author = "Jacky Estublier and David Leblang and Geoff Clemm and
Reidar Conradi and Walter Tichy and Andr{\'e} van der
Hoek and Darcy Wiborg-Weber",
title = "Impact of the research community on the field of
software configuration management: summary of an impact
project report",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "5",
pages = "31--39",
month = sep,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/571681.571689",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:22 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software Configuration Management (SCM) is an
important discipline in professional software
development and maintenance. The importance of SCM has
increased as programs have become larger and more
complex and mission/life-critical. This paper discusses
the evolution of SCM technology from the early days of
software development to present and the impact
university and industrial research has had along the
way. It also includes a survey of the industrial
state-of-the-practice and research directions. The
paper published here is not intended to be a definitive
assessment. Rather, our intention is to solicit
comments and corrections from the community to help
refine the work. If you would like to provide further
information, please contact the first author. A longer
version of this report can be found at
http://wwwadele.imag.fr/SCMImpact.pdf.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rhodes:2002:SEE,
author = "Donna H. Rhodes",
title = "Systems engineering: an essential discipline for the
21st century",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "5",
pages = "40--45",
month = sep,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/571681.571690",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:22 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Davis:2002:OSD,
author = "Chad Davis and Coskun Bayrak",
title = "Open source development and the {World Wide Web}: a
certain tension",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "5",
pages = "93--97",
month = sep,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/571681.571682",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:22 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The development of the World Wide Web over the course
of the past ten years has run rampant. The course it
has taken has been both swift and unpredictable. The
largest distributed system in the world began as a
utopian notion of an interconnected and open web of
information, the dream of the academic and intellectual
alike. Today it is indeed a massive interconnected web
of communication and content, but the content, largely
on the more popular, if not pornographic, end of the
mass media spectrum, is not what the founders intended.
Coinciding with the rapid growth of the web has been
the equally speedy rise of the open source development
community, which can best be understood as a
distributed system in its own right. Indeed, the
development of the web has been, outside of the Linux
project, the largest arena for open source development.
And current trends, witnessed by such significant open
source projects as Mozilla and Apache, seem to suggest
that the open source way of doing things is quickly
becoming the web way of doing things. However, there is
a certain tension growing between those who would like
to control, for economic profit or for the
gratification of control itself, the direction of the
web's development and those open source developers who
are responsible for a large portion of that growth.
This paper explores the natural relationship, as well
as the growing tension within this relationship,
between the open source development community and the
World Wide Web.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Li:2002:AIF,
author = "Bixin Li",
title = "Analyzing information-flow in {Java} program based on
slicing technique",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "5",
pages = "98--103",
month = sep,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/571681.571683",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:22 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Traditional information-flow analysis is mainly based
on dataflow and control-flow analysis. In
object-oriented program, because of pointer aliasing,
inheritance, and polymorphism, information-flow
analysis become very complicated. Especially, it is
difficult to rely only on normal data and control-flow
analysis techniques. some new approaches are required
to analyze the information-flow between components in
object-oriented program. In this paper, object-oriented
program slicing technique is introduced. By this
technique, the amount of information-flow, the width of
information-flow and correlation coefficient between
components can be computed. Some applications of the
information-flow are also discussed and analyzed in
this paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Alexander:2002:DSS,
author = "Larry Alexander",
title = "Decision support systems in the 21st century",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "5",
pages = "104--104",
month = sep,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/571681.571692",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:22 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Frazer:2002:CAI,
author = "Ken Frazer",
title = "{C++} in action: industrial-strength programming
techniques",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "5",
pages = "104--105",
month = sep,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/571681.571693",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:22 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tanuan:2002:TIS,
author = "Meyer Tanuan",
title = "Testing it: an off-the-shelf software testing
process",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "5",
pages = "105--105",
month = sep,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/571681.571694",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:22 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2002:RTL,
author = "Will Tracz",
title = "Roundtable on technical leadership: a {SHAPE} forum
dialog",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "5",
pages = "106--107",
month = sep,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/571681.571695",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:22 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zeller:2002:ICE,
author = "Andreas Zeller",
title = "Isolating cause-effect chains from computer programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "1--10",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605468",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Consider the execution of a failing program as a
sequence of program states. Each state induces the
following state, up to the failure. Which variables and
values of a program state are relevant for the failure?
We show how the Delta Debugging algorithm isolates the
relevant variables and values by systematically
narrowing the state difference between a passing run
and a failing run --- by assessing the outcome of
altered executions to determine whether a change in the
program state makes a difference in the test outcome.
Applying Delta Debugging to multiple states of the
program automatically reveals the cause-effect chain of
the failure --- that is, the variables and values that
caused the failure. In a case study, our prototype
implementation successfully isolated the cause--effect
chain for a failure of the GNU C compiler: ``Initially,
the C program to be compiled contained an addition of
1.0; this caused an addition operator in the
intermediate RTL representation; this caused a cycle in
the RTL tree --- and this caused the compiler to
crash.''",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nimmer:2002:IIS,
author = "Jeremy W. Nimmer and Michael D. Ernst",
title = "Invariant inference for static checking: an empirical
evaluation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "11--20",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605469",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Static checking can verify the absence of errors in a
program, but often requires written annotations or
specifications. As a result, static checking can be
difficult to use effectively: it can be difficult to
determine a specification and tedious to annotate
programs. Automated tools that aid the annotation
process can decrease the cost of static checking and
enable it to be more widely used. This paper describes
an evaluation of the effectiveness of two techniques,
one static and one dynamic, to assist the annotation
process. We quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate
41 programmers using ESC/Java in a program verification
task over three small programs, using Houdini for
static inference and Daikon for dynamic inference. We
also investigate the effect of unsoundness in the
dynamic analysis. Statistically significant results
show that both inference tools improve task completion;
Daikon enables users to express more correct
invariants; unsoundness of the dynamic analysis is
little hindrance to users; and users imperfectly
exploit Houdini. Interviews indicate that beginning
users found Daikon to be helpful; Houdini to be
neutral; static checking to be of potential practical
use; and both assistance tools to have unique benefits.
Our observations not only provide a critical evaluation
of these two techniques, but also highlight important
considerations for creating future assistance tools.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Julien:2002:ECA,
author = "Christine Julien and Gruia Catalin Roman",
title = "Egocentric context-aware programming in ad hoc mobile
environments",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "21--30",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605471",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Some of the most dynamic systems being built today
consist of physically mobile hosts and logically mobile
agents. Such systems exhibit frequent configuration
changes and a great deal of resource variability.
Applications executing under these circumstances need
to react continuously and rapidly to changes in
operating conditions and must adapt their behavior
accordingly. The development of such applications
demands a reexamination of the notion of context and
the mechanisms used to manage the application's
response to contextual changes. This paper introduces
EgoSpaces, a coordination model and middleware for ad
hoc mobile environments. EgoSpaces focuses on the needs
of application development in ad hoc environments by
proposing an agent-centered notion of context, called a
view, whose scope extends beyond the local host to data
and resources associated with hosts and agents within a
subnet surrounding the agent of interest. An agent may
operate over multiple views whose definitions may
change over time. An agent uses declarative
specifications to constrain the contents of each view
by employing a rich set of constraints that take into
consideration properties of the individual data items,
the agents that own them, the hosts on which the agents
reside, and the physical and logical topology of the ad
hoc network. This paper formalizes the concept of view,
explores the notion of programming against views,
discusses possible implementation strategies for
transparent context maintenance, and describes our
current prototype of the system. We include examples to
illustrate the expressive power of the view abstraction
and to relate it to other research on coordination
models and middleware.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Capra:2002:MEA,
author = "Licia Capra and Wolfgang Emmerich and Cecilia
Mascolo",
title = "A micro-economic approach to conflict resolution in
mobile computing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "31--40",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605472",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Mobile devices, such as mobile phones and personal
digital assistants, have gained wide-spread popularity.
These devices will increasingly be networked, thus
enabling the construction of distributed mobile
applications. These have to adapt to changes in
context, such as variations in network bandwidth,
exhaustion of battery power or reachability of services
on other devices. We show how the construction of
adaptive and context-aware mobile applications can be
supported using a reflective middleware. The middleware
provides software engineers with primitives to describe
how context changes are handled using policies. These
policies may conflict. In this paper, we classify the
different types of conflicts that may arise in mobile
computing. We argue that conflicts cannot be resolved
statically at the time applications are designed, but,
rather, need to be resolved at execution time. We
demonstrate a method by which these policy conflicts
can be treated. This method uses a micro-economic
approach that relies on a particular type of sealed-bid
auction.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lopes:2002:APD,
author = "Ant{\'o}nia Lopes and Jos{\'e} Luiz Fiadeiro and
Michel Wermelinger",
title = "Architectural primitives for distribution and
mobility",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "41--50",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605473",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we address the integration of a
distribution dimension in an architectural approach to
system development and evolution based on the
separation between coordination and computation. This
third dimension allows us to separate key concerns
raised by mobility, thus contributing to our ability to
handle the complexity that is inherent to systems
required to operate in ``Internet time and space''.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Xie:2002:URF,
author = "Yichen Xie and Dawson Engler",
title = "Using redundancies to find errors",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "51--60",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605475",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper explores the idea that redundant
operations, like type errors, commonly flag correctness
errors. We experimentally test this idea by writing and
applying four redundancy checkers to the Linux
operating system, finding many errors. We then use
these errors to demonstrate that redundancies, even
when harmless, strongly correlate with the presence of
traditional hard errors (e.g., null pointer
dereferences, unreleased locks). Finally we show that
how flagging redundant operations gives a way to make
specifications ``fail stop'' by detecting dangerous
omissions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bruns:2002:SPA,
author = "Glenn Bruns and Satish Chandra",
title = "Searching for points-to analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "61--70",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605476",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The complexity of points-to analysis is well
understood, but the approximations used to carry out
points-to analysis efficiently are less well
understood. In this paper we characterize points-to
analysis as a reachability problem on a program's state
space. Reachability analysis can be performed
approximately but more efficiently for a program to
which certain basic program transformations have been
applied. We show the source of approximation and
efficiency in several existing points-to analysis
algorithms in terms of these generic program
transformations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mock:2002:IPS,
author = "Markus Mock and Darren C. Atkinson and Craig Chambers
and Susan J. Eggers",
title = "Improving program slicing with dynamic points-to
data",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "71--80",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605477",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Program slicing is a potentially useful analysis for
aiding program understanding. However, slices of even
small programs are often too large to be generally
useful. Imprecise pointer analyses have been suggested
as one cause of this problem. In this paper, we use
dynamic points-to data, which represents optimal or
optimistic pointer information, to obtain a bound on
the best case slice size improvement that can be
achieved with improved pointer precision. Our
experiments show that slice size can be reduced
significantly for programs that make frequent use of
calls through function pointers because for them the
dynamic pointer data results in a considerably smaller
call graph, which leads to fewer data dependences.
Programs without or with only few calls through
function pointers, however, show only insignificant
improvement. We identified Amdahl's law as the reason
for this behavior: C programs appear to have a large
fraction of direct data dependences so that reducing
spurious dependences via pointers is only of limited
benefit. Consequently, to make slicing useful in
general for such programs, improvements beyond better
pointer analyses will be necessary. On the other hand,
since we show that collecting dynamic function pointer
information can be performed with little overhead
(average slowdown of 10\% for our benchmarks), dynamic
pointer information may be a practical approach to
making slicing of programs with frequent function
pointer use more successful in reality.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Holzmann:2002:LB,
author = "Gerard J. Holzmann",
title = "The logic of bugs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "81--87",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605479",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Real-life bugs are successful because of their
unfailing ability to adapt. In particular this applies
to their ability to adapt to strategies that are meant
to eradicate them as a species. Software bugs have some
of these same traits. We will discuss these traits, and
consider what we can do about them.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Li:2002:VCC,
author = "Harry Li and Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi Fisler",
title = "Verifying cross-cutting features as open systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "89--98",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605481",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Feature-oriented software designs capture many
interesting notions of cross-cutting, and offer a
powerful method for building product-line
architectures. Each cross-cutting feature is an
independent module that fundamentally yields an open
system from a verification perspective. We describe
desiderata for verifying such modules through model
checking and find that existing work on the
verification of open systems fails to address most of
the concerns that arise from feature-oriented systems.
We therefore provide a new methodology for verifying
such systems. To validate this new methodology, we have
implemented it and applied it to a suite of modules
that exhibit feature interaction problems. Our model
checker was able to automatically locate ten problems
previously found through a laborious simulation-based
effort.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chu-Carroll:2002:SAF,
author = "Mark C. Chu-Carroll and James Wright and David
Shields",
title = "Supporting aggregation in fine grained software
configuration management",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "99--108",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605482",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Fine-grained software configuration management offers
substantial benefits for large-scale collaborative
software development, enabling a variety of interesting
and useful features including complexity management,
support for aspect-oriented software development, and
support for communication and coordination within
software engineering teams, described in [4]. However,
fine granularity by itself is not sufficient to achieve
these benefits. Most of the benefits of fine
granularity result from the ability to combine
fine-grained artifacts in various ways: supporting
multiple overlapping organizations of program source by
combining fine-grained artifacts into virtual source
files (VSFs); supporting coordination by allowing
developers to precisely mark the set of artifacts
affected by a change; associating products from
different phases of the development process; etc. In
this paper, we describe how a general aggregation
mechanism can be used to support the various
functionality enabled by fine grained SCM. We present a
set of requirements that an aggregation facility must
provide in order to yield these benefits, and we
provide a description of the implementation of such an
aggregation system in our experimental SCM system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Uchitel:2002:NSI,
author = "Sebastian Uchitel and Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee",
title = "Negative scenarios for implied scenario elicitation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "109--118",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605484",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Scenario-based specifications such as Message Sequence
Charts (MSCs) are popular for requirement elicitation
and specification. MSCs describe two distinct aspects
of a system: on the one hand they provide examples of
intended system behaviour and on the other they outline
the system architecture. A mismatch between
architecture and behaviour may give rise to implied
scenarios. Implied scenarios occur because a
component's local view of the system state is
insufficient to enforce specified system behaviour. An
implied scenario indicates a gap in the MSC
specification that needs to be clarified. It may simply
mean that an acceptable scenario has been overlooked
and should be added to the scenario specification.
Alternatively, it may represent an unacceptable
behaviour which should be documented and avoided in the
final implementation. Thus implied scenarios can be
used to iteratively drive requirements elicitation.
However, in order to do so, tools for coping with
rejected implied scenarios are needed. The
contributions of this paper are twofold. Firstly, we
define a language for describing negative scenarios.
Secondly, we complement existing implied scenario
detection methods with techniques for accommodating
negative scenarios.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Letier:2002:DOS,
author = "Emmanuel Letier and Axel van Lamsweerde",
title = "Deriving operational software specifications from
system goals",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "119--128",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605485",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Goal orientation is an increasingly recognized
paradigm for eliciting, modeling, specifying and
analyzing software requirements. Goals are statements
of intent organized in AND/OR refinement structures;
they range from high-level, strategic concerns to
low-level, technical requirements on the software-to-be
and assumptions on its environment. The
operationalization of system goals into specifications
of software services is a core aspect of the
requirements elaboration process for which little
systematic and constructive support is available. In
particular, most formal methods assume such operational
specifications to be given and focus on their a
posteriori analysis. The paper considers a formal,
constructive approach in which operational software
specifications are built incrementally from
higher-level goal formulations in a way that guarantees
their correctness by construction. The
operationalization process is based on formal
derivation rules that map goal specifications to
specifications of software operations; more
specifically, these rules map real-time temporal logic
specifications to sets of pre-, post- and trigger
conditions. The rules define operationalization
patterns that may be used for guiding and documenting
the operationalization process while hiding all formal
reasoning details; the patterns are formally proved
correct once and for all. The catalog of
operationalization patterns is structured according to
a rich taxonomy of goal specification patterns. Our
constructive approach to requirements elaboration
requires a multiparadigm specification language that
supports incremental reasoning about partial models.
The paper also provides a formal semantics for goal
operationalization and discusses several semantic
features of our language that allow for such
incremental reasoning.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Vetterling:2002:SSD,
author = "Monika Vetterling and Guido Wimmel and Alexander
Wisspeintner",
title = "Secure systems development based on the common
criteria: the {PalME} project",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "129--138",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605486",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Security is a very important issue in information
processing, especially in open network environments
like the Internet. The Common Criteria (CC) is the
standard requirements catalogue for the evaluation of
security critical systems. Using the CC, a large number
of security requirements on the system itself and on
the system development can be defined. However, the CC
does not give methodological support. In this paper, we
show how integrate security aspects into the software
engineering process. The activities and documents from
the Common Criteria are tightly intertwined with the
system development, which improves the quality of the
developed system and reduces the additional cost and
effort due to high security requirements. For modelling
and verification of critical parts of the system, we
use formal description techniques and model checking
(supported by the graphical CASE tool AUTOFOCUS), which
increases both the understanding of the system
specification and the system's reliability. We
demonstrate our ideas by means of a case-study, the
PalME project--an electronic purse application for Palm
handhelds.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gurfinkel:2002:MET,
author = "Arie Gurfinkel and Benet Devereux and Marsha Chechik",
title = "Model exploration with temporal logic query checking",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "139--148",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605488",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A temporal logic query is a temporal logic formula
with placeholders. Given a model, a solution to a query
is a set of assignments of propositional formulas to
placeholders, such that replacing the placeholders with
any of these assignments results in a temporal logic
formula that holds in the model. Query checking, first
introduced by William Chan [2], is an automated
technique for finding solutions to temporal logic
queries. It allows discovery of the temporal properties
of the system and as such may be a useful tool for
model exploration and reverse engineering. This paper
describes an implementation of a temporal logic query
checker. It then suggests some applications of this
tool, ranging from invariant computation to test case
generation, and illustrates them using a Cruise Control
System.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Niu:2002:CSM,
author = "Jianwei Niu and Joanne M. Atlee and Nancy A. Day",
title = "Composable semantics for model-based notations",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "149--158",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605489",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We propose a unifying framework for model-based
specification notations. Our framework captures the
execution semantics that are common among model-based
notations, and leaves the distinct elements to be
defined by a set of parameters. The basic components of
a specification are non-concurrent state-transition
machines which are combined by composition operators to
form more complex, concurrent specifications. We define
the step-semantics of these basic components in terms
of an operational semantics template whose parameters
specialize both the enabling of transitions and
transitions' effects. We also provide the operational
semantics of seven composition operators, defining each
as the concurrent execution of components, with changes
to their shared variables and events to reflect
inter-component communication and synchronization; the
definitions of these operators use the template
parameters to preserve in composition notation-specific
behaviour. By separating a notation's step-semantics
from its composition and concurrency operators, we
simplify the definitions of both. Our framework is
sufficient to capture the semantics of basic transition
systems, CSP, CCS, basic LOTOS, ESTELLE, a subset of
SDL88, and a variety of statecharts notations. We
believe that a description of a notation's semantics in
our framework can be used as input to a tool that
automatically generates formal analysis tools.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cobleigh:2002:CUH,
author = "Jamieson M. Cobleigh and Leon J. Osterweil and
Alexander Wise and Barbara Staudt Lerner",
title = "Containment units: a hierarchically composable
architecture for adaptive systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "159--165",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605491",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software is increasingly expected to run in a variety
of environments. The environments themselves are often
dynamically changing when using mobile computers or
embedded systems, for example. Network bandwidth,
available power, or other physical conditions may
change, necessitating the use of alternative algorithms
within the software, and changing resource mixes to
support the software. We present Containment Units as a
software architecture useful for recognizing
environmental changes and dynamically reconfiguring
software and resource allocations to adapt to those
changes. We present examples of Containment Units used
within robotics along with the results of actual
executions, and the application of static analysis to
obtain assurances that those Containment Units can be
expected to demonstrate the robustness for which they
were designed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sengupta:2002:TMS,
author = "Bikram Sengupta and Rance Cleaveland",
title = "Triggered message sequence charts",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "27",
number = "6",
pages = "167--176",
month = nov,
year = "2002",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/605466.605492",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:23 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We propose an extension to Message Sequence Charts
called Triggered Message Sequence Charts (TMSCs) that
are intended to capture system specifications involving
nondeterminism in the form of conditional scenarios.
The visual syntax of TMSCs closely resembles that of
MSCs; the semantics allows us to translate a TMSC
specification into a framework that supports a notion
of refinement based on Denicola's and Hennessy's must
preorder. A simple but non-trivial example illustrates
the utility of our extension to MSCs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Notkin:2003:LPA,
author = "David Notkin",
title = "Longitudinal program analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "1",
pages = "1--1",
month = jan,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/634636.586095",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:25 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The field of program analysis has made significant
improvements recently, but still faces some major
obstacles. In this talk I argue that considering
analysis as applying longitudinally across the
multitude of versions created during a program's
lifetime -rather than to a given instance of a program
--- shows significant promise in overcoming some of
these obstacles. I focus on identifying a set of
opportunities that arise when this shift in outlook is
taken. Most program analysis techniques have focused on
questions of the form ``Does program P satisfy a given
property A?'' or ``What program points in P satisfy a
given property A?'' Type-checking is the classic
example of the first form, while lexical, syntactic,
and semantic analyses are examples of the second form.
The key point (with respect to this talk) is that a
single program P is being analyzed. Some analyses
expand this view and explicitly consider a pair of
programs, P and P', where P' represents a modified
version of P. Test selection and prioritization
techniques are among the best examples of this
approach: the idea is to analyze the delta between P
and P', and to use that information to determine which
test cases must be re-run (for test selection) or
should be re-run (for test prioritization). There are
dozens of results in these areas; Harrold et al.'s
empirical study is one recent example of test selection
[1], and the recent work at Microsoft Research is an
example of test prioritization [2]. There are at least
three ways in which a longitudinal approach could
improve analysis. Second, we can use previously
computed information to better inform analysis on a
newer version. One recent example of this is the work
by Kim and Porter that uses historical information
about the application of tests of a set of versions as
a basis for test prioritization algorithms [3]. Third,
we can imagine applying otherwise ``intractable''
analyses over the lifetime of (multiple versions of) a
program, as opposed to the (much more limited) time
available to analyze a specific version. In essence,
there is an opportunity to compute the analysis in
stages, with the goal of completing the analysis by
specific important points in the program lifetime
(e.g., external releases). Work on vertical staging of
analyses for runtime compilation is one place to look
for ideas and techniques for this kind of
``horizontal'' staging [4]. The traditional view of
software evolution says that (to accommodate needed
change) program structure degrades and program size
increases [5][6]; this in turn tends to increase the
difficult of analysis. I propose here some
opportunities for viewing time and change as potential
benefits with respect to analysis, rather than as
roadblocks. This provides potential for significantly
improving software dependability over time.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bowring:2003:MDS,
author = "Jim Bowring and Alessandro Orso and Mary Jean
Harrold",
title = "Monitoring deployed software using software
tomography",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "1",
pages = "2--9",
month = jan,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/634636.586099",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:25 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software products are often released with missing
functionality or errors that result in failures in the
field. In previous work, we presented the Gamma
technology, which facilitates remote monitoring of
deployed software and allows for a prompt reaction to
failures. In this paper, we investigate one of the
principal technologies on which Gamma is based:
software tomography. Software tomography splits
monitoring tasks across many instances of the software,
so that partial information can be (1) collected from
users by means of light-weight instrumentation and (2)
merged to gather the overall monitoring information.
After describing the technology, we illustrate an
instance of software tomography for a specific
monitoring task. We also present two case studies that
we performed to evaluate the presented technique on a
real program. The results of the studies show that
software tomography can be successfully applied to
collect accurate monitoring information using only
minimal instrumentation on each deployed program
instance.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tikir:2003:RDS,
author = "Mustafa M. Tikir and Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth and
Guei-Yuan Lueh",
title = "Recompilation for debugging support in a
{JIT-compiler}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "1",
pages = "10--17",
month = jan,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/634636.586100",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:25 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/virtual-machines.bib",
abstract = "A static Java compiler converts Java source code into
a verifiably secure and compact architecture-neutral
intermediate format, called Java byte codes. The Java
byte codes can be either interpreted by a Java Virtual
Machine or translated into native code by Java
Just-In-Time compilers. Static Java compilers embed
debug information in the Java class files to be used by
the source level debuggers. However, the debug
information is generated for architecture independent
byte codes and most of the debug information is valid
only when the byte codes are interpreted. Translating
byte codes into native instructions puts a limitation
on the amount of usable debug information that can be
used by source level debuggers. In this paper, we
present a new technique to generate valid debug
information when Just-In-Time compilers are used. Our
approach is based on the dynamic recompilation of Java
methods by a fast code generator and lazily generates
debug information when it is required. We also present
three implementations for field watch support in the
Java Virtual Machine Debugger Interface to investigate
the runtime overhead and code size growth by our
approach.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Akgul:2003:ILR,
author = "Tankut Akgul and Vincent J. {Mooney III}",
title = "Instruction-level reverse execution for debugging",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "1",
pages = "18--25",
month = jan,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/634636.586101",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:25 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The ability to execute a program in reverse is
advantageous for shortening debug time. This paper
presents a reverse execution methodology at the
assembly instruction-level with low memory and time
overheads. The core idea of this approach is to
generate a reverse program able to undo, in almost all
cases, normal forward execution of an assembly
instruction in the program being debugged. The
methodology has been implemented on a PowerPC processor
in a custom made debugger. Compared to previous work
--- all of which use a variety of state saving
techniques --- the experimental results show 2.5X to
400X memory overhead reduction for the tested
benchmarks. Furthermore, the results with the same
benchmarks show an average of 4.1X to 5.7X time
overhead reduction.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Morrisett:2003:AIC,
author = "Greg Morrisett",
title = "Analysis issues for cyclone",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "1",
pages = "26--26",
month = jan,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/634636.586096",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:25 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Cyclone [1, 2] is an experimental, type-safe
programming language based upon the syntax, semantics,
and spirit of C. The primary goal of the language is to
provide a type-safe environment that is close enough to
C in both appearance and functionality, that systems
programmers will find it attractive and useful. The
most challenging aspect of the design is capturing the
spirit of C without compromising type-safety. In
particular, systems programmers expect to have good
control over data representations, memory management,
and performance. Yet, these features are usually absent
from high-level, type-safe languages (e.g., Java).
Another challenge is validating a sufficiently wide set
of idioms that are in fact type-safe, but which
conventional type systems reject. To address these
issues, we have used a novel combination of typing
features in conjunction with some interesting inference
and dataflow techniques. The most novel typing feature
is the support for region-based memory management which
was summarized in an earlier paper [1]. However, this
paper did not discuss the inference techniques we use
to validate the regions and effects. In this talk, I
will briefly summarize the Cyclone type system and then
focus on the analysis issues that arise in its
implementation, including (a) kind and type inference,
(b) region and effect inference, and (c) dataflow
analysis for validating initialization, array
subscripts, and linear pointers.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Brown:2003:SFE,
author = "Rhodes Brown and Karel Driesen and David Eng and
Laurie Hendren and John Jorgensen and Clark Verbrugge
and Qin Wang",
title = "{STEP}: a framework for the efficient encoding of
general trace data",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "1",
pages = "27--34",
month = jan,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/634636.586103",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:25 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/virtual-machines.bib",
abstract = "Traditional tracing systems are often limited to
recording a fixed set of basic program events. This
limitation can frustrate an application or compiler
developer who is trying to understand and characterize
the complex behavior of software systems such as a Java
program running on a Java Virtual Machine. In the past,
many developers have resorted to specialized tracing
systems that target a particular type of program event.
This approach often results in an obscure and poorly
documented encoding format which can limit the reuse
and sharing of potentially valuable information. To
address this problem, we present STEP, a system
designed to provide profiler developers with a standard
method for encoding general program trace data in a
flexible and compact format. The system consists of a
trace data definition language along with a compiler
and an architecture that simplifies the client
interface by encapsulating the details of encoding and
interpretation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Apiwattanapong:2003:SPP,
author = "Taweesup Apiwattanapong and Mary Jean Harrold",
title = "Selective path profiling",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "1",
pages = "35--42",
month = jan,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/634636.586104",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:25 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Recording dynamic information for only a subset of
program entities can reduce monitoring overhead and can
facilitate efficient monitoring of deployed software.
Program entities, such as statements, can be monitored
using probes that track the execution of those
entities. Monitoring more complicated entities, such as
paths or definition-use associations, requires more
sophisticated techniques that track not only the
execution of the desired entities but also the
execution of other entities with which they interact.
This paper presents an approach for monitoring subsets
of one such program entity---acyclic paths in
procedures. Our selective path profiling algorithm
computes values for probes that guarantee that the sum
of the assigned value along each acyclic path (path
sum) in the subset is unique; acyclic paths not in the
subset may or may not have unique path sums. The paper
also presents the results of studies that compare the
number of probes required for subsets of various sizes
with the number of probes required for profiling all
paths, computed using Ball and Larus' path profiling
algorithm. Our results indicate that the algorithm
performs well on many procedures by requiring only a
small percentage of probes for monitoring the subset.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Eng:2003:CSD,
author = "David Eng",
title = "Combining static and dynamic data in code
visualization",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "1",
pages = "43--50",
month = jan,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/634636.586105",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:25 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The task of developing, tuning, and debugging compiler
optimizations is a difficult one which can be
facilitated by software visualization. There are many
characteristics of the code which must be considered
when studying the kinds of optimizations which can be
performed. Both static data collected at compile-time
and dynamic runtime data can reveal opportunities for
optimization and affect code transformations. In order
to expose the behavior of such complex systems,
visualizations should include as much information as
possible and accommodate the different sources from
which this information is acquired. This paper presents
a visualization framework designed to address these
issues. The framework is based on a new, extensible
language called JIL which provides a common format for
encapsulating intermediate representations and
associating them with compile-time and runtime data. We
present new contributions which extend existing
compiler and profiling frameworks, allowing them to
export the intermediate languages, analysis results,
and code metadata they collect as JIL documents.
Visualization interfaces can then combine the JIL data
from separate tools, exposing both static and dynamic
characteristics of the underlying code. We present such
an interface in the form of a new web-based visualizer,
allowing JIL documents to be visualized online in a
portable, customizable interface.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chelf:2003:HWS,
author = "Benjamin Chelf and Dawson Engler and Seth Hallem",
title = "How to write system-specific, static checkers in
metal",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "1",
pages = "51--60",
month = jan,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/634636.586097",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:25 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Naumovich:2003:UOD,
author = "Gleb Naumovich",
title = "Using the observer design pattern for implementation
of data flow analyses",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "1",
pages = "61--68",
month = jan,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/634636.586107",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:25 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Data flow analysis is used widely in program
compilation, understanding, design, and analysis tools.
In data flow analysis, problem-specific information is
associated with nodes and/or edges in the flow graph
representation of a program or component and
re-comp\-uted iteratively. A popular data flow analysis
design relies on a worklist that stores all nodes and
edges whose data flow information has to be
re-computed. While this approach is straightforward, it
has some drawbacks. First, the presence of the worklist
makes data flow algorithms centralized, which may
reduce effectiveness of parallel implementations of
these algorithms. Second, the worklist approach is
difficult to implement in a way that minimizes the
amount of information passed between flow graph nodes.
In this paper, we propose to use the well-known
Observer pattern for implementation of data flow
analyses. We argue that such implementations are more
object-oriented in nature, as well as less centralized,
than worklist-based ones. We argue that by adopting
this Observer-based view, data flow analyses that
minimize the amount of information passed between flow
graph nodes can be implemented easier than by using the
worklist view. We present experimental data indicating
that for some types of data flow problems, even
single-threaded implementations of Observer-based data
flow analysis have better run times than comparable
worklist-based implementations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fiskio-Lasseter:2003:FEG,
author = "John Fiskio-Lasseter and Michal Young",
title = "Flow equations as a generic programming tool for
manipulation of attributed graphs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "1",
pages = "69--76",
month = jan,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/634636.586108",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:25 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The past three decades have seen the creation of
several tools that extract, visualize, and manipulate
graph-structured representations of program
information. To facilitate interconnection and exchange
of information between these tools, and to support the
prototyping and development of new tools, it is
desirable to have some generic support for the
specification of graph transformations and exchanges
between them. GenSet is a generic programmable tool for
transformation of graph-structured data. The
implementation of the GenSet system and the programming
paradigm of its language are both based on the view of
a directed graph as a binary relation. Rather than use
traditional relational algebra to specify
transformations, however, we opt instead for the more
expressive class of flow equations. Flow
equations---or, more generally, systems of simultaneous
fixpoint equations---have seen fruitful applications in
several areas, including data and control flow
analysis, formal verification, and logic programming.
In GenSet, they provide the fundamental construct for
the programmer to use in defining new
transformations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sutherland:2003:CMC,
author = "Dean F. Sutherland and Aaron Greenhouse and William L.
Scherlis",
title = "The code of many colors: relating threads to code and
shared state",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "1",
pages = "77--83",
month = jan,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/634636.586109",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:25 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We introduce a thread colors model as a way to express
design intent concerning the relationships between
threads, executable code, and shared state. By
expressing the model as annotations in code, it is
possible to formally link the model with source code
and to analyze the consistency of model and code in a
composable manner. By using annotations as cut-points,
APIs can be annotated and compliance with library
threading policies can be evaluated. This is
illustrated using case study examples from published
code that show how thread coloring models can assist in
assuring policy compliance and in identifying
concurrency errors.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Agarwal:2003:RDI,
author = "Rakesh Agarwal and Ajit Sarangi and Swati Das",
title = "Reengineering of database intensive application",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "1--1",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773136",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Reengineering databases has been a challenge since
ages and it requires process mapping to understand
better and significantly improve the business processes
and performance. In this paper we describe a generic
architecture for reengineering legacy databases, which
is an outcome of working on a real software project.
The goal of this research is to formalize a process
that is applicable to different database reengineering
scenarios and requirements. We elaborate the steps that
were actually done for implementing the project.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2003:FML,
author = "Will Tracz",
title = "Front matter (letters and notices)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "1--8",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773127",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bayrak:2003:LAN,
author = "Coskun Bayrak and Chad Davis",
title = "The liquid architecture: a non-linear peer-to-peer
distributed architecture with polymorphic message
passing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "2--2",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773137",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In terms of benefiting from the potential to be gained
from full distribution, today's most common
implementations of distributed systems follow only
limited linear versions of distribution such as
client-server or n-tier models. Even many ``peer to
peer'' systems still rely on centralized servers to
provide the message passing connectivity between the
peers. While these systems do provide increased
robustness and computational speedup, they fail to
realize the full measure of what fully distributed
architectures offer. With many of the techno-historical
reasons behind these linear distributed systems
becoming obsolete, we should try to think of new, more
truly distributed models. Fully distributed
architectures should demonstrate the ability to move
functionality to a completely contingent set of
machines determined at or just prior to run time. Under
such an architecture --- a`` liquid'' architecture,
functionality and data are completely freed from any
fixed locations or functional paths and may flow at
will. Especially in the domain of shared space
applications such as chat and pseudochat (i.e. instant
messaging) services, and virtual collaboration, the
flexibility and security to be gained from the full
distribution of a liquid architecture represent not
only premium benefits but possibly core requisites to
their essential purpose and functionality. This paper
examines the notion of a liquid architecture and
explores a case study implementation of such an
architecture via the Virtual Collaboration Tool
introduced below.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Billard:2003:LDP,
author = "Edward A. Billard",
title = "Language-Dependent performance of design patterns",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "3--3",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773138",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Gang of Four design patterns represent a catalog
of 23 reusable design solutions to classes of problems
that arise in a variety of applications. This study
examines the execution performance of the patterns, as
implemented in C++, Java (native and JDK 1.0 through
1.4), Smalltalk, and Perl 5.0. Each pattern is
implemented independent of an application and, hence,
represents just the pure object structure. Because the
patterns themselves demonstrate a variety of
structures, the results represent a good benchmark for
how well the object-oriented compilers actually handle
object-oriented programming, in particular, object
creation and object reference to methods/attributes.
The results indicate that the C++ compiler provided the
fastest code, Java was second, followed by Smalltalk,
and then Perl. However, Java 1.2 and 1.4 held their own
against the optimized version of C++ and even did
slightly better than non-optimized C++. Optimized C++
code was the best in 11 of the 23 patterns, with Java
1.2 and 1.4 sharing the remaining honors for the other
12 patterns, that is, a ``winning'' Java compiler can
be found for just over half of the design patterns.
Smalltalk was an order of magnitude, and Perl two
orders of magnitude, slower. Although there is a wide
variety of performance among the design patterns, the
overall averages are much in-line with the averages of
four simple test programs. The results may provide
guidelines for future application development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Brebner:2003:HSJ,
author = "Paul Brebner and Jeffrey Gosper",
title = "How scalable is {J2EE} technology?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "4--4",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773139",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "ECperf, the widely recognized industry standard J2EE
benchmark, has attracted a large number of results
submissions and their subsequent publication. However,
ECperf places little restriction on the hardware
platform, operating systems and databases utilized in
the benchmarking process. This, combined with the
existence of only two primary metrics, makes it
difficult to answer critical questions such as ``Is
there a limit to J2EE scalability?'' and ``Is scale-up
or scale-out more effective?''. By mining the
full-disclosure archives for trends and correlations we
have discovered that J2EE technology is very scalable,
both in a scale-up and scale-out manner. Other observed
trends include, a linear correlation between
middle-tier total processing power and throughput, as
well as between J2EE Application Server license costs
and throughput. However, the results clearly indicate
that there is an increasing cost per user with
increasing capacity systems, and scale-up is
proportionately more expensive than scale-out.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Perez-Martinez:2003:HEU,
author = "Jorge Enrique P{\'e}rez-Mart{\'\i}nez",
title = "Heavyweight extensions to the {UML} metamodel to
describe the {C3} architectural style",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "5--5",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773140",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "UML is widely accepted as the standard for
representing the various software artifacts generated
by a development process. For this reason, there have
been attempts to use this language to represent the
software architecture of systems as well.
Unfortunately, these attempts have ended in the same
representations (boxes and lines) already criticized by
the software architecture community. In this work we
propose an extension to the UML metamodel that is able
to represent the syntactics and semantics of the C3
architectural style. This style is derived from C2. The
modifications to define C3 are described in section 4.
This proposal is innovative regarding UML extensions
for software architectures, since previous proposals
where based on light extensions to the UML meta-model,
while we propose a heavyweight extension of the
metamodel. On the other hand, this proposal is less
ambitious than previous proposals, since we do not want
to represent in UML any architectural style, but only
one: C3.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2003:RPC,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "5--9",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773130",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Heering:2003:QSI,
author = "Jan Heering",
title = "Quantification of structural information: on a
question raised by {Brooks}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "6--6",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773141",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We introduce the notion of generative software
complexity to illustrate some of the problems one may
run into when trying to tackle a special case of a
question recently raised by Brooks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2003:SEE,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "11--12",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773132",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2003:SNS,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "13--21",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773134",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{staff:2003:BM,
author = "{ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Staff}",
title = "Back matter",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "22--37",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773128",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2003:SYH,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Software for your head",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "24--24",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773143",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pentinmaki:2003:OMU,
author = "Isaac Pentinmaki",
title = "Object modeling and user interface design designing
interactive systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "24--24",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773144",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pentinmaki:2003:IMP,
author = "Isaac Pentinmaki",
title = "{IT} measurement: practical advice from the experts",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "28",
number = "3",
pages = "25--25",
month = may,
year = "2003",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/773126.773145",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2004:FML,
author = "Will Tracz",
title = "Front matter (letters and notices)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "0--6",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979744",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Agarwal:2004:IAL,
author = "Rakesh Agarwal and Amrita Deo and Swati Das",
title = "Intelligent agents in E-learning",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "1--1",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979755",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this competitive era, education has become equally
demanding and competitive. Innovation in the sphere of
education has led to new ways of learning. Internet has
now made learning dynamic by introducing the concept of
learning through E-learning. The dynamism in E-Learning
can be made more powerful with the help of intelligent
agents. Intelligent, autonomous, mobile, rational,
reactive, persistent and moreover proactive computer
code so called as agents represent the next tidal wave
of innovation and development in the Information age.
These agents perform specific tasks on the behalf of
students, instructors, and other members of the
educational community including parents and alumni. The
agent-based technology is expected to have an effect as
profound and lasting as the World Wide Web. It is
growing to be a continuously evolving and expanding
area. The paper focuses on the use of intelligent
agents in the sphere of effective E-learning
education.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wyss:2004:REF,
author = "C. M. Wyss and A. James and W. Hasselbring and S.
Conrad and Hagen H{\"o}pfner",
title = "Report on the {Engineering Federated Information
Systems 2003 workshop (EFIS 2003)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "1--3",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979753",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper summarizes the EFIS 2003 workshop, held in
Coventry, U.K. in July, as part of Coventry
University's Data Horizons Week. Major research issues
discussed include metadata/ontologies, integration
frameworks, data quality and evolution, and mobile
interfaces. Topics for future work include evolution,
expressiveness, maintenance, and dissemination of
FIS.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gervasi:2004:RFI,
author = "Vincenzo Gervasi and Didar Zowghi and Steve
Easterbrook and Susan Elliott Sim",
title = "Report on the {First International Workshop on
Comparative Evaluation in Requirements Engineering}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "1--4",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979751",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Requirements Engineering (RE) research is believed to
be mature enough for the community to be able to make
comparative evaluations of alternative tools,
techniques, approaches and methods. Commonly used
exemplars in RE that have emerged over the years all
suffer from well-defined and widely accepted evaluation
criteria which makes comparison of the effectiveness of
different research outcomes impossible. The first
International Workshop on Comparative Evaluation on
Requirements Engineering was held in conjunction with
the 11$^{th}$ IEEE International Requirements
Engineering Conference in Monterey Bay, California.
This workshop was conceived to address these issues and
facilitate a community initiative in developing a
common understanding of evaluation criteria and
developing benchmarks for comparative evaluation in RE.
Content, of course, is important.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Walenstein:2004:SIW,
author = "Andrew Walenstein and Arun Lakhotia and Rainer
Koschke",
title = "The {Second International Workshop on Detection of
Software Clones}: workshop report",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "1--5",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979752",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report is intended to summarize the proceedings
of the Second International Workshop on Detection of
Software Clones (IWDSC'2003). The aim of the workshop
was to bring together researchers within the field of
clone detection to critically assess the current state
of research, and to establish new directions and
partnerships for research. There were at least 30
people in attendance. Five position papers were
presented and discussed. In addition, an index
card-based brainstorming technique was used to focus
discussion on assessing the current state of clone
analysis and detection. A report and analysis of the
results of this brainstorming session is the main
content of this report. We recommend another
international workshop on clones and clone detection be
set to be held alongside another conference sometime in
2004.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cardoso:2004:ASS,
author = "Ana Isabel Cardoso and Rui Gustavo Crespo and Peter
Kokol",
title = "Assessing software structure by entropy and
information density",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "2--2",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979756",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper we show how the long range correlation
and the local entropy measures in the software program
can give indication about its structure. First we
define a long range correlation and local entropy
introducing a list of examples of use of those measures
across different fields. We then present a method to
calculate the long range correlation in the Software
Engineering and we use that method in a Case Study.
Finally we conclude that the use of those two metrics,
borrowed from the complex systems theory, are potential
and easier for measuring the object program
structure.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fass:2004:AAP,
author = "Leona F. Fass",
title = "Approximations, anomalies and {``the proof of
correctness wars''}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "3--3",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979757",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We discuss approaches to establishing ``correctness''
and describe the usefulness of logic-based model
checkers for producing better practical system designs.
While we could develop techniques for ``constructing
correctness'' in our theoretical behavioral-modeling
research, when applied to Real World processes such as
software development only approximate correctness might
be established and anomalous behaviors subsequently
found. This we view as a positive outcome since
resultant adaptation, or flaw detection and correction,
may lead to improved development and designs. We find
researchers employing model checking as a formal
methods tool to develop empirical techniques have
reached similar conclusions. Thus we cite some
applications of model checking to generate tests and
detect defects in such Real World processes as aviation
system development, fault-detection systems, and
security.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gill:2004:FIC,
author = "Nasib S. Gill and P. S. Grover",
title = "Few important considerations for deriving interface
complexity metric for component-based systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "4--4",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979758",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component-based software engineering (CBSE) represents
an exciting and promising paradigm for software
development. Software components are one of the key
issues in CBSE. The software development community is
continuously seeking new methods for improving software
quality and enhancing development productivity. There
is an increasing need for component-based metrics to
help manage and foster quality in component-based
software development. The traditional software product
and process metrics are neither suitable nor sufficient
in measuring the complexity of software components,
which ultimately is necessary for quality and
productivity improvement within organisations adopting
CBSE. In this paper, we propose an interface complexity
metric (ICM) aimed at measuring the complexity of a
software component based on the interface
characterisation model of a software component that
mainly include such as interface signature, interface
constraints, interface packaging and configurations.
Based on the value of this metric, the complexity of
the software component could be managed within
reasonable complexity limits. In this way, the software
components could be kept simple which in turn help in
enhancing the quality and productivity.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Guo:2004:KNT,
author = "Bing Guo and Yan Shen and Jun Xie and Yong Wang and
Guang-Ze Xiong",
title = "A kind of new {ToolBus} model research and
implementation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "5--5",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979759",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Nowadays, software architecture of CASE (Computer
Aided Software Engineering) environments is evolving
from layered structure to bus structure. This bus
structure can greatly simplify the interconnection
structure among tools and facilitate the construction
of distributed CASE environments. In this paper, from
the viewpoint that tool integration facilities are
separated from tool logic processing function, a pure
model of ToolBus first is introduced, then its
functional abstraction, internal structure, interface
specifications and implementation approaches are
explored, last a software prototype LambdaBus which
verifies the validity to ToolBus model is implemented
based on CORBA specifications.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Javed:2004:SEE,
author = "Talha Javed and Manzil-e-Maqsood and Qaiser S.
Durrani",
title = "A survey to examine the effect of team communication
on job satisfaction in software industry",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "6--6",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979760",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Effective communication at work places contributes
significantly towards the performance of employees. It
gives rise to enhanced job satisfaction, a good feeling
of personal accomplishment and increased productivity.
In this paper we have investigated the factors (related
to team communication) that have a significant
influence on job satisfaction. For this study, 23
factors that could possibly affect job satisfaction are
taken into consideration. These factors were grouped
into categories like working environment, duration of
service, personal communication terms, performance
feedback, horizontal, vertical and formal
communication. Our findings, based on the statistical
analysis of industry data, indicate that working
environment, quality work, performance appraisals and
clarity of information provided by project managers to
team members are the factors that positively contribute
towards job satisfaction.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2004:SEEa,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "6--8",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979747",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kanmani:2004:IEO,
author = "S. Kanmani and V. Rhymend Uthariaraj and V.
Sankaranarayanan and P. Thambidurai",
title = "Investigation into the exploitation of Object-Oriented
features",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "7--7",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979761",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper discusses the results arrived at employing
Object-Oriented (OO) measures on the small-sized
programs developed by the Under Graduate (UG) students
during the study of C++ laboratory course. The metric
values computed reflect the experience/knowledge of the
developer in various mechanisms (inheritance, coupling
and cohesion) in developing the modules (classes). We
propose six hypotheses to validate the measures. For
this experiment, the number of attributes and number of
methods defined in the class are correlated with the
metric values. The result of the experiment shows that
the programs used inheritance and cohesion properties
appropriately in the design of the class level
attributes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lu:2004:SRC,
author = "Jian Lu",
title = "Some research on componentware frameworks based on
mobile agent technology",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "8--8",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979762",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "With the development of mobile agent technology and
the applications of componentware, the requirements for
a new componentware framework based on mobile agent
technology are increasing. These requirements include
requirements from programming methodology, requirements
from componentware, and requirements from mobile agent
technology. According to these requirements and after
analyzing the limitations of ``traditional'' component
software, this paper presents some ideas about what the
mobile agent technology can do to overcome these
limitations. Then based on the above analysis and the
mobile agent technology, this paper proposes three new
conceptual componentware frameworks. They include an
adjustable componentware framework, a smart
componentware framwork, and a flexible framework. These
new frameworks provides much more flexibility than the
traditional componentware frameworks and more suitable
to the open environment of Internet. In order to
support previously proposed new conceptual
componentware frameworks based on mobile agent
technology, some issues about the infrastructure,
methodology and technical challenge are also discussed
in this paper. Our goal is to build a new componentware
framework based on mobile agent technology, overcome
the limitations of the current approaches, and further
popularize the Internet by giving people greater access
to it with less effort.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2004:RPCa,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "8--16",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979748",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rosen:2004:NDS,
author = "Clive Rosen",
title = "Non-directive software engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "9--9",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979763",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Shimomura:2004:PTF,
author = "Takao Shimomura",
title = "A page-transition framework for image-oriented {Web}
programming",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "10--10",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979764",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "To develop Web applications, various integrated
development environments have been used. In addition,
several frameworks for efficiently developing those
applications have been proposed. This paper presents
the image-oriented page-transition framework that
models a Web application as a set of transitions of Web
pages, and using visual components, makes it easier to
write processes executed when a Web page transfers to
another Web page. This page-transition framework has
the following novel features: (1) The developers of Web
applications do not need to write any processes for
receiving and analyzing submitted form data. (2) The
data submitted by page transfers are stored in the
appropriate variables that are automatically generated.
Using these automatically generated variables, the
developers can write necessary actions for each Web
page from which control transfers. (3) The developers
can deal with tables used inside the programs as visual
components, and can use these components to design
dynamic Web pages.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Terekhov:2004:DAI,
author = "Andrey A. Terekhov",
title = "Dealing with architectural issues: a case study",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "11--11",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979765",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes an effort to recover and improve
software architecture in a large-scale industrial
project. We describe our motivation for architecture
recovery and present a summary of its results. We also
attempt to generalize our findings by arguing that the
current level of understanding of software architecture
is not sufficient to determine in advance which factors
will be important (i.e., ``architectural'') for a
software product in the long term.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tevanlinna:2004:PFT,
author = "Antti Tevanlinna and Juha Taina and Raine Kauppinen",
title = "Product family testing: a survey",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "12--12",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979766",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper we discuss the current state of product
family testing. Testing, unlike other areas of software
development, has received only little attention in this
context despite the problems directly rising from
scale, reuse and variability. We present the current
approaches to product family testing methodology and
processes. We also evaluate the current
state-of-the-art in product family testing and
highlight problems that need to be addressed in the
future.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zhou:2004:CSG,
author = "Yuming Zhou and Jiangtao Lu and Hongmin Lu Baowen Xu",
title = "A comparative study of graph theory-based class
cohesion measures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "13--13",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979767",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Among a large number of cohesion measures for classes
proposed in last decade, many measures abstract a class
by an undirected or directed graph, in which the nodes
represent the class members and the edges represent the
relationships among these members. This paper compares
six typical graph theory-based cohesion measures for
classes, and states what problems should be addressed
during the development of new cohesion measures.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2004:SNSa,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "17--26",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979749",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{staff:2004:BMA,
author = "{ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Staff}",
title = "Back matter (abstracts and calendar)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "27--62",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979745",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2004:RIP,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{IT project estimation: a
practical guide to the costing of software}} by Paul
Coombs. Cambridge University Press 2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "31--31",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979769",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Harris:2004:RAS,
author = "Gregory H. Harris",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Abstract state machines: a
method for high-level system design and analysis}} by
Egon B{\"o}rger and Robert St{\"a}rk. Springer-Verlag
2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "31--32",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979770",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Law:2004:RDL,
author = "James Law",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{The description logic
handbook}} by Franz Bader, Diego Calvanese, Deborah L.
McGuinness, Daniele Nardi, Peter Patel-Schneider.
Cambridge University Press 2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "32--33",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979771",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Law:2004:RTR,
author = "James Law",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Term rewriting systems}} by
Mark Bezem, Jan Willem Klop, and Roel de Vrijer.
Cambridge University Press 2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "33--33",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979772",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pentinmaki:2004:RLS,
author = "Isaac Pentinmaki",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Lean software development: an
agile tookit}} by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. Addison
Wesley 2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "2",
pages = "33--33",
month = mar,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/979743.979773",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:31 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2004:FLN,
author = "Will Tracz",
title = "Frontmatter (letters and notices)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "0--4",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986711",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ramachandran:2004:KBR,
author = "Muthu Ramachandran and Domenic Mangano",
title = "Knowledge based reasoning for software architectural
design strategies",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "1--4",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986730",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "It is well known that the backbone of any system is
the architecture which holds the whole system together
to manage the complexity and requirements changes. The
past twenty years or more of research into software and
IT systems design has resulted in exponential growth of
architectural design strategies. Therefore it has also
resulted in confusion for many software engineers who
may not be experts in software design to understand and
choose a suitable architectural solution to their
problem. We have tackled this issue by providing a
classification framework and knowledge based reasoning
for software designers to choose the appropriate
strategies for their problem. This paper illustrates a
classification schemes for architectural design
strategies and a tool support for knowledge based
reasoning for choosing a design solution.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Berry:2004:SIW,
author = "Daniel M. Berry and Rick Kazman and Roel Wieringa",
title = "{Second International Workshop on From SofTware
Requirements to Architectures (STRAW'03)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "1--5",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986722",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Second International Workshop on From SofTware
Requirements to Architectures (STRAW'03) was held in
Portland, Oregon, USA on 9 May 2003 just after the
Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Software
Engineering (ICSE'03). This brief paper outlines the
motivation, goals, and organization of the workshop,
summarizes the presentations, and, along the way,
gathers some lessons learned about running a
workshop.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Aggarwal:2004:NNB,
author = "K. K. Aggarwal and Yogesh Singh and A. Kaur and O. P.
Sangwan",
title = "A neural net based approach to Test Oracle",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "1--6",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986725",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper an attempt has been made to explore the
possibility of the usage of artificial neural networks
as Test Oracle. The triangle classification problem has
been used as a case study. Results for the usage of
unsupervised artificial networks indicate that they are
not suitable for this purpose. The Feed-forward back
propagation neural networks are demonstrated to be
suitable.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Crnkovic:2004:IWC,
author = "Ivica Crnkovic and Heinz Schmidt and Judith Stafford
and Kurt Wallnau",
title = "{6th ICSE Workshop on Component-Based Software
Engineering}: automated reasoning and prediction",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "1--7",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986723",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report gives an overview of the 6th ICSE Workshop
on Component-Based Software Engineering held at
25$^{th}$ International Conference on Software
Engineering. The workshop brought together researchers
and practitioners from three communities: component
technology, software architecture, and software
certification. The primary goal of the workshop was to
continue clarifying the concepts, identifying the main
challenges and findings of predictable assembly of
certifiable software components. This report gives a
comprehensive summary of the position papers, of the
workshop, its findings, and its results.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Javed:2004:SII,
author = "Talha Javed and Manzil e Maqsood and Qaiser S.
Durrani",
title = "A study to investigate the impact of requirements
instability on software defects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "1--7",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986727",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software development is a dynamic process and is
characterized by change. Software projects often begin
with unclear, ambiguous, and incomplete requirements
which give rise to intrinsic volatility. Constant
change in requirements is one of the main causes of
software defects and a major issue faced by the
software industry. This paper describes the findings of
our research-based study that investigates the impact
of both the pre-release and post-release requirements
changes on overall defects by defining measures,
collecting data against those measures and analyzing
the collected data through statistical techniques. Our
findings, based on industry data from 4 software
projects consisting of 30 releases, all in e-commerce
domain, indicate that there is a significant
relationship between pre/post release change requests
initiated by the client and software defects. In
addition, our data analysis indicates that changes in
the design of the system at the later stages of
software development i.e., during coding, testing and
after release have a significant impact on the high
severity defects that affect the major functionality of
the system. Also, we found that insufficient time spent
on the design phase and inadequate communication with
the client could be some of the causes of requirements
changes and consequently software defects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lima:2004:AMA,
author = "Emerson F. A. Lima and Patr{\'\i}cia D. L. Machado and
Fl{\'a}avio R. Sampaio and Jorge C. A. Figueiredo",
title = "An approach to modelling and applying mobile agent
design patterns",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "1--8",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986726",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Mobile agent design patterns represent solutions to
specific problems of implementing mobile agent-based
applications that have evolved over time. The use of
design patterns can increase productivity, promote
reuse and reduce complexity when developing
applications. However, most of the mobile agent design
patterns presented in the literature are difficult to
apply in practice due to the lack of a suitable
approach to identify, document and apply them. Also,
they are usually related to a specific mobile agent
platform. We present an approach for modelling and
applying patterns independently of specific platforms
along with their counterparts in specific platforms.
Also, we show that an adequate platform independent
view can be constructed to be used as a guide to
implement the pattern in different platforms.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ram:2004:PHB,
author = "D. Janaki Ram and P. Jithendra Kumar Reddy and M. S.
Rajasree",
title = "Pattern hybridization: breeding new designs out of
pattern interactions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "1--10",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986729",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Class or object interactions form the basis of
object-oriented design. However, design pattern
interaction can be viewed as a higher level of
abstraction for system design. The typical interactions
among the patterns are a pattern uses another pattern
to solve one of its sub problem, and a pattern combines
with another pattern for completeness. This paper
proposes a mechanism called pattern hybridization for
breeding new patterns from the pattern interactions
which solve more specialized problems than the original
patterns do. Rules for generating hybrid patterns are
also mentioned in the paper. This paper also views
design pattern interactions for system design.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Oquendo:2004:AAD,
author = "Flavio Oquendo",
title = "{$ \pi $-ADL}: an Architecture Description Language
based on the higher-order typed $ \pi $-calculus for
specifying dynamic and mobile software architectures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "1--14",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986728",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A key aspect of the design of any software system is
its architecture. An architecture description, from a
runtime perspective, should provide a formal
specification of the architecture in terms of
components and connectors and how they are composed
together. Further, a dynamic or mobile architecture
description must provide a specification of how the
architecture of the software system can change at
runtime. Enabling specification of dynamic and mobile
architectures is a large challenge for an Architecture
Description Language (ADL). This article describes
{\pi}-ADL, a novel ADL that has been designed in the
ArchWare European Project to address specification of
dynamic and mobile architectures. It is a formal,
well-founded theoretically language based on the
higher-order typed {\pi}-calculus. While most ADLs
focus on describing software architectures from a
structural viewpoint, {\pi}-ADL focuses on formally
describing architectures encompassing both the
structural and behavioural viewpoints. The {\pi}-ADL
design principles, concepts and notation are presented.
How {\pi}-ADL can be used for specifying static,
dynamic and mobile architectures is illustrated through
case studies. The {\pi}-ADL toolset is outlined.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2004:SEEb,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "5--6",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986714",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2004:RPCb,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "7--14",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986716",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2004:SNSb,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "15--24",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986718",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ovans:2004:PLC,
author = "Russell Ovans",
title = "The programmer life-cycle",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "25--26",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986720",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The traditional analysis of programmer productivity
ignores the reality that work rates of programmers are
variable over time. Not unlike the software systems
they construct, programmers follow a predictable
life-cycle. However, the programmer life-cycle is not
comprised of activities but rather by phases that
directly affect and predict productivity. The sequence
of phases is: euphoric, productive, irreplaceable,
resentful, bored, and unproductive. Overall
productivity is characterized by an initial six month
period of intense interest, at which time productivity
rates are often an order of magnitude higher than the
oft-quoted 500 LOC/month average. After a short period
of volatility, the programmer then enters a prolonged
phase of steadily dwindling interest, resulting in
productivity rates that mimic the average. Each time a
programmer switches employers or begins a significantly
new project, the life-cycle starts anew.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2004:RSN,
author = "Joseph M. Saur",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Software by numbers: low-risk,
high-return development}} by Mark Denne and Jane
Cleland-Huang. Prentice Hall 2004}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "29--30",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986732",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2004:RCT,
author = "Joseph M. Saur",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Critical testing processes:
plan, prepare, perform, perfect}} by Rex Black.
Addison-Wesley 2004}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "30--30",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986734",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2004:RSE,
author = "Joseph M. Saur",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Software engineering
measurement}} by John C. Munson. Auerbach Publications
2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "30--30",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986733",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{staff:2004:BAC,
author = "{ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Staff}",
title = "Backmatter (abstracts and calendar)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "3",
pages = "31--37",
month = may,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/986710.986712",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rountev:2004:SDA,
author = "Atanas Rountev and Scott Kagan and Michael Gibas",
title = "Static and dynamic analysis of call chains in {Java}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "1--11",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007514",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This work presents a parameterized framework for
static and dynamic analysis of call chains in Java
components. Such analyses have a wide range of uses in
tools for software understanding and testing. We also
describe a test coverage tool built with these analyses
and the use of the tool on a real-world test suite. Our
experiments evaluate the exact precision of several
instances of the framework and provide a novel approach
for estimating the limits of class analysis technology
for computing precise call chains.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dor:2004:SVS,
author = "Nurit Dor and Stephen Adams and Manuvir Das and Zhe
Yang",
title = "Software validation via scalable path-sensitive value
flow analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "12--22",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007515",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we present a new algorithm for tracking
the flow of values through a program. Our algorithm
represents a substantial improvement over the state of
the art. Previously described value flow analyses that
are control-flow sensitive do not scale well, nor do
they eliminate value flow information from infeasible
execution paths (i.e., they are path-insensitive). Our
algorithm scales to large programs, and it is
path-sensitive. The efficiency of our algorithm arises
from three insights: The value flow problem can be
``bit-vectorized'' by tracking the flow of one value at
a time; dataflow facts from different execution paths
with the same value flow information can be merged; and
information about complex aliasing that affects value
flow can be plugged in from a different analysis. We
have incorporated our analysis in ESP, a software
validation tool. We have used ESP to validate the
Windows operating system kernel (a million lines of
code) against an important security property. This
experience suggests that our algorithm scales to large
programs, and is accurate enough to trace the flow of
values in real code.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fu:2004:TJW,
author = "Chen Fu and Barbara G. Ryder and Ana Milanova and
David Wonnacott",
title = "Testing of {Java} web services for robustness",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "23--34",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007516",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents a new compile-time analysis that
enables a testing methodology for white-box coverage
testing of error recovery code (i.e., exception
handlers) in Java web services using compiler-directed
fault injection. The analysis allows compiler-generated
instrumentation to guide the fault injection and to
record the recovery code exercised. (An injected fault
is experienced as a Java exception.) The analysis (i)
identifies the exception-flow 'def-uses' to be tested
in this manner, (ii) determines the kind of fault to be
requested at a program point, and (iii) finds
appropriate locations for code instrumentation. The
analysis incorporates refinements that establish
sufficient context sensitivity to ensure relatively
precise def-use links and to eliminate some spurious
def-uses due to demonstrably infeasible control flow. A
runtime test harness calculates test coverage of these
links using an exception def-catch metric. Experiments
with the methodology demonstrate the utility of the
increased precision in obtaining good test coverage on
a set of moderately-sized Java web services
benchmarks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Christodorescu:2004:TMD,
author = "Mihai Christodorescu and Somesh Jha",
title = "Testing malware detectors",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "34--44",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007518",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In today's interconnected world, malware, such as
worms and viruses, can cause havoc. A malware detector
(commonly known as virus scanner) attempts to identify
malware. In spite of the importance of malware
detectors, there is a dearth of testing techniques for
evaluating them. We present a technique based on
program obfuscation for generating tests for malware
detectors. Our technique is geared towards evaluating
the resilience of malware detectors to various
obfuscation transformations commonly used by hackers to
disguise malware. We also demonstrate that a hacker can
leverage a malware detector's weakness in handling
obfuscation transformations and can extract the
signature used by a detector for a specific malware. We
evaluate three widely-used commercial virus scanners
using our techniques and discover that the resilience
of these scanners to various obfuscations is very
poor.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Yilmaz:2004:CAE,
author = "Cemal Yilmaz and Myra B. Cohen and Adam Porter",
title = "Covering arrays for efficient fault characterization
in complex configuration spaces",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "45--54",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007519",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Testing systems with large configurations spaces that
change often is a challenging problem. The cost and
complexity of QA explodes because often there isn't
just one system, but a multitude of related systems.
Bugs may appear in certain configurations, but not in
others. The Skoll system and process has been developed
to test these types of systems through distributed,
continuous quality assurance, leveraging user resources
around-the-world, around-the-clock. It has been shown
to be effective in automatically characterizing
configurations in which failures manifest. The derived
information helps developers quickly narrow down the
cause of failures which then improves turn around time
for fixes. However, this method does not scale well. It
requires one to exhaustively test each configuration in
the configuration space. In this paper we examine an
alternative approach. The idea is to systematically
sample the configuration space, test only the selected
configurations, and conduct fault characterization on
the resulting data. The sampling approach we use is
based on calculating a mathematical object called a
covering array. We empirically assess the effect of
using covering array derived test schedules on the
resulting fault characterizations and provide
guidelines to practitioners for their use.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nachmanson:2004:OST,
author = "Lev Nachmanson and Margus Veanes and Wolfram Schulte
and Nikolai Tillmann and Wolfgang Grieskamp",
title = "Optimal strategies for testing nondeterministic
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "55--64",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007520",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper deals with testing of nondeterministic
software systems. We assume that a model of the
nondeterministic system is given by a directed graph
with two kind of vertices: states and choice points.
Choice points represent the nondeterministic behaviour
of the implementation under test (IUT). Edges represent
transitions. They have costs and probabilities. Test
case generation in this setting amounts to generation
of a game strategy. The two players are the testing
tool (TT) and the IUT. The game explores the graph. The
TT leads the IUT by selecting an edge at the state
vertices. At the choice points the control goes to the
IUT. A game strategy decides which edge should be taken
by the TT in each state. This paper presents three
novel algorithms (1) to determine an optimal strategy
for the bounded reachability game, where optimality
means maximizing the probability to reach any of the
given final states from a given start state while at
the same time minimizing the costs of traversal; (2) to
determine a winning strategy for the bounded
reachability game, which guarantees that given final
vertices are reached, regardless how the IUT reacts;
(3) to determine a fast converging edge covering
strategy, which guarantees that the probability to
cover all edges quickly converges to 1 if TT follows
the strategy.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Elbaum:2004:ESP,
author = "Sebastian Elbaum and Madeline Hardojo",
title = "An empirical study of profiling strategies for
released software and their impact on testing
activities",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "65--75",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007522",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "An understanding of how software is employed in the
field can yield many opportunities for quality
improvements. Profiling released software can provide
such an understanding. However, profiling released
software is difficult due to the potentially large
number of deployed sites that must be profiled, the
extreme transparency expectations, and the remote data
collection and deployment management process.
Researchers have recently proposed various approaches
to tap into the opportunities and overcome those
challenges. Initial studies have illustrated the
application of these approaches and have shown their
feasibility. Still, the promising proposed approaches,
and the tradeoffs between overhead, accuracy, and
potential benefits for the testing activity have been
barely quantified. This paper aims to over-come those
limitations. Our analysis of 1200 user sessions on a
155 KLOC system substantiates the ability of field data
to support test suite improvements, quantifies
different approaches previously introduced in
isolation, and assesses the efficiency of profiling
techniques for released software and the effectiveness
of their associated testing efforts.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saff:2004:EEC,
author = "David Saff and Michael D. Ernst",
title = "An experimental evaluation of continuous testing
during development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "76--85",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007523",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Continuous testing uses excess cycles on a developer's
workstation to continuously run regression tests in the
background, providing rapid feedback about test
failures as source code is edited. It is intended to
reduce the time and energy required to keep code
well-tested and prevent regression errors from
persisting uncaught for long periods of time. This
paper reports on a controlled human experiment to
evaluate whether students using continuous testing are
more successful in completing programming assignments.
We also summarize users' subjective impressions and
discuss why the results may generalize. The experiment
indicates that the tool has a statistically significant
effect on success in completing a programming task, but
no such effect on time worked. Participants using
continuous testing were three times more likely to
complete the task before the deadline than those
without. Participants using continuous compilation were
twice as likely to complete the task, providing
empirical support to a common feature in modern
development environments. Most participants found
continuous testing to be useful and believed that it
helped them write better code faster, and 90\% would
recommend the tool to others. The participants did not
find the tool distracting, and intuitively developed
ways of incorporating the feedback into their
workflow.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ostrand:2004:WB,
author = "Thomas J. Ostrand and Elaine J. Weyuker and Robert M.
Bell",
title = "Where the bugs are",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "86--96",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007524",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The ability to predict which files in a large software
system are most likely to contain the largest numbers
of faults in the next release can be a very valuable
asset. To accomplish this, a negative binomial
regression model using information from previous
releases has been developed and used to predict the
numbers of faults for a large industrial inventory
system. The files of each release were sorted in
descending order based on the predicted number of
faults and then the first 20\% of the files were
selected. This was done for each of fifteen consecutive
releases, representing more than four years of field
usage. The predictions were extremely accurate,
correctly selecting files that contained between 71\%
and 92\% of the faults, with the overall average being
83\%. In addition, the same model was used on data for
the same system's releases, but with all fault data
prior to integration testing removed. The prediction
was again very accurate, ranging from 71\% to 93\%,
with the average being 84\%. Predictions were made for
a second system, and again the first 20\% of files
accounted for 83\% of the identified faults. Finally, a
highly simplified predictor was considered which
correctly predicted 73\% and 74\% of the faults for the
two systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Visser:2004:TIG,
author = "Willem Visser and Corina S. P{\u{a}}s{\u{a}}reanu and
Sarfraz Khurshid",
title = "Test input generation with {Java PathFinder}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "97--107",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007526",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We show how model checking and symbolic execution can
be used to generate test inputs to achieve structural
coverage of code that manipulates complex data
structures. We focus on obtaining branch-coverage
during unit testing of some of the core methods of the
red-black tree implementation in the Java TreeMap
library, using the Java PathFinder model checker. Three
different test generation techniques will be introduced
and compared, namely, straight model checking of the
code, model checking used in a black-box fashion to
generate all inputs up to a fixed size, and lastly,
model checking used during white-box test input
generation. The main contribution of this work is to
show how efficient white-box test input generation can
be done for code manipulating complex data, taking into
account complex method preconditions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Baresel:2004:ETP,
author = "Andr{\'e} Baresel and David Binkley and Mark Harman
and Bogdan Korel",
title = "Evolutionary testing in the presence of loop-assigned
flags: a testability transformation approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "108--118",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007527",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Evolutionary testing is an effective technique for
automatically generating good quality test data.
However, for structural testing, the technique
degenerates to random testing in the presence of flag
variables, which also present problems for other
automated test data generation techniques. Previous
work on the flag problem does not address flags
assigned in loops. This paper introduces a testability
transformation that transforms programs with
loop--assigned flags so that existing genetic
approaches can be successfully applied. It then
presents empirical data demonstrating the effectiveness
of the transformation. Untransformed, the genetic
algorithm flounders and is unable to find a solution.
Two transformations are considered. The first allows
the search to find a solution. The second reduces the
time taken by an order of magnitude and, more
importantly, reduces the slope of the cost increase;
thus, greatly increasing the complexity of the problem
to which the genetic algorithm can be applied. The
paper also presents a second empirical study showing
that loop--assigned flags are prevalent in real world
code. They account for just under 11\% of all flags.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tonella:2004:ETC,
author = "Paolo Tonella",
title = "Evolutionary testing of classes",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "119--128",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007528",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Object oriented programming promotes reuse of classes
in multiple contexts. Thus, a class is designed and
implemented with several usage scenarios in mind, some
of which possibly open and generic. Correspondingly,
the unit testing of classes cannot make too strict
assumptions on the actual method invocation sequences,
since these vary from application to application. In
this paper, a genetic algorithm is exploited to
automatically produce test cases for the unit testing
of classes in a generic usage scenario. Test cases are
described by chromosomes, which include information on
which objects to create, which methods to invoke and
which values to use as inputs. The proposed algorithm
mutates them with the aim of maximizing a given
coverage measure. The implementation of the algorithm
and its application to classes from the Java standard
library are described.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hartman:2004:ATM,
author = "A. Hartman and K. Nagin",
title = "The {AGEDIS} tools for model based testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "129--132",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007529",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We describe the tools and interfaces created by the
AGEDIS project, a European Commission sponsored project
for the creation of a methodology and tools for
automated model driven test generation and execution
for distributed systems. The project includes an
integrated environment for modeling, test generation,
test execution, and other test related activities. The
tools support a model based testing methodology that
features a large degree of automation and also includes
a feedback loop integrating coverage and defect
analysis tools with the test generator and execution
framework. Prototypes of the tools have been tried in
industrial settings providing important feedback for
the creation of the next generation of tools in this
area.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sullivan:2004:SAB,
author = "Kevin Sullivan and Jinlin Yang and David Coppit and
Sarfraz Khurshid and Daniel Jackson",
title = "Software assurance by bounded exhaustive testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "133--142",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007531",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The contribution of this paper is an experiment that
shows the potential value of a combination of selective
reverse engineering to formal specifications and
bounded exhaustive testing to improve the assurance
levels of complex software. A key problem is to scale
up test input generation so that meaningful results can
be obtained. We present an approach, using Alloy and
TestEra for test input generation, which we evaluate by
experimental application to the Galileo dynamic fault
tree analysis tool.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Meinke:2004:ABB,
author = "Karl Meinke",
title = "Automated black-box testing of functional correctness
using function approximation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "143--153",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007532",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We consider black-box testing of functional
correctness as a special case of a satisfiability or
constraint solving problem. We introduce a general
method for solving this problem based on function
approximation. We then describe some practical results
obtained for an automated testing algorithm using
approximation by piecewise polynomial functions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Morasca:2004:ACT,
author = "Sandro Morasca and Stefano Serra-Capizzano",
title = "On the analytical comparison of testing techniques",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "154--164",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007533",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We introduce necessary and sufficient conditions for
comparing the expected values of the number of failures
caused by applications of software testing techniques.
Our conditions are based only on the knowledge of a
total or even a hierarchical order among the failure
rates of the subdomains of a program's input domain. We
also prove conditions for comparing the probability of
causing at least one failure in three important special
cases.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dennis:2004:ACA,
author = "Greg Dennis and Robert Seater and Derek Rayside and
Daniel Jackson",
title = "Automating commutativity analysis at the design
level",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "165--174",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007535",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Two operations commute if executing them serially in
either order results in the same change of state. In a
system in which commands may be issued simultaneously
by different users, lack of commutativity can result in
unpredictable behaviour, even if the commands are
serialized, because one user's command may be preempted
by another's, and thus executed in an unanticipated
state. This paper describes an automated approach to
analyzing commutativity. The operations are expressed
as constraints in a declarative modelling language such
as Alloy, and a constraint solver is used to find
violating scenarios. A case study application to the
beam scheduling component of a proton therapy machine
(originally specified in OCL) revealed several
violations of commutativity in which requests from
medical technicians in treatment rooms could conflict
with the actions of a beam operator in a master control
room. Some of the issues involved in automating the
analysis for OCL itself are also discussed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Munoz:2004:MVA,
author = "C{\'e}sar A. Mu{\~n}oz and Gilles Dowek and
V{\'\i}ctor Carre{\~n}o",
title = "Modeling and verification of an air traffic concept of
operations",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "175--182",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007536",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A high level model of the concept of operations of
NASA's Small Aircraft Transportation System for Higher
Volume Operations (SATS-HVO) is presented. The model is
a non-deterministic, asynchronous transition system. It
provides a robust notion of safety that relies on the
logic of the concept rather than on physical
constraints such as aircraft performances. Several
safety properties were established on this model. The
modeling and verification effort resulted in the
identification of 9 issues, including one major flaw,
in the original concept. Ten recommendations were made
to the SATS-HVO concept development working group. All
the recommendations were accepted and incorporated into
the current concept of operations. The model was
written in PVS. The verification is performed using an
explicit state exploration algorithm written and proven
correct in PVS.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ezick:2004:OCB,
author = "James Ezick",
title = "An optimizing compiler for batches of temporal logic
formulas",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "183--194",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007537",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Model checking based on validating temporal logic
formulas has proven practical and effective for
numerous software engineering applications. As systems
based on this approach have become more mainstream, a
need has arisen to deal effectively with large batches
of formulas over a common model. Presently, most
systems validate formulas one at a time, with little or
no interaction between validation of separate formulas.
This is the case despite the fact that, for a wide
range of applications, a certain level of redundancy
between domain-related formulas can be anticipated.
This paper presents an optimizing compiler for batches
of temporal logic formulas. A component of the Carnauba
model checking system, this compiler addresses the need
to handle batches of temporal logic formulas by
leveraging the framework common to optimizing
programming language compilers. Just as traditional
optimizing compilers attempt to exploit redundancy and
other solvable properties in a program to reduce the
demand on a runtime system, this compiler exploits
similar properties in groups of formulas to reduce the
demand on a model checking engine. Optimizations are
performed via a set of distinct, interchangeable
optimization passes operating on a common intermediate
representation. The intermediate representation
captures the full modal mu-calculus, and the
optimization techniques are applicable to any temporal
logic subsumed by that logic. The compiler offers a
unified framework for expressing some well understood
single-formula optimizations as well as numerous
inter-formula optimizations that capitalize on
redundancy, logical implication, and, optionally,
model-specific knowledge. It is capable of working
either in place of, or as a preprocessor for, other
optimization algorithms. The result is a system that,
when applied to a potentially heterogeneous collection
of formulas over a common problem domain, is able to
measurably reduce the time and space requirements of
the subsequent model checking engine.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bowring:2004:ALA,
author = "James F. Bowring and James M. Rehg and Mary Jean
Harrold",
title = "Active learning for automatic classification of
software behavior",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "195--205",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007539",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A program's behavior is ultimately the collection of
all its executions. This collection is diverse,
unpredictable, and generally unbounded. Thus it is
especially suited to statistical analysis and machine
learning techniques. The primary focus of this paper is
on the automatic classification of program behavior
using execution data. Prior work on classifiers for
software engineering adopts a classical batch-learning
approach. In contrast, we explore an active-learning
paradigm for behavior classification. In active
learning, the classifier is trained incrementally on a
series of labeled data elements. Secondly, we explore
the thesis that certain features of program behavior
are stochastic processes that exhibit the Markov
property, and that the resultant Markov models of
individual program executions can be automatically
clustered into effective predictors of program
behavior. We present a technique that models program
executions as Markov models, and a clustering method
for Markov models that aggregates multiple program
executions into effective behavior classifiers. We
evaluate an application of active learning to the
efficient refinement of our classifiers by conducting
three empirical studies that explore a scenario
illustrating automated test plan augmentation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lin:2004:IAM,
author = "Lee Lin and Michael D. Ernst",
title = "Improving the adaptability of multi-mode systems via
program steering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "206--216",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007540",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A multi-mode software system contains several distinct
modes of operation and a controller for deciding when
to switch between modes. Even when developers
rigorously test a multi-mode system before deployment,
they cannot foresee and test for every possible usage
scenario. As a result, unexpected situations in which
the program fails or underperforms (for example, by
choosing a non-optimal mode) may arise. This research
aims to mitigate such problems by creating a new mode
selector that examines the current situation, then
chooses a mode that has been successful in the past, in
situations like the current one. The technique, called
program steering, creates a new mode selector via
machine learning from good behavior in testing or in
successful operation. Such a strategy, which
generalizes the knowledge that a programmer has built
into the system, may select an appropriate mode even
when the original controller cannot. We have performed
experiments on robot control programs written in a
month-long programming competition. Augmenting these
programs via our program steering technique had a
substantial positive effect on their performance in new
environments.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ramesh:2004:STS,
author = "S. Ramesh and A. Kulkarni and V. Kamat",
title = "Slicing tools for synchronous reactive programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "217--220",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007541",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we present two slicing tools:
VHDL\_Slice and Est\_slice that compute static
executable slices of VHDL and Esterel programs
respectively. The slicers have been tested on a number
of small and medium sized examples.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Flanagan:2004:EPA,
author = "Cormac Flanagan and Stephen N. Freund and Shaz
Qadeer",
title = "Exploiting purity for atomicity",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "221--231",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007543",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/multithreading.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The notion that certain procedures are atomic is a
fundamental correctness property of many multithreaded
software systems. A procedure is atomic if for every
execution there is an equivalent serial execution in
which the actions performed by any thread while
executing the atomic procedure are not interleaved with
actions of other threads. Several existing tools verify
atomicity by using commutativity of actions to show
that every execution reduces to a corresponding serial
execution. However, experiments with these tools have
highlighted a number of interesting procedures that,
while intuitively atomic, are not reducible. In this
paper, we exploit the notion of pure code blocks to
verify the atomicity of such irreducible procedures. If
a pure block terminates normally, then its evaluation
does not change the program state, and hence these
evaluation steps can be removed from the program trace
before reduction. We develop a static analysis for
atomicity based on this insight, and we illustrate this
analysis on a number of interesting examples that could
not be verified using earlier tools based purely on
reduction. The techniques developed in this paper may
also be applicable in other approaches for verifying
atomicity, such as model checking and dynamic
analysis.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Edwards:2004:FCS,
author = "Jonathan Edwards and Daniel Jackson and Emina Torlak
and Vincent Yeung",
title = "Faster constraint solving with subtypes",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "232--242",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007544",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Constraints in predicate or relational logic can be
translated into boolean logic and solved with a SAT
solver. For faster solving, it is common to exploit the
typing of predicates or relations, in order to reduce
the number of boolean variables needed to encode the
constraint. Here we show how to extend this idea to
constraints expressed in a language with subtyping. Our
technique, called atomization, refactors the type
hierarchy into a flat collection of disjoint atomic
types. The constraints are then decomposed into
equivalent constraints involving smaller relations or
predicates over these new types, which can then be
solved in the normal fashion. Experiments with an
implementation of this technique within the Alloy
Analyzer show improved performance on practical
software checking problems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Reimer:2004:SSA,
author = "Darrell Reimer and Edith Schonberg and Kavitha
Srinivas and Harini Srinivasan and Bowen Alpern and
Robert D. Johnson and Aaron Kershenbaum and Larry
Koved",
title = "{SABER}: smart analysis based error reduction",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "243--251",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007545",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we present an approach to automatically
detect high impact coding errors in large Java
applications which use frameworks. These high impact
errors cause serious performance degradation and
outages in real world production environments, are very
time-consuming to detect, and potentially cost
businesses thousands of dollars. Based on 3 years
experience working with IBM customer production
systems, we have identified over 400 high impact coding
patterns, from which we have been able to distill a
small set of pattern detection algorithms. These
algorithms use deep static analysis, thus moving
problem detection earlier in the development cycle from
production to development. Additionally, we have
developed an automatic false positive filtering
mechanism based on domain specific knowledge to achieve
a level of usability acceptable to IBM field engineers.
Our approach also provides necessary contextual
information around the sources of the problems to help
in problem remediation. We outline how our approach to
problem determination can be extended to multiple
programming models and domains. We have implemented
this problem determination approach in the SABER tool
and have used it successfully to detect many serious
code defects in several large commercial applications.
This paper shows results from four such applications
that had over 60 coding defects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fu:2004:MCX,
author = "Xiang Fu and Tevfik Bultan and Jianwen Su",
title = "Model checking {XML} manipulating software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "252--262",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007547",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The use of XML as the de facto data exchange standard
has allowed integration of heterogeneous web based
software systems regardless of implementation platforms
and programming languages. On the other hand, the rich
tree-structured data representation, and the expressive
XML query languages (such as XPath) make formal
specification and verification of software systems that
manipulate XML data a challenge. In this paper, we
present our initial efforts in automated verification
of XML data manipulation operations using the SPIN
model checker. We present algorithms for translating
(bounded) XML data and XPath expressions to Promela,
the input language of SPIN. The techniques presented in
this paper constitute the basis of our Web Service
Analysis Tool (WSAT) which verifies LTL properties of
composite web services.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rossi:2004:FAM,
author = "Matteo Rossi and Dino Mandrioli",
title = "A formal approach for modeling and verification of
{RTCORBA-based} applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "263--273",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007548",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We introduce a formal model for describing Real-Time
CORBA-based applications, and a set of guidelines to
formally check that the design of such an application
is consistent with its specification. The model and the
guidelines are then applied to the verification of a
simple test application.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lerner:2004:VPM,
author = "Barbara Staudt Lerner",
title = "Verifying process models built using parameterized
state machines",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "4",
pages = "274--284",
month = jul,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1013886.1007549",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software process and work flow languages are
increasingly used to define loosely-coupled systems of
systems. These languages focus on coordination issues
such as data flow and control flow among the subsystems
and exception handling activities. The resulting
systems are often highly concurrent with activities
distributed over many computers. Adequately testing
these systems is not feasible due to their size,
concurrency, and distributed implementation.
Furthermore, the concurrent nature of their activities
makes it likely that errors related to the order in
which activities are interleaved will go undetected
during testing. As a result, verification using static
analysis seems necessary to increase confidence in the
correctness of these systems. In this paper, we
describe our experiences applying LTSA to the analysis
of software processes written in Little-JIL. A key
aspect to the approach taken in this analysis is that
the model that is analyzed consists of a reusable
portion that defines language semantics and a
process-specific portion that uses parameterization and
composition of pieces of the reusable portion to
capture the semantics of a Little-JIL process. While
the reusable portion was constructed by hand, the
parameterization and composition required to model a
process is automated. Furthermore, the reusable portion
of the model encodes the state machines used in the
implementation of the Little-JIL interpreter. As a
result, analysis is based not just on the intended
semantics of the Little-JIL constructs but on their
actual execution semantics. This paper describes how
Little-JIL processes are translated into models and
reports on analysis results, which have uncovered seven
errors in the Little-JIL interpreter that were
previously unknown as well as an error in a software
process that had previously been analyzed with a
different approach without finding the error.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2004:FTL,
author = "Will Tracz",
title = "Frontmatter ({TOC}, Letters, {Frank David Anger}, {ACM
Fellow Profile}, {ICSE 2005}, Praise and Criticism,
Some Thoughts on Software Reliability, Latest {DoD}
Effort to Achieve Quality in Software, Software
Engineering Education)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "0",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022575",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rost:2004:FMR,
author = "Johann Rost",
title = "Is {``Factory Method''} really a pattern?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--1",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022519",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The paper gives reasons for which the term ``Design
Pattern'' should be used in a stricter manner. The
definition of ``Design Pattern'' should include the
highest degree of generalization and ensure that the
solution offered covers the invariable of all solutions
to this kind of problems. The main conclusion to be
drawn from this paper is that ``Factory Method'' (GoF
107) should not be considered a pattern since the
solution it provides is too narrow. Budgen's arced
bridge [1] is not really a pattern either because the
problem can be stated in a more general manner.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Evans:2004:IWS,
author = "David Evans and Raimondas Lencevicius",
title = "{ICSE 2004} workshop summary {Second International
Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA 2004)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--2",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022508",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Dynamic analysis techniques reason over program
executions and show promise in aiding the development
of robust and reliable large-scale systems. WODA 2004
brought together researchers in many different dynamic
analysis areas.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Long:2004:SNK,
author = "Brad Long",
title = "Sorting non-key fields in the distributed result set
iterator pattern",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--2",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022516",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In previous work a design pattern for solving the
issues of handling results from queries that return
large amounts of data from remote data sources was
presented. This paper presents a solution to the
problem of sorting non-key fields that was raised in
previous work but left for a future time to solve. That
time is now.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pretschner:2004:SEA,
author = "Alexander Pretschner and Christian Salzmann and Thomas
Stauner",
title = "Software engineering for automotive systems at {ICSE
2004} workshop summary",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--2",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022506",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper provides a summary of the ICSE 2004
workshop on software engineering for automotive
systems. We outline the main characteristics of
automotive software engineering and indicate how the
workshop papers relate to these characteristics.
Furthermore, we summarize the discussion at the
workshop.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Briand:2004:ESS,
author = "Lionel Briand and Yvan Labiche",
title = "Empirical studies of software testing techniques:
challenges, practical strategies, and future research",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022541",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This position paper aims at discussing a number of
issues that typically arise when performing empirical
studies with software testing techniques. Though some
problems are general to all empirical disciplines,
software testing studies face a number of specific
challenges. Some of the main ones are discussed in
sequence below.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cox:2004:IWA,
author = "Karl Cox and Jon G. Hall and Lucia Rapanotti",
title = "{1st International Workshop on Advances and
Applications of Problem Frames} --- summary",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022503",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Problem Frames are about describing real world
problems in the context of known software solutions.
The 1$^{st}$ International Workshop on Advances and
Applications of Problem Frames (IWAAPF) was held at the
26$^{th}$ International Conference on Software
Engineering in Edinburgh on 24$^{th}$ May 2004. IWAAPF
was the first opportunity for researchers and
practitioners to gather and discuss Michael Jackson's
Problem Frames ideas. The goals of the workshop were, $
\bullet $ to provide a forum for the discussion of
advances and applications of Problem Frames in a
software engineering context; $ \bullet $ to identify
the main challenges that Problem Frames face in the
wider Software Engineering community. The richness of
the advances and applications presented shows that the
scope of application of Jackson's work is going beyond
any original boundaries. This is a report of the
workshop, its papers, discussions and findings.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dubois:2004:IWM,
author = "Eric Dubois and Xavier Franch",
title = "{International Workshop on Models and Processes for
the Evaluation of COTS Components (MPEC'04)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022504",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Commercial Off-The-Shelf Software components
(hereafter COTS) play an increasingly important role in
software systems development. One of the central
activities in a successful COTS-based system
development is COTS evaluation, which is one of the
cornerstones of COTS selection, COTS implementation and
cost models for COTS. Achieving a better understanding
of this activity was the objective of the
``International Workshop on Models and Processes for
the Evaluation of COTS Components (MPEC'04)'' (May
25$^{th}$, 2004, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) collocated
with the ``26$^{th}$ International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE)''. This paper reports on
the structure of the workshop, presenting short
summaries of the talks given and the research issues
identified and heavily discussed during the workshop.
The set of all these issues can be considered as a
proposal for a new agenda to the COTS research
community. More details are available at the workshop
website: http://www.lsi.upc.es/events/mpec.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Grundy:2004:WDS,
author = "John Grundy and Ray Welland and Hermann Stoeckle",
title = "{Workshop on Directions in Software Engineering
Environments (WoDiSEE)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022509",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report gives an overview of the Workshop on
Directions in Software Engineering Environments
(WoDiSEE 2004) held at the 26th International
Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2004). The
goal of this workshop was to bring together researchers
and practitioners with an interest in developing,
extending, deploying and using software engineering
tools. The workshop provided an interactive forum for
the exchange of ideas and discussion about current
research and future trends in software engineering
environment research and development. The workshop
proceedings contain fourteen short papers, giving a
snapshot of current research in this area, which
provided the framework for presentations at the
workshop. This report summarises the presentations
given at the workshop and the discussions that took
place.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hierons:2004:FEE,
author = "R. M. Hierons",
title = "A flexible environment to evaluate state-based test
techniques",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022543",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this position paper we argue that the presence of a
flexible test environment, that allows the rapid
prototyping of test techniques, would facilitate
empirical research in software testing. Such an
environment could be combined with a set of benchmark
systems and specifications in order to allow
researchers to rapidly prototype and evaluate new
techniques. In this paper we focus on some of the
requirements for a description language to be used by
such an environment.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lindstrom:2004:UES,
author = "B. Lindstr{\"o}m and M. Grindal and J. Offutt",
title = "Using an existing suite of test objects: experience
from a testing experiment",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022535",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This workshop paper presents lessons learned from a
recent experiment to compare several test strategies.
The test strategies were compared in terms of the
number of tests needed to satisfy them and in terms of
faults found. The experimental design and conduct are
discussed, and frank assessments of the decisions that
were made are provided. The paper closes with a summary
of the lessons that were learned.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{McGee:2004:EHV,
author = "Pat McGee and Cem Kaner",
title = "Experiments with high volume test automation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022536",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We are working with a broad class of testing
techniques we collectively call High Volume Test
Automation (HVTA). The essence of HVTA techniques is
automated execution and evaluation of large numbers of
tests, for the purpose of exposing functional errors
that are otherwise hard to find. These techniques are
not widely used in industry, but we believe they have
the potential to help us substantially increase the
reliability of software. We propose to find existing
industry HVTA projects, write informal case studies of
them, create our own tools to implement the technique,
and apply our tool in a case study of one or more open
source projects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Offutt:2004:SME,
author = "Jeff Offutt and Yuan Yang and Jane Huffman Hayes",
title = "{SEEWeb}: making experimental artifacts available",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022538",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This position paper suggests that some of the
technical and methodological challenges facing software
testing researchers can be addressed by establishing a
repository of experimental software artifacts, in
particular, artifacts that are related to software
testing empirical research. We introduce the Software
Engineering Experiments on the Web (SEEWEB) project, a
Web site that is created to be a convenient and usable
infrastructure for gathering, organizing, and
distributing experimental software artifacts. A common
problem in designing software engineering and software
testing experiments is finding experimental artifacts
that are appropriate for the experiment, convenient to
gather and use, and will fit with other experimental
artifacts. SEEWEB was initially funded by the NSF and
is offered as a service to the community and provides
access to experimental artifacts through an interface
that allows browsing, searching and downloading. SEEWEB
loosely follows the open-source philosophy;
experimental artifacts are provided by researchers on
an as-is basis with the only payment being citations
and acknowledgments to the contributing researchers.
SEEWEB can be accessed online through the URL
http://www.ise.gmu.edu/seeweb/.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Aggrawal:2004:CCB,
author = "K. K. Aggrawal and Yogesh Singh and A. Kaur",
title = "Code coverage based technique for prioritizing test
cases for regression testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022511",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Test case prioritization involves scheduling test
cases in an order that increases their effectiveness in
meeting some performance goals. One of the common
performance goals is to run those test cases that
achieve total code coverage at the earliest. In this
work we propose a model that achieves 100\% code
coverage optimally during version specific regression
testing.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Alexander:2004:SER,
author = "Roger T. Alexander and James M. Bieman and Robert B.
France",
title = "A software engineering research repository",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022532",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software developers lack objective information to
assess the effectiveness of current and proposed
technologies and practices. We are developing a
Software Engineering Research Repository (SERR), a
widely-accessible repository of software development
artifacts. The core artifacts of SERR are development
artifacts, for example, code, models, and test cases,
organized by projects. These raw materials provide a
base for carrying out analyses and the results can be
stored as related artifacts in the repository. In this
way, the knowledge content of the repository can be
built incrementally, providing a rich support base for
other research activities. Research programs can thus
build upon the results produced by other programs that
utilize the repository. Software developers will be
able to access objective data from the repository to
assess software engineering tools and techniques.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Andrews:2004:RET,
author = "James H. Andrews",
title = "Relevant empirical testing research: challenges and
responses",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022539",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Empirical research on software testing that aims to be
relevant to industry faces important challenges. In
this position paper, we review the background on
software testing research and discuss some of the most
important challenges. We then give suggestions on how
to respond to these challenges.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bertolino:2004:IML,
author = "Antonia Bertolino",
title = "The (Im)maturity level of software testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022540",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A large gap exists between the state-of-the-art in
software testing literature, and the state of software
testing practice. Empirical research should (and could)
play a first class role for bridging this gap.
Empirical studies in software testing have focused
mainly on the evaluation of techniques for test case
selection. But effective selection of test cases by
itself is not sufficient to warrant successful testing:
we need also empirical studies to start collecting
proven patterns that test practitioners can use to
predictably solve software testing problems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chawla:2004:GIF,
author = "Anil Chawla and Alessandro Orso",
title = "A generic instrumentation framework for collecting
dynamic information",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022533",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Performing empirical research in software testing
involves executing a set of subjects against one or
more test suites and measuring some characteristics of
these executions. Such measures are often collected
using ad-hoc instrumentation, by inserting probes in
the code that collect and report dynamic information at
run-time. Another possible approach is to collect the
needed information by leveraging capabilities of the
runtime system. Both these approaches usually result in
measurement tools that are not flexible and are, thus,
hard to reuse and modify. To address this problem, we
present a generic framework for collecting information
on the runtime behavior of a Java program. The
framework allows for easily collecting different kinds
of dynamic information for a set of executions of the
program, such as coverage and profiling of various code
entities and program traces at different levels. The
framework also lets users easily define how to process
the collected information. In the paper, we also
present a case study that we performed to evaluate the
framework, and that shows its effectiveness and
efficiency.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Do:2004:BIS,
author = "Hyunsook Do and Sebastian Elbaum and Gregg Rothermel",
title = "Building an infrastructure to support experimentation
with software testing techniques",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022534",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Experimentation is necessary to provide advances in
research on software testing, but without
infrastructure to support that experimentation,
progress cannot occur. To help with this problem, we
have been designing and constructing infrastructure to
support controlled experimentation with software
testing techniques. This position paper describes our
efforts, and the challenges faced in creating
infrastructure and making it available.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gill:2004:SSP,
author = "Nasib S. Gill and P. S. Grover",
title = "Software size prediction before coding",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022514",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "There have been many empirical studies conducted for
the purpose of objective measurement of software
systems. As a result, various 'Software Metrics' have
been introduced by various researchers. At present,
efforts are being made by software researchers to get
qualitatively good software developed within a
reasonable cost. The quality of a software product is
codetermined be several factors. Most of these factors
directly or indirectly depend on the objective
measurement of the software characteristics. In this
paper, we have applied one of our program length
estimator (N$_g$) on a set of about 200 programs of
varying complexities coded in four different
programming languages for determining the language
level, program volume and programming effort. The
results of this program length estimator have also been
used to find out the value of constant parameter used
in Conte's software size equation for the respective
languages for the purpose of estimating size of
programs before coding. Further, these results have
been used to estimate the size of the programs written
in different languages. The estimated program size has
then been comparatively analysed with that of the
actual program size, which has been computed using our
program length estimator (N$_g$).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gittens:2004:CEO,
author = "Mechelle Gittens and Hanan Lutfiyya and Mike Bauer",
title = "Continuous evolutionary one-step-ahead testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022542",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The traditional software development life cycle
considers testing to be an activity that occurs between
the implementation phase of development and software
release [4]. With this approach any testing subsequent
to release is done in reaction to failures reported by
software users. The realities of software in operation
however causes questions about this approach to arise.
Adams [1] showed that organizations developing
significant software applications often provide several
fixes after their software has been released as the
result of errors found in the field. This work also
showed that the most serious and frequently recurring
errors are usually found by users soon after a product
has been released. These are referred to by Adams [1]
as virulent errors. The negative effects of remaining
defects implies that post-release activities should be
proactive. These post-release activities must include
continued testing by the vendor to find errors even
after release. This paper proposes a solution to this
requirement.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Juristo:2004:TBS,
author = "N. Juristo and A. M. Moreno and S. Vegas",
title = "Towards building a solid empirical body of knowledge
in testing techniques",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022544",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Testing technique-related empirical studies have been
performed for 25 years. We have managed to accumulate a
fair number of experiments in this time, which might
lead us to think that we now could have a sizeable
empirically backed body of knowledge (BoK) on testing
techniques. However, the experiments in this field have
some flaws, and, consequently, the empirical BoK we
have on testing techniques is far from solid. In this
paper, we use the results of a survey that we did on
empirical testing techniques studies to identify and
discuss solutions that could lead to the formation of a
solid empirical BoK. The solutions are related to two
fundamental experimental issues: (1) the rigorousness
of the experimental design and analysis, and (2) the
need for a series of community-wide agreements to
coordinate empirical research and assure that studies
ratify and complement each other.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Offutt:2004:EMS,
author = "Jeff Offutt and Yu-Seung Ma and Yong-Rae Kwon",
title = "An experimental mutation system for {Java}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022537",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Mutation is a powerful but complicated and
computationally expensive testing method. Mutation is
also a valuable experimental research technique that
has been used in many studies. Mutation has been
experimentally compared with other test criteria, and
also used to support experimental comparisons of other
test criteria, by using mutants as a method to create
faults. In effect, mutation is often used as a ``gold
standard'' for experimental evaluations of test
methods. This paper presents a publicly available
mutation system for Java that supports both traditional
statement-level mutants and newer inter-class mutants.
MUJAVA can be freely downloaded and installed with
relative ease under both Unix and Windows. MUJAVA is
offered as a free service to the community and we hope
that it will promote the use of mutation analysis for
experimental research in software testing.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tan:2004:EEE,
author = "Roy Patrick Tan and Stephen H. Edwards",
title = "Experiences evaluating the effectiveness of
{JML}-{JUnit} testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022545",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper reports on the issues the authors
encountered while evaluating the JML-JUnit unit testing
strategy. Given a predefined set of parameter values,
JML-JUnit can automatically provide unit tests for Java
programs that have specifications. We present a
mutation testing experiment that evaluates the
effectiveness of this testing strategy, and the lessons
learned from doing this experiment. We conclude that a
benchmark will enable the testing research community to
meaningfully assess testing approaches.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Williams:2004:NPM,
author = "Laurie Williams",
title = "On the need for a process for making reliable quality
comparisons with industrial data",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022546",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many factors influence quality data obtained from
industrial case studies making comparisons difficult.
In this paper, two longitudinal industrial case study
experiences are shared which illustrate the
complications that can arise. The first is a case study
of an IBM team that transitioned to the use of
test-driven development. The primary quality measure
was functional verification test defects normalized by
lines of code. The second case study was performed with
an Extreme Programming team at Sabre Airline Solutions.
Both test defects and field defects were compared. In
both case studies, differences existed which made the
comparisons indicative but not absolute.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bhatt:2004:DSM,
author = "Pankaj Bhatt and Gautam Shroff and Arun K. Misra",
title = "Dynamics of software maintenance",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--5",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022513",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "As the information technology industry gains maturity,
the number of software systems having moved into
maintenance is rapidly growing. Often these systems are
also potential candidates for outsourcing. However,
adequate information regarding size, complexity,
reliability, maintainability etc. of these systems is
often missing. This makes the task of estimating
maintenance efforts for any such system difficult for
the organization owning the systems as well as for a
software services vendor bidding to outsource
maintenance of the system. This is further compounded
by human and management factors related to maintenance
activities such as management focus, client attitude,
engineers' attitude, the need for multi-location
support teams etc. These factors make the problem of
objectively estimating software maintenance effort
almost intractable. We submit that software maintenance
is of equal if not more fundamental importance to the
software industry, and has not received the attention
it deserves, especially in the context of estimation
models. This paper describes a holistic approach
towards a study of the factors affecting the effort
involved in maintenance of existing software systems.
It describes how one could build a systems dynamics
model to predict the effort involved to maintain a
software system, based on qualitative and qualitative
inputs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hargreaves:2004:GSD,
author = "Elizabeth Hargreaves and Daniela Damian and Filippo
Lanubile and James Chisan",
title = "Global software development: building a research
community",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--5",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022502",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "While the field of global software development (GSD)
remains in its relative infancy, a group of GSD
researchers are on the brink of building a stronger
research community that will be able to collectively
address many of the current challenges in the field.
This paper details emerging issues in the GSD community
while discussing contributions made at the latest GSD
workshop held at ICSE 2004. These issues include: the
need for community building and increased collaboration
between researchers, the importance of more systematic
application and documentation of research techniques,
and the opportunity to build defined models and
theories, and, in doing so, define the state of the
practice. Brief summaries of workshop papers are
incorporated, along with discussions of the topics
addressed during the workshop. These topics include:
Feasibility of GSD, Strategies for Success of GSD, and
Research Methods and Challenges in GSD.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wu:2004:MZS,
author = "Fangjun Wu and Tong Yi",
title = "Measuring Z specifications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--5",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022521",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software metrics are useful quantitative indicators to
assess and predict software quality attributes; a
commonly measured attribute is software complexity. The
main drawbacks are: they can only be calculated after a
major development effort has been committed to produce
the source codes; they cannot provide early feedback
during the specification phase; and subsequently it is
expensive to make changes to the system, if so
indicated by the metrics. To date, there is hardly any
work done on measuring the complexity of a system early
in its specification phase. In this paper, we describe
how the complexity of a Z specification can be
measured. We also found that there is a significant
correlation between the specification metrics proposed
and the widely adopted OO metrics, thus demonstrating
that our proposed metrics are a reliable means of
measuring the system early in the specification
phase.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kanmani:2004:OOS,
author = "S. Kanmani and V. Rhymend Uthariaraj and V.
Sankaranarayanan and P. Thambidurai",
title = "Object oriented software quality prediction using
general regression neural networks",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--6",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022515",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper discusses the application of General
Regression Neural Network (GRNN) for predicting the
software quality attribute --- fault ratio. This study
is carried out using static Object-Oriented (OO)
measures (64 in total) as the independent variables and
fault ratio as the dependent variable. Software metrics
used include those concerning inheritance, size,
cohesion and coupling. Prediction models are designed
using 15 possible combinations of the four categories
of the measures. We also tested the goodness of fit of
the neural network model with the standard parameters.
Our study is conducted in an academic institution with
the software developed by students of
Undergraduate/Graduate courses.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pfahl:2004:RPI,
author = "Dietmar Pfahl and David Raffo and Ioana Rus and Paul
Wernick",
title = "Report on {ProSim'04}: the {5th International Workshop
on Software Process Simulation and Modeling}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--6",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022505",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper reports on the 5th International Workshop
on Software Process Simulation and Modeling (ProSim
2004), held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from the 24th to
25th May 2004, co-hosted with the 26th International
Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2004). Since
1998, ProSim has been a successful international
workshop that show-cases the leading research in the
software process simulation and modeling domain and
attracts many of the leading researchers and industrial
practitioners in these areas. In 2004, ProSim attracted
more than 30 participants from America, Asia,
Australia/New Zealand and Europe. According to the
feedback received from participants, the goals of this
workshop were fully achieved. The planning of ProSim
2005 has yet been started.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rotondi:2004:AMP,
author = "Guido Rotondi",
title = "Assessment methodologies for public contractors",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--6",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022520",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In recent years, the penalty costs involved in project
failures have become a serious issue for the Public
Administration budget. The reason of such escalation in
contract management costs is twofold: first, the
increased application complexity demands for systems
with an underlying evolutionary technology; on the
other side, the administrative procedures inertia fails
to guarantee a sufficient preliminary investigation to
design projects. The contract management mechanism
adopted in the Public Administration is stiff and
subject to strict procedures with bounded requirements.
However, the effectiveness of such procedures limits to
the extent of preliminary analysis by setting the rules
for the competition notice. Very little control is left
to the refinement of technical aspects after a tender
for contracts has been entrusted. In order to respond
to the increased complexity of today computing
applications, we propose the introduction of an
assessment procedure, which spans the project life
cycle, as whole: from the very beginning, to the
administrative inquiry, up to the official testing.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Yi:2004:CMU,
author = "Tong Yi and Fangjun Wu and Chengzhi Gan",
title = "A comparison of metrics for {UML} class diagrams",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--6",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022523",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Currently, more and more research results on measuring
class diagrams have been developed in literatures. In
order to study these metrics systematically and deeply,
this paper analyzes and compares some typical metrics
for UML class diagrams from different viewpoints,
different types of relationships, different types of
metric values, complexity, and theoretical and
empirical validation. Finally, the authors discuss
their advantages and disadvantages as well as the
existing problems and the prospects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Yi:2004:EAE,
author = "Tong Yi and Fangjun Wu",
title = "Empirical analysis of entropy distance metric for
{UML} class diagrams",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--6",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022524",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many software systems built in recent years have been
developed using the UML and, in some cases, they
already need adaptive maintenance in order to satisfy
market and customer needs. Thus a strong emphasis on
analysis metrics for software development is necessary.
Analysis metrics play an important role in helping
developers understand software and, hence, improve
software quality and developer productivity. In this
paper, we provide empirical evidence for supporting the
role of the structure complexity metrics for UML class
diagrams, specifically Zhou 's metric. Our results,
based on data related with bank information system,
indicate that the metric is basically consistent with
human beings' intuitions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Choren:2004:SEL,
author = "Ricardo Choren and Alessandro Garcia and Carlos Lucena
and Martin Griss and David Kung and Naftaly Minsky and
Alexander Romanovsky and Jaelson Castro and Rog{\'e}rio
de Lemos and Danny Weyns",
title = "Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent
systems --- {SELMAS 2004}: workshop report",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--10",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022507",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper is intended to sum up the results of the
Third International Workshop on Software Engineering
for Large-Scale Multi-Agent System (SELMAS 2004) held
in Edinburgh, Scotland, May 24--25, 2004, as part of
the International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2004). The main purpose of this workshop was to
share and pool the collective experience of people,
both academics and practitioners, who are actively
working on software engineering for large-scale
multi-agent systems. The call for papers elicited some
24 submissions, of which 14 papers were accepted for
presentation. A set of selected workshop and invited
papers are to appear in a Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS, Springer) volume. The workshop consisted
of an opening presentation, two keynote talks, four
technical sessions of paper presentations, and two
panels. During the workshop we informally reviewed
ongoing and previous work and debated a number of
important issues. The SELMAS 2004 website can be found
at http://www.teccomm.les.inf.puc-rio.br/semas2004. We
begin by presenting an overview of our goals and the
workshop structure, and then focus on the workshop
technical program.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Deng:2004:TWD,
author = "Yuetang Deng and Phyllis Frankl and Jiong Wang",
title = "Testing web database applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--10",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022528",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Commercial, scientific, and social activities are
increasingly becoming dependent on Web database
applications. New testing techniques that handle the
unique features of these systems are needed. To that
end, we have extended AGENDA, a tool set for testing
relational database applications, to test web database
applications. Application source code is analyzed to
extract relevant information about the URLs and their
parameters. This information is used to construct and
simplify a graph in which nodes represent URLs and
edges represent links between URLs. A set of paths
through the graph is selected and test cases are
generated for each path. The extracted information
about the parameters to each URL (e.g., values that an
application user would enter into a form), is used to
guide AGENDA to generate inputs for the URLs. The URLs
on a path and their inputs are stored in an XML file,
which is then automatically executed. The current
implementation is targeted toward web applications
written as Java Servlets and uses an algorithm based on
cyclomatic complexity to generate paths. Preliminary
empirically evaluation based on the TPC-W benchmark is
presented.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Koshkina:2004:MVW,
author = "Mariya Koshkina and Franck van Breugel",
title = "Modelling and verifying web service orchestration by
means of the concurrency workbench",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--10",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022526",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Verification techniques like model checking, preorder
checking and equivalence checking are shown to be
relevant to web service orchestration. The Concurrency
Workbench of the New Century (CWB) is a verification
tool that supports these verification techniques. By
means of the Process Algebra Compiler (PAC), the CWB is
modified to support the BPE-calculus. The BPE-calculus
is a small language, based on BPEL4WS, to express web
service orchestration. Both the syntax and the
semantics of the BPE-calculus are formally defined.
These are subsequently used as input for the PAC. As
output, the PAC produces modules that are incorporated
into the CWB so that it supports the BPE-calculus and,
hence, provides a verification tool for web service
orchestration.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Naumovich:2004:SAR,
author = "Gleb Naumovich and Paolina Centonze",
title = "Static analysis of role-based access control in {J2EE}
applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--10",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022530",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This work describes a new technique for analysis of
Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications. In such
applications, Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) are commonly
used to encapsulate the core computations performed on
Web servers. Access to EJBs is protected by application
servers, according to role-based access control
policies that may be created either at development or
deployment time. These policies may prohibit some types
of users from accessing specific EJB methods. We
present a static technique for analyzing J2EE access
control policies with respect to security-sensitive
fields of EJBs and other server-side objects. Our
technique uses points-to analysis to determine which
object fields are accessed by which EJB methods,
directly or indirectly. Based on this information, J2EE
access control policies are analyzed to identify
potential inconsistencies that may lead to security
holes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Offutt:2004:GTC,
author = "Jeff Offutt and Wuzhi Xu",
title = "Generating test cases for web services using data
perturbation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--10",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022529",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Web services have the potential to dramatically reduce
the complexities and costs of software integration
projects. The most obvious and perhaps most significant
difference between Web services and traditional
applications is that Web services use a common
communication infrastructure, XML and SOAP, to
communicate through the Internet. The method of
communication introduces complexities to the problems
of verifying and validating Web services that do not
exist in traditional software. This paper presents a
new approach to testing Web services based on data
perturbation. Existing XML messages are modified based
on rules defined on the message grammars, and then used
as tests. Data perturbation uses two methods to test
Web services: data value perturbation and interaction
perturbation. Data value perturbation modifies values
according to the data type. Interaction perturbation
classifies the communication messages into two
categories: RPC communication and data communication.
At present, this method is restricted to peer-to-peer
interactions. The paper presents preliminary empirical
evidence of its usefulness.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hall:2004:MII,
author = "Robert J. Hall and Andrea Zisman",
title = "Model interchange and integration for web services",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--11",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022527",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Large distributed systems are normally developed by
combining various nodes that are produced by different
stakeholders, using different technologies, languages,
and formalisms. An example of this situation is found
when developing web services applications. However, the
heterogeneity and diversity of existing languages to
express behavioral specifications (models) of systems
do not support integration, sharing and reuse of models
between different validation tools. In this paper we
present an XML-based behavioral model interchange
format called OpenModel Modeling Language (OMML). OMML
is a function rich procedural language in which the
functionality and control of the models are expressed
procedurally in terms of domain-specific
function/object theories. OMML is composed of 5
different document types describing executable
specification models of the services running at the
nodes, information about connections between the
various nodes, information about the (abstract) state
of the services, and domain specific information to
allow standardisation of the terminology used by model
developers. We describe how OMML can be used to support
interchange of models in web services applications. We
present prototype tools that we have developed to
support translation between models expressed in P-EBF,
OMML, and SCR and evaluate our approach by validating a
web service book finder application composed of models
expressed in different languages in the GSTView
validation tool.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Xu:2004:BMC,
author = "Guoqing Xu and Zongyuan Yang and Haitao Huang",
title = "A basic model for components implementation of
software architecture",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--11",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022522",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Components defined in software architecture have two
features: as basic elements of the architecture, they
must conform to the architectural constraints and in
the meantime, similar to the common components, they
should be designed flexibly enough to be able to be
developed independently for the late third party
integration. However, these two important issues have
always been handled separately from different point of
views, which leads to the extra work, confusions in the
program structures as well as the difficulty in
maintenance. This paper presents a basic model of the
architecture-based components implementation to band
these two issues together. It firstly describes a novel
design pattern, triple-C pattern which stands for {\em
Components-Communicate-through-Connector}. This pattern
not only emphasizes that implementation must completely
conform to the architectural definition, but also
attempts to change the fundamental way of components
communication with suggesting provided service should
be transferred through the connector instead of
directly between the client and server components.
Second, it describes a novel ADL JCMPL, toolset JCMP
and techniques to keep architectural conformance in the
implementation as well as support the architectural
integration from separate components. Finally, this
model is evaluated in a case study.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Aiken:2004:THP,
author = "Jason Aiken",
title = "Technical and human perspectives on pair programming",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--14",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022512",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Extreme Programming is presented as an answer to
problems in software engineering. Extreme Programming
is briefly introduced and one of its primary
principles, pair programming, is examined more closely.
Drawing from readings and Medtronic employee
interviews, potential challenges to pair programming
are discussed and analyzed. Finally, recommendations
for those considering pair programming are suggested.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Oquendo:2004:AAR,
author = "Flavio Oquendo",
title = "{$ \pi $-ARL}: an architecture refinement language for
formally modelling the stepwise refinement of software
architectures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--20",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022517",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A key aspect of the formal development of any software
system is the specification and stepwise refinement of
its architecture. In a stepwise refinement, a sequence
of steps starting from an abstract specification of the
architecture leads to a concrete,
implementation-centered, architectural model. Each
refinement step typically leads to a more detailed
architecture description that increases the determinism
while implying properties of the abstract
specification. Enabling stepwise architecture
refinement is a new challenge for the formal
development of complex software systems. This article
describes {\pi}-ARL, a novel Architecture Refinement
Language (ARL) that has been designed in the ArchWare
European Project to address formal refinement of
software architectures. It is a formal, well-founded
theoretically language based on a rewriting logic. Its
underlying approach for architecture refinement is
underspecification, i.e. at a high-level of
abstraction, when specifying an architectural element,
certain aspects can be left open. The decrease of this
underspecification establishes behaviour but also port,
structure, and data refinement relations. The
underlying foundation for architected behaviours is the
higher order typed {\pi}-calculus. {\pi}-ARL focuses on
formally modelling the stepwise refinement of software
architectures through a set of architecture refinement
primitives.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Oquendo:2004:FRS,
author = "Flavio Oquendo",
title = "Formally refining software architectures with {$ \pi
$-ARL}: a case study",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "1--26",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022518",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "{\pi}-ARL is a formal (executable) architecture
refinement language providing architecture-centric
refinement primitives and constructs for their
compositions. When applied, refinement actions
expressed in {\pi}-ARL refine architectural models
described in {\pi}-ADL outputting new refined models
described in {\pi}-ADL. Enabling stepwise architecture
refinement is a new challenge for the formal
development of complex software systems. This article
presents a simple but realistic case study of the use
of {\pi}-ARL for architecture refinement. It
illustrates the expressiveness and usefulness of
{\pi}-ARL. The case study addresses the modelling and
refinement of the software architecture of a Data
Acquisition System. It covers a simple, yet frequent,
architecture refinement that would be problematic for
most other refinement techniques. Several refinement
steps are performed, each dealing with a simple
refinement, in order to achieve a concrete
architecture.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2004:SEEc,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "12--13",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022496",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This column was due on July 10, 2004, the date of my
son's wedding [1], so I am a bit behind. Summertime and
I will keep this months' column short and focused.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2004:RPCc,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "13--18",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022498",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances that affect
computer systems. To economize on space, we tersify
most items and include pointers to items in the online
Risks Forum: (R i j) denotes RISKS vol i number j.
Cited RISKS items generally identify contributors and
sources, together with URLs. Official RISKS archives
are available at www.risks.org (which redirects to
Newcastle and gets you nice html formatting and a
search engine courtesy of Lindsay Marshall);
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j); and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.A cumulative summary
of RISKS and SEN items is available at
http://www.CSL.sri.com/neumann/illustrative.html as
well as ftp://ftp.csl.sri.com/illustrative.ps and pdf.
Please send RISKS-related items to [email protected]
Read RISKS as a newsgroup (comp.risks), or subscribe
via the automated list server at [email protected]
``Inside Risks'' columns from the Communications of the
ACM are also online
(http://www.csl.sri.com/neumann/insiderisks.html).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2004:SNSc,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "20--28",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022500",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Agile methods are one of the most controversial topics
in the software development community today. The
homepage for this year's Agile Development Conference
remarked that one of the purposes of this year's
conference was to dispel the notion that agile
development methods are ``a bunch of hot air''. And
indeed, the amount of hype surrounding this new
approach to writing software would lead one to believe
that agile methods are long on promises and short on
rigor. Even some of the terms surrounding agile
methods; Extreme Programming (XP), Crystal, Scrum,
etc., seem like they were developed by an advertising
agency instead of a software process improvement
group.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Beasley:2004:RBO,
author = "Charles Beasley",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Building operational
excellence: IT people and best practices}} by Bruce
Allen and Dale Kutnic. Intel Press and Addison-Wesley
2001 and 2002}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "35--35",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022548",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Frazer:2004:RMS,
author = "Ken Frazer",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Managing software requirements,
a use case approach}} by Dean Leffingwell and Don
Widrig. Addison-Wesley 2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "36--36",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022549",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Frazer:2004:RUC,
author = "Ken Frazer",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Use cases, requirements in
context}} by Daryl Kulak and Eamon Guiney.
Addison-Wesley 2004}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "36--37",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022550",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lawler:2004:RML,
author = "Brian Lawler",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Modernizing legacy systems:
software technologies, engineering processes and
business practices}} by Robert C. Seacord, Daniel
Plakosh and Grace A. Lewis. Addison Wesley 2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "37--37",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022551",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2004:RCG,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{CMMI: guidelines for process
integration and product improvement}} by Mary Beth
Chrissis, Mike Konrad and Sandy Shrum. Addison Wesley
2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "37--38",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022552",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2004:RSM,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Software metrics: a guide to
planning, analysis and application}} by C. Ravindranath
Pandian. Auerbach Publications, CRC Press 2004}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "38--39",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022553",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2004:RSM,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{SAS{\`O} for Monte Carlo
studies: a guide for quantitative researchers}} by
Xitao Fan, {\'A}kos Felsvlyi, Stephen A. Sivo, and Sean
C. Keenan. SAS Institute, Inc. 2002}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "39--39",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022554",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sas.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2004:RVC,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Visualizing categorical data}}
by Michael Friendly. SAS Institute, Inc. 2000}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "39--40",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022555",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sas.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Weber-Wulff:2004:RRC,
author = "Debora Weber-Wulff",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Requirements by collaboration
--- workshops for defining needs}} by Ellen
Gottesdiener Addison--Wesley 2002}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "40--40",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022557",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Weber-Wulff:2004:RUE,
author = "Debora Weber-Wulff",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{UML by example}} by Ghinwa
Jalloul. Cambridge University Press 2004}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "40--40",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022556",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2004:RMS,
author = "Will Tracz",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Managing software for growth:
without fear, control, and the manufacturing mindset}}
by Roy Miller. Addison-Wesley 2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "40--41",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022558",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2004:RAE,
author = "Will Tracz",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Architecting enterprise
solutions: patterns for high-capability Internet based
systems}} by Paul Dyson and Andy Longshaw. John Wiley
and Sons, Ltd. 2004}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "41--41",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022559",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2004:RIP,
author = "Will Tracz",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{IT project estimation: a
practical guide to costing of software}} by Paul
Coombs. Cambridge University Press 2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "41--41",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022560",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{staff:2004:BRA,
author = "{ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Staff}",
title = "Backmatter (Report abstracts, Paper abstracts,
Calendar of Future Events, Call for Participation,
Keynotes, Workshops, Tutorials)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "5",
pages = "42",
month = sep,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1022494.1022576",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{staff:2004:FCT,
author = "{ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Staff}",
title = "Frontmatter (cover, title page, copyright, foreword,
contents, organization)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "0",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1057985",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wolf:2004:SER,
author = "Alexander L. Wolf",
title = "Is security engineering really just good software
engineering?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "1--1",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029895",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "These days, if you say that you are doing research in
the area of computer security you instantly receive
attention. Sadly, the same cannot be said of software
engineering. But are the two areas really so different?
Both seem to be concerned with issues that range from
the finely technical to the broadly social and that
force us to make difficult tradeoffs among cost,
performance, quality, and usability. Both seem to
require that we conduct our research in an
interdisciplinary context. In the end we realize that
fully solving the security problem for ever larger and
more complex systems is as intractable as fully solving
the traditional software engineering problem. In this
talk I will attempt to relate the challenges of
security engineering and software engineering, and will
argue that security engineering is more of a software
engineering problem than many people would like to
admit.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Egyed:2004:RUD,
author = "Alexander Egyed",
title = "Resolving uncertainties during trace analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "3--12",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029899",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software models provide independent perspectives onto
software systems. Ideally, all models should use the
same model element to describe the same part of a
system. Practically, models elements are not shared
because of syntactic and semantic differences among
modeling notations. Trace dependencies explicitly
maintain the commonalities among the distinct model
elements. Generating and maintaining trace dependencies
is difficult, costly, and highly error-prone. Automated
trace analysis techniques are scarce. This paper
extends an existing, testing-based technique for
generating and maintaining trace dependencies. It is
based on the commonality principle: if two model
elements of different perspectives are the same then
they must have the same source code. The existing
approach associates test scenarios with model elements,
tests them, and observes what lines of code are being
executed. Model elements are considered the
same/similar if their testing uses the same/overlapping
lines of code. This paper extends the existing approach
(and tool) by giving the user a richer, more powerful,
yet precise language on how to relate model elements,
test scenarios, and source code (the input). This
allows some forms of uncertainties to exist in input
data without sacrificing reliability. The extended
approach also identifies ``shared code.'' Shared code
works against the commonality principle in that model
elements do not relate if they overlap solely on their
use of generic source code (e.g., queue). As a
pre-requisite, our approach requires an executable and
observable software system and test scenarios.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dingel:2004:ACS,
author = "Juergen Dingel and Hongzhi Liang",
title = "Automating comprehensive safety analysis of concurrent
programs using {Verisoft} and {TXL}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "13--22",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029900",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In run-time safety analysis the executions of a
concurrent program are monitored and analyzed with
respect to safety properties. Similar to testing,
run-time analysis is quite efficient, but it also tends
to be incomplete. The results pertain only to the
observed executions which may constitute just a small
subset of all possible executions. In this paper, we
describe a tool called ViP which uses the software
model checker VeriSoft to perform comprehensive
run-time safety analyses of concurrent C/C++ programs.
A ViP analysis proceeds in three fully automated steps:
First, the input program is prepared for a VeriSoft
analysis through instrumentation. Next, VeriSoft is
invoked to generate the traces corresponding to all
possible executions of the program. Then, the traces
are checked efficiently for specification violations.
The instrumentation is based on the source code
transformation language TXL. TXL allows for the
instrumentation to be described in terms of rewrite
rules and gives ViP a remarkable amount of flexibility.
The paper describes ViP together with its use of
VeriSoft and TXL. Several sample analyses are discussed
to illustrate the use of ViP.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Perkins:2004:EIA,
author = "Jeff H. Perkins and Michael D. Ernst",
title = "Efficient incremental algorithms for dynamic detection
of likely invariants",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "23--32",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029901",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Dynamic detection of likely invariants is a program
analysis that generalizes over observed values to
hypothesize program properties. The reported program
properties are a set of likely invariants over the
program, also known as an operational abstraction.
Operational abstractions are useful in testing,
verification, bug detection, refactoring, comparing
behavior, and many other tasks. Previous techniques for
dynamic invariant detection scale poorly or report too
few properties. Incremental algorithms are attractive
because they process each observed value only once and
thus scale well with data sizes. Previous incremental
algorithms only checked and reported a small number of
properties. This paper takes steps toward correcting
this problem. The paper presents two new incremental
algorithms for invariant detection and compares them
analytically and experimentally to two existing
algorithms. Furthermore, the paper presents four
optimizations and shows how to implement them in the
context of incremental algorithms. The result is more
scalable invariant detection that does not sacrifice
functionality.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Uchitel:2004:SAC,
author = "Sebastian Uchitel and Robert Chatley and Jeff Kramer
and Jeff Magee",
title = "System architecture: the context for scenario-based
model synthesis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "33--42",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029903",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Constructing rigorous models for analysing the
behaviour of concurrent and distributed systems is a
complex task. Our aim is to facilitate model
construction. Scenarios provide simple, intuitive,
example based descriptions of the behaviour of
component instances in the context of a simplified
architecture instance. The specific architecture
instance is generally chosen to provide sufficient
context to indicate the expected behaviour of
particular instances of component types to be used in
the real system. Existing synthesis techniques provide
mechanisms for building behaviour models for these
simplified and specific architectural settings.
However, the behaviour models required are those for
the full generality of the system architecture, and not
the simplified architecture used for scenarios. In this
paper we exploit architectural information in the
context of behaviour model synthesis from scenarios.
Software architecture descriptions give the necessary
contextual information so that component instance
behaviour can be generalised to component type
behaviour. Furthermore, architecture description
languages can be used to describe the complex
architectures in which the generalised behaviours need
to be instantiated. Thus, architectural information
used in conjunction with scenario-based model synthesis
can support both model construction and elaboration,
where the behaviour derived from simple architecture
fragments can be instantiated in more complex ones.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Uchitel:2004:MPB,
author = "Sebastian Uchitel and Marsha Chechik",
title = "Merging partial behavioural models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "43--52",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029904",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Constructing comprehensive operational models of
intended system behaviour is a complex and costly task.
Consequently, practitioners have adopted techniques
that support incremental elaboration of partial
behaviour descriptions. A noteworthy example is the
wide adoption of scenario-based notations such as
message sequence charts. Scenario-based specifications
are partial descriptions that can be incrementally
elaborated to cover the system behaviour that is of
interest. However, how should partial behavioural
models described by different stakeholders with
different viewpoints covering different aspects of
behaviour be composed? How should partial models of
component instances of the same type be put together.
In this paper, we propose model merging as a general
solution to these questions. We formally define model
merging based on observational refinement and show that
merging consistent models is a process that should
result in a minimal common refinement. Because minimal
common refinements are not guaranteed to be unique, we
argue that the modeller should participate in the
process of elaborating such a model. We also discuss
the role of the least common refinement and the
greatest lower bound of all minimal common refinements
in this elaboration process. In addition, we provide
algorithms for (i) checking consistency between two
models; (ii) constructing their least common refinement
if one exists; (iii) supporting the construction of a
minimal common refinement if there is no least common
refinement.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Letier:2004:RAP,
author = "Emmanuel Letier and Axel van Lamsweerde",
title = "Reasoning about partial goal satisfaction for
requirements and design engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "53--62",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029905",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Exploring alternative options is at the heart of the
requirements and design processes. Different
alternatives contribute to different degrees of
achievement of non-functional goals about system
safety, security, performance, usability, and so forth.
Such goals in general cannot be satisfied in an
absolute, clear-cut sense. Various qualitative and
quantitative frameworks have been proposed to support
the assessment of alternatives for design decision
making. In general they lead to limited conclusions due
to the lack of accuracy and measurability of goal
formulations and the lack of impact propagation rules
along goal contribution links. The paper presents
techniques for specifying partial degrees of goal
satisfaction and for quantifying the impact of
alternative system designs on the degree of goal
satisfaction. The approach consists in enriching goal
refinement models with a probabilistic layer for
reasoning about partial satisfaction. Within such
models, non-functional goals are specified in a
precise, probabilistic way; their specification is
interpreted in terms of application-specific measures;
impact of alternative goal refinements is evaluated in
terms of refinement equations over random variables
involved in the system's functional goals. A systematic
method is presented for guiding the elaboration of such
models. The latter can then be used to assess the
impact of alternative decisions on the degree of goal
satisfaction or to derive quantitative, fine-grained
requirements on the software to achieve the
higher-level goals.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Manevich:2004:PEP,
author = "Roman Manevich and Manu Sridharan and Stephen Adams
and Manuvir Das and Zhe Yang",
title = "{PSE}: explaining program failures via postmortem
static analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "63--72",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029907",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we describe PSE (Postmortem Symbolic
Evaluation), a static analysis algorithm that can be
used by programmers to diagnose software failures. The
algorithm requires minimal information about a failure,
namely its kind (e.g. NULL dereference), and its
location in the program's source code. It produces a
set of execution traces along which the program can be
driven to the given failure. PSE tracks the flow of a
single value of interest from the point in the program
where the failure occurred back to the points in the
program where the value may have originated. The
algorithm combines a novel dataflow analysis and memory
alias analysis in a manner that allows for precise
exploration of the program's behavior in polynomial
time. We have applied PSE to the problem of diagnosing
potential NULL-dereference errors in a suite of C
programs, including several SPEC benchmarks and a large
commercial operating system. In most cases, the
analysis is able to either validate a pointer
dereference, or find precise error traces demonstrating
a NULL value for the pointer, in less than a second.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chaki:2004:EAC,
author = "Sagar Chaki and Alex Groce and Ofer Strichman",
title = "Explaining abstract counterexamples",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "73--82",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029908",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "When a program violates its specification a model
checker produces a counterexample that shows an example
of undesirable behavior. It is up to the user to
understand the error, locate it, and fix the problem.
Previous work introduced a technique for explaining and
localizing errors based on finding the closest
execution to a counterexample, with respect to a
distance metric. That approach was applied only to
concrete executions of programs. This paper extends and
generalizes the approach by combining it with predicate
abstraction. Using an abstract state-space increases
scalability and makes explanations more informative.
Differences between executions are presented in terms
of predicates derived from the specification and
program, rather than specific changes to variable
values. Reasoning to the cause of an error from the
fact that in the failing run $ x < y $, but in the
successful execution $ x = y $ is easier than reasoning
from the information that in the failing run $ y = 239
$, but in the successful execution $ y = 232 $. An
abstract explanation is ``automatically generalized''
Predicate abstraction has previously been used in model
checking purely as a state-space reduction technique.
However, an abstraction good enough to enable a model
checking tool to find an error is also likely to be
useful as an ``automatically generated high-level
description of a state space'' --- suitable for use by
programmers. Results demonstrating the effectiveness of
abstract explanations support this claim.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kremenek:2004:CEE,
author = "Ted Kremenek and Ken Ashcraft and Junfeng Yang and
Dawson Engler",
title = "Correlation exploitation in error ranking",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "83--93",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029909",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Static program checking tools can find many serious
bugs in software, but due to analysis limitations they
also frequently emit false error reports. Such false
positives can easily render the error checker useless
by hiding real errors amidst the false. Effective error
report ranking schemes mitigate the problem of false
positives by suppressing them during the report
inspection process [17, 19, 20]. In this way, ranking
techniques provide a complementary method to increasing
the precision of the analysis results of a checking
tool. A weakness of previous ranking schemes, however,
is that they produce static rankings that do not adapt
as reports are inspected, ignoring useful correlations
amongst reports. This paper addresses this weakness
with two main contributions. First, we observe that
both bugs and false positives frequently cluster by
code locality. We analyze clustering behavior in
historical bug data from two large systems and show how
clustering can be exploited to greatly improve error
report ranking. Second, we present a general
probabilistic technique for error ranking that (1)
exploits correlation behavior amongst reports and (2)
incorporates user feedback into the ranking process. In
our results we observe a factor of 2-8 improvement over
randomized ranking for error reports emitted by both
intra-procedural and inter-procedural analysis tools.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Marks:2004:UPH,
author = "Joe Marks",
title = "The usability problem for home appliances: engineers
caused it, engineers can fix it!",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "95--95",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029896",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Ordinary people already have great difficulty using
the advanced features of digitally enabled household
appliances, and the problem grows worse with time as
more customization and programming features are added.
This usability problem cannot be solved using the tiny
displays and limited control buttons typically found on
such devices. In this talk I will describe a new type
of collaborative interface in which the appliance
actively helps the user, especially with complex
features that are only used occasionally. This
interface provides a consistent and pervasive mechanism
for answering the who-what-where-when-why-how questions
that often cause users to consult a manual, call a help
line, or simply give up. A crucial aspect of the
interface architecture is the use of home networking to
share a physically large and computationally powerful
display among multiple appliances. Why is this a
relevant talk for a software-engineering conference? A
contributing factor to the usability crisis is the
dominance of engineers in product design at many
companies. The development of more-usable devices
requires a broader conception of engineering that
includes interaction design, artificial intelligence,
and human factors --- at a minimum. I will describe how
these disciplines can complement traditional electrical
and software engineering in the context of attempting
to solve a commercially significant real-world
problem.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zitser:2004:TSA,
author = "Misha Zitser and Richard Lippmann and Tim Leek",
title = "Testing static analysis tools using exploitable buffer
overflows from open source code",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "97--106",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029911",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Five modern static analysis tools (ARCHER, BOON,
Poly-Space C Verifier, Splint, and UNO) were evaluated
using source code examples containing 14 exploitable
buffer overflow vulnerabilities found in various
versions of Sendmail, BIND, and WU-FTPD. Each code
example included a ``BAD'' case with and a ``OK'' case
without buffer overflows. Buffer overflows varied and
included stack, heap, bss and data buffers; access
above and below buffer bounds; access using pointers,
indices, and functions; and scope differences between
buffer creation and use. Detection rates for the
``BAD'' examples were low except for Poly-Space and
Splint which had average detection rates of 87\% and
57\%, respectively. However, average false alarm rates
were high and roughly 50\% for these two tools. On
patched programs these two tools produce one warning
for every 12 to 46 lines of source code and neither
tool appears able to accurately distinguished between
vulnerable and patched code.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Capra:2004:EHT,
author = "Licia Capra",
title = "Engineering human trust in mobile system
collaborations",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "107--116",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029912",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Rapid advances in wireless networking technologies
have enabled mobile devices to be connected anywhere
and anytime. While roaming, applications on these
devices dynamically discover hosts and services with
whom interactions can be started. However, the fear of
exposure to risky transactions with potentially unknown
entities may seriously hinder collaboration. To
minimise this risk, an engineering approach to the
development of trust-based collaborations is necessary.
This paper introduces hTrust, a human trust management
model and framework that facilitates the construction
of trust-aware mobile systems and applications. In
particular, hTrust supports: reasoning about trust
(trust formation), dissemination of trust information
in the network (trust dissemination), and derivation of
new trust relationships from previously formed ones
(trust evolution). The framework views each mobile host
as a self-contained unit, carrying along a portfolio of
credentials that are used to prove its trustworthiness
to other hosts in an ad-hoc mobile environment.
Customising functions are defined to capture the
natural disposition to trust of the user of the device
inside our trust management framework.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Xu:2004:EBC,
author = "Wei Xu and Daniel C. DuVarney and R. Sekar",
title = "An efficient and backwards-compatible transformation
to ensure memory safety of C programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "117--126",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029913",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Memory-related errors, such as buffer overflows and
dangling pointers, remain one of the principal reasons
for failures of C programs. As a result, a number of
recent research efforts have focused on the problem of
dynamic detection of memory errors in C programs.
However, existing approaches suffer from one or more of
the following problems: inability to detect all memory
errors (e.g., Purify), requiring non-trivial
modifications to existing C programs (e.g., Cyclone),
changing the memory management model of C to use
garbage collection (e.g., CCured), and excessive
performance overheads. In this paper, we present a new
approach that addresses these problems. Our approach
operates via source code transformation and combines
efficient data-structures with simple, localized
optimizations to obtain good performance.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mezini:2004:VMF,
author = "Mira Mezini and Klaus Ostermann",
title = "Variability management with feature-oriented
programming and aspects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "127--136",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029915",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents an analysis of feature-oriented
and aspect-oriented modularization approaches with
respect to variability management as needed in the
context of system families. This analysis serves two
purposes. On the one hand, our analysis of the
weaknesses of feature-oriented approaches (FOAs for
short) emphasizes the importance of crosscutting
modularity as supported by the aspect-oriented concepts
of pointcut and advice. On the other hand, by pointing
out some of AspectJ's weaknesses and by demonstrating
how Caesar, a language which combines concepts from
both AspectJ and FOAs, is more effective in this
context, we also demonstrate the power of appropriate
support for layer modules.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Krishnamurthi:2004:VAA,
author = "Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi Fisler and Michael
Greenberg",
title = "Verifying aspect advice modularly",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "137--146",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029916",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Aspect-oriented programming has become an increasingly
important means of expressing cross-cutting program
abstractions. Despite this, aspects lack support for
computer-aided verification. We present a technique for
verifying aspect-oriented programs (expressed as state
machines). Our technique assumes that the set of
pointcut designators is known statically, but that the
actual advice can vary. This calls for a modular
technique that does not require repeated analysis of
the entire system every time a developer changes
advice. We present such an analysis, addressing several
subtleties that arise. We also present an important
optimization for handling multiple pointcut
designators. We have implemented a prototype verifier
and applied it to some simple but interesting cases.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rinard:2004:CSA,
author = "Martin Rinard and Alexandru Salcianu and Suhabe
Bugrara",
title = "A classification system and analysis for
aspect-oriented programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "147--158",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029917",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We present a new classification system for
aspect-oriented programs. This system characterizes the
interactions between aspects and methods and identifies
classes of interactions that enable modular reasoning
about the crosscut program. We argue that this system
can help developers structure their understanding of
aspect-oriented programs and promotes their ability to
reason productively about the consequences of
crosscutting a program with a given aspect. We have
designed and implemented a program analysis system that
automatically classifies interactions between aspects
and methods and have applied this analysis to a set of
benchmark programs. We found that our analysis is able
to (1) identify interactions with desirable properties
(such as lack of interference), (2) identify
potentially problematic interactions (such as
interference caused by the aspect and the method both
writing the same field), and (3) direct the developer's
attention to the causes of such interactions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Walker:2004:IPD,
author = "Robert J. Walker and Kevin Viggers",
title = "Implementing protocols via declarative event
patterns",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "159--169",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029918",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper introduces declarative event patterns
(DEPs) as a means to implement protocols while
improving their traceability, comprehensibility, and
maintainability. DEPs are descriptions of sequences of
events in the execution of a system that include the
ability to recognize properly nested event structures.
DEPs allow a developer to describe a protocol at a
high-level, without the need to express extraneous
details. A developer can indicate that specific actions
be taken when a given pattern occurs. DEPs are
automatically translated into the appropriate
instrumentation and automaton for recognizing a given
pattern. Support for DEPs has been implemented in a
proof-of-concept extension to the AspectJ language that
is based on advanced compiler technology. A case study
is described that compares the use of DEPs in the
implementation of a protocol (FTP user authentication)
to the use of a set of other approaches, both
object-oriented and aspect-oriented.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Leveson:2004:MES,
author = "Nancy G. Leveson and Kathryn Anne Weiss",
title = "Making embedded software reuse practical and safe",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "171--178",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029897",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Reuse of application software has been limited and
sometimes has led to accidents. This paper suggests
some requirements for successful and safe application
software reuse and demonstrates them using a case study
on a real spacecraft.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Giese:2004:MDV,
author = "Holger Giese and Sven Burmester and Wilhelm
Sch{\"a}fer and Oliver Oberschelp",
title = "Modular design and verification of component-based
mechatronic systems with online-reconfiguration",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "179--188",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029920",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The development of complex mechatronic systems
requires a careful and ideally verifiable design. In
addition, engineers from different disciplines, namely
mechanical, electrical and software engineering, have
to cooperate. The current technology is to use block
diagrams including discrete blocks with statecharts for
the design and verification of such systems. This does
not adequately support the verification of large
systems which improve the system behavior at run-time
by means of online reconfiguration of its controllers
because the system as whole has to be verified. It also
does not support cooperative interdisciplinary work
because a white-box view on all blocks involved in the
online reconfiguration is required. This paper proposes
a rigorous component concept based on the notion of UML
component diagrams which enables modular composition
and decomposition of complex systems with online
reconfiguration given by hierarchical hybrid component
specifications. The approach enables compatibility
checks between components that are often independently
developed (across the different disciplines) and
supports compositional model checking based on a
rigorously defined semantics.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Edwards:2004:TSO,
author = "Jonathan Edwards and Daniel Jackson and Emina Torlak",
title = "A type system for object models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "189--199",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029921",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A type system for object models is described that
supports subtyping, unions, and overloading of relation
names. No special features need be added to the
modelling language; in particular, there are no casts,
and the meaning of an object model can be understood
without mentioning types. A type error is associated
with an expression that can be proved to be {\em
irrelevant}, in the sense that it can be replaced by an
empty set or relation without affecting the value of
its enclosing constraint. Relevance is computed by a
simple abstract interpretation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tan:2004:HGC,
author = "Jianbin Tan and George S. Avrunin and Lori A. Clarke
and Shlomo Zilberstein and Stefan Leue",
title = "Heuristic-guided counterexample search in {FLAVERS}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "201--210",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029922",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "One of the benefits of finite-state verification (FSV)
tools, such as model checkers, is that a counterexample
is provided when the property cannot be verified. Not
all counterexamples, however, are equally useful to the
analysts trying to understand and localize the fault.
Often counterexamples are so long that they are hard to
understand. Thus, it is important for FSV tools to find
short counterexamples and to do so quickly. Commonly
used search strategies, such as breadth-first and
depth-first search, do not usually perform well in both
of these dimensions. In this paper, we investigate
heuristic-guided search strategies for the FSV tool
FLAVERS and propose a novel two-stage counterexample
search strategy. We describe an experiment showing that
this two-stage strategy, when combined with appropriate
heuristics, is extremely effective at quickly finding
short counterexamples for a large set of verification
problems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pan:2004:RBS,
author = "Ying Pan and Lei Wang and Lu Zhang and Bing Xie and
Fuqing Yang",
title = "Relevancy based semantic interoperation of reuse
repositories",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "211--220",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029924",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software reuse is a promising solution to the software
crisis. Reuse repositories are the basic infrastructure
for software reuse. During the past decade, various
academic, commercial, governmental, and industrial
organizations have developed many Internet-enabled
reuse repositories to provide access to software
components and related resources. It has necessitated
semantic interoperation to allow distributed
maintenance and management of these repositories while
enabling users to efficiently and conveniently access
resources from multiple reuse repositories via a single
representation view. In this paper, we have proposed an
approach to enhancing the semantic interoperability of
reuse repositories, called the improved relevancy
matching and ranking (IRMR) method, based on analyzing
the correlation of terms in representation methods of
the repositories. A prototype system, the Virtual
Repository supporting Semantic Interoperation (VRSI),
is presented to illustrate the application of this
approach to support the semantic interoperation of
reuse repositories. Experimental results on real world
reuse repositories demonstrated significant improvement
in terms of searching effectiveness.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{deSouza:2004:HGS,
author = "Cleidson R. B. de Souza and David Redmiles and Li-Te
Cheng and David Millen and John Patterson",
title = "How a good software practice thwarts collaboration:
the multiple roles of {APIs} in software development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "221--230",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029925",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The principle of information hiding has been very
influential in software engineering since its inception
in 1972. This principle prescribes that software
modules hide implementation details from other modules
in order to decrease their interdependencies. This
separation also decreases the dependency among software
developers implementing modules, thus simplifying some
aspects of collaboration. A common instantiation of
this principle is in the form of application
programming interfaces (APIs). We performed a
qualitative study on how practitioners use APIs in
their daily work. Although particularly interested in
aspects of collaboration, we report all findings about
their observed use. The findings include mundane
observations that are predicted by theory, ways that
APIs support collaborative software development. But
the findings also include some surprises, ways that
APIs hinder collaboration. The surprises indicate
directions for further improvement of collaborative
software development practices and tools.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zhang:2004:RCD,
author = "Xiaofang Zhang and Michal Young and John H. E. F.
Lasseter",
title = "Refining code-design mapping with flow analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "231--240",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029926",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We address the problem of refining and completing a
partially specified high-level design model and a
partially-defined mapping from source code to design
model. This is related but not identical to tasks that
have been automated with a variety of reverse
engineering tools to support software modification
tasks. We posited that set-based flow analysis
algorithms would provide a convenient and powerful
basis for refining an initial rough model and partial
mapping, and in particular that the ability to compute
fixed points of set equations would be useful in
propagating constraints on the relations among the
model, the mapping, and facts extracted from the
implementation. Here we report our experience applying
this approach to a modest but realistic example
problem. We were successful in expressing a variety of
useful transformations very succinctly as flow
equations, and the propagation of recursively-defined
constraints was indeed useful in refining the mapping
from implementation to model. On the other hand, our
experience highlights remaining challenges to make this
an attractive approach for general use. Special
measures are required to identify and remove
inconsistent constraints before they propagate through
a system. Also, while the required flow equations are
succinct, they are also rather opaque; it is not
obvious how their expressive power might be preserved
in a more accessible notation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Orso:2004:SRT,
author = "Alessandro Orso and Nanjuan Shi and Mary Jean
Harrold",
title = "Scaling regression testing to large software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "241--251",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029928",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "When software is modified, during development and
maintenance, it is ``regression tested'' to provide
confidence that the changes did not introduce
unexpected errors and that new features behave as
expected. One important problem in regression testing
is how to select a subset of test cases, from the test
suite used for the original version of the software,
when testing a modified version of the software.
Regression-test-selection techniques address this
problem. Safe regression-test-selection techniques
select every test case in the test suite that may
behave differently in the original and modified
versions of the software. Among existing safe
regression testing techniques, efficient techniques are
often too imprecise and achieve little savings in
testing effort, whereas precise techniques are too
expensive when used on large systems. This paper
presents a new regression-test-selection technique for
Java programs that is safe, precise, and yet scales to
large systems. It also presents a tool that implements
the technique and studies performed on a set of
subjects ranging from 70 to over 500 KLOC. The studies
show that our technique can efficiently reduce the
regression testing effort and, thus, achieve
considerable savings.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Suarez-Cabal:2004:USC,
author = "Mar{\'\i}a Jos{\'e} Su{\'a}rez-Cabal and Javier Tuya",
title = "Using an {SQL} coverage measurement for testing
database applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "253--262",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029929",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many software applications have a component based on
database management systems in which information is
generally handled through SQL queries embedded in the
application code. When automation of software testing
is mentioned in the research, this is normally
associated with programs written in imperative and
structured languages. However, the problem of automated
software testing applied to programs that manage
databases using SQL is still an open issue. This paper
presents a measurement of the coverage of SQL queries
and the tool that automates it. We also show how
database test data may be revised and changed using
this measurement by means of completing or deleting
information to achieve the highest possible value of
coverage of queries that have access to the database.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Li:2004:EED,
author = "Paul Luo Li and Mary Shaw and Jim Herbsleb and Bonnie
Ray and P. Santhanam",
title = "Empirical evaluation of defect projection models for
widely-deployed production software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "263--272",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1029930",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Defect-occurrence projection is necessary for the
development of methods to mitigate the risks of
software defect occurrences. In this paper, we examine
user-reported software defect-occurrence patterns
across twenty-two releases of four widely-deployed,
business-critical, production, software systems: a
commercial operating system, a commercial middleware
system, an open source operating system (OpenBSD), and
an open source middleware system (Tomcat). We evaluate
the suitability of common defect-occurrence models by
first assessing the match between characteristics of
widely-deployed production software systems and model
structures. We then evaluate how well the models fit
real world data. We find that the Weibull model is
flexible enough to capture defect-occurrence behavior
across a wide range of systems. It provides the best
model fit in 16 out of the 22 releases. We then
evaluate the ability of the moving averages and the
exponential smoothing methods to extrapolate Weibull
model parameters using fitted model parameters from
historical releases. Our results show that in 50\% of
our forecasting experiments, these two naive
parameter-extrapolation methods produce projections
that are worse than the projection from using the same
model parameters as the most recent release. These
findings establish the need for further research on
parameter-extrapolation methods that take into account
variations in characteristics of widely-deployed,
production, software systems across multiple
releases.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{staff:2004:BAI,
author = "{ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Staff}",
title = "Backmatter (author index)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "29",
number = "6",
pages = "273",
month = nov,
year = "2004",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1041685.1057987",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{staff:2005:FTLa,
author = "{ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Staff}",
title = "Frontmatter ({TOC}, Letters, {ICSE} news, {ICSM},
{RODIN})",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "0",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1057981",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bhansali:2005:CMD,
author = "P. V. Bhansali",
title = "Complexity measurement of data and control flow",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "1",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039191",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes a simple mathematical algorithm
to determine the complexity of software that includes
control flow and data flow. Two techniques are analyzed
using examples to determine the overall complexity. One
of them computes the determinant of a square matrix
represented as an N2 chart. The other technique that is
new and proposed in this paper computes the sum of
products of control flow and data flow. It is shown
that the determinant value fluctuates randomly whereas
the new sum of product is a monotonic function that
increases systematically with increasing complexity.
This complexity number can be used to determine the
amount of effort (cost and time) required for
development and verification of software and whether or
not the software can be deployed to perform
safety-critical functions with high assurance.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cheng:2005:WWW,
author = "Shang-Wen Cheng and Robert L. Nord and Judith A.
Stafford",
title = "{WICSA Wiki WAN} Party: capturing experience in
software architecture best practices",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "1",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039185",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Researchers, practitioners, educators, and students of
software architecture would benefit from having online
access to quality information about the state of
research and practice of software architecture. In
recent years, Wiki technology has enabled distributed
and collaborative editing of content using only a Web
browser. To explore whether Wiki technology would be
effective in facilitating the ongoing discussion and
evolution of ideas on software architecture, we hosted
the WICSA Wiki WAN Party (WWWP) during the 4th Working
IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA
2004). We used a history tool developed at IBM Research
to monitor site activity and provide daily feedback to
conference participants. This report recounts
experience hosting this Wiki site and summarizes the
site activity.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bhansali:2005:SDD,
author = "P. V. Bhansali",
title = "Software dissimilarity debate revisited",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "2",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039192",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper highlights the controversy surrounding the
use of dissimilarity for improved safety. It compares
dissimilarity at the system level versus software level
and uses examples from the commercial and military
safety-critical standards to highlight this
controversy. It proposes a solution by identifying
those systems which can find dissimilarity beneficial
and those that may find dissimilarity detrimental
regardless of whether dissimilarity is implemented at
the system level or at the software level. Practical
examples are cited to highlight how these concepts can
be used in the real-world.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Giese:2005:SIW,
author = "Holger Giese and Ingolf Kr{\"u}ger",
title = "A summary of the {ICSE 2004 Workshop on ``Scenarios
and State Machines: Models, Algorithms, and Tools''}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "2",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039186",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This summary reports on the third workshop in the
SCESM (SCEnarios and State Machines) series held at the
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
in 2004 in Edinburgh, Scotland. SCESM'04 continues the
very successful preceding workshops on this topic,
which include a workshop on scenario based round-trip
engineering at OOPSLA 2000, two SCESM workshops at ICSE
2002 [1] and ICSE 2003 [2], and a Dagstuhl Seminar in
September 2003 [3]. SCESM'04 has followed this
tradition and brought together researchers and
practitioners interested in advancing models,
algorithms and tools for scenario- and state-oriented
approaches to software and systems engineering.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bhansali:2005:SSC,
author = "P. V. Bhansali",
title = "Software safety: current status and future direction",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "3",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039193",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes the current status of software
safety in terms of research and existing standards. It
highlights the differences between various standards
set up by government agencies to accomplish the same
safety objectives. For example, European standards tend
to place more emphasis on static analysis whereas
American standards prefer dynamic testing to verify the
software. An optimal verification approach is still a
debatable issue in the software safety community. As
for future direction, the author believes that the key
to making safer and cheaper software is to have better
requirements validation that ensure that the
requirements are correct and complete before the design
and coding phases begin.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{deLemos:2005:IWAa,
author = "Rog{\'e}rio de Lemos and Cristina Gacek and Alexander
Romanovsky",
title = "{ICSE 2004 Workshop on Architecting Dependable
Systems}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "3",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039187",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This summary gives a brief overview of a one-day
Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS) held
in conjunction with ICSE 2004. It was organised as a
twin workshop with a Workshop held in conjunction with
the International Conference on Dependable Systems and
Network (DSN 2004).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hassan:2005:RMI,
author = "Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C. Holt and Audris
Mockus",
title = "Report on {MSR 2004: International Workshop on Mining
Software Repositories}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "4",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039188",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A one-day workshop was held on the topic of mining
software repositories at ICSE 2004 in Edinburgh,
Scotland. The workshop brought together researchers and
practitioners in order to consider methods that use
data stored in software repositories (such as source
control systems, defect tracking systems, and archived
project communications) to further understanding of
software development practices. We divided submissions
into six sessions, each devoted to a particular topic:
(1) Infrastructure and Extraction, (2) Integration and
Presentation, (3) System Understanding and Change
Patterns, (4) Defect Analysis, (5) Process and
Community Analysis, and (6) Software Reuse. To maximize
interaction and discussion, we limited each session to
a survey of the topic area, followed by the
presentation of one or two papers, then an open
discussion. We also allocated a demo hour to give
interested parties the opportunity to learn more about
other accepted papers. This report includes an overview
of the presentations made during these sessions and a
summary of the issues raised throughout the workshop.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Janakiram:2005:RRD,
author = "D. Janakiram and M. S. Rajasree",
title = "{ReQuEst}: Requirements-driven quality estimator",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "4",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039194",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Estimating quality of software systems has always been
a good practice in software engineering. Presently,
quality evaluation techniques are applied only as an
afterthought to software design process. However,
quality of a software system should be stated based on
the end-user's requirement for quality. Based on this
observation, this paper proposes an estimation model
called ReQuEst (Requirements-driven Quality Estimator).
ReQuEst is an attempt to quantitatively estimate the
quality of a system being designed from its analysis
model. The quality is estimated in terms of
adaptability and extendibility which are also important
parameters in system design. During requirements
analysis, evolving requirements are also analyzed to
capture a few quality indicators from them. These
indicators are used to compute the requirements for the
above parameters from the analysis model. Thus, the
analyst can quantitatively specify the quality demands
of the system to be designed along with the functional
requirements. These quality specifications enable the
system designer to precisely design systems meeting the
values specified. Further, the model can be used to
estimate the maintainability of the system in terms of
the above parameters.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bernstein:2005:TSS,
author = "Larry Bernstein",
title = "Trustworthy software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "4--5",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039176",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Krishnamurthi:2005:DSC,
author = "Shriram Krishnamurthi and Tevfik Bultan",
title = "Discussion summary: characteristics of web services
and their impact on testing, analysis and
verification",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "5",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039189",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This is a summary of the comments from a discussion
session at the end of the Workshop on Testing, Analysis
and Verification of Web Services (TAV-WEB) 2004. The
comments were made by the workshop participants, and
were compiled and edited by the workshop
organizers.TAV-WEB 2004 was held in conjunction with
ISSTA 2004 in Boston, Massachusetts on July 11, 2004.
The abstracts of the papers presented in TAV-WEB 2004
appear in the September issue of SEN.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kuehne:2005:SAU,
author = "Ralph Kuehne and Cornelius Wille and Reiner Dumke",
title = "Software agents using simulation for decision-making",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "5",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039195",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Though autonomy is one of the major concepts of agent
technology, the question how to implement this autonomy
is mainly up to the agent developer. To show autonomous
behaviour the agent has to make decisions regarding
which actions to take next in order to meet its design
objectives. This article suggests the use of simulation
by an agent in its decision-making process. While
simulation-based planning has already been proposed, we
take it one step further and also use it for the
control of the system the agent is reasoning about and
for enabling the agent to take measures proactively. To
explore this idea's potential we have implemented an
agent test-bed to experimentally compare
simulation-based decision-making with a rule-based
implementation in a manufacturing control scenario.
Both the implementation and the simulation study are
presented in this article. Based on how the
corresponding agents performed in reducing the
production cycle time and in reasoning about the
probability of meeting the delivery due date, we
conclude that the use of simulation for such planning
and control purposes is a promising, intuitive and
competitive approach that is well suited to supplement
other approaches that are already in use.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2005:SSC,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "Systems of systems and coordinated atomic actions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "6",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039196",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "System of systems (SoS) is an emerging field in the
design and development of complex systems that are
built from large scale component systems. A SoS has the
following attributes: operational and managerial
independence of components, a geographic extent that
limits control mechanisms to information exchange, an
evolutionary nature, and emergent behavior. The
subsystems that comprise the SoS often are built by
different organizations with conflicting goals,
designed under different assumptions and built to
different quality standards. These factors impact fault
detection, fault isolation, and fault tolerance and can
result in systems that cannot easily be debugged,
integrated, or maintained. When fault detection and
fault tolerance are deficient, the system may behave in
a fragile or brittle manner, randomly and repeatedly
crashing. Crashes prevent automated diagnosis
algorithms from being executed and can prevent manual
root cause analysis by erasing system state. Fragility
during system integration can prevent achieving
schedule milestones and deadlines. Deficient fault
detection and fault isolation also impacts end users
and system maintainers. (Think {\em insert name of
infamous project here}). From the system architect's
point of view, designing a system that can detect all
possible fault conditions across all components can be
an extremely difficult, if not impossible challenge.
Can any system be trusted to diagnose or repair itself
when it has been corrupted by faults? How do you
prevent local faults from growing into global failures?
The end users may have unreasonable expectations about
how the system should behave when components within the
SoS behave abnormally or fail. They may expect better
behavior than the typical PC. The system maintainers
may expect a coherent systems view of failures to
isolate faulted components and to provide an orderly
and safe shutdown or recovery. (Think power grid
blackouts, Telecomm failures, etc.). The most
beneficial way to achieve fault tolerance is to design
in fault detection and fault reporting such that
defined boundaries such as subsystems serve as natural
firewalls for fault containment. Although partitioning
the system into subsystems for fault containment is
well known and practiced, the end result as experienced
at the time of system integration is rarely a success.
COTS middleware, intended to aid distributed design
often becomes in effect a step backwards by providing
fertile ground for faults and failures that breach
fault containment boundaries. (Think {\em nsert name of
OS or middleware vendor here}). What can be done to
improve this situation? This paper addresses the system
architectural partitioning concept of the Coordinated
Atomic Actions (CAA). CAA promotes a different manner
of organizing software architecture that improves fault
containment across potentially faulty components. CAA
was first invented by members of Brian Randell's
research group at the University of Newcastle at Tyne
in the mid 1990's. CAA promotes the concept of the
``transaction'' which has been traditionally identified
with database applications. When you access your bank
account via ATM, you are exercising database
transactions within your bank's financial SoS. CAA
applies transactions to cooperating concurrent
distributed processes, which are the basis for most
large complex computing systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2005:TNA,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "Towards a {National Academy of Software Engineering}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "6--7",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039177",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Stuckenholz:2005:CEV,
author = "Alexander Stuckenholz",
title = "Component evolution and versioning state of the art",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "7",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039197",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Emerging component-based software development
architectures promise better re-use of software
components, greater flexibility, scalability and higher
quality of services. But like any other piece of
software too, software components are hardly perfect,
when being created. Problems and bugs have to be fixed
and new features need to be added. This paper analyzes
the problem of component evolution and the
incompatibilities which result during component
upgrades. We present the state of the art in component
versioning and compare the different methods in
component models, frameworks and programming languages.
Special attention is put on the automation of processes
and tool support in this area. The concluding section
sketches a possible solution of these problems we are
currently working on.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wang:2005:TRM,
author = "Qianxiang Wang",
title = "Towards a rule model for self-adaptive software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "8",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039198",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Most self-adaptive software use rules explicitly or
implicitly to decide how to react to monitored events.
Meanwhile, rules are usually scattered in different
procedures, which makes procedures more complex. This
paper proposes a Rule Model, which is used to extract
scattered rules from different procedures, so as to
enhance the self-adaptive ability of software. The
paper presents what is Rule Model, including: three key
concepts (event, parameter, and rule), hierarchical
organization, role in application, and XML-based
representation. The paper also introduces how to map
declarative rules inside one deployable application to
executable rules inside one rule engine, based on one
J2EE-compliant application server.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2005:SEEa,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software Engineering Education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "8--9",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039179",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2005:RPCa,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "9",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039199",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances that affect
computer systems. To economize on space, we tersify
most items and include pointers to items in the online
Risks Forum: (R i j) denotes RISKS vol i number j.
Cited RISKS items generally identify contributors and
sources, together with URLs. Official RISKS archives
are available at www.risks.org (which redirects to
Newcastle and gets you nice html formatting and a
search engine courtesy of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2005:RPCb,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public in computers and related systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "9--18",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039181",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Xu:2005:TWA,
author = "Lei Xu and Baowen Xu and Jixiang Jiang",
title = "Testing web applications focusing on their
specialties",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "10",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039200",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Nowadays, Web applications are very prevalent around
the world, and it becomes more and more important to
ensure their qualities by testing. However, due to the
special characters of Web applications, traditional
testing methods are not suitable for Web testing in
many aspects. So based on the related work by now, this
paper presents our research work in such areas as the
Web application modeling, the test case generation, the
detailed testing methods and techniques, the testing
executing process, and the testing measurements. And
based on the rules of software engineering, these
processes are the necessary parts of the whole testing.
Our methods focus on such specialties as numerous
users, distributed structures, dynamic and interactive
functions of Web applications and the improvements for
the testing efficiency.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2005:SNSa,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "19--27",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039183",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Building real-time applications can be one of the most
difficult jobs facing today's software engineers. With
all the talk about Web services and Web based
applications we sometimes forget that there is a large
community of practice engaged in the construction of
hard real-time systems. Real-time software engineering
has been around for several decades. Typical real-time
applications can be found in the areas of
communications, avionics, process control, and other
specialized applications such as signaling and
switching systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2005:RIC,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Interpreting the CMMI: a
Process Improvement Approach}} by Margaret K. Kulpa and
Kent A. Johnson. Auerbach Publications 2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "33--34",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039202",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2005:RSS,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Six Sigma Software
Development}} by Christine B. Tayntor. Auerbach
Publications, 2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "34--34",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039203",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Che:2005:ROPa,
author = "Haoyang Che",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{The Object Primer}}, 2nd
Edition by Scott W. Ambler. Cambridge University Press:
Cambridge, 2001, 0-521-785197 (paperback)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "35--35",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039204",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Che:2005:ROPb,
author = "Haoyang Che",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{The Object Primer}}, 3rd
Edition by Scott W. Ambler. Cambridge University Press:
Cambridge, 2004, 0-521-54018-6 (paperback)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "35--36",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039205",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Che:2005:REB,
author = "Haoyang Che",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Eclipse: Building Commercial
Quality Plug-ins}} by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel.
Addison Wesley, 2004, 0-321-22847-2 (paperback)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "36--36",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039206",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Frazer:2005:RMP,
author = "Ken Frazer",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Memory as a Programming Concept
in C and C++}} by Frantisek Franek. Cambridge
University Press, 2004, (paperback), 0-521-52043-6}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "36--37",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039207",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lawler:2005:RCD,
author = "Brian Lawler",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{CMMI Distilled: a Practical
Introduction to Integrated Process Improvement}},
Second Edition by Dennis M. Ahern, Aaron Clouse and
Richard Turner. Addison Wesley, 2004, paperback, ISBN
0-321-18613-3}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "37--38",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039208",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2005:RSD,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Software Development for Small
Teams: a RUP-Centric Approach}} by Gary Pollice, Liz
Augustine, Chris Lowe, and Jas Madhur. Addison-Wesley,
2004, paperback, ISBN 0-321-19950-2}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "38--38",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039209",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2005:RSR,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Software Reliability
Engineering: More Reliable Software Faster and
Cheaper}} --- 2nd Edition by John Musa. AuthorHouse,
Inc., 2004, Hardback, ISBN 1-4184-9388-0, Paperback,
ISBN 1-4184-9387-2}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "38--39",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1039210",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Staff:2005:BRA,
author = "{ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Staff}",
title = "Backmatter (Report abstracts, Paper abstracts, Book
Reviews, Calendar of Future Events)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "1",
pages = "40",
month = jan,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1039174.1057983",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Staff:2005:FTL,
author = "{ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Staff}",
title = "Frontmatter ({TOC}, Letters, Open Source Software
({OSS}) Patent Search Engine, Calendar of Events,
Workshop and Conference Information)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "0",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1057988",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gill:2005:FAE,
author = "Nasib S. Gill",
title = "Factors affecting effective software quality
management revisited",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "1--4",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050862",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Developing a good software system is a very complex
task. In order to produce a good software product,
several measures for software quality attributes need
to be taken into account. System complexity measurement
plays a vital role in controlling and managing software
quality because it generally affects the software
quality attributes like software reliability, software
testability and software maintainability. Thus,
software quality assurance (SQA) needs to be addressed
keeping in view the new strategies, tool, methodologies
and techniques applicable to software development life
cycle. This paper is primarily aimed at revisiting and
examining peculiar aspects of software development
process that affect software quality management
process. These aspects of software development process
include software reliability measurement, ISO approach
applicable to software quality and some aspects related
to software testing improvement. Software testing and
evaluation methods/tools/techniques do not guarantee
effective testing and ensure high software quality. The
way to improve the effectiveness of testing is to
improve the attitude of software developers towards
testing. In this paper, all these factors affecting
software quality management have been discussed as well
as all the possible improvements have been suggested.
The results of this paper may be quite helpful to the
researchers in quantifying the specific measuring tools
for these software quality attributes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bhatti:2005:WQI,
author = "Shahid Nazir Bhatti",
title = "Why quality?: {ISO} 9126 software quality metrics
(Functionality) support by {UML} suite",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "1--5",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050860",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The widespread use of information services will only
be accepted by users if their quality is of acceptable
level. It is therefore of high interest to be able to
estimate, or even measure the quality of a system under
construction. UML is now a de-factor standard for
modelling systems to be build. This paper indicates how
UML diagrams are related to software quality metrics as
described in ISO/IEC 9126 and similar quality
standards. The paper discusses relevant quality
metrics, analyses sources of errors and relates them to
the UML diagrams used in software engineering. The
paper discusses the sub-attributes of the attribute
'Functionality' in more detail and relates the to the
relevant UML diagrams.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Roberts:2005:GMO,
author = "Keith A. Roberts",
title = "Generic methodology for open source software
development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "1--5",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050863",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This is the outline proposal for a CASE tool and
associated methodology for Open Source software
development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sagheb-Tehrani:2005:ESD,
author = "Mehdi Sagheb-Tehrani",
title = "Expert systems development: some issues of design
process",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "1--5",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050864",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A discussion is presented of why some Expert Systems
(ES) that organizations have developed are not
successful. The concept of design process plays a very
significant role in the outset of the Expert Systems
Development (ESD) process. This concept has not been
the subject of much debate and attention in ESD. From
the authors' point of view, one of the main issues is
how the designer (knowledge Engineer) thinks about the
design process. In general, the designers' process is
influenced by the knowledge engineer's conception. This
paper endeavors to disclose some of the main factors
related to knowledge engineer's conception of design
process and an attempt is made to put forward a
conceptual model of the expert systems' design process.
This conceptual model is an initial step towards a
successful implementation of ES projects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Breen:2005:CCR,
author = "Michael Breen",
title = "Combinatorial completion by rule definition with
interactive value colouring",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "1--6",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050861",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The combinatorial completion problem arises where one
wishes to define a set of rules which collectively
address all possible combinations of circumstances, as,
for example, in a decision table. After some rules have
been defined but, e.g., millions of cases remain to be
addressed, how can the specifier best be helped to
complete the remaining rules so that they cover every
possible scenario? A novel technique is described based
on providing interactive feedback to the user during
rule definition. This can be used with non-tabular as
well as tabular rules. Where previously quality would
have depended on essentially sample-based approaches
like testing, this technique makes it easy to adopt a
rigorously complete approach to considering large
numbers of possibilities.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Xu:2005:BSP,
author = "Baowen Xu and Ju Qian and Xiaofang Zhang and
Zhongqiang Wu and Lin Chen",
title = "A brief survey of program slicing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "1--36",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050865",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Program slicing is a technique to extract program
parts with respect to some special computation. Since
Weiser first proposed the notion of slicing in 1979,
hundreds of papers have been presented in this area.
Tens of variants of slicing have been studied, as well
as algorithms to compute them. Different notions of
slicing have different properties and different
applications. These notions vary from Weiser's
syntax-preserving static slicing to amorphous slicing
which is not syntax-preserving, and the algorithms can
be based on dataflow equations, information-flow
relations or dependence graphs. Slicing was
first-developed to facilitate debugging, but it is then
found helpful in many aspects of the software
development life cycle, including program debugging,
software testing, software measurement, program
comprehension, software maintenance, program
parallelization and so on. Over the last two decades,
several surveys on program slicing have been presented.
However, most of them only reviewed parts of researches
on program slicing or have now been out of date. People
who are interested in program slicing need more
information about the up to date researches. Our survey
fills this gap. In this paper, we briefly review most
of existing slicing techniques including static
slicing, dynamic slicing and the latest slicing
techniques. We also discuss the contribution of each
work and compare the major difference between them.
Researches on slicing are classified by the research
hot spots such that people can be kept informed of the
overall program slicing researches.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2005:SEEb,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "3--3",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050851",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Finally, I am a bit ahead of the deadline curve. As
promised in my previous SEE d column, John Knight is
our guest columnist. His contribution ``Focusing
Software Education on Engineering'' appears below. This
is based upon his excellent CSEE\&T 2004 keynote talk
with the same title and some insights from his October
2004 ComputerWeekly.com article available at
http://www.computerweekly.com/Article 134277.htm.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Knight:2005:FSE,
author = "John C. Knight",
title = "Focusing software education on engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "3--5",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050852",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The software crisis is still with us. In fact, it is
worse than it has ever been, and we see evidence of the
crisis regularly. All manner of applications from
desktop systems to large-scale information systems are
delivered late, exceed their projected budgets, and
fail in various ways leading to inconvenience, loss of
service, and loss of revenue. A recent study by the
National Institute of Standards and Technology found
that software errors cost the U.S. Economy about \$59.5
billion annually [4] National Institute of Standards
and Technology, The Economic Impacts of Inadequate
Infrast.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2005:OJC,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "{It}'s our job to care for {SE}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "6--8",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050854",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "I want software engineering to become a great and
enduring profession. Alas, this topic is too large for
one essay, so here I focus on the notion that ``it is
our job to care for SE.'' This can be restated as ``we
must be true to ourselves'' or ``success'' comes from
within`` or ''we are responsible for our own success.''
I believe that most of what I write here is obvious,
but I believe it warrants a closer look and I want to
say it clearly.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2005:SNSb,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "9--16",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050856",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "What is good code? A simple question, but how can you
tell if a load o' code is good stuff or a pile of
spaghetti? That's where source code quality analysis
comes into play. In this month's column, we're going to
visit some web sites that will help you establish or
improve your code quality processes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2005:RPa,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the Public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "17--25",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050858",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relating to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. O cial RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Beasley:2005:RBA,
author = "Charles Beasley",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Balancing Agility and
Discipline: a Guide for the Perplexed}} by Barry Boehm
and Richard Turner; Addison Wesley, 2004, ISBN
0-321-18612-5}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "28--28",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050867",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the
Perplexed is a book written for the developers who live
it the world caught between two conflicting approaches
to software development, the Agile method and the
Traditional methods. This book breaks out the basic
reading to the main text and puts the technical
material in the appendices. It also provides ``fast
track'' summaries, side bar discussions, and margin
notes. The book overall is organized to define the
boundaries of the two methods followed by a chapter
discussing where each method work the best. The next
chapter covers the way a day might go using each method
followed by a chapter describing two project cases.
Chapter five gives a way to determine how to choose one
method over the other with the final chapter giving you
a summary of the material. Discussion, technical
background and notes follow this.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Che:2005:ROT,
author = "Haoyang Che",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Object Thinking}} by David
West; Microsoft Press: Microsoft, 2004,
0-7356-1965-4}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "28--29",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050868",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Object Thinking, by David West, a highly renowned
technologist and evangelist in the community, is
definitely a thoughtful and profound object-oriented
book. It is written in a really unique style, and
different from other object books we've seen ever
before. Previously, none of them shows too much
interest in the cultural, historical, and philosophical
underpinnings of objects in software development. This
exceptional and controversial book begins with the
basic premise that there is much more to
object-oriented paradigm than a matter of experience of
object-oriented languages. To fully understand object
orientation requires understanding the philosophical
and historical roots from which objects come. In a
sense, the book talks more about knowledge instead of
techniques, wisdom instead of knowledge.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Che:2005:REC,
author = "Haoyang Che",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{The Elements of C++ Style}} by
Trevor Misfeldt, Gregory Bumgardner, and Andrew Gray;
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004,
0-521-89308-9}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "29--29",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050869",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "When we first write an article, generally speaking, we
may not pay a lot of attention to the style. However,
after a few more pieces, we will gradually find that
these articles need polishing not only in the contents,
but also in the styles, so we turn to Struck and
White's The Elements of Style for help. Similarly, in
the field of computer languages, there have many books
(The Elements of Java Style, The Elements of C++ Style,
The Elements of UML Style) furnishing a set of rules
for writing in a certain language like C++ or Java. To
some extent, conforming to style is a symbol of
specialty. Consistent style facilitates communication
and will be honored by other members in the same
team.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Che:2005:ROO,
author = "Haoyang Che",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Object-Oriented Programming
with Visual Basic.NET}} by Michael McMillan; Cambridge
University Press: Cambridge, 2004, 0-521-53983-8}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "29--30",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050870",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "I've already been a VB user for almost seven years.
However, I must confess that I've rarely touched it
since the last multimedia medical project. We used VB 6
in our development team, for that VB.NET didn't gain
ground at that time. The first time I heard of VB.NET
was in mid-2002. Then all of a sudden when I got up in
the next morning, Microsoft {.NET} technology seemed to
have become popular overnight. Buzzwords and slogans
were everywhere: on the Internet, on the weighty books
of published abstracts, on T-shirts, on sweatshirts,
and even on souvenir pens. Is VB.NET still VB? Everyone
may bear the question in his mind when he first
glimpses at it. Object-Oriented Programming with Visual
Basic.NET by Michael McMillan will give you a
reasonable answer.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2005:RTE,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Testing Embedded Software}} by
Bart Broekman and Edwin Notenboom; Addison Wesley.;
2003}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "30--30",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050871",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This book discusses testing of software and
software-rich systems; particularly those that are
embedded in larger Hardware/Software systems. On the
other hand, to describe it another way, this book is
one of those books that make writing book reviews
really fun and worthwhile. (If that sounds like I like
the book, you are right!) I have looked at just about
every testing book to come out since Glenford Myers' '
The Art of Software Testing ' in 1979 (I have most of
them, too; having caught acute bibliophilia at an early
age). This is clearly one of the better ones in quite a
while; at least since Boris Beizer, and that is saying
a lot.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2005:RFB,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Find the Bug: a Book of
Incorrect Programs}} by Adam Barr; Pearson Education,
2004, ISBN 0-321-22391-8}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "2",
pages = "30--31",
month = mar,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1050849.1050872",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:49 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Now, this is a real geek's book! Most of us would
rather write code than read code, but all of us have
had to spend hours (or days!) hunting for the elusive
bug that's driving us crazy, and this book offers the
opportunity to develop and refine our bug-finding
skills. What a concept!",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2005:FTL,
author = "Will Tracz",
title = "Frontmatter ({TOC}, Letters, Preaching to the Choir!,
Interviewers Needed, Time to Vote!, New Resource on
{SW} Engineering, Calendar of Events, Workshop and
Conference Information)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "0",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061894",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Feller:2005:CCC,
author = "Joseph Feller and Brian Fitzgerald and Scott Hissam
and Karim Lakhani",
title = "Collaboration, conflict and control: report on the
{4th Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "1--2",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061885",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Building on the success of the first three workshops
in the series, which were held at ICSE 2001 (Toronto),
ICSE 2002 (Orlando) and ICSE 2003 (Portland), the
4$^{th}$ Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering,
(``Collaboration, Conflict and Control'') brought
together researchers and practitioners for the purpose
of discussing the platforms and tools, techniques and
processes, and the organizational structures that are
used to support and sustain communication,
collaboration and conflict resolution within and
between open source software communities.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kendapadi:2005:BMN,
author = "Ananth Kendapadi and Matt Gandolfo and Amitosh
Shukla",
title = "{BatchFlow}: a method and notation to visualize
{RDBMS} batch jobs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "1--5",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061888",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In a typical IT division of a large enterprise, there
are a significant number of batch jobs that process
data in relational database systems and flat files.
These jobs may range from those that are run once in a
year to those that are run every hour or every few
minutes. While there are many notations available to
represent a relational database schema including the ER
model [1], it appears that there is no good visual
notation to represent the jobs themselves. To some
extent, this problem can be addressed by using
flowcharts, UML sequence diagrams, and operations
summary matrix. However, these notations and
representations do not leverage the fact that most of
the operations in a batch job are usually a relational
select/insert/update/delete operation on a relational
table, or a read/write operation on a file. In this
paper, we introduce a method and notation that we call
BatchFlow. This notation can help organizations in
visualizing and communicating the batch job designs at
a high level.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chiang:2005:IHP,
author = "Chia-Chu Chiang",
title = "Implicit heterogeneous and parallel programming",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "1--6",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061887",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Programmers are often required to develop parallel
programs using new parallel languages or parallel
extensions to existing languages that are different
from the languages they used previously on sequential
machines. As a consequence, programmers are faced with
unfamiliar programming models and are often compelled
to program at a low level with specific target
machines. In this paper, we are going to introduce an
implicit parallel programming method that allows
programmers to use their favorite sequential
programming languages for heterogeneous and parallel
programming. Implicit parallelism relieves programmers
since they do not have to worry about the details of
parallel execution.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ramachandran:2005:SRG,
author = "Muthu Ramachandran",
title = "Software reuse guidelines",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "1--8",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061889",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we discuss the general area of software
development for reuse and reuse guidelines. We
identify, in detail, language-oriented and
domain-oriented guidelines whose effective use affects
component reusability. This paper also proposes a tool
support which can provide advise and can generate
reusable components automatically and it is based on
domain knowledge (reuse guidelines represented as
domain knowledge).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Crnkovic:2005:RIS,
author = "Ivica Crnkovic and Ralf Reussner and Heinz Schmidt and
Kevin Simons and Judith Stafford and Kurt Wallnau",
title = "Report of the International Symposium on
Component-Based Software Engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "1--9",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061884",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The International Symposium on Component-Based
Software Engineering (CBSE7) was held at 28$^{th}$
International Conference on Software Engineering in
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 24-25, 2004. The Symposium
brought together researchers and practitioners from
several communities: component technology, composition
languages, compositional analysis, software
architecture, software certification and scientific
computing. The primary goal of the symposium was to
continue clarifying the concepts, identifying the main
challenges and findings of predictable assembly of
software components. This report gives a comprehensive
summary of the position papers, of the symposium, its
findings, and its results.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Reifer:2005:ESE,
author = "Donald J. Reifer",
title = "Educating software engineers: an industry viewpoint",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "8--9",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061876",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "When Peter Henderson asked me to comment on the
software engineering curricula proposed by the IEEE and
ACM Joint Task Force$^1$, I was thrilled. I thought the
idea of academics asking for industry input to be
strikingly original. I then dug into the proposed
curriculum to determine if it would help prepare those
from academia entering the software engineering
workforce with the skills, knowledge and abilities they
need to build quality software products on-time and
within budget. Software engineers in most industrial
organizations are problem solvers who perform difficult
tasks like interfacing with users, developing
requirements, specifying interfaces, performing design
tradeoffs, developing algorithms and testing and
evaluating products. They must be able to communicate
with others from associated engineering disciplines,
like communications and systems engineering, and work
as members of interdisciplinary teams.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2005:TGE,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "Toward a great and enduring profession",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "9--11",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061878",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "SE is emerging from years of turmoil. Practitioners
are beginning to stand up for themselves and their
profession. I have seen them do so in Technology Review
and heard them on NPR. Practitioners are fighting for
their jobs, against outsourcers, like the SEI.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2005:SNSc,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "12--21",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061880",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Remember the good old days when your computer science
professor assigned you a programming task that required
you to turn in the source code (usually FORTRAN) and a
flowchart? You'd run off, code up the assignment, get
it to run correctly, then go back and write up the
flowchart to match the program. That's how most of us
learned to design software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2005:RPb,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "22--37",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061882",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relating to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks. This issue spans (R
23 67) to (R 23 83).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2005:RRS,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Return on Software}} by Steve
Tockey; Addison Wesley, 2005}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "39--40",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061891",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This book examines the issues concerning our
investments in software systems and software-rich,
embedded systems. As far as I can tell, every aspect of
this difficult subject seems to have been covered. It
is, I believe, the first time that such a book has
appeared. Prof. Boehm's book is not only quite old by
now; it examined economic aspects of systems from a
totally different viewpoint and with different aims. A
book on the economics of software has been needed for
quite a long time. All analysts look at the economic
aspects of what they propose to do --- if they don't
they are certainly not professional; they are wasteful
amateurs. However, it is unfortunately rare for this to
be done well as very few technical analysts have the
basic economic training to do so.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Weber-Wulff:2005:ROE,
author = "Debora Weber-Wulff",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Official eclipse 3.0 FAQs}} by
John Arthorne and Chris Laffra; Addison-Wesley, 2004,
ISBN 0-321-26838-5}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "40--40",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061892",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Weber-Wulff:2005:RCE,
author = "Debora Weber-Wulff",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Contributing to eclipse:
Principles, Patterns, and Plug-Ins}} by Erich Gamma and
Kent Beck, Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0-321-20575-8}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "3",
pages = "40--41",
month = may,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1061874.1061893",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2005:FTLa,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "Frontmatter ({TOC}, Letters, Election results,
Software Reliability Resources!, Computing Curricula
2004 and the Software Engineering Volume {SE2004},
Software Reuse Research, {ICSE 2005} Forward)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "0",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1085124",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Binder:2005:AMA,
author = "Robert V. Binder and James E. Hanlon",
title = "The advanced mobile application testing environment",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--1",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083289",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Advanced Mobile Application Testing Environment
(AMATE) combines model-based test generation and
evaluation, controllable RF airlink variation, and a
robust standards-based distributed test harness for
end-to-end testing of distributed mobile applications.
This report summarizes AMATE capabilities.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ehrich:2005:HII,
author = "Hans-Dieter Ehrich",
title = "Harmonizing intra- and inter-object specification and
verification: a multi-object logics approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--1",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083184",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Object-oriented approaches to designing information
systems suggest to distinguish between intra- and
inter-object aspects. While intra-object design and
verification tools are being used on a large scale,
inter-object techniques are not yet well established.
There are a variety of approaches addressing the
concurrency and communication aspects of multi-object
systems, but fundamental problems remain. The TROLL
object specification language project aims at providing
logic-based formal semantics to intra- and inter-object
aspects, among others. For the former, a conventional
temporal logic was employed. For the latter, an
extension called multi-object logic was developed. It
has proven useful for semantics descriptions, recently
also for a mobile-agent extension where the innovative
contribution was to distinguish between the ever-mobile
units and those which provide fixed subsystems as
contexts for the mobile entities. While being developed
for giving semantics, multi-object logics showed
surprising potential for verification. Conventionally,
intra-object verification techniques are applied to
inter-object verification by building a global state
space. This state space, however, grows exponentially
with the number of objects in the system. In spite of
sophisticated techniques which have been developed to
overcome this 'state-space explosion' problem, there is
a notorious complexity barrier. It is not feasible to
verify large systems this way. In the multi-object
logic approach, the construction of the global state
space --- or any fraction or abstraction thereof --- is
avoided. So it has the potential to handle large
systems. The method is applicable in cases where the
objects and interaction patterns in a system are known
beforehand, when writing the global conditions to be
checked. Although these conditions are bound to
objects, they are 'global' in the sense that they may
refer to the states of other objects at interaction
points. This way, conditions concerning interacting
objects may be written in a still basically sequential
logic, although multiple objects are assumed to behave
concurrently. Global checking conditions may then be
automatically and equivalently split into local
conditions for the objects involved, plus interaction
requirements for these objects. All these conditions
and requirements can be checked locally, one after the
other, where only the objects involved in the condition
have to be taken into account. While we are working on
the potential of the approach for software engineering,
it may have potential beyond: we are also working on a
project to simulate and analyze biological processes
using object-oriented techniques. For instance, model
checking can be used to find possible scenarios leading
to biological cell states of interest. Applying the
multi-object approach here is a challenging problem.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Garlan:2005:DWD,
author = "David Garlan and Marin Litoiu and Hausi A. M{\"u}ller
and John Mylopoulos and Dennis B. Smith and Kenny
Wong",
title = "{DEAS 2005: workshop on the Design and Evolution of
Autonomic Application Software}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--1",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083064",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Understanding software engineering issues for
autonomic computing systems is critical for the
software and information technology sectors, which are
continually challenged to reduce the complexity of
their systems. To be autonomic, a system must know
itself as well as its boundaries and its environment,
configure and reconfigure itself, continually optimize
itself, recover or heal from malfunction, protect
itself, and function in a heterogeneous world --- while
keeping its complexity hidden from the user. The goal
of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners, who investigate concepts, methodologies,
techniques, technologies, and tools to design and
evolve autonomic software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson-Sellers:2005:AOM,
author = "Brian Henderson-Sellers",
title = "Agent-oriented methodologies: method engineering and
metamodelling",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--1",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082964",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "With the growing interest in the use of agent-oriented
methodologies for software development, there is a need
to identify influences and commonalities as a basis for
advancing the state-of-the-art in AO methodologies.
Here we advocate the use of a method engineering
approach, underpinned by metamodelling as a means to
achieve flexible support for many different kinds of
project and agent systems. Using the OPEN Process
Framework as an exemplar, we demonstrate the value of
this approach, concluding with recommendations for
future collaborative work.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Minsky:2005:LGM,
author = "Naftaly Minsky",
title = "Law-governed multi-agent systems: from anarchy to
order",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--1",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082965",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "I will argue that a multi-agent system should not be
viewed as just the totality of its members, but that it
should include the set of laws that governs the
interaction between these members. Such laws need to be
made explicit, as part of the design of the MAS, and
they need to be enforced on its implementation.I will
discuss the architecture and the scalable
implementation of such law-governed MAS, using a
coordination and control mechanism called Law-Governed
Interaction (LGI); and will consider various
implication of this architecture, to issues such as
reasoning about a MAS, and making it dependable.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bruschi:2005:SES,
author = "Danilo Bruschi and Bart {De Win} and Mattia Monga",
title = "Software engineering for secure systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--2",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082996",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The SESS'05 held in St. Louis, MO on May 15-16 was
intended to be a venue to discuss techniques for
building and validating secure applications. Workshop
attendees (about 40 people) came both from the software
engineering and the security community, raising a
fruitful discussion and exchange of ideas and problem
perspectives.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Garcia:2005:SELa,
author = "Alessandro Garcia and Ricardo Choren and Carlos Lucena
and Alexander Romanovsky and Tom Holvoet and Paolo
Giorgini",
title = "Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent
systems --- {SELMAS'05}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--2",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082962",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software is becoming present in every aspect of our
lives, pushing us inevitably towards a world of
distributed, context-aware computing systems.
SELMAS'05, ``Software Everywhere --- Context-Aware
Agents'', was built on the success of precedent SELMAS
workshops, but with a special emphasis on the impact of
the agent technology in the development of large
context-aware systems. SELMAS has a track record of
bringing together researchers and practitioners with a
variety of perspectives in order to engage in lively
discussion and debate. A particular interest of this
workshop was to understand those issues in the agent
technology that make it difficult and/or improve the
production of context-aware systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pollock:2005:IWS,
author = "Lori Pollock and James Andrews",
title = "{ICSE 2005} workshop summary {Third International
Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA 2005)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--2",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082999",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Dynamic analysis techniques collect and examine
information about program executions. Particularly
combined with static analysis, results from dynamic
analysis can have many uses in regard to developing
robust and reliable large-scale software systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pretschner:2005:IIW,
author = "Alexander Pretschner and Christian Salzmann and Thomas
Stauner",
title = "{2nd Intl. ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for
Automotive Systems}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--2",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082997",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper summarizes the second International
Workshop on Software Engineering for Automotive
Systems, held in conjunction with ICSE'05. We give a
brief overview of the presented papers and pinpoint the
highlights of the discussions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Asundi:2005:NEE,
author = "Jai Asundi",
title = "The need for effort estimation models for open source
software projects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083260",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Open source software(OSS), be it products or tools,
are being adopted at a fairly rapid pace in commercial
organizations. In fact many firms such as IBM and Sun
are even 'opening' up their once proprietary software
products and making the source code available. This
phenomenon may have a profound effect on the various
software engineering methodologies and practices as
well as project management activities. Given the
difficulty in managing resources in closed source
projects, planning and delivery for OSS projects will
be an even bigger challenge. In this position paper, we
describe the need for new effort estimation models for
the development of OSS projects and how this will be
required for future project management activities. We
outline some of the guidelines to build these cost
estimation models and some issues that arise in the
verification and validation of these cost models.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bajracharya:2005:UNO,
author = "Sushil Krishna Bajracharya and Trung Chi Ngo and
Cristina Videira Lopes",
title = "On using Net Options Value as a value based design
framework",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083104",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We present our experiences using Net Options Value
(NOV) as a framework for evaluating options in software
design. We start with a brief introduction of the NOV
model, provide summaries of analyses --- where and how
NOV has been applied, and list some of the open issues
based on the early works in this area. In particular we
present our approach to understand an important
parameter of the NOV called the 'technical potential'
of a module and outline our further research directions
in using NOV.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ciolkowski:2005:APE,
author = "Marcus Ciolkowski and J{\"u}rgen M{\"u}nch",
title = "Accumulation and presentation of empirical evidence:
problems and challenges",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083178",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Understanding the effects of software engineering
techniques and processes under varying conditions can
be seen as a major prerequisite towards predictable
project planning and guaranteeing software quality.
Evidence regarding the effects of techniques and
processes for specific contexts can be gained by
empirical studies. Due to the fact that software
development is a human-based and context-oriented
activity the effects vary from project environment to
project environment. As a consequence, the studies need
to be performed in specific environments and the
results are typically only valid for these local
environments. Potential users of the evidence gained in
such studies (e.g., project planners who need to select
techniques and processes for a project) are confronted
with difficulties such as finding and understanding the
relevant results and assessing whether and how they can
be applied to their own situation. Thereby, effective
transfer and use of empirical findings is hindered. Our
thesis is that effective dissemination and exploitation
of empirical evidence into industry requires
aggregation, integration, and adequate
stakeholder-oriented presentation of the results. This
position paper sketches major problems and challenges
and proposes research issues towards solving the
problem.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dittrich:2005:COM,
author = "Yvonne Dittrich and Kari R{\"o}nkk{\"o} and Olle
Lindeberg and Jeanette Erickson and Christina Hansson",
title = "Co-Operative Method Development revisited",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083111",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "During the last five years, we applied a research
approach we call 'Co-operative Method Development'
formulated on first experience with empirical research
focusing especially on the social side of software
engineering. This position paper summarizes the
experiences and discusses the improvement and further
development of this research approach based on our
experiences in different research projects in
co-operation with industrial partners.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kitchenham:2005:REB,
author = "Barbara Kitchenham and David Budgen and Pearl Brereton
and Step Hen Linkman",
title = "Realising evidence-based software engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083175",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper provides an introduction to the papers for
the Workshop on Realising Evidence-Based Software
Engineering.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Koru:2005:EHM,
author = "A. G{\"u}nes Koru and A. Ant Ozok and Anthony F.
Norcio",
title = "The effect of human memory organization on code
reviews under different single and pair code reviewing
scenarios",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083114",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Human memory organization has been shown to be related
to how programmers understand programs. In recent
years, agile methods brought the emphasis back on human
and social aspects of software engineering with a set
of new principles and practices. One of them, pair
programming has been shown to improve quality and
reduce the development costs. In this position paper,
we propose a controlled experiment to evaluate the
effect of human memory organization through chunking on
code reviews under different single and pair code
reviewing scenarios.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ovans:2005:AWR,
author = "Russell Ovans",
title = "All we really need to know about software engineering
is in the film office space",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083006",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The 1999 Mike Judge film Office Space enjoys a cult
following, particularly amongst software engineers.
Despite its mass appeal and broad comedic base, the
film contains many hidden gems of wisdom regarding the
craft of software engineering. In this short paper I
discuss six rules that are embodied in the film's plot
line and characterizations, and what the film has to
teach us about each of them. The rules are: design for
change; software engineering is a social activity; an
untested program does not work; not everyone gets to
write video games; Brooks' Law; and, you will be
expected to work long hours.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pickard:2005:OIN,
author = "Michael M. Pickard",
title = "Old issues, new eyes",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083239",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper considers end user development (EUD) from
the perspective of a veteran software professional.
Many of the issues currently discussed in relation to
EUD have existed almost from the dawn of computing.
However, there are some modern trends that have the
potential to affect both end user computing and
professional software development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Robillard:2005:JTC,
author = "Martin P. Robillard and Gail C. Murphy",
title = "Just-in-time concern modeling",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083136",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this position paper, we propose the notion of
just-in-time concern modeling. As some concerns emerge
late in the software life cycle and can be ephemeral,
we argue that mechanisms should be available to capture
descriptions of concerns as they emerge or become
relevant. Based on our experience with the FEAT concern
modeling and analysis tool, we highlight the essential
characteristics, benefits, and pitfalls of just-in-time
concern modeling at the source code level.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Robillard:2005:WMA,
author = "Martin P. Robillard",
title = "{Workshop on the Modeling and Analysis of Concerns in
Software (MACS 2005)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082995",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report is a summary of the Workshop on the
Modeling and Analysis of Concerns in Software (MACS
2005) held at the 27$^{th}$ International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE 2005). The main goal of the
workshop was to bring together researchers and
practitioners with interest in techniques for modeling
and analyzing the realization of concerns in software
systems to support software development and evolution.
The workshop consisted of an interactive combination of
presentations and discussions. The presentations and
discussions were based on a collection of 16 short
papers covering a wide range of approaches.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Smith:2005:IIA,
author = "Dennis Smith and Edwin Morris and David Carney",
title = "Interoperability issues affecting autonomic
computing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083084",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Most autonomic systems consist of a number of
components and systems. These systems require a high
degree of interoperability between the constituent
components and systems. We describe current research on
the topic of interoperability that has relevance for
autonomic systems and list a set of critical properties
of interoperability that need to be considered in
designing autonomic systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Spraragen:2005:CCT,
author = "Susan L. Spraragen",
title = "The challenges in creating tools for improving the
software development lifecycle",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083118",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Creating successful software systems for end user
applications is a complex task. It is often proposed
that tools can be built for development teams to help
them do their job more efficiently and to help them
communicate with their team members. The success of
these tools relies on how well the technical community
that builds software tools understands the needs of the
technical community that uses these tools. How can we
effectively apply a user centered design approach to
building these tools?",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Srikanth:2005:ERB,
author = "Hema Srikanth and Laurie Williams",
title = "On the economics of requirements-based test case
prioritization",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083100",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software testing is a strenuous and expensive process.
At least 50\% of the total software cost is spent on
testing activities [12]. Companies are often faced with
time and resource constraints that limit their ability
to effectively complete testing efforts. Companies
generally save suites for reuse; test suite reuse
accounts for almost half of the maintenance cost [9].
As the product goes thru several versions, executing
all the test cases in a test suite can be expensive
[9]. Prioritization of test cases can be cost effective
when the time allocated to complete testing is limited
[9]. Test case prioritization (TCP) involves the
explicit planning of the execution of test cases in a
specific order and is shown to improve the rate of
fault detection [3, 9]. The current software TCP
techniques are primarily coverage-based (statement,
branch or other coverage) [3,9]. Coverage-based
white-box prioritization techniques are most applicable
for regression testing at the unit level and are harder
to apply on complex systems [2]. These techniques
require testers to read and understand the code, which
can be time consuming [2], and may assume that all
faults are equally severe.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tai:2005:CAR,
author = "Grace Tai",
title = "A communication architecture from rapid prototyping",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083120",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Communication issues can become a progress-impeding
burden to software projects requiring advanced group
collaboration. Human and social factors, such as
conflicting personalities, educational backgrounds, or
different communication styles, play a large part in
group communication. During a recent rapid prototyping
project with over 30 collaborators, including software
engineers, UI designers and non-technical customers, we
understood that effective and efficient communication
would be crucial to the success of our project. The
communication architecture that we evolved through the
project incorporates human and social factors so that
team members with different backgrounds (e.g., UI
design, software engineering, non-technical) can
communicate effectively in an agile development
environment.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Adams:2005:ARL,
author = "Paul Adams and Cornelia Boldyreff and David Nutter and
Stephen Rank",
title = "Adaptive reuse of libre software systems for
supporting on-line collaboration",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083259",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, the adaptive reuse of Plone; an open
source content management system is described. In one
instance, Plone has been used as the backbone of a
collaboration and communication support infrastructure
within a large research project. In the other, Plone
has been used as the main web-presence of a specialist
group of the British Computer Society. This paper
analyses the benefits and problems of reusing Plone to
support collaboration. Based on this reuse experience,
a more systematic approach to supporting Plone reuse is
proposed. This approach takes into account the special
case of reuse support relevant to open source software
developments.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Aggarwal:2005:EVT,
author = "K. K. Aggarwal and Yogesh Singh and Pravin Chandra and
Manimala Puri",
title = "Evaluation of various training algorithms in a neural
network model for software engineering applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083003",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software Engineering as a discipline emerged in
response to the software crisis perceived by the
industry. It is a well known fact that at the beginning
of any project, the software industry needs to know how
much will it cost to develop and what would be the time
required. Resource estimation in software engineering
is more challenging than resource estimation in any
other industry. A number of resource estimation methods
are currently available and the neural network model is
one of them. This paper proposes to evaluate various
training algorithms in a neural network model and shows
which is the best suited for software engineering
applications.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Aggarwal:2005:SAF,
author = "K. K. Aggarwal and Yogesh Singh and Pravin Chandra and
Manimala Puri",
title = "Sensitivity analysis of fuzzy and neural network
models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083002",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "It is well known that soft computing techniques can be
very well deployed for software engineering
applications. Among these fuzzy and neural models are
widely used to estimate lines of codes, effort,
software maintainability, software understandability
etc. This paper proposes to carry out a sensitivity
analysis of the two models and shows which one is
better. This is done with the help of a case study
where the two models are used to measure software
maintainability.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Al-Naeem:2005:TSO,
author = "Tariq Al-Naeem and Ian Gorton and Fethi Rabhi and
Boualem Benatallah",
title = "Tool support for optimization-based architectural
evaluation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082954",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Architecting enterprise applications is a complex
design activity. This is especially true when
considering the myriad of interdependent architectural
decisions with an arbitrary number of alternatives that
can be employed at each decision point. Further
complexities stem from the fact that different
alternatives often vary considerably in their support
for different quality attributes. Existing software
architecture evaluation approaches and tools lack the
explicit consideration of design decision
interdependencies, as they primarily focus on one
decision in isolation. For this purpose, we have
earlier developed the ArchDesigner approach to help
determining the optimal mix of architectural
alternatives. This paper discusses an architectural
evaluation support tool that implements the
ArchDesigner approach. The novelty of this tool is in
its support for evaluating combinations of alternatives
against one other, and not only alternatives belonging
to one decision. It treats the architectural evaluation
problem as a search problem and leverages optimization
techniques for evaluating candidate application
architectures.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ali:2005:WTR,
author = "Muhammad Raza Ali",
title = "Why teach reverse engineering?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083004",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software reverse engineering is a fascinating
discipline of software engineering. But it has failed
to attract attention from students. Largely due to the
facts that many universities around the world do not
offer relevant courses, developing new software has
always been considered superior then to maintain
existing systems. But owing to the arrival of the
internet, and client-server technology. Many
organizations wish to adapt their existing systems.
Thus the trend has somewhat shifted towards software
evolution and maintenance. And now, more than ever
before we need software engineers who can work
effectively with legacy systems. In this paper I wish
to highlight importance of incorporating Reverse
engineering concepts and techniques into software
engineering curriculum. I will start with a brief
overview of reverse engineering concepts, and then
discuss advantages of teaching reverse engineering.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cai:2005:VOT,
author = "Yuanfang Cai and Kevin J. Sullivan",
title = "A value-oriented theory of modularity in design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083105",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We were motivated to undertake the research we
describe here by a conversation with two practicing
software engineers, who described a dilemma they faced
at work. They worked for small company that earned
revenues by delivering to a large customer a stream of
enhancements to a software tool. The engineers' jobs
were to estimate the time to make enhancements and to
implement selected enhancements. They were good at
estimating, but dissatisfied with the system design,
believing that it significantly slowed new feature
implementation. They had proposed to management to
restructure the tool. However, the management,
concerned about disrupting the flow of enhancements
thus revenues, and having no clear model of likely
benefits, declined. The engineers believed that
refactoring would increase the velocity of feature
delivery, but they had no sense or ability to analyze
the situation quantitatively or to frame it in a way
that was compelling to business decision-makers. As a
result, the engineers were dissatisfied, and the
company incurred a possibly significant opportunity
cost.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chawner:2005:FOL,
author = "Brenda Chawner",
title = "{F/OSS} in the library world: an exploration",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083262",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Existing research into free/open source software
development has largely ignored the nature of the
application domain the software is for. J{\o}rgensen
and S{\o}rensen's 'development arena' [12] provides a
useful conceptual framework for grouping and comparing
projects. This paper applies the framework to free/open
source software projects in two library and information
management application spaces: integrated library
systems and institutional repositories. The preliminary
analysis shows that F/OSS projects to develop
integrated library systems are generally small scale,
and the software is used mainly by smaller libraries.
Institutional repository software, not widely available
from commercial vendors, is being developed by larger
libraries, often with the assistance of research
funding from other bodies, and is being implemented by
university and research libraries worldwide.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Coelho:2005:APC,
author = "Wesley Coelho and Gail C. Murphy",
title = "{ActiveAspect}: presenting crosscutting structure",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083131",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Developers must often deal with concerns that crosscut
a program's structure. Understanding the crosscutting
structure may help a developer understand and work with
the concern. Current tools for presenting crosscutting
structure suffer either from graphical complexity or a
mismatch between the presentation and the underlying
program structure. We introduce a concern presentation
approach that overcomes these problems through a
combination of automatic abstraction and interactive
features that enable a developer to investigate
relevant details. We sketch how the ActiveAspect tool
we are developing implements this approach for
presenting the crosscutting structure described by
aspects in AspectJ.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cooper:2005:MCO,
author = "Kendra Cooper and Lawrence Chung",
title = "Managing change in an {OTS-aware} requirements
engineering approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082955",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Rapid changes in a component-based application (CBA),
or the capabilities available in off-the-shelf (OTS)
components, have significant impact on the
specification and evolution of requirements in an
OTS-aware requirements engineering paradigm. A
well-disciplined, systematic methodology that
explicitly supports the use of OTS components needs a
clearly defined process for effectively managing the
inevitable changes and determining the impact of such
changes on the system. In this paper, we present a
Non-functional Requirement (NFR) Framework based
approach that supports representing changes either to
an OTS component or a CBA, the associations from
components to the requirements using positive and
negative contributions, reasoning about the impact of
change, and (re-)evaluating the degree of meeting
requirements as a result of these change.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{deLemos:2005:IWAb,
author = "Rog{\'e}rio de Lemos and Alexander Romanovsky",
title = "{ICSE 2005 Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems
(WADS 2005)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082994",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This summary gives a brief overview of a one-day
Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS) held
in conjunction with the International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE 2005). The main aim of this
workshop is to promote cross-fertilization between the
software architecture and dependability communities. We
believe that both of them will benefit from clarifying
approaches that have been previously tested and have
succeeded as well as those that have been tried but
have not yet been shown to be successful.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dong:2005:CAC,
author = "Jing Dong and Sheng Yang and Lawrence Chung and Paulo
Alencar and Donald Cowan",
title = "A {COTS} architectural component specification stencil
for selection and reasoning",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082959",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Reusing commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components may
reduce cost and time-to-market. It may significantly
improve software productivity. However, the selection
and assessment of COTS components are still a challenge
task. It is hard to find the right components that
exactly fit into the requirements. The selection
processes are in general ad-hoc. Wrong choice of COTS
components may compromise the benefits from reusing
these components since the chosen component may
mismatch with other components and the environment. In
this position paper, we advocate a more detailed
architectural specification stencil which may help on
the component selection and mismatch detection. The
architectural specification of a COTS component is
encoded in XML so that searching components can be
automated. In addition, inconsistencies and mismatches
among components can be detected.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Franch:2005:TRF,
author = "Xavier Franch and Marco Torchiano",
title = "Towards a reference framework for {COTS-based}
development: a proposal",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082952",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The literature about COTS-based development suffers
from two main problems: there is no common terminology
and it is not clear whether different techniques
address the same issues and to which extend they
overlap. In this paper we describe a reference model
that sets the basis for a COTS-based development
ontology and terminology. It should allow a systematic
organization of published studies and an easier
comparison of proposed approaches.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gamble:2005:USA,
author = "M. T. Gamble and R. Gamble and M. Hepner",
title = "Understanding solution architecture concerns",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082956",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Modern software system development includes the use of
off-the-shelf components in the form of third-party
software (TPS). Vendors of TPS products play an
increasingly important role in the systems that
incorporate their offerings. Modeling these vendors'
motivations, in the form of architectural concerns and
viewpoints, provides an additional tool for customers
evaluating TPS. Such viewpoint-based analysis of
vendor-oriented solution architectures can provide
valuable insights to customers at the time of TPS
acquisition as well during the overall lifetime of the
system incorporating TPS.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson-Sellers:2005:MEC,
author = "B. Henderson-Sellers and C. Gonzalez-Perez and M. K.
Serour and D. G. Firesmith",
title = "Method engineering and {COTS} evaluation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082950",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This position paper argues that a successful COTS
evaluation process should be based on the principles of
method engineering (ME). Following a brief description
of an ME approach underpinned by a metamodel, some
method fragments related to component-based software
engineering are offered as the starting point for the
creation of a complete suite of method fragments for
future COTS evaluation processes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Higo:2005:ARS,
author = "Yoshiki Higo and Toshihiro Kamiya and Shinji Kusumoto
and Katsuro Inoue",
title = "{ARIES}: refactoring support tool for code clone",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083306",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we explain our refactoring support tool
Aries. Aries characterizes code clones by several
metrics, and suggests how to remove them.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Huang:2005:UID,
author = "LiGuo Huang and Barry Boehm",
title = "Using {iDAVE} to determine availability requirements",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083295",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Different systems have different success-critical
stakeholders. Even for the same system, these
stakeholders may depend on it in different ways for
different scenarios. Therefore a one-size-fits-all
dependability metric is unachievable in practice. In
order to cost-effectively achieve the stakeholders'
desired dependability attribute requirements for a
given project, we have to solve such problems as how to
define an appropriate level for a particular
dependability attribute and how much dependability
investment is enough for a particular software/scenario
class. However, the answers to those questions are
traditionally difficult to obtain. This paper uses a
hypothetical Lunar Biological Laboratory (LBL) as an
example to illustrate how to use the iDAVE model to
determine the appropriate levels of availability
requirements for different software/scenario classes
based on their different ROI profiles.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kaminski:2005:UNY,
author = "Piotr Kaminski and Priyanka Agrawal and Holger Kienle
and Hausi M{\"u}ller",
title = "$ < {\rm username} > $, {I} need you!: initiative and
interaction in autonomic systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083080",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this position paper, we examine factors, such as
trust and usability, which can affect the adoption of
an autonomic system. We argue that a system that
exhibits initiative and strong communication skills is
more likely to be adopted, and propose to treat humans
as modeled, managed elements in an autonomic control
loop to achieve these goals. We then propose some
synergistic design ideas to make communicating with
users more effective, and to allow the system to learn
from the users' actions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ko:2005:HFA,
author = "Andrew J. Ko and Brad A. Myers",
title = "Human factors affecting dependability in end-user
programming",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083245",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Human factors affecting the dependability of end
user's programs are discussed in the context of
controlled and observational studies of both
professional and end-user programmers. These factors
include the influence of the types of behaviors that
end users wish to implement, end user's fundamental
cognitive biases, barriers in the languages,
environments, libraries, and other tools used by end
users, and end users' difficulties with understanding
their code's meaning and execution.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kontio:2005:CPR,
author = "Jyrki Kontio and Jani-Pekka Jokinen and Markus M.
M{\"a}kel{\"a} and Virve Leino",
title = "Current practices and research opportunities in
software business models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083103",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper discusses the notion of a business model in
the context of a software company, reviewing some
common definitions for the term and then characterizing
businesses according to different types of business
models. We will conclude in discussing how different
business models affect software engineering decisions
and the software product itself.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Li:2005:BDS,
author = "Jingyue Li and Reidar Conradi and Odd Petter N.
Slyngstad and Christian Bunse and Umair Khan and
Maurizio Morisio and Marco Torchiano",
title = "Barriers to disseminating off-the-shelf based
development theories to {IT} industry",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082953",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this position paper, we have reported results of an
industrial seminar. The seminar was intended to show
our findings in an international survey, conducted in
Norway, Italy and Germany, on off-the-shelf
component-based development. Discussion in the second
section of the seminar revealed several obstacles of
popularizing the OTS based development theories into IT
industry.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Li:2005:MIP,
author = "Xing Li and Ramesh Nagarajan",
title = "Modeling for image processing system validation,
verification and testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083290",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "State of the art digital copiers and multifunctional
devices not only has millions of lines of software code
but also employ application specific hardware
components each having millions of gates to perform
sophisticated image processing functions. To ensure
high quality of the system, an image path system model,
which contains both an image processing driver model
part and a hardware component model part, is
constructed. The modeling work not only facilitates
system validation, verification and testing but also
maximizes the reuse of well-tested artifacts. This
paper describes the image path system model and its
development process.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mannaert:2005:UOS,
author = "Herwig Mannaert and Kris Ven",
title = "The use of open source software platforms by
Independent Software Vendors: issues and
opportunities",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083266",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Cast4All Content Conductor Platform is an
integration and provisioning suite to manage data
broadcasting networks in general and digital cinema
networks in particular. The framework makes extensive
use of open source components and contains several
extensions and modifications to those components. It is
a typical case of an Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
building application software on top of open source
platform software. In the spirit of the open source
movement, the extensions or modifications to the open
source components could be contributed back to the
community. However, in this paper we discuss several
issues that companies face in such a situation. They
extend far beyond the obvious decision whether to keep
the developed code proprietary, and should not be
neglected. It is argued that a closer collaboration
between open source projects and independent software
vendors would be beneficial to all.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mohamed:2005:DSC,
author = "Abdallah Mohamed and Guenther Ruhe and Armin
Eberlein",
title = "Decision support for customization of the {COTS}
selection process",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082958",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software technologies need to be customized to make
them effective and efficient for a specific context. In
this position paper, we consider the customization of
the COTS selection process. We have developed a
methodology which customizes the selection process
based on the actual project domain characteristics
(PDCs) including attributes such as available effort or
project criticality. The customization of the process
is done at both the process level and the activity
level. We suggest a hybrid approach that integrates
formalized knowledge with human expertise. This
principle has already been successfully used in the
context of the software release planning. The advantage
is two-fold: Firstly, we exploit the existing empirical
results related to different stages of the COTS
selection process. Secondly, we facilitate involvement
of human judgment to determine most appropriate
decisions among the ones proposed by the formalized and
knowledge-based solution techniques.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Munawar:2005:BPB,
author = "Mohammad A. Munawar and Paul A. S. Ward",
title = "Better performance or better manageability?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083072",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/virtual-machines.bib",
abstract = "Competition among software providers creates enormous
pressure on design and development teams to improve
application performance. However, increased performance
leads to systems whose behaviour is harder to predict.
This in turn makes software harder to manage, or
self-manage in the case of autonomic software. In this
paper we elaborate on this problem, first in generic
terms, and then taking memory-usage monitoring in a
Java Virtual Machine as a specific example. We motivate
the need for more research in developing monitoring
techniques that can cope with the complexity of modern
software systems. We finally present our own efforts in
this direction.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nkwocha:2005:FPM,
author = "Fidel Nkwocha and Sebastian Elbaum",
title = "Fault patterns in {Matlab}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083235",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/matlab.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Fault patterns are code idioms that may constitute
faults. Software engineers have various program
analysis techniques and tools to assist them in the
detection of such patterns, resulting in increased
software quality. End user programmers, however, often
lack such support. In this paper we take a first step
to address this limitation in the context of Matlab.
First, we adapt fault patterns commonly used in other
programming languages to Matlab. Second, we present a
tool to detect such patterns in fifteen popular Matlab
programs. Our results reveal that these simple and
quickly identifiable patterns are commonly found in
Matlab programs developed by end users and shared
across the large Matlab community of end user
programmers.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Persson:2005:OTH,
author = "Anna Persson and Henrik Gustavsson and Brian Lings and
Bj{\"o}rn Lundell and Anders Mattsson and Ulf
{\"A}rlig",
title = "{OSS} tools in a heterogeneous environment for
embedded systems modelling: an analysis of adoptions of
{XMI}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083267",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The development and maintenance of UML models is an
inherently distributed activity, where distribution may
be geographical, temporal or both. It is therefore
increasingly important to be able to interchange model
information between tools --- whether in a tool chain,
for legacy reasons or because of the natural
heterogeneity resulting from distributed development
contexts. In this study we consider the current utility
of XMI interchange for supporting OSS tool adoption to
complement other tools in an embedded systems
development context. We find that the current state of
play is disappointing, and speculate that the problem
lies both with the open standards and the way in which
they are being supported and interpreted. There is a
challenge here for the OSS community to take a lead as
tool vendors gear up for XMI 2.0.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Poladian:2005:ACR,
author = "Vahe Poladian and Jo{\~a}o Sousa and Frank Padberg and
Mary Shaw",
title = "Anticipatory configuration of resource-aware
applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083102",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We propose an improved approach to dynamic
configuration of resource-aware applications. The new
anticipatory model of configuration maximizes utility
based on three inputs: user preferences, application
capability profiles, and resource availability. In this
respect, the proposed model is similar to a model of
configuration described in [2]. However, the latter
addresses the dynamic nature of the problem by reacting
to changes (such as decrease in resource availability),
and maximizes the utility in a point-wise manner. The
newly proposed anticipatory approach explicitly models
the duration of the task and leverages possible
information about the future (such as stochastic
resource availability over the expected duration of the
task). We expect that the anticipatory model will
improve user's utility, conserve scarce resources, and
reduce the amount of disruption to the user resulting
from changes when compared to the reactive model.
However, the optimization problem underlying the
anticipatory model is computationally more difficult
than the problem underlying the reactive model. We
would like to investigate if the anticipatory approach
is feasible and efficient in practice while delivering
the above-mentioned improvements. In this paper, we
carefully state the model of anticipatory
configuration, highlight the sources of complexity in
the problem, propose an algorithm to the anticipatory
configuration problem, and provide a roadmap for
research.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Prechelt:2005:MFE,
author = "Lutz Prechelt and Daniel J. Hutzel",
title = "Market forces and end-user programming for
mission-critical systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083238",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The abaXX Workflow Engine (WFE) is a J2EE COTS
software component, part of a larger suite for building
web-based systems. Although these systems are usually
mission-critical (the customers often being financial
institutions), a visual tool that could be used for
end-user programming, called the Process Modeler,
proved important for marketing the WFE and the
component suite in general. The promise of end-user
programming (EUP), however, never materialized. This
article sketches the evolution of the WFE. It
de-scribes why the EUP capabilities were required, why
they were never really used in practice, and how to
reconcile these two facts.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Qun:2005:FDS,
author = "Yang Qun and Yang Xian-Chun and Xu Man-Wu",
title = "A framework for dynamic software architecture-based
self-healing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083007",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Self-healing is an active topic in areas like large
complex distributed systems and continuous running
systems, such as telephone switching systems, banking
systems, mobile embedded systems. The
architecture-based self-healing approach uses the
architectural model as a basis for system
reconfiguration. In architecture-based self-healing
systems, the architectures may also be changed. The
architectures that changes during system running are
dynamic software architectures. In this paper, an
approach of self-healing system based on dynamic
software architecture is proposed. To make the system
architecture observable and controllable, architectural
reflection is used. Meanwhile, architectural style is
used to ensure the consistency and correctness of the
changes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Raja:2005:IQL,
author = "Uzma Raja and Evelyn Barry",
title = "Investigating quality in large-scale Open Source
Software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083268",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Open Source Software (OSS) development and use has
increased significantly over recent years. Therefore,
there is a need to analyze and understand these
projects. Software quality is an important
characteristic effecting overall system lifecycle cost,
performance and useful life. The existing models for
software quality are based on empirical analysis of
propriety source software (PSS), and need to be
verified in OSS. Research on PSS has revealed that
software quality declines, as it ages. Part of this
decline is associated with the lifecycle maintenance
activities that introduce change in the size and
complexity of the system, while introducing software
errors into modified system. Lifecycle maintenance
activities in OSS systems are processed under a very
different paradigm. We are interested in investigating
the effects of maintenance activities on OSS project
outcomes. Linux is one of the most popular and complex
OSS project available. In our research, we investigate
the characteristics of Linux source code. In this
position paper we present some preliminary results of
the effects of various types of maintenance activities
on quality of Linux software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Requile-Romanczuk:2005:TKB,
author = "Annya R{\'e}quil{\'e}-Romanczuk and Alejandra Cechich
and Anne Dourgnon-Hanoune and Jean-Christophe Mielnik",
title = "Towards a knowledge-based framework for {COTS}
component identification",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082951",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The adoption of COTS-based development brings with it
many challenges about the identification and finding of
candidate components for reuse. Particularly, the first
stage in the identification of COTS candidates is
commonly carried out by dealing with unstructured
information on the Web, which makes the evaluation
process highly costing and not efficient when applying
complex evaluation criteria. In this position paper, we
identify some key elements to support a standardized
framework towards a knowledge-based process for COTS
component identification. Further discussion would
improve our research before moving into developing the
framework.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Segal:2005:TEP,
author = "Judith Segal and Antony Grinyer and Helen Sharp",
title = "The type of evidence produced by empirical software
engineers",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083176",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper reports on the research published between
the years 1997 and 2003 inclusive in the journal of
Empirical Software Engineering, drawing on the taxonomy
developed by Glass et al. in [3]. We found that the
research was somewhat narrow in topic with about half
the papers focusing on measurement/metrics, review and
inspection; that researchers were almost as interested
in formulating as in evaluating; that hypothesis
testing and laboratory experiments dominated
evaluations; that research was not very likely to focus
on people and extremely unlikely to refer to other
disciplines. We discuss our findings in the context of
making empirical software engineering more relevant to
practitioners.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sutcliffe:2005:ECB,
author = "Alistair Sutcliffe",
title = "Evaluating the costs and benefits of end-user
development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083241",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes a cost benefit modelling approach
to introducing EUD technology. Costs are incurred in
configuring and learning the technology then in
developing and debugging applications. These are set
against the perceived and actual benefits of producing
better applications that fit end user requirements. The
approach is illustrated with a case study of a web
Content Management System.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Vahaniitty:2005:TFC,
author = "Jarno V{\"a}h{\"a}niitty",
title = "A tentative framework for connecting long-term
business and product planning with iterative and
incremental software product development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083097",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "For a company in the software product business, it is
essential to understand how to connect business
management and software development [17] and employ a
solid, value-based approach in its decision-making.
However, software engineering literature (SE) commonly
addresses what should be done at the ``floor level''
and leaves the link to business and product management
unaddressed [14]. Also, existing software development
models mostly adhere to the viewpoint of individual
development projects and thus fail to sufficiently
address common product development concerns such as
multi-project or project portfolio management [20].",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{VanHilst:2005:RMS,
author = "Michael VanHilst and Pankaj K. Garg and Christopher
Lo",
title = "Repository mining and Six Sigma for process
improvement",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083157",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we propose to apply artifact mining in
a global development environment to support measurement
based process management and improvement, such as
SEI/CMMI's GQ(I)M and Six Sigma's DMAIC. CMM has its
origins in managing large software projects for the
government and emphasizes achieving expected outcomes.
In GQM, organizational goals are identified. The
appropriate questions with corresponding measurements
are defined and collected. Six Sigma has its origins in
manufacturing and emphasizes reducing cost and defects.
In DMAIC, a major component of a Six Sigma approach,
sources of waste are identified. Then changes are made
in the process to reduce effort and increase the
quality of the product produced. GQM and Six Sigma are
complementary. Both approaches rely heavily on the
measurement of input and output metrics. Mining
development artifacts can provide usable metrics for
the application of DMAIC and GQM in the software
domain.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ying:2005:EHC,
author = "Annie T. T. Ying and James L. Wright and Steven
Abrams",
title = "An exploration of how comments are used for marking
related code fragments",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083141",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A software developer performing a change task to a
system very often has to examine a concern that is
scattered across the source code of the system.
Although many mechanisms attempt to alleviate the
problem of dealing with scattered code, many software
developers are still using more ad-hoc approaches to
mark related code. In this paper, we explore how
developers use comments to mark related code. We found
that developers use two basic kinds of conventions to
mark related code in comments: by explicitly stating
relationships in the comment and by using similar
comments in related code elements. These conventions
have several major issues. However, we observe that
using comments to mark related code fragments offers
several benefits. We hope that our observations can
give insights into building better tool support for
scattered code fragments.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zheng:2005:PIC,
author = "Jiang Zheng and Brian Robinson and Laurie Williams and
Karen Smiley",
title = "A process for identifying changes when source code is
not available",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082957",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Various regression test selection techniques have been
developed and shown to improve fault detection
effectiveness. The majority of these test selection
techniques rely on access to source code for change
identification. However, when new releases of COTS
components are made available for integration and
testing, source code is often not available to guide
regression test selection. This paper describes a
process for identifying changed functions when code is
not available. This change information is beneficial
for selecting white-box regression tests of
customer/glue code. This process is applicable when
COTS licensing agreements do not preclude
decompilation. A feasibility study of the process was
conducted with four releases of a medium-scale internal
ABB product. The results of the feasibility study
indicate that this process can be effective in
identifying changed functions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Abraham:2005:HCU,
author = "Robin Abraham and Martin Erwig",
title = "How to communicate unit error messages in
spreadsheets",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083243",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In previous work we have designed and implemented an
automatic reasoning system for spreadsheets, called
UCheck, that infers unit information for cells in a
spreadsheet. Based on this unit information, UCheck can
identify cells in the spreadsheet that contain
erroneous formulas. However, the information about an
erroneous cell is reported to the user currently in a
rather crude way by simply coloring the cell, which
does not tell anything about the nature of error and
thus offers no help to the user as to how to fix it. In
this paper we describe an extension of UCheck, called
UFix, which improves the error messages reported to the
spreadsheet user dramatically. The approach essentially
consists of three steps: First, we identify different
categories of spreadsheet errors from an end-user's
perspective. Second, we map units that indicate
erroneous formulas to these error categories. Finally,
we create customized error messages from the unit
information and the identified error category. In many
cases, these error messages also provide suggestions on
how to fix the reported errors.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Alspaugh:2005:SSM,
author = "Thomas A. Alspaugh and Debra J. Richardson and Thomas
A. Standish",
title = "Scenarios, state machines and purpose-driven testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083185",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Testing is a necessary but frequently expensive
activity that is needed to ensure software quality. For
large, complex systems, testing based on covering all
control flow or all data flow paths is intractable. But
focusing on tests that are purpose-driven, namely on
tests that are derived from system requirements and
that test whether requirements goals are met,
significantly reduces the size of a ``complete'' test
suite for the system while simultaneously increasing
confidence that the system performs as expected.
Scenarios and state machines provide a useful framework
for modeling and analysis of purpose-driven testing.
Scenarios are sequences of events that represent
purposeful uses of a system (or of its components, to
any desired degree of detail). State machines, in the
form of recursive transition diagrams, can model the
successive refinement of requirements goals into
architectures and implementations, and testing them
using purpose-driven scenario-based tests provides
early validation of that refinement. Formulating sets
of scenarios that capture and represent a
complete-enough set of requirements ensures that a test
suite covering them explores all important regions of a
system's state space. The scenario-based tests will
predict with high confidence which system goals have
been met, and, certainly, which have not. This position
paper sketches elements of our approach to
purpose-driven testing using scenarios and state
machines.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Antoniol:2005:LPC,
author = "Giuliano Antoniol and Vincenzo Fabio Rollo and
Gabriele Venturi",
title = "Linear predictive coding and cepstrum coefficients for
mining time variant information from software
repositories",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083156",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents an approach to recover time
variant information from software repositories. It is
widely accepted that software evolves due to factors
such as defect removal, market opportunity or adding
new features. Software evolution details are stored in
software repositories which often contain the changes
history. On the other hand there is a lack of
approaches, technologies and methods to efficiently
extract and represent time dependent information.
Disciplines such as signal and image processing or
speech recognition adopt frequency domain
representations to mitigate differences of signals
evolving in time. Inspired by time-frequency duality,
this paper proposes the use of Linear Predictive Coding
(LPC) and Cepstrum coefficients to model time varying
software artifact histories. LPC or Cepstrum allow
obtaining very compact representations with linear
complexity. These representations can be used to
highlight components and artifacts evolved in the same
way or with very similar evolution patterns. To assess
the proposed approach we applied LPC and Cepstral
analysis to 211 Linux kernel releases (i.e., from 1.0
to 1.3.100), to identify files with very similar size
histories. The approach, the preliminary results and
the lesson learned are presented in this paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Barreto:2005:SSP,
author = "Ahilton Barreto and M{\'a}rcio Barros and Cl{\'a}udia
Werner",
title = "Staffing a software project: a constraint satisfaction
approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083093",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents an optimization based approach to
support staffing a software project. The approach takes
into account the characteristics of the project
activities, the characteristics of the available human
resources, and constraints established by the software
development organization in charge of the project.
According to these needs, the project manager selects a
utility function to be maximized or minimized by the
optimizer. We propose several utility functions, each
addressing specific values which can be sought by the
development organization.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Beydoun:2005:SGM,
author = "Ghassan Beydoun and Cesar Gonzalez-Perez and Graham
Low and Brian Henderson-Sellers",
title = "Synthesis of a generic {MAS} metamodel",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082970",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Method engineering, which focuses on project-specific
methodology construction from existing method
fragments, is an appealing approach to organize,
appropriately access and effectively harness the
software engineering knowledge of MAS methodologies.
With the objective of applying method engineering for
developing an MAS, in this paper we introduce a generic
metamodel to serve as a representational infrastructure
to unify existing MAS methodologies into a single
specification. Our metamodel does not focus on any
class of MAS, nor does it impose any restrictions on
the format of the system requirements; rather, our
metamodel is an abstraction of how any MAS is
structured and behaves both at design time and
run-time.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bolin:2005:NPE,
author = "Michael Bolin and Robert C. Miller",
title = "Naming page elements in end-user web automation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083233",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The names of commands and objects are vital to the
usability of a programming system. We are developing a
web automation system in which users need to identify
web page elements, such as hyperlinks and form fields,
in pages written by other designers. Using a survey of
40 users asking them to provide names for page
elements, we found that users' names varied widely.
However, when names were restricted to using only
visible words from the web page. we were able to
develop name resolution techniques that automatically
find the desired page element given the user's name for
it, striking a balance between usability and the
precision required by the programming system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chen:2005:ETM,
author = "T. Y. Chen and F.-C. Kuo and Zhi Quan Zhou",
title = "An effective testing method for end-user programmers",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083236",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "End-user programmers do not have extensive knowledge
of various software testing methodologies used by
professional testers. While they are creating the vast
majority of software today, errors are pervasive in the
programs due to the lack of testing techniques readily
adoptable by end-user programmers. In this article we
argue that the technique of metamorphic testing is both
practical and effective for end-user programmers.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Conklin:2005:CUO,
author = "Megan Conklin and James Howison and Kevin Crowston",
title = "Collaboration using {OSSmole}: a repository of {FLOSS}
data and analyses",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083164",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper introduces a collaborative project OSSmole
which collects, shares, and stores comparable data and
analyses of free, libre and open source software
(FLOSS) development for research purposes. The project
is a clearinghouse for data from the ongoing collection
and analysis efforts of many disparate research groups.
A collaborative data repository reduces duplication and
promote compatibility both across sources of FLOSS data
and across research groups and analyses. The primary
objective of OSSmole is to mine FLOSS source code
repositories and provide the resulting data and summary
analyses as open source products. However, the OSSmole
data model additionally supports donated raw and
summary data from a variety of open source researchers
and other software repositories. The paper first
outlines current difficulties with the typical
quantitative FLOSS research process and uses these to
develop requirements for such a collaborative data
repository. Finally, the design of the OSSmole system
is presented, as well as examples of current research
and analyses using OSSmole.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Costa:2005:RBE,
author = "H{\'e}lio R. Costa and Marcio de O. Barros and
Guilherme H. Travassos",
title = "A risk based economical approach for evaluating
software project portfolios",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083092",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software engineers have been applying economical
concepts to shed light upon the value-related aspects
of software development processes. Based on credit risk
analysis concepts, we present an approach to estimate
the probability distribution of losses and earnings
that can be incurred by a software development
organization according to its software project
portfolio. Such approach is built upon an analogy that
compares software projects to unhedged loans issued to
unreliable borrowers. As loans may not be paid back,
software projects may fail, leading their development
organizations to losses. By applying this approach, an
organization may estimate the variability of its
expected profits related to a set of software projects.
Initial calibrating data were acquired by accomplishing
an experimental study.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Desouza:2005:MRS,
author = "Kevin C. Desouza and Yukika Awazu",
title = "Managing radical software engineers: between order and
chaos",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083110",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Innovations in software engineering organizations
frequently emerge from risky behavior. Most often,
these risks are taken by only a small percentage of the
software engineering staff --- radical engineers (REs).
They go against the status quo, experiment with new
methods or technologies, and have the burden of
bringing the innovations into the mainstream of the
organization. Most organizations however, do a poor job
of adequately and effectively managing radical
engineers (REs). They can be found at either end of the
order-chaos continuum. Successful software
organizations are those that are able to balance
between the extremes and manage REs effectively. In
this paper, we discuss lessons learnt in managing REs
from software organizations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fischer:2005:MED,
author = "Michael Fischer and Johann Oberleitner and Jacek
Ratzinger and Harald Gall",
title = "Mining evolution data of a product family",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083145",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Diversification of software assets through changing
requirements impose a constant challenge on the
developers and maintainers of large software systems.
Recent research has addressed the mining for data in
software repositories of single products ranging from
fine- to coarse-grained analyses. But so far, little
attention has been payed to mining data about the
evolution of product families. In this work, we study
the evolution and commonalities of three variants of
the BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), a large open
source operating system. The research questions we
tackle are concerned with how to generate high level
views of the system discovering and indicating
evolutionary highlights. To process the large amount of
data, we extended our previously developed approach for
storing release history information to support the
analysis of product families. In a case study we apply
our approach on data from three different code
repositories representing about 8.5GB of data and 10
years of active development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fisher:2005:ESC,
author = "Marc Fisher and Gregg Rothermel",
title = "The {EUSES} spreadsheet corpus: a shared resource for
supporting experimentation with spreadsheet
dependability mechanisms",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083242",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In recent years several tools and methodologies have
been developed to improve the dependability of
spreadsheets. However, there has been little evaluation
of these dependability devices on spreadsheets in
actual use by end users. To assist in the process of
evaluating these methodologies, we have assembled a
corpus of spreadsheets from a variety of sources. We
have ensured that these spreadsheets are suitable for
evaluating dependability devices in Microsoft Excel
(the most commonly used commercial spreadsheet
environment) and have measured a variety of feature of
these spreadsheets to aid researchers in selecting
subsets of the corpus appropriate to their needs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{German:2005:FDU,
author = "Daniel M. German and Davor Cubrani{\'c} and
Margaret-Anne D. Storey",
title = "A framework for describing and understanding mining
tools in software development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083160",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We propose a framework for describing, comparing and
understanding tools for the mining of software
repositories. The fundamental premise of this framework
is that mining should be done by considering the
specific needs of the users and the tasks to be
supported by the mined information. First, different
types of users have distinct needs, and these needs
should be taken into account by tool designers. Second,
the data sources available, and mined, will determine
if those needs can be satisfied. Our framework is based
upon three main principles: the type of user, the
objective of the user, and the mined information. This
framework has the following purposes: to help tool
designers in the understanding and comparison of
different tools, to assist users in the assessment of a
potential tool; and to identify new research areas. We
use this framework to describe several mining tools and
to suggest future research directions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Giese:2005:RSC,
author = "Holger Giese and Ekkart Kindler and Florian Klein and
Robert Wagner",
title = "Reconciling scenario-centered controller design with
state-based system models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083187",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Scenarios are an effective means for defining the
expected behavior of a system during the design and
implementation phase. The 'Come Let's Play' approach
has demonstrated that scenarios can fully define a
system's behavior. In practice, however, the expected
behavior defined by scenarios must be achieved in the
context of existing components that cannot be changed.
Therefore, the scenario-based approach must be
reconciled with state-based models. In this paper, we
present such an approach for the design of flexible
production systems which employs scenarios not only for
describing and synthesizing the required system
functionality but also for recording observed behavior
for analysis or 3D-visualization. We illustrate our
approach using an existing material flow system which
is a major part of a real production system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gorg:2005:EDR,
author = "Carsten G{\"o}rg and Peter Wei{\ss}gerber",
title = "Error detection by refactoring reconstruction",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083148",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In many cases it is not sufficient to perform a
refactoring only at one location of a software project.
For example, refactorings may have to be performed
consistently to several classes in the inheritance
hierarchy, e.g. subclasses or implementing classes, to
preserve equal behavior. In this paper we show how to
detect incomplete refactorings --- which can cause long
standing bugs because some of them do not cause
compiler errors --- by analyzing software archives. To
this end we reconstruct the class inheritance
hierarchies, as well as refactorings on the level of
methods. Then, we relate these refactorings to the
corresponding hierarchy in order to find missing
refactorings and thus, errors and inconsistencies that
have been introduced in a software project at some
point of the history. Finally. we demonstrate our
approach by case studies on two open source projects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gurguis:2005:TAW,
author = "Sherif A. Gurguis and Amir Zeid",
title = "Towards autonomic web services: achieving self-healing
using web services",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083069",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Autonomic Computing was introduced to reduce the
complexity of managing computing systems; however, the
heterogeneous nature existing in most computing systems
introduces some difficulty to achieve this target.
Moreover, the notion of service as a computing
component that seamlessly collaborates with other
services in a loosely-coupled manner to perform
complicated tasks was introduced by Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA); and then, fertilized by Web
Services that added open standards to different roles
and operations involved in a community of services;
however, in order to gain the expected benefits of Web
Services, the latter should be able to survive in
normal and abnormal conditions. Our research aims at
finding a hyper solution to that two-dimensional
problem by allowing both Autonomic Computing and Web
Services paradigms to lend each other their distinct
features. First, Web Services lend Autonomic Computing
the concept of platform-independency; second, Autonomic
Computing lends Web Services the attributes providing
self-management. The focus of this paper will be on how
the self-healing autonomic attribute can be implemented
and applied using Web Services.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hamza:2005:SCE,
author = "Haitham S. Hamza",
title = "Separation of concerns for evolving systems: a
stability-driven approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083137",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes an approach for separating and
modeling concerns while considering system evolution.
The objective is to reduce the need for re-separation
and re-modeling of concerns when the system evolves in
response to new or modified requirements. Software
Stability Model (SSM) and the theory of Formal Concept
Analysis (FCA) are used to analyze and encapsulate
concerns into modules that are less likely to change
over time. The approach is described and demonstrated
through an example.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Harrison:2005:CMC,
author = "William Harrison and Harold Ossher and Stanley Sutton
and Peri Tarr",
title = "Concern modeling in the concern manipulation
environment",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083134",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Concern Manipulation Environment (CME) is an AOSD
environment in which software is organized and
manipulated in terms of concerns. This paper is about
ConMan, the CME concern manager, which supports the
identification, definition, encapsulation, extraction
and composition of concerns. ConMan models software in
terms of concerns, relationships, constraints, units,
artifacts, and associated information. The concern
model is multidimensional and concerns can be defined
extensionally and/or intensionally. ConMan is neutral
with respect to artifact types and formalisms, and it
can be used with both aspect-oriented and non-aspect
oriented software and methods. ConMan is intended to
serve both as a tool for directly modeling concerns and
as a platform for developing alternative
concern-modeling approaches.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hayes:2005:TMS,
author = "Jane Huffman Hayes and Alex Dekhtyar and Senthil
Sundaram",
title = "Text mining for software engineering: how analyst
feedback impacts final results",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083153",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The mining of textual artifacts is requisite for many
important activities in software engineering: tracing
of requirements; retrieval of components from a
repository; location of manpage text for an area of
question, etc. Many such activities leave the ``final
word'' to the analyst --- have the relevant items been
retrieved? are there other items that should have been
retrieved? When analysts become a part of the text
mining process, their decisions on the relevance of
retrieved elements impact the final outcome of the
activity. In this paper, we undertook a pilot study to
examine the impact of analyst decisions on the final
outcome of a task.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hernandez:2005:EUT,
author = "Francisco Hern{\'a}ndez and Purushotham Bangalore and
Kevin Reilly",
title = "End-user tools for grid computing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083237",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The present work describes an approach to simplifying
the development and deployment of applications for the
Grid. Our approach aims at hiding accidental
complexities (e.g., low-level Grid technologies) met
when developing these kinds of applications. To realize
this goal, the work focuses on the development of
end-user tools using concepts of domain engineering and
domain-specific modeling which are modern software
engineering methods for automating the development of
software. This work is an attempt to contribute to the
long term research goal of empowering users, to create
complex applications for the Grid without depending on
the expertise of support teams or on hand-crafted
solutions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hindle:2005:SFM,
author = "Abram Hindle and Daniel M. German",
title = "{SCQL}: a formal model and a query language for source
control repositories",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083161",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Source Control Repositories are used in most software
projects to store revisions to source code files. These
repositories operate at the file level and support
multiple users. A generalized formal model of source
control repositories is described herein. The model is
a graph in which the different entities stored in the
repository become vertices and their relationships
become edges. We then define SCQL, a first order, and
temporal logic based query language for source control
repositories. We demonstrate how SCQL can be used to
specify some questions and then evaluate them using the
source control repositories of five different large
software projects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Huang:2005:DHM,
author = "LiGuo Huang and Barry Boehm",
title = "Determining how much software assurance is enough?: a
value-based approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083095",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A classical problem facing many software projects is
to determine when to stop testing and release the
product for use. Risk analyses address such ``how much
is enough?'' questions, by balancing the risk exposure
of doing too little with the risk exposure of doing too
much. However, it's difficult to quantify the relative
probabilities and sizes of loss in order to provide
practical approaches for determining a risk-balanced
``sweet spot'' operating point. In this paper, we
provide a quantitative approach based on the COCOMO II
cost estimation model, the COQUALMO quality estimation
model and the Value Estimating Relationships.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Huang:2005:MVH,
author = "Shih-Kun Huang and Kang-min Liu",
title = "Mining version histories to verify the learning
process of Legitimate Peripheral Participants",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083158",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Since code revisions reflect the extent of human
involvement in the software development process,
revision histories reveal the interactions and
interfaces between developers and modules. We therefore
divide developers and modules into groups according to
the revision histories of the open source software
repository, for example, sourceforge.net. To describe
the interactions in the open source development
process, we use a representative model, Legitimate
Peripheral Participation (LPP) [6], to divide
developers into groups such as core and peripheral
teams, based on the evolutionary process of learning
behavior. With the conventional module relationship, we
divide modules into kernel and non-kernel types (such
as UI). In the past, groups of developers and modules
have been partitioned naturally with informal criteria.
In this work, however, we propose a developer-module
relationship model to analyze the grouping structures
between developers and modules. Our results show some
process cases of relative importance on the constructed
graph of project development. The graph reveals certain
subtle relationships in the interactions between core
and non-core team developers, and the interfaces
between kernel and non-kernel modules.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jain:2005:DTV,
author = "Apurva Jain and Barry Boehm",
title = "Developing a theory of value-based software
engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083101",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents an initial ``4+1'' theory of
value-based software engineering (VBSE) that builds
around the stakeholder win-win Theory W, and addresses
the questions of ``which values are important?'' and
``how is success assured?'' for a given software
engineering enterprise. The central Theory W then draws
upon four additional theories --- utility theory (how
important are the values?), decision theory (how do
stakeholders' values determine decisions?), dependency
theory (how do dependencies affect value realization?),
and control theory (how to adapt to change and control
value realization?).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jakobac:2005:SAC,
author = "Vladimir Jakobac and Nenad Medvidovic and Alexander
Egyed",
title = "Separating architectural concerns to ease program
understanding",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083132",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents an iterative, user-guided approach
to program understanding based on a framework for
analyzing and visualizing software systems. The
framework is built around a pluggable and extensible
set of clues about a given problem domain, execution
environment, and/or programming language. The approach
leverages two orthogonal architectural views of a
system and describes how a proper identification of
boundaries for separate concerns helps in reasoning
about the system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{John:2005:EBP,
author = "Bonnie E. John",
title = "Evidence-based practice in human-computer interaction
and evidence maps",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083181",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "At the onset of evidence-based practice in software
engineering, prospective disciples of this approach
should inspect and learn from similar attempts in other
disciplines. Having participated in the National Cancer
Institute's multi-year effort compiling evidence-based
guidelines for information-rich web-site design, I
bring my personal experiences as a member of that group
to the discussions at the workshop. From my experience
doing other empirical research, I propose using an
evidence map to communicate research questions, the
available evidence to answer those questions, the
relationship between the questions, and the meaning of
different paths through the evidence map. I have used
this device for several empirical studies, both in HCI
and in software engineering, and have found it to be a
useful organization tool that could help in pursuing
evidence-based software engineering.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kagdi:2005:TTA,
author = "Huzefa Kagdi and Michael L. Collard and Jonathan I.
Maletic",
title = "Towards a taxonomy of approaches for mining of source
code repositories",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083159",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Source code version repositories provide a treasure of
information encompassing the changes introduced in the
system throughout its evolution. These repositories are
typically managed by tools such as CVS. However, these
tools identify and express changes in terms of physical
attributes i.e., file and line numbers. Recently, to
help support the mining of software repositories (MSR),
researchers have proposed methods to derive and express
changes from source code repositories in a more
source-code ``aware'' manner (i.e., syntax and
semantic). Here, we discuss these MSR techniques in
light of what changes are identified, how they are
expressed, the adopted methodology, evaluation, and
results. This work forms the basis for a taxonomic
description of MSR approaches.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Keil:2005:PAT,
author = "Patrick Keil",
title = "Principal agent theory and its application to analyze
outsourcing of software development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083094",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Much has been written on process models, project
management or tool support to increase the return on
investment in software through higher quality of the
development process and the resulting software or
system. Yet, we lack understanding in the underlying
economic principles; e.g., an external firm paid to
develop software for someone else tries to maximize
their own profit instead of the contractor's. These
divergences of interests result in projects that
consume more time and money and meet fewer requirements
than expected. In this paper, we try to fill the gap by
providing an insight into the theory and presenting
applicable suggestions how to diminish or avoid the
problems that arise when selecting the 'best'
contractor and during the project. Basic advises on the
formulation of contracts can be derived.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kiebusch:2005:MSS,
author = "Sebastian Kiebusch and Bogdan Franczyk and Andreas
Speck",
title = "Metrics for software system families",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083098",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Due to the fact that the complexity and development
effort of software systems is constantly increasing,
software components have to be reused. Software system
families are a promising solution to gain a cost
reduction by reusing common software assets in
different variants of similar products. To support the
economic management of this development approach we
need software metrics to estimate the effort of
building software system families. In general
techniques of size measurement and cost estimation for
software system families are highly insufficient.
Furthermore measurement and estimation approaches do
not support a process orientation which characterizes
the software of many domains. Therefore this paper
describes the Process-Family-Points approach to measure
the size and estimate the effort of process focused
software system families in multiple domains. Every
single step of this new metrics approach will be
illustrated from a high level perspective to
communicate a conceptional view of this innovative
sizing and estimating method.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kim:2005:ASC,
author = "Sunghun Kim and E. James Whitehead and Jennifer
Bevan",
title = "Analysis of signature change patterns",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083154",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software continually changes due to performance
improvements, new requirements, bug fixes, and
adaptation to a changing operational environment.
Common changes include modifications to data
definitions, control flow, method/function signatures,
and class/file relationships. Signature changes are
notable because they require changes at all sites
calling the modified function, and hence as a class
they have more impact than other change kinds. We
performed signature change analysis over software
project histories to reveal multiple properties of
signature changes, including their kind, frequency, and
evolution patterns. These signature properties can be
used to alleviate the impact of signature changes. In
this paper we introduce a taxonomy of signature change
kinds to categorize observed changes. We report
multiple properties of signature changes based on an
analysis of eight prominent open source projects
including the Apache HTTP server, GCC, and Linux 2.5
kernel.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kim:2005:UCG,
author = "Miryung Kim and David Notkin",
title = "Using a clone genealogy extractor for understanding
and supporting evolution of code clones",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083146",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Programmers often create similar code snippets or
reuse existing code snippets by copying and pasting.
Code clones --- syntactically and semantically similar
code snippets --- can cause problems during software
maintenance because programmers may need to locate code
clones and change them consistently. In this work, we
investigate (1) how code clones evolve, (2) how many
code clones impose maintenance challenges, and (3) what
kind of tool or engineering process would be useful for
maintaining code clones. Based on a formal definition
of clone evolution, we built a clone genealogy tool
that automatically extracts the history of code clones
from a source code repository (CVS). Our clone
genealogy tool enables several analyses that reveal
evolutionary characteristics of code clones. Our
initial results suggest that aggressive refactoring may
not be the best solution for all code clones; thus, we
propose alternative tool solutions that assist in
maintaining code clones using clone genealogy
information.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Koponen:2005:OSS,
author = "Timo Koponen and Virpi Hotti",
title = "Open source software maintenance process framework",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083265",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "To identify the Open Source maintenance process two
well known Open Source projects Apache HTTP server and
Mozilla web browser were studied. The Open Source
software maintenance process is formal even anyone can
submit modifications or defect reports to Open Source
software projects. We assume that the Open Source
maintenance process is similar to the maintenance
process defined by the ISO/IEC. In the case studies.
four activities were found similar to the activities of
the ISO/IEC Maintenance process. This paper presents
the Open Source maintenance process framework. The
framework is exemplified with the ISO/IEC Maintenance
process framework.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Koru:2005:IEM,
author = "A. G{\"u}nes Koru and Hongfang Liu",
title = "An investigation of the effect of module size on
defect prediction using static measures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083172",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We used several machine learning algorithms to predict
the defective modules in five NASA products, namely,
CM1, JM1, KC1, KC2, and PC1. A set of static measures
were employed as predictor variables. While doing so,
we observed that a large portion of the modules were
small, as measured by lines of code (LOC). When we
experimented on the data subsets created by
partitioning according to module size, we obtained
higher prediction performance for the subsets that
include larger modules. We also performed defect
prediction using class-level data for KC1 rather than
the method-level data. In this case, the use of
class-level data resulted in improved prediction
performance compared to using method-level data. These
findings suggest that quality assurance activities can
be guided even better if defect prediction is performed
by using data that belong to larger modules.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Langari:2005:QCF,
author = "Zarrin Langari and Anne Banks Pidduck",
title = "Quality, cleanroom and formal methods",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083302",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We have proposed a new approach to software quality
combining cleanroom methodologies and formal methods.
Cleanroom emphasizes defect prevention rather than
defect removal. Formal methods use mathematical and
logical formalizations to find defects early in the
software development lifecycle. These two methods have
been used separately to improve software quality since
the 1980's. The combination of the two methods may
provide further quality improvements through reduced
software defects. This result, in turn, may reduce
development costs, improve time to market, and increase
overall product excellence. Defects in computer
software are costly. Their detection is usually
postponed to the test phase, and their removal is also
a very time consuming and expensive task. Cleanroom
software engineering is a methodology which relies on
preventing the defects, rather than removing them. It
is based on incremental development and it emphasizes
the development phase. An enhancement to this
methodology is presented in this paper, which combines
formal methods and cleanroom. The efficiency of the new
model rests on an appropriate logical representation,
to write the specification of the intended system. In
the new model, design plans are formally verified
before any implementation is done. The advantages of
finding defects in the early stages are decreased cost
and increased quality. Results show that, by using
formal methods, a higher quality will be achieved and
the software project can also benefit from the existing
mechanized tools of these two techniques.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Law:2005:EAP,
author = "Amy Law and Raylene Charron",
title = "Effects of agile practices on social factors",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083115",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Programmers are living in an age of accelerated
change. State of the art technology that was employed
to facilitate projects a few years ago are typically
obsolete today. Presently, there are requirements for
higher quality software with less tolerance for errors,
produced in compressed timelines with fewer people.
Therefore, project success is more elusive than ever
and is contingent upon many key aspects. One of the
most crucial aspects is social factors. These social
factors, such as knowledge sharing. motivation, and
customer collaboration, can be addressed through agile
practices. This paper will demonstrate two successful
industrial software projects which are different in all
aspects; however, both still apply agile practices to
address social factors. The readers will see how agile
practices in both projects were adapted to fit each
unique team environment. The paper will also provide
lessons learned and recommendations based on
retrospective reviews and observations. These
recommendations can lead to an improved chance of
success in a software development project.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Liu:2005:MCS,
author = "Jing (Janet) Liu and Robyn R. Lutz and Jeffrey M.
Thompson",
title = "Mapping concern space to software architecture: a
connector-based approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083126",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Concern modeling plays an important role in software
design, implementation and maintenance. Hyperspace has
provided a strong conceptual framework to separate
concerns in multi-dimensional levels. The contribution
of this work is to create an architectural element,
called a concern connector, to support the
implementation of hyperspace in the architectural
design phase. The paper makes three basic claims for
this idea. First, using concern connectors allows the
scope of each hyperslice in a certain concern dimension
to be defined and stored. Second, the concern
interactions within each hypermodule can be specified
in the concern connectors. Third, the association of
concern modeling with this distinctive architectural
element improves the flexibility of concern maintenance
and evolution during the development process. To test
these claims the paper investigates the use of concern
connectors in a real-world architectural model. The
results show how concern connectors implement concern
modeling in the architectural design.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{MacGregor:2005:CPS,
author = "Eve MacGregor and Yvonne Hsieh and Philippe Kruchten",
title = "Cultural patterns in software process mishaps:
incidents in global projects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083116",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes a current and ongoing research
project being conducted at the University of British
Columbia, Canada. The paper begins by briefly
describing past anthropological and sociological
culture research. This research will inform our current
exploration into the issues surrounding culture and its
role in Global Software Development efforts. It then
clarifies why this research is particularly important.
The paper continues with a description of the current
phase of this research, which is an exploratory
qualitative approach rooted in Grounded Theory, and of
the next phase, which will be a more quantitative
approach looking at specific ``problem areas'' that
were identified during the first phase.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Marin:2005:AAR,
author = "Marius Marin and Leon Moonen and Arie van Deursen",
title = "An approach to aspect refactoring based on
crosscutting concern types",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083140",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We argue for the importance of organizing generic
crosscutting concerns by distinctive properties and
describing them as types. A type's properties consist
of a general intent, an implementation idiom criteria,
and one (desired) aspect language mechanism to address
the concerns within the specific type. We argue the
usefulness of this approach for aspect refactoring, and
in the areas of concern identification and aspect
languages development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Massey:2005:LAL,
author = "Bart Massey",
title = "Longitudinal analysis of long-timescale open source
repository data",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083167",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "One of the more unique features of open source
software development is the continuity of projects over
large time scales and incremental development efforts.
For this reason, the open development process provides
an interesting environment for investigation of the
software development process. The problems of data
collection and analysis of two particular long-running
repositories, the X Window System and the Nickle
Programming Language, are considered here as
instructive examples. The use of uniform software tools
(CVS/RCS) with open formats and interfaces makes it
possible to collect data that provide unique analysis
opportunities.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Memmert:2005:CPA,
author = "Juri Memmert",
title = "Concern patterns and analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083135",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes a few concern patterns to
identify latent or missing concerns in a concern model
and how they impact the development process.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mierle:2005:MSC,
author = "Keir Mierle and Kevin Laven and Sam Roweis and Greg
Wilson",
title = "Mining student {CVS} repositories for performance
indicators",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083150",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Over 200 CVS repositories representing the assignments
of students in a second year undergraduate computer
science course have been assembled. This unique data
set represents many individuals working separately on
identical projects, presenting the opportunity to
evaluate the effects of the work habits captured by CVS
on performance. This paper outlines our experiences
mining and analyzing these repositories. We extracted
various quantitative measures of student behaviour and
code quality, and attempted to correlate these features
with grades. Despite examining 166 features, we find
that grade performance cannot be accurately predicted;
certainly no predictors stronger than simple
lines-of-code were found.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Morris:2005:RDT,
author = "Jennifer Morris and Philip Koopman",
title = "Representing design tradeoffs in safety-critical
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083228",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Different fault-tolerance strategies have been shown
to be effective at achieving fail-safe behavior in a
number of safety-critical application domains with
different dependability, service, and cost
requirements. A technique for comparing the domain
profiles and their fault-tolerance strategies could
assist architects of new safety-critical systems in
choosing an appropriate fault-tolerance strategy. We
suggest an approach using Kiviat graphs to visually
represent the dependability, service, and cost profile
of a system, and show how such a graph can be used to
analyze automotive x-by-wire applications.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neamtiu:2005:USC,
author = "Iulian Neamtiu and Jeffrey S. Foster and Michael
Hicks",
title = "Understanding source code evolution using abstract
syntax tree matching",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083143",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Mining software repositories at the source code level
can provide a greater understanding of how software
evolves. We present a tool for quickly comparing the
source code of different versions of a C program. The
approach is based on partial abstract syntax tree
matching, and can track simple changes to global
variables, types and functions. These changes can
characterize aspects of software evolution useful for
answering higher level questions. In particular, we
consider how they could be used to inform the design of
a dynamic software updating system. We report results
based on measurements of various versions of popular
open source programs. including BIND, OpenSSH, Apache,
Vsftpd and the Linux kernel.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neubauer:2005:BPB,
author = "Thomas Neubauer and Markus Klemen and Stefan Biffl",
title = "Business process-based valuation of {IT-security}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083099",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Growing business integration raises the need for
secure business processes as security problems can
affect the profit and the reputation of a company.
However, decisions regarding a reasonable level of
security in a business environment are often made in a
value-neutral way. This paper presents a framework for
the valuation of cost-benefit of various security
levels with business processes. The framework can be
used for planning security levels in software
development and allows further continuous monitoring
and improvement of cost-benefit of security measures
along with operative business processes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ohba:2005:TMC,
author = "Masaru Ohba and Katsuhiko Gondow",
title = "Toward mining ``concept keywords'' from identifiers in
large software projects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083151",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We propose the Concept Keyword Term Frequency/Inverse
Document Frequency (ckTF/IDF) method as a novel
technique to efficiency mine concept keywords from
identifiers in large software projects. ckTF/IDF is
suitable for mining concept keywords, since the
ckTF/IDF is more lightweight than the TF/IDF method,
and the ckTF/IDF's heuristics is tuned for identifiers
in programs. We then experimentally apply the ckTF/IDF
to our educational operating system udos, consisting of
around 5,000 lines in C code, which produced promising
results; the udos's source code was processed in 1.4
seconds with an accuracy of around 57\%. This
preliminary result suggests that our approach is useful
for mining concept keywords from identifiers, although
we need more research and experience.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ohira:2005:ACP,
author = "Masao Ohira and Naoki Ohsugi and Tetsuya Ohoka and
Ken-ichi Matsumoto",
title = "Accelerating cross-project knowledge collaboration
using collaborative filtering and social networks",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083163",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Vast numbers of free/open source software (F/OSS)
development projects use hosting sites such as Java.net
and Source-Forge.net. These sites provide each project
with a variety of software repositories (e.g.
repositories for source code sharing, bug tracking,
discussions, etc.) as a media for communication and
collaboration. They tend to focus on supporting rich
collaboration among members in each project. However, a
majority of hosted projects are relatively small
projects consisting of few developers and often need
more resources for solving problems. In order to
support cross-project knowledge collaboration in F/OSS
development, we have been developing tools to collect
data of projects and developers at SourceForge, and to
visualize the relationship among them using the
techniques of collaborative filtering and social
networks. The tools help a developer identify ``who
should I ask?'' and ``what can I ask?'' and so on. In
this paper, we report a case study of applying the
tools to F/OSS projects data collected from SourceForge
and how effective the tools can be used for helping
cross-project knowledge collaboration.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Painter:2005:MSP,
author = "Robert R. Painter and David Coppit",
title = "A model for software plans",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083128",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Even in well-designed software, some concerns can not
be easily encapsulated due to their dependence on
surrounding context. Such concerns are intermingled
with each other and the context code, making it
difficult for developers to reason independently about
them. We have introduced software plans as an
editor-based approach for addressing the tangling of
context-dependent concerns. Software plans provide
programmers with partial views of the overall software
which present only that code related to concerns of
current interest. The problem we address is that the
traditional sequence-of-characters representation for
code is poorly suited for software plans. It lacks the
ability to accurately model the concerns associated
with a code block, the relationships between code
blocks, and the notion of multiple independent plans.
In this paper, we present a formally-defined
code/concern model that supports these capabilities and
more. Using this model, we were able to implement a
prototype editing tool that supports software plans.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pazos-Arias:2005:ERS,
author = "Jos{\'e} J. Pazos-Arias and Jorge Garc{\'\i}a-Duque
and Mart{\'\i}n L{\'o}pez-Nores",
title = "Eliciting requirements and scenarios using the
{SCTL}-{MUS} methodology: the shuttle system case
study",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083189",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The development of complex systems demands
methodologies that provide convenient support to the
stakeholders in the creative tasks. In this paper, we
present a methodology for the incremental elicitation
of requirements and scenarios, driven by the
integration checks performed over a state machine that
represents the global behavior of the desired system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pazos-Arias:2005:LCC,
author = "Jos{\'e} J. Pazos-Arias and Jorge Garc{\'\i}a-Duque
and Mart{\'\i}n L{\'o}pez-Nores",
title = "Locating crosscutting concerns in the formal
specification of distributed reactive systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083130",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Requirements specification is a stage of software
development in which the different concerns involved
with a system are especially present. Commonly, the
specification is conceived as an incremental process,
in which the developers progressively add requirements
until reaching a description of the system that
satisfies their needs and expectations. In this paper,
we introduce a semi-automated approach to locate
crosscutting concerns at intermediate stages of such an
incremental process. The aim is to help the developers
go on with the specification tasks by focusing
effectively their reasoning, avoiding phenomena of
tangling and scattering.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rainer:2005:SEP,
author = "Austen Rainer and Dorota Jagielska and Tracy Hall",
title = "Software engineering practice versus evidence-based
software engineering research",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083177",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we review four examples in software
engineering practice of the lack of use of empirical
evidence. We use these examples to support our claims
that practitioners and researchers appear to have
different values with regards to empirical evidence,
and appear to use different criteria when evaluating
the credibility of evidence. From our examples, it
seems that practitioners need to be persuaded to adopt
evidence-based software engineering practices.
Consequently, the research community needs to consider
strategies for persuading practitioners. Paradoxically
for software engineering research, the more effective
persuasion strategies may be ones that, initially at
least, do not rely on empirical evidence.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ratzinger:2005:IET,
author = "Jacek Ratzinger and Michael Fischer and Harald Gall",
title = "Improving evolvability through refactoring",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083155",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Refactoring is one means of improving the structure of
existing software. Locations for the application of
refactoring are often based on subjective perceptions
such as ``bad smells'', which are vague suspicions of
design shortcomings. We exploit historical data
extracted from repositories such as CVS and focus on
change couplings: if some software parts change at the
same time very often over several releases, this data
can be used to point to candidates for refactoring. We
adopt the concept of bad smells and provide additional
change smells. Such a smell is hardly visible in the
code, but easy to spot when viewing the change history.
Our approach enables the detection of such smells
allowing an engineer to apply refactoring on these
parts of the source code to improve the evolvability of
the software. For that, we analyzed the history of a
large industrial system for a period of 15 months,
proposed spots for refactorings based on change
couplings, and performed them with the developers.
After observing the system for another 15 months we
finally analyzed the effectiveness of our approach. Our
results support our hypothesis that the combination of
change dependency analysis and refactoring is
applicable and effective.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Robles:2005:DIM,
author = "Gregorio Robles and Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona",
title = "Developer identification methods for integrated data
from various sources",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083162",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Studying a software project by mining data from a
single repository has been a very active research field
in software engineering during the last years. However,
few efforts have been devoted to perform studies by
integrating data from various repositories, with
different kinds of information, which would, for
instance, track the different activities of developers.
One of the main problems of these multi-repository
studies is the different identities that developers use
when they interact with different tools in different
contexts. This makes them appear as different entities
when data is mined from different repositories (and in
some cases, even from a single one). In this paper we
propose an approach, based on the application of
heuristics, to identify the many identities of
developers in such cases, and a data structure for
allowing both the anonymized distribution of
information, and the tracking of identities for
verification purposes. The methodology will be
presented in general, and applied to the GNOME project
as a case example. Privacy issues and partial merging
with new data sources will also be considered and
discussed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rodrigues:2005:SAS,
author = "Gena{\'\i}na N. Rodrigues and David S. Rosenblum and
Sebastian Uchitel",
title = "Sensitivity analysis for a scenario-based reliability
prediction model",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083229",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "As a popular means for capturing behavioural
requirements, scenarios show how components interact to
provide system-level functionality. If component
reliability information is available, scenarios can be
used to perform early system reliability assessment. In
previous work we presented an automated approach for
predicting software system reliability that extends a
scenario specification to model (1) the probability of
component failure, and (2) scenario transition
probabilities. Probabilistic behaviour models of the
system are then synthesized from the extended scenario
specification. From the system behaviour model,
reliability prediction can be computed. This paper
complements our previous work and presents a
sensitivity analysis that supports reasoning about how
component reliability and usage profiles impact on the
overall system reliability. For this purpose, we
present how the system reliability varies as a function
of the components reliabilities and the scenario
transition probabilities. Taking into account the
concurrent nature of component-based software systems,
we also analyse the effect of implied scenarios
prevention into the sensitivity analysis of our
reliability prediction technique.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rossi:2005:WPO,
author = "Cristina Rossi and Andrea Bonaccorsi",
title = "Why profit-oriented companies enter the {OS} field?:
intrinsic vs. extrinsic incentives",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083269",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper contributes to the literature on Open
Source (OS) by providing empirical evidence on the
incentives of firms that engage in the field. Data
collected by a survey on 146 Italian companies
supplying OS solutions (Open Source firms) show that
(surprisingly) intrinsic, community-based incentives do
play a role but are not, in general, put into practise.
We investigate this discrepancy between attitudes and
behaviours and single out groups of firms adopting a
more consistent behaviour. Our results are in line with
the literature on individual motivations in the OS
movement.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saleh:2005:SCS,
author = "Mazen Saleh and Hassan Gomaa",
title = "Separation of concerns in software product line
engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083139",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A software product line consists of a family of
software systems that have some common functionality
and some variable functionality. A better understanding
of the product line can be obtained by separating the
concerns of the common software, in terms of common
features, components, and source code, from the
variable software. This paper describes an approach and
prototype tool support for separation of concerns and
automatic customization of target applications, which
are members of the software product line.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sayre:2005:UMB,
author = "Kirk Sayre",
title = "Usage model-based automated testing of {C++}
templates",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083277",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The object-oriented design of software in C++ using
class templates presents many advantages over
non-object-oriented or non-template based software
design. However, the testing of template based C++
software involves some unique issues not usually faced
during the testing of non-template based software. This
paper will describe these testing issues and describe a
proposed solution to these issues using a usage
model-based automated testing framework.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Scacchi:2005:OBE,
author = "Walt Scacchi",
title = "{OpenEC\slash B}: electronic commerce and free\slash
open source software development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083270",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report investigates Open Source E-Commerce or
E-Business capabilities. This entails a case study
within one firm that has undertaken an organizational
initiative to develop, deploy, use, and support
free/open source software systems for Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP), E-Commerce (EC) or E-Business
(EB) services. The objective is to identify and
characterize the resource-based software product
development capabilities that lie at the center of the
initiative.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Scaffidi:2005:ACE,
author = "Christopher Scaffidi and Mary Shaw and Brad Myers",
title = "An approach for categorizing end user programmers to
guide software engineering research",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083232",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Over 64 million Americans used computers at work in
1997, and we estimate this number will grow to 90
million in 2012, including over 55 million spreadsheet
and database users and 13 million self-reported
programmers. Existing characterizations of this end
user population based on software usage provide minimal
guidance on how to help end user programmers practice
better software engineering. We describe an enhanced
method of characterizing the end user population, based
on categorizing end users according to the ways they
represent abstractions. Since the use of abstraction
can facilitate or impede achieving key software
engineering goals (such as improving reusability and
maintainability), this categorization promises an
improved ability to highlight niches of end users with
special software engineering capabilities or struggles.
We have incorporated this approach into an in-progress
survey of end user programming practices.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Scaffidi:2005:VBA,
author = "Chris Scaffidi and Ashish Arora and Shawn Butler and
Mary Shaw",
title = "A value-based approach to predicting system properties
from design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083096",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Traditional engineering requires evaluating designs
before implementing them. Evaluating a design predicts
the properties of a reasonable implementation and the
value of these properties to a stakeholder. Software
engineering has some (though not enough) relevant
evaluation techniques but lacks frameworks to compare,
develop, and apply those techniques in a manner that
respects h value varies by stakeholder. We present an
adaptation of economists' value models that, given a
design and a development method, predicts value to a
client. We give examples supporting our approach. Even
in its preliminary state, our approach helps to explain
and characterize design evaluation techniques and shows
sufficient promise to justify further development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schilling:2005:IMD,
author = "Albert Schilling and Kelma Madeira and Paula Donegan
and K{\^e}nia Sousa and Elizabeth Furtado and Vasco
Furtado",
title = "An integrated method for designing user interfaces
based on tests",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083280",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We present artifacts and techniques used for User
Interface (UI) evaluation, performed by professionals
from the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) area of
study, covering Usability and Semiotic Engineering,
which can assist Software Engineering (SE) to perform
usability tests earlier. The study of various
interaction alternatives, made possible by these
artifacts, verifies if they are in accordance with
users' preferences and constraints, and usability
patterns, and can enhance the probability of achieving
a more usable and reliable product.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Segal:2005:TPE,
author = "Judith Segal",
title = "Two principles of end-user software engineering
research",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083240",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper argues the importance of two principles for
end-user software engineering research. The first of
these is that not all end-user developers are the same.
The second is that research must be grounded in field
studies of actual end-user development practice. In
keeping with this second principle, our arguments are
based on data from our own field studies of practice.
These field studies involve a class of end user
developer, whom we term 'professional end user
developers' and who include scientists, mathematicians
and engineers.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Shaikh:2005:LOL,
author = "Maha Shaikh and Tony Cornford",
title = "Learning\slash organizing in {Linux}: a study of the
`spaces in between'",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083271",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/unix.bib",
abstract = "We assume that open source communities or collectives
are somewhat organized. we also assume that such
collectives are capable of learning, and indeed do
learn. However, it is far more difficult to say exactly
where, when and how such learning occurs, or resulting
(re-)organizing happens. Drawing on Clegg et al's [1]
concept of learning and becoming this paper seeks to
show, through a case study of the Linux discussion
around version control software, how learning and
organizing occur. The paper discusses the Linux
community's engagement with BitKeeper and explains
aspects of its adoption. In this we address version
control software as not merely a collaborative,
organizing vehicle but as a part of a generative
duality.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Simmons:2005:PGA,
author = "Bradley Simmons and Hanan Lutfiyya",
title = "Policies, grids and autonomic computing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083081",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The goals of resource management fall within the
overall aims of autonomic and grid computing, namely
the sharing of resources automatically, and the
allocation of resources depending on both application
and business needs. Resource allocation can be guided
by policies which encapsulate decisions made by the
management system. Policies can be used to encapsulate
many different types of management decisions including
possible corrective actions when a performance
requirement of an application is not being satisfied
and actions to take place when there is more demand
then supply. System policy is derived from the
interactions between Service Level Agreements
(contractual agreements between businesses) and locally
specified management rules. This paper explores the
potential use of mathematical models (e.g.,
optimisation models) for relating the various types of
policies. It describes the current and proposed work in
applying policies to resource management in the context
of autonomic and grid computing systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sliwerski:2005:WDC,
author = "Jacek {\'S}liwerski and Thomas Zimmermann and Andreas
Zeller",
title = "When do changes induce fixes?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083147",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "As a software system evolves, programmers make changes
that sometimes cause problems. We analyze CVS archives
for fix-inducing changes --- changes that lead to
problems, indicated by fixes. We show how to
automatically locate fix-inducing changes by linking a
version archive (such as CVS) to a bug database (such
as BUGZILLA). In a first investigation of the MOZILLA
and ECLIPSE history, it turns out that fix-inducing
changes show distinct patterns with respect to their
size and the day of week they were applied.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Spacco:2005:SRM,
author = "Jaime Spacco and Jaymie Strecker and David Hovemeyer
and William Pugh",
title = "Software repository mining with Marmoset: an automated
programming project snapshot and testing system",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083149",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Most computer science educators hold strong opinions
about the ``right'' approach to teaching introductory
level programming. Unfortunately, we have comparatively
little hard evidence about the effectiveness of these
various approaches because we generally lack the
infrastructure to obtain sufficiently detailed data
about novices' programming habits. To gain insight into
students' programming habits, we developed Marmoset, a
project snapshot and submission system. Like existing
project submission systems, Marmoset allows students to
submit versions of their projects to a central server,
which automatically tests them and records the results.
Unlike existing systems, Marmoset also collects
finegrained code snapshots as students work on
projects: each time a student saves her work, it is
automatically committed to a CVS repository. We believe
the data collected by Marmoset will be a rich source of
insight about learning to program and software
evolution in general. To validate the effectiveness of
our tool, we performed an experiment which found a
statistically significant correlation between warnings
reported by a static analysis tool and failed unit
tests. To make fine-grained code evolution data more
useful, we present a data schema which allows a variety
of useful queries to be more easily formulated and
answered.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Stewart:2005:OPD,
author = "Katherine J. Stewart and David P. Darcy and Sherae L.
Daniel",
title = "Observations on patterns of development in open source
software projects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083272",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper discusses a project aimed at understanding
how open source software evolves by examining patterns
of development and changes in releases over time. The
methodological approach of the research and initial
observations are described. These include descriptions
of release cycles and categorization of projects based
on the overall changes in size and complexity exhibited
across releases. Implications of these observations are
discussed in light of prior and future work on
understanding OSS evolution.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ubayashi:2005:CMC,
author = "Naoyasu Ubayashi and Tetsuo Tamai",
title = "Concern management for constructing model compilers",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083127",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Model-driven architecture (MDA) aims at automating
software design processes. A model compiler transforms
platform-independent models into platform-specific
models automatically. In order to construct an
effective model compiler, we need to take account of
not only platform concerns but also other kinds of
model transformation concerns including optimization,
real-time constraints, and deployment. However, current
model compilers do not provide a mechanism for managing
these multiple concerns. We propose a method for
constructing an extensible model compiler based on
aspect-orientation. A modeler can manage multiple
concerns and extend model transformation rules by
defining new aspects in the process of modeling. In
this paper, an aspect-oriented modeling language called
AspectM is introduced for managing modeling-level
aspects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wellington:2005:ETC,
author = "Carol A. Wellington and Thomas Briggs and C. Dudley
Girard",
title = "Examining team cohesion as an effect of software
engineering methodology",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083122",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes an experiment in which student
teams developed products using two different
methodologies: the Team Software Process (TSP) as a
plan-driven methodology and Extreme Programming (XP) as
an agile methodology. We carefully define cohesion and
derive instruments appropriate for measuring cohesion.
Then, throughout the projects, the teams were surveyed
to measure various aspects of team cohesion and those
results support conclusions about how methodology was
affecting cohesion. The results show that the measures
developed lead to interesting observations that can be
applied to current, non-academic projects. In addition,
future work in broadening this study is justified.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Williams:2005:EEC,
author = "Laurie Williams and Lucas Layman and Pekka
Abrahamsson",
title = "On establishing the essential components of a
technology-dependent framework: a strawman framework
for industrial case study-based research",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083179",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A goal of evidence-based software engineering is to
provide a means by which industry practitioners can
make rational decisions about technology adoption. When
a technology is mature enough for potential widespread
use, practitioners find empirical evidence most
compelling when the study has taken place in a live,
industrial situation in an environment comparable to
their own. However, empirical software engineering is
in need of guidelines and standards to direct
industrial case studies so that the results of this
research are valuable and can be combined into an
evidentiary base. In this paper, we present a
high-level view of a measurement framework that has
been used with multiple agile software development
industrial case studies. We propose that this
technology-dependent framework can be used as a
strawman for a guideline of data collection, analysis,
and reporting of industrial case studies. Our goal in
offering the framework as a strawman is to solicit
input from the community on a guideline for the
essential components of a technology-dependent
framework for industrial case study research.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Williams:2005:RSS,
author = "Chadd C. Williams and Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth",
title = "Recovering system specific rules from software
repositories",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083144",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "One of the most successful applications of static
analysis based bug finding tools is to search the
source code for violations of system-specific rules.
These rules may describe how functions interact in the
code, how data is to be validated or how an API is to
be used. To apply these tools, the developer must
encode a rule that must be followed in the source code.
The difficulty is that many of these system-specific
rules are undocumented and ``grow'' over time as the
source code changes. Most research in this area relies
on expert programmers to document these little-known
rules. In this paper we discuss a method to
automatically recover a subset of these rules, function
usage patterns, by mining the software repository. We
present a preliminary study that applies our work to a
large open source software project.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wu:2005:PTT,
author = "Xiaoqing Wu and Barrett R. Bryant and Jeff Gray and
Marjan Mernik",
title = "Pattern transformation for two-dimensional separation
of concerns",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083133",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Design patterns are utilized in software development
to decouple individual concerns, so that a change in a
design decision is isolated to one location of the code
base. However, multidimensional concerns exist in
software development and therefore no single design
pattern offers a panacea toward addressing problems of
change evolution. By analyzing the matrix of concerns
during the software development process and utilizing
transferable aspect-orientation and object-orientation,
a pattern transformation based two-dimensional
separation of concerns is described, which integrates
the benefits derived from the Inheritance pattern and
several GoF patterns. An example implementation is
shown using Java and AspectJ.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ying:2005:SCT,
author = "Annie T. T. Ying and James L. Wright and Steven
Abrams",
title = "Source code that talks: an exploration of {Eclipse}
task comments and their implication to repository
mining",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083152",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A programmer performing a change task to a system can
benefit from accurate comments on the source code. As
part of good programming practice described by
Kernighan and Pike in the book \booktitle{The Practice
of Programming}, comments should ``aid the
understanding of a program by briefly pointing out
salient details or by providing a larger-scale view of
the proceedings.'' In this paper, we explore the widely
varying uses of comments in source code. We find that
programmers not only use comments for describing the
actual source code, but also use comments for many
other purposes, such as ``talking'' to colleagues
through the source code using a comment ``Joan, please
fix this method.'' This kind of comments can complicate
the mining of project information because such team
communication is often perceived to reside in separate
archives, such as emails or newsgroup postings, rather
than in the source code. Nevertheless, these and other
types of comments can be very useful inputs for mining
project information.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zhang:2005:MDA,
author = "Jing Zhang and Jeff Gray and Yuehua Lin",
title = "A model-driven approach to enforce crosscutting
assertion checking",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083138",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Design by Contract provides an effective principle to
enable the construction of robust software by
describing properties of a module using logical
assertions. This paper presents a model-driven approach
for weaving assertion checking aspects into a large
software system. The approach is based on a technique
called two-level aspect weaving. At the top level,
crosscutting assertions are weaved into a model by use
of a model weaver. The second step of the weaving
process occurs when the Model-Driven Program
Transformation technique is applied to perform
large-scale adaptation of the underlying source code
from the contracts specified in the high-level models.
The paper briefly presents a case study to illustrate
the concept.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Arshad:2005:DFD,
author = "Naveed Arshad and Dennis Heimbigner and Alexander L.
Wolf",
title = "Dealing with failures during failure recovery of
distributed systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083067",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "One of the characteristics of autonomic systems is
self recovery from failures. Self recovery can be
achieved through sensing failures, planning for
recovery and executing the recovery plan to bring the
system back to a normal state. For various reasons,
however, additional failures are possible during the
process of recovering from the initial failure.
Handling such secondary failures is important because
they can cause the original recovery plan to fail and
can leave the system in a complicated state that is
worse than before. In this paper techniques are
identified to preserve consistency while dealing with
such failures that occur during failure recovery.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Auguston:2005:EBM,
author = "Mikhail Auguston and James Bret Michael and Man-Tak
Shing",
title = "Environment behavior models for scenario generation
and testing automation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083284",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper suggests an approach to automatic scenario
generation from environment models for testing of
real-time reactive systems. The behavior of the system
is defined as a set of events (event trace) with two
basic relations: precedence and inclusion. The
attributed event grammar (AEG) specifies possible event
traces and provides a uniform approach for
automatically generating, executing, and analyzing test
cases. The environment model includes a description of
hazardous states in which the system may arrive and
makes it possible to gather statistics for system
safety assessment. The approach is supported by a
generator that creates test cases from the AEG models.
We demonstrate the approach with case studies of
prototypes for the safety-critical computer-assisted
resuscitation algorithm (CARA) software for a casualty
intravenous fluid infusion pump and the Paderborn
Shuttle System.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Barrera:2005:ILS,
author = "Pablo Barrera and Gregorio Robles and Jos{\'e} M.
Ca{\~n}as and Francisco Mart{\'\i}n and Vicente
Matell{\'a}n",
title = "Impact of libre software tools and methods in the
robotics field",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083261",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software is one of the major components of robots; in
fact, it is the main bottleneck for the proliferation
of robotics in our everyday lives. In the last years
the field of robotics has been an emerging application
area of the libre (free/open source) software
phenomenon. Libre software tools have been
traditionally popular among the robotics research and
teaching community. Even companies whose main business
model is to sell robots have found convenient to share
the software in order to promote a community around
their products. In this paper we analyze the situation
of libre software in these three subareas: industry,
teaching and research. In particular, we describe
commercial robots like the Cye and the Pioneer, a
software platform like Orocos as a examples of
industrial world applications, the libre tools around
the LEGO Mindstorms in the case of teaching, and the
Robocup competition and the Player/Stage platform in
research area. All these cases show that libre software
can act as a catalyst in the robotics industry which is
still a sector in its early research and industrial
stages.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Boehm:2005:VBQ,
author = "Barry Boehm",
title = "Value-based quality processes and results",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083294",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Cost effectiveness is one of the important issues for
developing products in a life cycle. And review is a
key activity that can detect defects from the early
stage and fix them. This paper provides Value-based
review techniques adding cost effectiveness into review
processes and reports on an experiment on Value-based
review. Through the experiment, the Value-based review
is shown to have higher cost effectiveness in review
processes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Boetticher:2005:NNS,
author = "Gary D. Boetticher",
title = "Nearest neighbor sampling for better defect
prediction",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083173",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "An important step in building effective predictive
models applies one or more sampling techniques.
Traditional sampling techniques include random,
stratified, systemic, and clustered. The problem with
these techniques is that they focus on the class
attribute, rather than the non-class attributes. For
example, if a test instance's nearest neighbor is from
the opposite class of the training set, then it seems
doomed to misclassification. To illustrate this
problem, this paper conducts 20 experiments on five
different NASA defect datasets (CM1, JM1, KC1, KC2,
PC1) using two different learners (J48 and Na{\"\i}ve
Bayes). Each data set is divided into 3 groups, a
training set, and ``nice/nasty'' neighbor test sets.
Using a nearest neighbor approach, ``Nice neighbors''
consist of those test instances closest to class
training instances. ``Nasty neighbors'' are closest to
opposite class training instances. The ``Nice''
experiments average 94 percent accuracy and the
``Nasty'' experiments average 20 percent accuracy.
Based on these results a new nearest neighbor sampling
technique is proposed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Botaschanjan:2005:TVA,
author = "J. Botaschanjan and L. Kof and C. K{\"u}hnel and M.
Spichkova",
title = "Towards verified automotive software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083199",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Automotive software is one of the most challenging
fields of software engineering: it must meet real time
requirements, is safety critical and distributed over
multiple processors. With the increasing complexity of
automotive software, as for example in the case of
drive-by-wire, automated driving and driver assitents,
software correctness becomes more and more a crucial
issue. In order that these innovations can become
reality, it is necessary to be able to guarantee
software correctness. The presented work aims at
verification of automotive software. For this purpose
it introduces a verification approach, including a
framework of verified modules which assists the
verification of the actual application. Feasibility of
this approach was validated on a case study that also
showed how verification can be integrated into the
development process.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Canfora:2005:CCF,
author = "Gerardo Canfora and Piero Corte and Antonio De Nigro
and Debora Desideri and Massimiliano {Di Penta} and
Raffaele Esposito and Amedeo Falanga and Gloria Renna
and Rita Scognamiglio and Francesco Torelli and Maria
Luisa Villani and Paolo Zampognaro",
title = "The {C-Cube} framework: developing autonomic
applications through web services",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083087",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Web services constitute a promising technology to
support autonomic computing. Automatic discovery of new
services, their composition and binding based on
Quality of Service (QoS) are just some of the most
promising features that can be provided using web
services. In other words, a service oriented system is
able to automatically discover, bind, and use, at run
time, the services that, among those available, offer a
given piece of functionality with a QoS compatible with
the system non-functional requirements. This paper
describes our work-in-progress related to the
development of an electronic marketplace, named C$^3$
(Creation, Certification and Classification of
Services) to enable the publication, semantic
discovery, service buying, SLA negotiation and
QoS-aware composition and replanning. The marketplace
is mainly targeted to corporate intranets, although its
technologies and approaches can be easily exported to a
wider scenario.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chen:2005:FSS,
author = "Zhihao Chen and Tim Menzies and Dan Port and Barry
Boehm",
title = "Feature subset selection can improve software cost
estimation accuracy",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083171",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Cost estimation is important in software development
for controlling and planning software risks and
schedule. Good estimation models, such as COCOMO, can
avoid insufficient resources being allocated to a
project. In this study, we find that COCOMO's estimates
can be improved via WRAPPER --- a feature subset
selection method developed by the data mining
community. Using data sets from the PROMISE repository,
we show WRAPPER significantly and dramatically improves
COCOMO's predictive power.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Clermont:2005:HAI,
author = "Markus Clermont",
title = "Heuristics for the automatic identification of
irregularities in spreadsheets",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083234",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Spreadsheet programs turned out to be the most popular
end-user programming environment that has ever been
released. Important decisions are based on the results
of spreadsheet programs and the list of known errors
with large impact is growing daily --- although it
surely is only the top of an iceberg. One way out of
the crisis might be the introduction of software
engineering techniques into spreadsheet development.
Suggestions for the improvement of spreadsheet
development range back as far as into the late
eighties, but none has been successful yet. We argue
this is either because not enough effort is put into
the roll-out of the technique to the users and, mainly,
because they neglect the fact that spreadsheet
programmers are end-users, not willing or not able to
spend any time on learning software engineering
methods. We found out that most end users are willing
to verify their spreadsheets, but only view have the
time and skills to do really systematic testing of
spreadsheets. We developed an approach to generate two
orthogonal abstract representations of spreadsheet
programs that are then displayed to the user by
different visualisation techniques to support the
auditing process. Usually, irregularities in the
visualisation point out hot-spots on the spreadsheet
with a high likelihood of erroneous formulas. In this
paper we present new heuristics for identifying hot
spots that are very efficient for large spreadsheet
programs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Denaro:2005:AIT,
author = "Giovanni Denaro and Mauro Pezz{\'e} and Davide Tosi",
title = "Adaptive integration of third-party web services",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083088",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Service based computing allows clients to dynamically
bind services, and providers to modify the service
implementation independently from their clients. The
impossibility of statically determining which service
implementation will be bound at runtime may lead to
unexpected client-side failures. This position paper
suggests a scenario in which service-based applications
autonomously react to changes in the implementation of
the used services, automatically detect possible
integration mismatches, and dynamically execute
suitable adaptation strategies. The proposed solution
exploits ideas from autonomic computing and
self-managed software. We propose a design methodology
based on the definition of both test cases, to
automatically diagnose service mismatches, and
adaptation strategies, to overcome the revealed
problems. We introduce a general runtime infrastructure
that automatically embeds the test cases and the
adaptation strategies into service based applications
to guarantee self-adaptiveness.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Eklund:2005:EIR,
author = "Ulrik Eklund and {\"O}rjan Askerdal and Johan Granholm
and Anders Alminger and Jakob Axelsson",
title = "Experience of introducing reference architectures in
the development of automotive electronic systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083195",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The requirements on increasing functionality, quality,
and, customisation, while reducing cost has lead to the
introduction of an architecture centred development
process for electronic systems at Volvo Cars. This
process enables better control of system integration
and achieving non-functional requirements, such as
reusability, understandability, etc. The result of the
process is a reference architecture that includes
strategies for implementing the balanced requirements,
architectural views that provide means for reasoning
about all the concerns of all stakeholders, and a
top-level design of the architecturally significant
parts. The reference architecture guides the design of
several projects, and thus, cost is optimised
accordingly. The main contribution of this paper is
that we present experiences from introducing the
architecture centred process. The main conclusions are
that disseminating and maintaining the reference
architecture actually require more resources than
developing it. Furthermore, experience shows it is
difficult to create an architecture that enables a lot
of different variants that is also strategically
useable in the long term.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Froberg:2005:BSR,
author = "Joakim Fr{\"o}berg and Kristian Sandstr{\"o}m and
Christer Norstr{\"o}m",
title = "Business situation reflected in automotive electronic
architectures: analysis of four commercial cases",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083197",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Automotive vehicle electronic systems are developed
facing a complex and large set of inter-related
requirements from numerous stakeholders, many of which
are internal to the Original Equipment Manufacturer,
OEM. The electronic architecture, of the product, or
its structure and design principles, form an equally
complex construct; including technology and methods,
which ultimately should be chosen to optimally support
the organization's own business situation. In this
paper, we have analyzed the relationship of four
automotive electronic architectures to their respective
business requirements and business context. The study
shows four functionally rather similar products with
computer controlled power train, body functions, and
instrument. In the light of the business situation, we
explain the solutions and why design principles are
pursued. The analysis shows that despite a common base
of similar vehicle functionality the resulting
electronic architectures used by the four organizations
are quite different. The reason for this becomes
apparent when looking at different business context and
business requirements and their affect on the
architecture. Differences in business situation drive
the use of different methods for integration, different
standards, different number of configurations, and
different focus in the development effort. Some key
parameters in business situation affecting
architectural design decisions are shown to be product
volume, size of market, and business requirements on
openness and customer adaptation. An important lesson
from this is that one should be very careful to
uncritically apply technical solutions from one
industry in another, even when they are as closely
related as the applications described in this work.
Understanding the requirements from the business case
is the key to choosing architectural solutions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Geiger:2005:SDT,
author = "Leif Geiger and Albert Z{\"u}ndorf",
title = "Story driven testing --- {SDT}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083186",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In the last years, SCESM community has studied a
number of synthesis approaches that turn scenario
descriptions into some kind of state machine. In our
story driven modeling approach, the statechart
synthesis is done manually. Many other approaches rely
on human interaction, too. Frequently, the resulting
state machines are just the starting point for further
system development. The manual steps and the human
interaction and the subsequent development steps are
subject to the introduction of errors. Thus, it is not
guaranteed that the final implementation still covers
the initial scenarios. Therefore, this paper proposes
the exploitation of scenarios for the derivation of
automatic tests. These tests may be used to force the
implementation to implement at least the behavior
outlined in the requirements scenarios. In addition,
this approach raises the value of formal scenarios for
requirements elicitation and analysis since such
scenarios are turned into automatic tests that may be
used to drive iterative development processes according
to test-first principles.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Georgas:2005:ARC,
author = "John C. Georgas and Andr{\'e} van der Hoek and Richard
N. Taylor",
title = "Architectural runtime configuration management in
support of dependable self-adaptive software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083225",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The dynamic nature of some self-adaptive software
systems can result in potentially unpredictable
adaptations, which may be detrimental to overall system
dependability by diminishing trust in the adaptation
process. This paper describes our initial work with
architectural runtime configuration management in order
to improve dependability and overall system usefulness
by maintaining a record of reconfigurations and
providing support for architectural recovery
operations. Our approach --- fully decoupled from
self-adaptive systems themselves and the adaptation
management processes governing their changes ---
provides for better adaptation visibility and
self-adaptive process dependability. We elaborate on
the vision for our overall approach, present early
implementation and testing results from prototyping
efforts, and discuss our future plans.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Georgas:2005:RIH,
author = "John C. Georgas and Michael M. Gorlick and Richard N.
Taylor",
title = "Raging incrementalism: harnessing change with
open-source software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083263",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Change is a bitter fact of life for system developers
and, to a large extent, conventional practices are
aimed at arresting change and minimizing its effects.
We take the opposite view and are exploring system
engineering practices that harness the forces of change
for the ongoing, incremental improvement of systems ---
a view we name raging incrementalism. We harness three
powerful forces to ride the waves of change:
open-source software, commodity hardware, and web-like,
representational state transfer architectures. This
paper describes an early experiment in applying raging
incrementalism to a complex system: large-scale digital
video capture, distribution, and archival for launch
range operations. We outline the methodology of raging
incrementalism, describe the vital role open-source
plays in system development and construction, and offer
insights on the programmatic consequences of embracing
open-source software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Giesecke:2005:ASP,
author = "Simon Giesecke and Timo Warns and Wilhelm
Hasselbring",
title = "Availability simulation of peer-to-peer architectural
styles",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083230",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper addresses the issue of quantitatively
investigating availability within peer-to-peer systems.
We devise a conceptual framework integrating
architectural styles, architectures, and concrete
systems. We identify basic characteristics of
architectural styles for peer-to-peer systems and give
a formal model to describe derived architectures.
Architectural descriptions are used as input for
simulations to predict the availability of services
within real-world systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Grisham:2005:CRE,
author = "Paul S. Grisham and Dewayne E. Perry",
title = "Customer relationships and Extreme Programming",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083113",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Extreme Programming (XP) brings the customer and
development team together into a tight functional unit,
while eliminating many of the process activities of
more structured software development processes. While
agile methods may yield benefits in terms of product
cost and quality, there is also a risk that the very
practices that make agile methods effective may weaken
the customer relationship. This paper examines XP from
the perspective of customer satisfaction and motivates
the need for more analysis of the social,
psychological, and business factors in studies of
software development methods.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Guessoum:2005:ARL,
author = "Zahia Guessoum and Nora Faci and Jean-Pierre Briot",
title = "Adaptive replication of large-scale multi-agent
systems: towards a fault-tolerant multi-agent
platform",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082977",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In order to construct and deploy large-scale
multi-agent systems, we must address one of the
fundamental issues of distributed systems, the
possibility of partial failures. This means that
fault-tolerance is an inevitable issue for large-scale
multi-agent systems. In this paper, we discuss the
issues and propose an approach for fault-tolerance of
multi-agent systems. The starting idea is the
application of replication strategies to agents, the
most critical agents being replicated to prevent
failures. As criticality of agents may evolve during
the course of computation and problem solving, and as
resources are bounded, we need to dynamically and
automatically adapt the number of replicas of agents,
in order to maximize their reliability and
availability. We will describe our approach and related
mechanisms for evaluating the criticality of a given
agent (based on application-level semantic information,
e.g. interdependences, and also system-level
statistical information, e.g., communication load) and
for deciding what strategy to apply (e.g., active
replication, passive) how to parameterize it (e.g.,
number of replicas). We also will report on experiments
conducted with our prototype architecture (named
DimaX).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gurbani:2005:CSO,
author = "Vijay K. Gurbani and Anita Garvert and James D.
Herbsleb",
title = "A case study of open source tools and practices in a
commercial setting",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083264",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Commercially, many in the industry are using products
based on Open Source. What have been missing are
studies on if the commercial industry benefits from
developing software following the open source
development model. We present a case study that
examines this issue by applying the concepts of the
open source software development methodology to
creating industrial-strength software. We conclude with
lessons learned and open research questions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Herraiz:2005:TPM,
author = "Israel Herraiz and Gregorio Robles and Jesus M.
Gonzalez-Barahona",
title = "Towards predictor models for large libre software
projects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083168",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Libre (free/open source) software provides an ample
range of publicly available data sources about its
development, which can be retrieved and analyzed.
Consequently, it offers a good opportunity to build
predictive estimation and evolution models. The main
challenge to understand libre software development is
that its development nature is radically different from
'classical' in-house software development, common in
industry in the last decades. Developers and other
human resources are generally a mixture of a few hired
developers and many volunteers whose contribution (in
number of hours per week and in total time devoted to
the project) is not foreseeable in advance. This paper
is a first step in finding predictive models in the
libre software world. We have studied three data
repositories (versioning system, mailing lists and bug
tracking system) of GNOME, a large libre software
project with several thousand contributors and several
millions of lines of code, measuring activity and
participation in it during the last years. Results and
correlations for these sources allow us to adventure
some first estimations of how participation and
activity will evolve in the future.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{John:2005:HSF,
author = "Michael John and Frank Maurer and Bj{\o}rnar Tessem",
title = "{Human and Social Factors of Software Engineering}:
workshop summary",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083000",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software is developed for people and by people. Human
and social factors have a very strong impact on the
success of software development endeavours and the
resulting system. Surprisingly, much of software
engineering research in the last decade is technical,
quantitative and deemphasizes the people aspect. The
workshop on Human and Social Factors in Software
Engineering has been picking up on the some of the soft
aspects in software development that was highlighted in
the early days of software engineering. It also follows
a recent trend in the software industry, namely the
introduction of agile methods, and provides a
scientific perspective on these. Including and
combining approaches of software engineering with
social science, the workshop looked at software
engineering from a number of perspectives, including
those of agile methods and communication theory, in
order to point out solutions and conditions for
human-centred software engineering.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kiebusch:2005:RTM,
author = "Sebastian Kiebusch and Bogdan Franczyk and Andreas
Speck",
title = "A real time measure of software system families",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083307",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software systems with inherent real time
characteristics have become the driving force in many
areas of technology like the automotive sector. Control
functions of cars, driver assistance as well as systems
for information and entertainment are accomplished by
software driven control units. Due to the high
complexity and development effort of real time systems,
these resources have to be reused. Software system
families are a promising solution to gain a cost
reduction by reusing common software assets in
different variants of an automobile. To support the
economic management of this development approach we
need software metrics to estimate the effort of
building embedded software system families. Techniques
of size measurement and cost estimation for software
system families are highly insufficient in general and
do not exist for the automotive domain. Therefore this
article describes a conglomerate of innovative metrics
to analyze a realtime perspective of embedded software
system families in the automotive domain. These size
metrics calculate an unadjusted measure of software
driven control units to indicate and estimate their
development costs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kruger:2005:SAE,
author = "Ingolf H. Kr{\"u}ger and Reena Mathew and Michael
Meisinger",
title = "From scenarios to aspects: exploring product lines",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083188",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software product lines are gaining importance because
they allow improvements in time to market, cost,
productivity and quality of software products.
Architecture evaluation is one important aspect in the
development of product lines for large-scale
distributed systems. It is desirable to evaluate and
compare architectures for functionality and quality
attributes before implementing or changing the whole
system. Often, the effort required for the thorough
evaluation of alternatives using prototypes is
prohibitive. In this paper, we present an approach for
cost-efficient software architecture evaluation, based
on scenario-oriented software specifications, modeling
the system services. We show how to map the same set of
services to several possible target architectures and
give a procedure to generate evaluation prototypes
using aspect-oriented programming techniques. This
significantly reduces the effort required to explore
architectural alternatives. We explain our approach
using the Center TRACON Automation System as an
example.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Liu:2005:QAS,
author = "Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu and Yan Sun and Gautam Kane and
Yuji Kyoya and Kunio Noguchi",
title = "{QFD} application in software process management and
improvement based on {CMM}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083298",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Capability Maturity Model (CMM) from Software
Engineering Institute has been used successfully by
many organizations for software process improvement.
However, there exists a disconnection between business
goals and maturity levels. A new framework using
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is developed to deal
with this problem. This framework serves three
purposes: (1) it provides a connection between business
requirements and CMM; (2) it proposed a methodology for
the priority assessment of requirements from multiple
perspectives; and (3) it helps identify a set of
software process improvement actions based on business
requirements and CMM.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mair:2005:ADS,
author = "Carolyn Mair and Martin Shepperd and Magne
J{\o}rgensen",
title = "An analysis of data sets used to train and validate
cost prediction systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083166",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "OBJECTIVE --- to build up a picture of the nature and
type of data sets being used to develop and evaluate
different software project effort prediction systems.
We believe this to be important since there is a
growing body of published work that seeks to assess
different prediction approaches.METHOD --- we performed
an exhaustive search from 1980 onwards from three
software engineering journals for research papers that
used project data sets to compare cost prediction
systems.RESULTS --- this identified a total of 50
papers that used, one or more times, a total of 71
unique project data sets. We observed that some of the
better known and easily accessible data sets were used
repeatedly making them potentially disproportionately
influential. Such data sets also tend to be amongst the
oldest with potential problems of obsolescence. We also
note that only about 60\% of all data sets are in the
public domain. Finally, extracting relevant information
from research papers has been time consuming due to
different styles of presentation and levels of
contextural information.CONCLUSIONS --- first, the
community needs to consider the quality and
appropriateness of the data set being utilised; not all
data sets are equal. Second, we need to assess the way
results are presented in order to facilitate
meta-analysis and whether a standard protocol would be
appropriate.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Menzies:2005:SSC,
author = "Tim Menzies and Dan Port and Zhihao Chen and Jairus
Hihn",
title = "Simple software cost analysis: safe or unsafe?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083170",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Delta estimation uses changes to old projects to
estimate new projects. Delta estimation assumes that
new costs can be extrapolated from old projects. In
this study, we show that in certain real-world data
sets. there exists attributes where this assumption
does not hold. We define here an automatic method to
find which attributes can be safely used for delta
estimation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Noppen:2005:DIQ,
author = "Joost Noppen and Pim van den Broek and Mehmet Aksit",
title = "Dealing with imprecise quality factors in software
design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083303",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "During the design of a software system impreciseness
can manifest itself in for instance the requirements or
performance estimations. While it is common to
eliminate the impreciseness by information that can not
be justified, it is better to model the impreciseness
since it is the most accurate description that is
available at the current point in time. In this paper
we present an approach, which allows the explicit
specification of quality estimations and quality
requirements including the imprecise nature. In this
approach the impreciseness is modeled and addressed
using representations from probability theory and fuzzy
set theory.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pettersson:2005:AUC,
author = "Fredrik Pettersson and Martin Ivarsson and Peter
{\"O}hman",
title = "Automotive use case standard for embedded systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083193",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Today the lack of deliveries from suppliers to
automotive OEMs in early phases of software development
cause a number of problems such as misinterpreted
requirements and difficulties in keeping deadlines. We
have identified use cases as a means to communicate and
visualize requirements. A well defined standard is
needed to enable communication between different
organizations. In this paper we propose a two level use
case standard for embedded systems. The standard
consists of a template and guidelines specifying how to
write consistent and unambiguous use cases while
capturing the necessary requirements.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Phongpaibul:2005:IQT,
author = "Monvorath Phongpaibul and Barry Boehm",
title = "Improving quality through software process improvement
in {Thailand}: initial analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083299",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "For almost 10 years there have been attempts in
Thailand to improve software quality by adopting
western software process improvement models. Only 17 of
the 380 companies in Thailand were able to implement
software process models that we see here in the US. 14
out of the 17 companies were not able to improve their
process to a higher level. Why were companies not
successful in implementing these software process
models? Did they find other ways to improve quality?
The objective of this paper is to analyze the
experiences of software developers, project managers
and executive managers in implementing these software
process models in Thailand. The results will show that
cultural differences are a key factor to this problem.
Thai people have different cultural values. which we
will explore further in this paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Reiss:2005:DDV,
author = "Steven P. Reiss",
title = "Dynamic detection and visualization of software
phases",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083254",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software executes in phases. JIVE is a software
visualization tool that provides a high-level view of
what is occurring in a Java system as it happens,
offering information about both what classes are
executing, what classes are being allocated,
synchronizations, and what are the threads and what
state each thread is in. This paper describes how we
used the information available to JIVE to detect and
then display the current phase of execution.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ruthruff:2005:SCS,
author = "Joseph R. Ruthruff and Margaret Burnett",
title = "Six challenges in supporting end-user debugging",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083244",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper summarizes six challenges in end-user
programming that can impact the debugging efforts of
end users. These challenges have been derived through
our experiences and empirical investigation of
interactive fault localization techniques in the
spreadsheet paradigm. Our contributions reveal several
insights into debugging techniques for end-user
programmers, particularly fault localization
techniques, that can help guide the direction of future
end-user software engineering research.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2005:DQM,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "Deeper questions: the metaproblem of large
organizations developing complex systems and the limits
of process",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083008",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "One applies process improvement to the software
development process to increase efficiency and decrease
defects. Process improvement is not a one-shot deal.
Theoretically processes can be improved continuously,
forever, but \ldots{}. The belief that continuous
improvement can continue forever is analogous to the
belief that by continuously improving an automobile's
efficiency, eventually the day will come when the
driver is forced to stop every so often to pour off
excess spontaneously created gasoline. Here, the limits
are the laws of thermodynamics. For the software
development process the limits are the constraints of
the software development organization. To improve a
software process past a certain point, the organization
that hosts the process's context will need to be
improved, and then the context that hosts 'that'
organization's process, and so on. Aha! A recursive
pattern!The recognition of having a recursive problem
raises deeper questions about the nature of process and
process improvement, which, for this paper, will be
addressed in the context of the development of large,
complex, information intensive systems. Systems of this
type are the ones most prone to failure and thus should
benefit most from process improvement.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sharp:2005:SSF,
author = "Helen Sharp and Hugh Robinson",
title = "Some social factors of software engineering: the
maverick, community and technical practices",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083117",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "While the importance of 'people factors' in software
engineering has been recognised for over 25 years, few
specific factors, and their impact on software
engineering, have been identified. 'People factors'
covers a wide and diverse set of issues. In this paper
we focus on social factors, i.e. factors that arise
from the various interactions that need to take place
in order to develop software. We draw on three
different studies we have conducted over the last 10
years to identify three specific factors and their
impact on software development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Shepherd:2005:ULC,
author = "David Shepherd and Lori Pollock and Tom Tourw{\'e}",
title = "Using language clues to discover crosscutting
concerns",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083129",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Researchers have developed ways to describe a concern,
to store a concern, and even to keep a concern's code
quickly available while updating it. Work on
identifying concerns (semi-)automatically, however, has
yet to gain attention and practical use, even though it
is a desirable prerequisite to all of the above
activities, particularly for legacy applications. This
paper describes a concern identification technique that
leverages the natural language processing (NLP)
information in source code. Developers often use NLP
clues to help understand software, because NLP helps
them identify concepts that are semantically related.
However, few analyses use NLP to understand programs,
or to complement other program analyses. We have
observed that an NLP technique called lexical chains
offers the NLP equivalent of a concern. In this paper,
we investigate the use of lexical chaining to identify
crosscutting concerns, present the design and
implementation of an algorithm that uses lexical
chaining to expose concerns, and provide examples of
concerns that our tool is able to discover
automatically.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sherriff:2005:EED,
author = "Mark Sherriff and Nachiappan Nagappan and Laurie
Williams and Mladen Vouk",
title = "Early estimation of defect density using an in-process
{Haskell} metrics model",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083285",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Early estimation of defect density of a product is an
important step towards the remediation of the problem
associated with affordably guiding corrective actions
in the software development process. This paper
presents a suite of in-process metrics that leverages
the software testing effort to create a defect density
prediction model for use throughout the software
development process. A case study conducted with Galois
Connections, Inc. in a Haskell programming environment
indicates that the resulting defect density prediction
is indicative of the actual system defect density.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sturmer:2005:OES,
author = "Ingo St{\"u}rmer and Daniela Weinberg and Mirko
Conrad",
title = "Overview of existing safeguarding techniques for
automatically generated code",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083192",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Code generators are increasingly used in an industrial
context to translate graphical models into executable
code. Since the code is often deployed in
safety-related environments, the quality of the code
generators is of paramount importance. In this paper,
we will present and discuss state-of-the-art techniques
for safeguarding automatic code generation applied in
model-based development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sundaram:2005:BRT,
author = "Senthil Karthikeyan Sundaram and Jane Huffman Hayes
and Alexander Dekhtyar",
title = "Baselines in requirements tracing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083169",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We summarize the results of our requirements tracing
work to date, focusing on our empirical results with
open source datasets. Specifically, we describe the
problem of after-the-fact requirements tracing for
Verification and Validation (V\&V) analysts, we provide
a brief overview of Information Retrieval methods we
have applied as well as measures used to evaluate them,
we describe our tracing tool, and we present the
results of a number of empirical studies. Two of the
open source datasets that we have used are available to
the research community at
http://promise.site.uottawa.ca/SERepository/.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sutcliffe:2005:ASG,
author = "Alistair Sutcliffe",
title = "Applying small group theory to analysis and design of
{CSCW} systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083119",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper introduces a social psychological theory
--- Small Groups as Complex Systems --- as a
contribution to software engineering and more
specifically, design of CSCW systems. Small Group
Theory is composed of local dynamics which model the
internal view of a group; global dynamics that
represent whole group emergent properties; and
contextual dynamics that model the influences of the
group's environment on its composition, coherence and
behaviour. The potential contribution of Small Group
Theory to the design of CSCW systems is investigated by
model-based analysis of group members, supporting
technology, and design principles motivated by the
theory.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Umarji:2005:PAS,
author = "Medha Umarji and Carolyn Seaman",
title = "Predicting acceptance of Software Process
Improvement",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083121",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software Process Improvement (SPI) initiatives induce
organizational change, by introducing new tools,
techniques and work practices. Organizations have to
address acceptance issues such as resistance to change,
compatibility and fear of adverse consequences. Social
psychology literature includes the Technology
Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Theory of Planned
Behavior (TPB), which study such adoption issues and
predict intention to use and actual usage of workplace
technology. Some constructs of these models could be
applied to software organizations to make it easier for
them to counter the initial resistance and to
assimilate process improvement into the work culture.
To increase applicability of these models to the SPI
context, some additional constructs are proposed, by
taking into account organizational culture, the impact
of changes caused by SPI and the unique characteristics
of software developers.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Vipindeep:2005:ESA,
author = "V. Vipindeep and Pankaj Jalote",
title = "Efficient static analysis with path pruning using
coverage data",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083257",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Soundness and completeness are two primary concerns of
a static analysis tool for finding defects in software.
Exhaustive static analysis of the program through all
paths is not always possible, especially for a large
software causing incompleteness in the analysis. Also,
exhaustive testing of the program to detect all bugs is
not possible. In this work, we describe a technique
which uses coverage data from testing to remove the
tested paths and then statically analyzes the remaining
code. This pruning of tested paths allows a static
analyzer to perform a more thorough analysis of the
reduced code, thereby improving its effectiveness. This
work is a step towards integration of static analysis
and testing frameworks. The proposed technique is
applied with a few static analyzers publicly available.
Our experience shows that the approach results in
lesser false positives as well as detection of more
serious errors which might have gone unnoticed
otherwise.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wagner:2005:SQE,
author = "Stefan Wagner and Tilman Seifert",
title = "Software quality economics for defect-detection
techniques using failure prediction",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083296",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Defect-detection techniques, like reviews or tests,
are still the prevalent method to assure the quality of
software. However, the economics behind those
techniques are not fully understood. It is not always
obvious when and for how long to use which technique. A
cost model for defect-detection techniques is proposed
that uses a reliability model and expert opinion for
cost estimations and predictions. It is detailed enough
to allow fine-grained estimates but also can be used
with different defect-detection techniques not only
testing. An application of the model is shown using
partly data from an industrial project.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Weide:2005:IPC,
author = "Bruce W. Weide and Paolo Bucci and Wayne D. Heym and
Murali Sitaraman and Giorgio Rizzoni",
title = "Issues in performance certification for high-level
automotive control software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083196",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "High-level supervisory control software for automotive
applications (e.g., drive-by-wire) presents many
challenges to making performance guarantees, which are
a necessary part of the software's certification for
deployment. The features of such systems demand that a
compositional, or modular, approach to reasoning about
performance be devised and applied. We discuss one such
analytical approach as an alternative to simulation and
testing.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Xu:2005:APN,
author = "Lihua Xu and Hadar Ziv and Debra Richardson and Thomas
A. Alspaugh",
title = "An architectural pattern for non-functional
dependability requirements",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083219",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We address the research question of transforming
dependability requirements into corresponding software
architecture constructs. by proposing first that
dependability needs can be classified into three types
of requirements and second, an architectural pattern
that allows requirements engineers and architects to
map dependability requirements into three corresponding
types of architectural components. The proposed pattern
is general enough to work with existing requirements
techniques and existing software architectural styles,
including enterprise and product-line architectures.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zhou:2005:OSS,
author = "Ying Zhou and Joseph Davis",
title = "Open source software reliability model: an empirical
approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083273",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We collected bug tracking data from a few popular open
source projects and investigated the time related bug
reporting patterns from them. The results indicate that
along its development cycle, open source projects
exhibit similar reliability growth pattern with that of
closed source project. Bug arrivals of most open source
project will stabilize at a very low level, even though
in comparison, no formal testing activities are
involved. This stabilizing point would be viewed as the
mature point for adoption consideration. The results
also show that general Weibull distribution offers
possible way to establish the reliability model; Also,
popular measures such as page views and download are
not highly correlated with the bug arrival rate and may
not be suitable measures for a project's quality.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zuser:2005:SQD,
author = "Wolfgang Zuser and Stefan Heil and Thomas Grechenig",
title = "Software quality development and assurance in {RUP},
{MSF} and {XP}: a comparative study",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083300",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The support of software quality in a software
development process may be regarded under two aspects:
first, by providing techniques, which support the
development of high quality software and second, by
providing techniques, which assure the required quality
attributes in existing artifacts. Both approaches have
to be combined to achieve effective and successful
software engineering. In this study, we compare three
of the most industrially relevant software development
process models (Rational Unified Process (RUP),
Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) and Extreme
Programming (XP)) regarding their software quality
support in terms of software quality development and
software quality assurance. Based on the results we
propose a de-facto standard for quality support in
software development process models.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Abi-Antoun:2005:ISD,
author = "Marwan Abi-Antoun and Jonathan Aldrich and David
Garlan and Bradley Schmerl and Nagi Nahas and Tony
Tseng",
title = "Improving system dependability by enforcing
architectural intent",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083218",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Developing dependable software systems. requires
enforcing conformance between architecture and
implementation during software development and
evolution. We address this problem with a multi-pronged
approach: (a) automated refinement of a
component-and-connector (C\&C) architectural view into
an initial implementation, (b) enforcement of
architectural structure at the programming language
level, (c) automated abstraction of a C\&C view from an
implementation, and (d) semi-automated incremental
synchronization between the architectural and the
implementation C\&C views. We use an Architecture
Description Language (ADL), Acme, to describe the
architecture, and ArchJava, an implementation language
which embeds a C\&C architecture specification within
Java implementation code. Although both Acme and
ArchJava specify C\&C views, a number of structural
differences may arise. Our approach can detect
structural differences which correspond directly to
implementation-level violations of the well thoughtout
architectural intent. Furthermore, supplementing the
C\&C view extracted from the implementation with
architectural types and styles can uncover additional
violations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Amrit:2005:CSD,
author = "Chintan Amrit",
title = "Coordination in software development: the problem of
task allocation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083107",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "To systematize software development, many process
models have been proposed over the years. These models
focus on the sequence of steps used by developers to
create reliable software. Though these process models
have helped companies to gain certification and attain
global standards, they don't take into account
interpersonal interactions and various other social
aspects of software development organizations. In this
paper we tackle one crucial part of the Coordination
problem in Software Development, namely the problem of
task assignment in a team. We propose a methodology to
test a hypothesis based on how social networks can be
used to improve coordination in Software Industry. In a
pilot case study based on 4 teams of Masters Student
working in a globally distributed environment (Holland
and India), the social network structures along with
the task distribution in each of the teams were
analyzed. In each case we observed patterns, which
could be used to test many hypotheses on team
coordination and task allocation between them.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Balasubramaniam:2005:SAA,
author = "Dharini Balasubramaniam and Ron Morrison and Graham
Kirby and Kath Mickan and Brian Warboys and Ian
Robertson and Bob Snowdon and R. Mark Greenwood and
Wykeen Seet",
title = "A software architecture approach for structuring
autonomic systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083077",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Autonomic systems manage themselves given high-level
objectives by their administrators. They utilise
feedback from their own execution and their environment
to self-adapt in order to satisfy their goals. An
important consideration for such systems is a structure
which is conducive to self-management. This paper
presents a structuring methodology for autonomic
systems which explicitly models self-adaptation while
separating functionality and evolution. Our
contribution is a software architecture-based framework
combining an architecture description language based on
{\pi}-calculus for describing the structure and
behaviour of autonomic systems, a development
methodology for evolution and mechanisms for feedback
and change.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Banerjee:2005:LAM,
author = "Somo Banerjee and Chris A. Mattmann and Nenad
Medvidovic and Leana Golubchik",
title = "Leveraging architectural models to inject trust into
software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083213",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Existing software systems have become increasingly
durable and their lifetimes have significantly
lengthened. They are increasingly distributed and
decentralized. Our dependence on them has grown
tremendously. As such, the issues of trustworthiness
and security have become prime concerns in designing,
constructing, and evolving software systems. However,
the exact meanings of these concepts are not
universally agreed upon, nor is their role in the
different phases of the software development lifecycle.
In this paper, we argue that trustworthiness is a more
broadly encompassing term than security, and that the
two are often interdependent. We then identify a set of
dimensions of trustworthiness. Finally, we analyze how
the key elements of a software system's architecture
can be leveraged in support of those trustworthiness
dimensions. Our ultimate goal is to apply these ideas
in the context of a concrete software architecture
project. The goal of this paper is more modest: to
understand the problem area and its relation to
software architecture.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bartelt:2005:DIH,
author = "Christian Bartelt and Thomas Fischer and Dirk Niebuhr
and Andreas Rausch and Franz Seidl and Marcus Trapp",
title = "Dynamic integration of heterogeneous mobile devices",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083085",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In these days the trend ``everything, every time,
everywhere'' becomes more and more apparent. As
consequence of this trend everyone has a lot of small
or invisible devices in his direct environment, e.g.
mobile phones, PDAs, or music players. Also some
network technologies to connect the different devices
like (W)LAN or Bluetooth moved mainstream. Today in
most domains the considered devices and technologies
are integrated in isolated applications with fixed
hardware settings. But humans live in changing
environments and have varying requirements, so they
need customizable systems which adapt dynamically. As
many different types of devices exist, it is a big
challenge to integrate them within one system. In this
paper we introduce a concept that enables dynamic
integration of heterogeneous devices at run time.
Although our concept is at an early stage we built a
promising implementation in the domain of assisted
training to validate the basic principles.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bastos:2005:RMA,
author = "Lucia R. D. Bastos and Jaelson F. B. Castro",
title = "From requirements to multi-agent architecture using
organisational concepts",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082980",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "There is a clear relationship between requirements and
architectures. However, evolving and elaborating system
requirements into a software architecture satisfying
those requirements is still a difficult task, mainly
based on intuition. To narrow these problems, we are
investigating techniques for deriving architectural
model in concert with Multi-Agent System (MAS)
requirement specifications. Our framework advocates
that a multi-agent system corresponds to the
organisational structure, in which actors are members
of a group in order to perform specific roles. An
organisation comprises groups, goals, members, roles
and interactions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bauer:2005:FIS,
author = "Thomas Bauer and Jens Herrmann and Peter Liggesmeyer
and Christopher Robinson-Mallett",
title = "A flexible integration strategy for in-car telematics
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083194",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents an approach for the planning of
integration tests of automotive telematics systems. To
our knowledge no method for the determination of an
integration order exists that takes the project and the
system environment into account, which in our opinion
greatly influence the integration order. Furthermore,
most known test generation methods and structural
quality measures demand syntactically sound
specifications to be applied efficiently. In our
projects Message Sequence Charts are often created
manually from the scratch with many different tools,
and therefore they are of rather low syntactical
quality. This paper addresses the determination of an
integration strategy, which can easily be adapted to
changes in the project or in the system environment,
and which can be manually applied to any given
specification.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Beranek:2005:FGR,
author = "Georgine Beranek and Wolfgang Zuser and Thomas
Grechenig",
title = "Functional group roles in software engineering teams",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083108",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "For building and leading successful software
engineering teams it is vital to understand their team
structure as well as many other ``soft'' factors, e.g.
the personality and skills of individual team members.
A key element of the team structure, besides power
distribution, knowledge distribution etc., is the role
distribution within the team. The role distribution has
a twofold aspect: first, the formal role distribution,
which is defined by the standard process and role model
or the project management, and second, the informal
role distribution which grows within a team by the
natural interactions between the team members and is
based to some extent upon their individual
characteristics. This paper presents an empirical
examination of the informal role distribution in
student software engineering teams and compares the
results to the concept of functional group roles.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Biyani:2005:BCF,
author = "Karun N. Biyani and Sandeep S. Kulkarni",
title = "Building component families to support adaptation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083090",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Autonomic systems undergo dynamic compositional
adaptation that often require state transfer and
synchronization to correctly initialize the state of
the new component, while ensuring that multiple
fractions of the component are added and removed
consistently. In general, if there are n different
components for a given functionality, then there exist
n (n - 1) possible adaptations for selecting an
appropriate component. Identifying all these
adaptations is not an easy task. Moreover, as
verification of such adaptations is also difficult, it
is desirable to reduce total number of these
adaptations. We propose a component family design for
systematically building a repository of components from
the perspective of dynamic adaptation. For a family of
n components, we show that it suffices to identify n
different adaptations. Moreover, to add a new component
to this family, it suffices to consider only two
adaptations. We also propose a design to separate the
adaptation concern from component functionality for
simplifying the specification and verification of
adaptation. We introduce the enhanced-primitive
relation between two components; when such a relation
is known to exist, we show that it is possible to
simplify the adaptation and its verification.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Boroday:2005:DAJ,
author = "S. Boroday and A. Petrenko and J. Singh and H.
Hallal",
title = "Dynamic analysis of {Java} applications for
multithreaded antipatterns",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083247",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/multithreading.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Formal verification is not always applicable to large
industrial software systems due to scalability issues
and difficulties in formal model and requirements
specification. The scalability and model derivation
problems could be alleviated by runtime trace analysis,
which combines both testing and formal verification. We
implement and compare an ad-hoc custom approach and a
formal approach to detect common bug patterns in
multithreaded Java software. We use the tracing
platform of the Eclipse IDE and state-of-the-art model
checker Spin.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bouquet:2005:RTA,
author = "F. Bouquet and E. Jaffuel and B. Legeard and F.
Peureux and M. Utting",
title = "Requirements traceability in automated test
generation: application to smart card software
validation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083282",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Automated test case and test driver generation from a
formal model is becoming a more widely used practice in
the smart card area. This innovative approach for
validation testing makes it possible to ensure the
functional coverage of the test suite and to automate
the production of executable test scripts. This paper
presents an approach to automatically produce the
Traceability Matrix from requirements to test cases, as
part of the test generation process. This approach is
embedded in the LEIRIOS Test Generator (LTG) tool, and
has been used for several real-life applications in the
smart card industry. This paper introduces the approach
to annotating the formal model and using it to generate
the Traceability Matrix. It also discusses some lessons
learnt from our experience using Model-Based Testing
for smart card software validation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bowdidge:2005:RGU,
author = "Robert W. Bowdidge",
title = "Refactoring {\tt gcc} using structure field access
traces and concept analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083248",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Refactoring usually involves statically analyzing
source code to understand which transformations safely
preserve execution behavior of the program. However,
static analysis may not scale well for large programs
when analysis results are too general, when tools for
analyzing the source code are unwieldy, or when the
tools simply do not exist. In such cases, it can be
simpler to analyze the program at runtime to gather
answers needed for safe code changes. I show how
dynamic data can guide refactoring of a single data
structure into a hierarchy of classes. Specifically, I
show how I refactored the gcc compiler to cut its use
of heap memory. In order to partition the declaration
data structure into more efficiently-sized parts, I
used data structure field access traces to
automatically identify how the data structure might be
refactored. I also identified other potential
refactorings of the data structure using concept
analysis. These results then guided by-hand
modifications to the compiler. I finally evaluated what
size test cases would be needed to gather adequate
information to correctly perform the refactoring. The
case study showed the refactoring could be performed
with the dynamic information, but without traces from
an exhaustive set of test cases, some fields would be
moved incorrectly.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Breech:2005:FTS,
author = "Ben Breech and Lori Pollock",
title = "A framework for testing security mechanisms for
program-based attacks",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083208",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Program vulnerabilities leave organizations open to
malicious attacks that can result in severe damage to
company finances, resources, consumer privacy, and
data. Engineering applications and systems so that
vulnerabilities do not exist would be the best
solution, but this strategy may be impractical due to
fiscal constraints or inadequate knowledge. Therefore,
a variety of program and system-based solutions have
been proposed to deal with vulnerabilities in a
manageable way. Unfortunately, proposed strategies are
often poorly tested, because current testing techniques
focus on the common case whereas vulnerabilities are
often exploited by uncommon inputs. In this paper, we
present the design of a testing framework that enables
the efficient, automatic and systematic testing of
security mechanisms designed to prevent program-based
attacks. The key insight of the framework is that
dynamic compilation technology allows us to insert and
simulate attacks during program execution. Thus, a
security mechanism can be tested using any program, not
only those with known vulnerabilities.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bryce:2005:TPP,
author = "Ren{\'e}e C. Bryce and Charles J. Colbourn",
title = "Test prioritization for pairwise interaction
coverage",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083275",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Interaction testing is widely used in screening for
faults. In software testing, it provides a natural
mechanism for testing systems to be deployed on a
variety of hardware and software configurations.
Several algorithms published in the literature are used
as tools to automatically generate these test suites;
AETG is a well known example of a family of greedy
algorithms that generate one test at a time. In many
applications where interaction testing is needed, the
entire test suite is not run as a result of time or
cost constraints. In these situations, it is essential
to prioritize the tests. Here we adapt a
``one-test-at-a-time'' greedy method to take importance
of pairs into account. The method can be used to
generate a set of tests in order, so that when run to
completion all pairwise interactions are tested, but
when terminated after any intermediate number of tests,
those deemed most important are tested. Computational
results on the method are reported.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cai:2005:ECC,
author = "Xia Cai and Michael R. Lyu",
title = "The effect of code coverage on fault detection under
different testing profiles",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083288",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software testing is a key procedure to ensure high
quality and reliability of software programs. The key
issue in software testing is the selection and
evaluation of different test cases. Code coverage has
been proposed to be an estimator for testing
effectiveness, but it remains a controversial topic
which lacks of support from empirical data. In this
study, we hypothesize that the estimation of code
coverage on testing effectiveness varies under
different testing profiles. To evaluate the performance
of code coverage, we employ coverage testing and
mutation testing in our experiment to investigate the
relationship between code coverage and fault detection
capability under different testing profiles. From our
experimental data, code coverage is simply a moderate
indicator for the capability of fault detection on the
whole test set. However, it is clearly a good estimator
for the fault detection of exceptional test cases, but
a poor one for test cases in normal operations. For
other testing profiles, such as functional testing and
random testing, the correlation between code coverage
and fault coverage is higher in functional test than in
random testing, although these different testing
profiles are complementary in the whole test set. The
effects of different coverage metrics are also
addressed in our experiment.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Clermont:2005:UIA,
author = "Markus Clermont and David Parnas",
title = "Using information about functions in selecting test
cases",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083276",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We consider the problem of generating a set of test
cases from a black box specification. We focus on
stress testing, i.e. picking test cases that seem most
likely to reveal program bugs. Our approach assumes
that so-called interesting points, i.e. points in a
function's domain where properties change, e.g. maxima,
are likely to reveal any problems and examine how we
can determine the interesting points for a function
defined by a complex expression if we know the
interesting points for the functions named in that
expression.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{dAmorim:2005:EBR,
author = "Marcelo d'Amorim and Klaus Havelund",
title = "Event-based runtime verification of {Java} programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083249",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We introduce the temporal logic HAWK and its
supporting tool for runtime verification of Java
programs. A monitor for a HAWK formula checks if a
finite trace of program events satisfies the formula.
HAWK is a programming-oriented extension of the
rule-based EAGLE logic that has been shown capable of
defining and implementing a range of finite trace
monitoring logics, including future and past time
temporal logic, metric (real-time) temporal logics,
interval logics, forms of quantified temporal logics,
extended regular expressions, state machines, and
others. Monitoring is achieved on a state-by-state
basis avoiding any need to store the input trace. HAWK
extends EAGLE with constructs for capturing
parameterized program events such as method calls and
method returns. Parameters can be executing thread, the
objects that methods are called upon, arguments to
methods, and return values. HAWK allows one to refer to
these in formulae. The tool synthesizes monitors from
formulae and automates program instrumentation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dehlinger:2005:PLR,
author = "Josh Dehlinger and Robyn R. Lutz",
title = "A product-line requirements approach to safe reuse in
multi-agent systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082981",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The dynamic nature of highly autonomous agents within
distributed systems is difficult to specify with
existing requirements techniques. However, capturing
the possibly shifting configurations of agents in the
requirements specification is essential for safe reuse
of agents. The contribution of this work is an
extensible agent-oriented requirements specification
template for distributed systems that supports safe
reuse. We make two basic claims for this idea. First,
by adopting a product-line-like approach, it exploits
component reuse during system evolution. Second, the
template allows ready integration with an existing
tool-supported, safety analysis technique sensitive to
dynamic variations within the components (i.e., agents)
of a system. To illustrate these claims, we apply the
requirements specification template and safety analysis
to a real-world context-aware, distributed satellite
system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dekel:2005:SDS,
author = "Uri Dekel",
title = "Supporting distributed software design meetings: what
can we learn from co-located meetings?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083109",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Although virtual conferencing tools have been
successfully used in executive meetings, current tools
appear inadequate for the needs of software designers.
As a result, while distributed code writing is becoming
widespread, almost all software design meetings are
still carried out face-to-face incurring costs that
undermine the potential of distributed software
development. Our research strives to build successful
tools for supporting distributed software design
meetings. To do so, we must first identify the unique
activities of software design which must be mimicked in
the virtual world. This paper does so with a detailed
study of two colocated design meetings. We discuss
issues that must be tackled in the transition to
virtual settings, outline requirements for such tools,
and propose strategies for meeting these requirements.
In doing so, we also identify problems in existing
colocated meetings which could be alleviated with these
tools.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{DeLoach:2005:MSE,
author = "Scott A. DeLoach",
title = "Multiagent systems engineering of organization-based
multiagent systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082967",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we examine the Multiagent Systems
Engineering (MaSE) methodology and its applicability to
developing organization-based multiagent systems, which
are especially relevant to context aware systems. We
discuss the inherent shortcomings of MaSE and then
present our approach to modeling the concepts required
for organizations including goals, roles, agents,
capabilities, and the assignment of agents to roles.
Finally, we extend MaSE to allow it to overcome its
inherent shortcomings and capture the organizational
concepts defined in our organizational model.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Demir:2005:DAA,
author = "Omer Erdem Demir and Prem Devanbu and Nenad Medvidovic
and Eric Wohlstadter",
title = "{DISCOA}: architectural adaptations for security and
{QoS}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083201",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Modern distributed systems have greatly benefited from
developments such as model-driven development, and
architectural description languages. Abstract models of
components (e.g., IDL) and models of interconnection
(e.g., architectural description languages, or ADLs)
provide important software engineering advantages, such
as explicit design models, type-checked integration
across machine and language boundaries (with generated
marshaling and dispatch code), the possibility of
third-party components, and automated verification of
design artifacts. But, when distributed systems are
enhanced to provide security features, many of these
advantages do not apply. Security features are
hand-written into almost every part of the system;
there is no explicit component or architectural model,
or separable ``security component'' security code
fragments are scattered and tangled through the
different distributed elements of the system, and are
often reduced to communicating through lowest-common
denominator fragments (like raw bytes) since they are
not represented in the model. In this paper, we
describe DISCOA, a proposed extension of our earlier
work on DADO [23] to handle security features in
distributed systems, using explicit architectural
models with aspect-oriented extensions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dwaikat:2005:RTR,
author = "Zaid Dwaikat and Francesco Parisi-Presicce",
title = "Risky trust: risk-based analysis of software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083206",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Measuring the security of a software system is a
difficult problem. This paper presents a model using
common security concepts to evaluate the security of a
system under design. After providing definitions for
all relevant concepts and formalizing some of them, we
define security requirements for transactions and
provide mechanisms to measure the likelihood of
violation of these requirements. Our model is based on
individual risks presented by system components. Based
on the security policy and individual risks, we
calculate violation risk for a certain transaction.
Context and other risk factors are considered and can
be used to adjust the final risk figure. As part of our
discussion, we address trust and risk and their
significance to security engineering. Based on the
decision process, the same trust assumptions may
increase, or decrease, the risk to the system. We model
the fact that small individual risks can be transformed
into major risks when combined together in a complex
attack.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Farcas:2005:RTC,
author = "Emilia Farcas and Claudiu Farcas and Wolfgang Pree and
Josef Templ",
title = "Real-time component integration based on transparent
distribution",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083198",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper introduces a real-time component model that
offers a separation of concerns which allows a
straight-forward integration of independently developed
components. So-called transparent distribution forms
the backbone of the integration process. Transparent
distribution means that (1) the functional and temporal
behavior of a system is the same no matter on which
node of a distributed system a component is executed
and (2) the developer does not have to care about the
differences of local versus distributed execution of a
component. We first present the concepts of a component
model for real time systems that is well suited for
transparent distribution. The component model is based
on logical execution time, which abstracts from
physical execution time and thereby from both the
execution platform and the communication topology. Then
we discuss the resulting tool chain and integration
process. A case study rounds out the paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Filho:2005:FAE,
author = "Fernando Castor Filho and Patrick H. S. Brito and
Cec{\'\i}lia Mary F. Rubira",
title = "A framework for analyzing exception flow in software
architectures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083221",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We present Aereal, a framework for analyzing exception
flow in architecture descriptions. Aereal works as a
customizable architectural-level exception handling
system that can be further constrained or have some of
its rules relaxed. Since different architectural styles
have different policies for exception flow, Aereal
makes it possible to specify rules on how exceptions
flow in a given style and to check for violations of
these rules. As enabling technologies. Aereal uses
Alloy, a first-order relational language, ACME, an
interchange language for architecture description, and
their associated tool sets.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fleming:2005:AID,
author = "Scott D. Fleming and Betty H. C. Cheng and R. E. Kurt
Stirewalt and Philip K. McKinley",
title = "An approach to implementing dynamic adaptation in
{C++}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083089",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes TRAP/C++, a software tool that
enables new adaptable behavior to be added to existing
C++ programs in a transparent fashion. In previous
investigations, we used an aspect-oriented approach to
manually define aspects for adaptation infrastructure,
which were woven into the original application code at
compile time. In follow-on work, we developed TRAP, a
transparent shaping technique for automatically
generating adaptation aspects, where TRAP/J is a
specific instantiation of TRAP. This paper presents our
work into building TRAP/C++, which was intended to be a
port of TRAP/J into C++. Designing TRAP/C++ required us
to overcome two major hurdles: lack of reflection in
C++ and the incompatibility between the management of
objects in C++ and the aspect weaving technique used in
TRAP/J. We used generative programming methods to
produce two tools, TrapGen and TrapCC, that work
together to produce the desired TRAP/C++ functionality.
Details of the TRAP/C++ architecture and operation are
presented, which we illustrate with a description of a
case study that adds dynamic auditing capabilities to
an existing distributed C++ application.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gaffar:2005:HPS,
author = "Ashraf Gaffar and Ahmed Seffah and John A. {Van der
Poll}",
title = "{HCI} pattern semantics in {XML}: a pragmatic
approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083112",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "User interface design is a multidisciplinary field at
the crossroads between software engineering, computer
science, psychology and cognitive science. HCI pattern
writers focus on usability and human aspects of the
interface. They use elaborate narrative formats to
convey theories and practices of interaction design.
Pattern users are typically software developers who
need concise and pragmatic guidance of when and how
patterns can be used. Narrative descriptions make it
difficult to integrate patterns into design (CASE)
tools. In this paper, we discuss how patterns can be
represented in XML to effectively support their
dissemination and assimilation in a programmable
environment.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gegick:2005:MAP,
author = "Michael Gegick and Laurie Williams",
title = "Matching attack patterns to security vulnerabilities
in software-intensive system designs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083211",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Fortifying software applications from attack is often
an effort that occurs late in the software development
process. Applying patches to fix vulnerable
applications in the field is a common approach to
securing applications. Abstract representations of
attacks such as attack trees and attack nets can be
used for identifying potential threats before a system
is released. We have constructed attack patterns that
can illuminate security vulnerabilities in a
software-intensive system design. Matching our attack
patterns to vulnerabilities in the design phase may
stimulate security efforts to start early and to become
integrated with the software process. The intent is
that our attack patterns can be used to effectively
encode software vulnerabilities in vulnerability
databases. A case study of our approach with
undergraduate students in a security course indicated
that our attack patterns can provide general
descriptions of vulnerabilities. The students were able
to accurately map the patterns to vulnerabilities in a
system design.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Griffith:2005:MME,
author = "Rean Griffith and Gail Kaiser",
title = "Manipulating managed execution runtimes to support
self-healing systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083066",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/virtual-machines.bib",
abstract = "Self-healing systems require that repair mechanisms
are available to resolve problems that arise while the
system executes. Managed execution environments such as
the Common Language Runtime (CLR) and Java Virtual
Machine (JVM) provide a number of application services
(application isolation, security sandboxing, garbage
collection and structured exception handling) which are
geared primarily at making managed applications more
robust. However, none of these services directly
enables applications to perform repairs or consistency
checks of their components. From a design and
implementation standpoint, the preferred way to enable
repair in a self-healing system is to use an
externalized repair/adaptation architecture rather than
hardwiring adaptation logic inside the system where it
is harder to analyze, reuse and extend. We present a
framework that allows a repair engine to dynamically
attach and detach to/from a managed application while
it executes essentially adding repair mechanisms as
another application service provided in the execution
environment.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Guinness:2005:SMM,
author = "David Mc Guinness and Liam Murphy",
title = "A simulation model of a multi-server {EJB} system",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083278",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Despite the fact that EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) is a
widely used technology, research in the area of
performance modelling of EJB application servers is
quite sparse. This paper will describe how
Workbench{\TM}, an advanced simulation modelling tool,
can be used to build a scalable model of a multi-server
EJB system that allows users to input variables that
describe interactions and their constituent methods, as
well as system parameters. The model will output the
average time for each given user interaction and allow
users to seek system improvements by changing the
system parameters and workloads.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Halfond:2005:CSA,
author = "William G. J. Halfond and Alessandro Orso",
title = "Combining static analysis and runtime monitoring to
counter {SQL-injection} attacks",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083250",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Our dependence on web applications has steadily
increased, and we continue to integrate them into our
everyday routine activities. When we are making
reservations, paying bills, and shopping on-line, we
expect these web applications to be secure and
reliable. However, as the availability of these
services has increased, there has been a corresponding
increase in the number and sophistication of attacks
that target them. One of the most serious types of
attack against web applications is SQL injection. SQL
injection is a class of code-injection attacks in which
user input is included in a SQL query in such a way
that part of the input is treated as code. Using SQL
injection. attackers can leak confidential information,
such as credit card numbers, from web applications'
databases and even corrupt the database. In this paper,
we propose a novel technique to counter SQL-injection.
The technique combines conservative static analysis and
runtime monitoring to detect and stop illegal queries
before they are executed on the database. In its static
part, the technique builds a conservative model of the
legitimate queries that could be generated by the
application. In its dynamic part, the technique
inspects the dynamically generated queries for
compliance with the statically-built model. We also
present a preliminary evaluation of the technique
performed on two small web applications. The results of
the evaluation are promising --- our technique was able
to prevent all of the attacks that we performed on the
two applications.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jochen:2005:ECA,
author = "Mike Jochen and Anteneh Addis Anteneh and Lori L.
Pollock and Lisa M. Marvel",
title = "Enabling control over adaptive program transformation
for dynamically evolving mobile software validation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083210",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many researchers are investigating the use of adaptive
program transformation as a way to efficiently improve
program performance. Performance improving
transformations are performed at runtime to adapt to
the possibly changing runtime characteristics of the
program. Leveraging this kind of program transformation
on multiple hosts can achieve these same performance
gains while reducing the overhead to apply the
transformations on the local machine running the
program. The reduction in overhead is obtained by
distributing the responsibilities for the
transformation process to multiple hosts throughout the
network. The use of this technology could greatly
benefit applications running on networked computation
nodes; however, one must first establish confidence in
the secure generation and distribution of the
transformed versions of the original program before
acceptance and execution can occur for many network
environments. Since programs are being transformed
dynamically, traditional program validation methods
such as checksums and digital signatures will be unable
to efficiently meet the security needs of this possibly
itinerant, transforming software. New validation
methods must be developed in order to allow future
software to avail itself of the advantages that dynamic
program modification may provide while mitigating
potential security risks. In this paper, we present our
framework to validate dynamically-transforming software
in a manner that enables the system to restrict how the
software can transform as it executes on a network of
hosts. Our prototype system utilizes specification
languages to communicate program transformations and
controls for those transformations on hosts in the
system. This first step towards validating evolving
mobile code before transformation occurs, will make
dynamically-transforming software a safe and viable
future technology.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Karr:2005:DPT,
author = "Alan F. Karr and Adam A. Porter",
title = "Distributed performance testing using statistical
modeling",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083287",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This article briefly presents some of our recent
research in distributed continuous performance
analysis. In general this work pushes substantial parts
of performance analysis out of developer laboratories
and onto remote, end-user machines. To do this
effectively we have found it useful to recast
performance analysis as a model-based experimental
design and execution problem. Our experience suggests
that this approach has merit, but that much future work
remains to be done. We therefore discuss some of the
limitations of our current efforts and describe some
plans for future work.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kim:2005:PLS,
author = "Minseong Kim and Jaemin Jeong and Sooyong Park",
title = "From product lines to self-managed systems: an
architecture-based runtime reconfiguration framework",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083078",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Adaptability and/or high availability are requirements
which have become more prevalent and important for
computing systems in recent years. To support
adaptability and availability, a system must be able to
dynamically change its behavior at runtime as user
requirements, execution environments, or technologies
change. Our aim is to develop a dynamic software
product line in which a product line member can be
dynamically modified after its deployment and thus new
products can be produced during runtime without newly
developing the products. To do so, we present a runtime
reconfiguration framework based on reconfigurable
components in supporting building dynamic product
lines, particularly within the embedded software
domain. Ultimately, our framework supports dynamic
reconfiguration and not only reusable, but also
reconfigurable components development in the context of
self-managed systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lakey:2005:MBS,
author = "Peter B. Lakey",
title = "Model-based specification and testing applied to the
Ground-Based Midcourse Defense {(GMD)} system: an
industry report",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083291",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Cognitive Concepts LLC (CC) is a small business that
specializes in software reliability engineering. In the
past several years CC has become convinced that the
best available practice for software reliability on
complex systems is model-based specification and
testing (MST). CC completed a small business innovative
research project with the Missile Defense Agency in
2004 in which the goal was to demonstrate the
feasibility and value of applying MST on some aspect of
the National Missile Defense (NMD). This paper
describes the results of that research effort.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lapouchnian:2005:TRD,
author = "Alexei Lapouchnian and Sotirios Liaskos and John
Mylopoulos and Yijun Yu",
title = "Towards requirements-driven autonomic systems design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083075",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Autonomic computing systems reduce software
maintenance costs and management complexity by taking
on the responsibility for their configuration,
optimization, healing, and protection. These tasks are
accomplished by switching at runtime to a different
system behaviour --- the one that is more efficient,
more secure, more stable, etc. --- while still
fulfilling the main purpose of the system. Thus,
identifying and analyzing alternative ways of how the
main objectives of the system can be achieved and
designing a system that supports all of these
alternative behaviours is a promising way to develop
autonomic systems. This paper proposes the use of
requirements goal models as a foundation for such
software development process and sketches a possible
architecture for autonomic systems that can be built
using the this approach.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lee:2005:ETS,
author = "Seok Won Lee and Robin A. Gandhi and Gail-Joon Ahn",
title = "Establishing trustworthiness in services of the
critical infrastructure through certification and
accreditation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083205",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Trustworthiness in services provided by the Critical
Infrastructure (CI) is essentially dependent on the
quality of underlying software, systems, practice and
environment, as which the software information
infrastructures are becoming increasingly a major
component of business, industry, government and
defense. The level of trustworthiness required from
services that are operational in such critical software
information infrastructures is often established based
on standardized infrastructure-wide evaluation criteria
--- Certification and Accreditation (C\&A) --- through
the identification of operational risks and the
determination of conformance with established security
standards and best practices. In order to effectively
establish such levels of trustworthiness for services
in the CI, we identify the need for a structured and
comprehensive C\&A framework with appropriate tool
support that combines its theoretical and practical
aspects. In this paper, we present our efforts in
developing such a framework that leverages novel
techniques from software requirements engineering and
knowledge engineering to support the automation of the
Department of Defense Information Technology Security
Certification and Accreditation Process (DITSCAP),
which is a standard for certifying and accrediting the
information networks that support the Defense
Information Infrastructure (DII). Through the examples
derived from our case study, we further motivate the
applicability and appropriateness of our framework.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Litoiu:2005:HMB,
author = "Marin Litoiu and Murray Woodside and Tao Zheng",
title = "Hierarchical model-based autonomic control of software
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083071",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Various control algorithms are used in autonomic
control to maintain Quality of Service (QoS) and
Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Controllers are all
based to some extent on models of the relationship
between resources, QoS measures, and the workload
imposed by the environment. This work discusses the
range of algorithms with an emphasis on richer and more
powerful models to describe non-linear performance
relationships, and strong interactions among the system
resources. A hierarchical framework is described which
accommodates different scopes and timescales of control
actions, and different control algorithms. The control
algorithms and architectures can be considered in three
stages: tuning, load balancing and provisioning.
Different situations warrant different solutions, so
this work shows how different control algorithms and
architectures at the three stages can be combined to
fit into different autonomic environments to meet QoS
and SLAs across a large variety of workloads.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Liu:2005:DEB,
author = "WenQian Liu and Charles L. Chen and Vidya
Lakshminarayanan and Dewayne E. Perry",
title = "A design for evidence --- based soft research",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083180",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Active research is being done in how to go from
requirements to architecture. However, no studies have
been attempted in this area despite a long history of
empirical research in software engineering (SE). Our
goal is to establish a framework for the transformation
from requirements to architecture on the basis of a
series of empirical studies. The first step is to
collect evidence about practice in industry before
designing relevant techniques, methods and tools. As
part of this step, we use an interview-based
multiple-case study with a carefully designed process
of conducting the interviews and of preparing the data
collected for analysis while preserving its integrity.
In this paper, we describe the design of this
multiple-case study, delineate the evidence trail,
discuss validity issues, outline the data analysis
focus, discuss meta issues on evidence-based SE
particularly on combining and using evidence, describe
triangulation approaches, and present two methods for
accumulating evidence.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lott:2005:MRC,
author = "C. Lott and A. Jain and S. Dalal",
title = "Modeling requirements for combinatorial software
testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083281",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The combinatorial approach to software testing uses
models to generate a minimal number of test inputs so
that selected combinations of input values are covered.
The most common coverage criteria is two-way, or
pairwise coverage of value combinations, though for
higher confidence three-way or higher coverage may be
required. This paper presents example system
requirements and corresponding models for applying the
combinatorial approach to those requirements. These
examples are intended to serve as a tutorial for
applying the combinatorial approach to software
testing. Although this paper focuses on pairwise
coverage, the discussion is equally valid when higher
coverage criteria such as three-way (triples) are used.
We use terminology and modeling notation from the
AETG$^1$ system to provide concrete examples.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Marcos:2005:SER,
author = "Esperanza Marcos",
title = "Software engineering research versus software
development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083005",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Engineering research differs greatly, both in its aims
and in its methods, from traditional ``scientific''
research. While Sciences deal with the study of
existing objects and phenomena, be it physically,
metaphysically or conceptually, Engineering is based on
how to do things, how to create new objects. For this
reason, ``scientific'' research methods are not always
directly applicable to research problems of an
engineering nature. In the present article, we
concentrate on the problems and research methods of a
specific branch of engineering: Software Engineering,
discussing, on the one hand, the nature of the method
in this field while and, on the other, the similarity
of the methods of research in Software Engineering and
those of software development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Masri:2005:UDI,
author = "Wes Masri and Andy Podgurski",
title = "Using dynamic information flow analysis to detect
attacks against applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083216",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents a new approach to using dynamic
information flow analysis to detect attacks against
application software. The approach can be used to
reveal and, under some conditions, to prevent attacks
that violate a specified information flow policy or
exhibit a known information flow signature. When used
in conjunction with automatic cluster analysis, the
approach can also reveal novel attacks that exhibit
unusual patterns of information flows. A set of
prototype tools implementing the approach have been
developed for Java byte code programs. Case studies in
which this approach was applied to several subject
programs are described.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mead:2005:SQR,
author = "Nancy R. Mead and Ted Stehney",
title = "Security quality requirements engineering {(SQUARE)}
methodology",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083214",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Requirements engineering, a vital component in
successful project development, often neglects
sufficient attention to security concerns. Further,
industry lacks a useful model for incorporating
security requirements into project development. Studies
show that upfront attention to security saves the
economy billions of dollars. Industry is thus in need
of a model to examine security and quality requirements
in the development stages of the production lifecycle.
In this paper, we examine a methodology for both
eliciting and prioritizing security requirements on a
development project within an organization. We present
a model developed by the Software Engineering
Institute's Networked Systems Survivability (NSS)
Program, and then examine two case studies where the
model was applied to a client system. The NSS Program
continues to develop this useful model, which has
proven effective in helping an organization understand
its security posture.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Merideth:2005:RNA,
author = "Michael G. Merideth and Priya Narasimhan",
title = "Retrofitting networked applications to add autonomic
reconfiguration",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083073",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "To reduce user maintenance is an important goal for
applications that must dynamically adapt based on their
environments. There are many existing popular
applications that lack support for this autonomic
reconfiguration, but that are beginning to be used in
these dynamic environments, in which they must update
themselves frequently; not all of these applications
will be completely redesigned and redeveloped in order
to support autonomic features. In this paper, we
explore how to retrofit pre-existing networked
applications to add support for autonomic
reconfiguration. To illustrate our methods, we retrofit
a popular open-source intrusion detection system,
Snort, to enable it to reconfigure itself using online
program updates and information about its
environment.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Muccini:2005:TSA,
author = "Henry Muccini and Marcio S. Dias and Debra J.
Richardson",
title = "Towards software architecture-based regression
testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083223",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "When architecting dependable systems, in addition to
improving system dependability by means of construction
(fault-tolerant and redundant mechanisms, for
instance), it is also important to evaluate, and
thereby confirm, system dependability. There are many
different approaches for evaluating system
dependability, and testing always has been an important
one. Previous work on software architecture testing has
shown it is possible to apply conformance-testing
techniques to yield confidence that the behavior of an
implemented system conforms to the expected behavior of
the software architecture, specified with Architecture
Description Languages. In this work, we explore how
regression testing can be systematically applied at the
software architecture level in order to reduce the cost
of retesting modified systems, and also to assess the
regression testability of the evolved system. We
consider assessing both ``top-down'' and ``bottom-up''
evolution, i.e., whether a slightly modified
implementation conforms to the initial architecture,
and whether the (modified) implementation conforms an
evolved architecture. A better understanding on how
regression testing can be applied at the software
architecture level will help us to assess and identify
architecture with higher dependability.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nagappan:2005:EES,
author = "Nachiappan Nagappan and Laurie Williams and Mladen
Vouk and Jason Osborne",
title = "Early estimation of software quality using in-process
testing metrics: a controlled case study",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083304",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In industrial practice, information on post-release
field quality of a product tends to become available
too late in the software development process to
affordably guide corrective actions. An important step
towards remediation of this problem of late information
lies in the ability to provide an early estimation of
software post-release field quality. This paper
presents the use of a suite of in-process metrics that
leverages the software testing effort to provide (1) an
estimation of potential software field quality in early
software development phases, and (2) the identification
of low quality software programs. A controlled case
study conducted at North Carolina State University
provides initial indication that our approach is
effective for making an early assessment of
post-release field quality.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Olimpiew:2005:MBT,
author = "Erika Mir Olimpiew and Hassan Gomaa",
title = "Model-based testing for applications derived from
software product lines",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083279",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes an approach for mapping the
models of an SPL (Software Product Line) to tests so
that functional tests can be automatically generated
and selected when an application is derived from an
SPL. Information relevant for testing is added to and
then extracted from the SPL models. A Hotel Product
line example is used to illustrate the approach.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Oliveira:2005:XED,
author = "Toacy C. Oliveira and Paulo Alencar and Don Cowan and
Carlos Lucena",
title = "{xTAO}: enabling a declarative approach to the
specification of multi-agent systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082968",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Research on software agents has produced a diversity
of conceptual models for high-level abstract
descriptions of multi-agent systems (MASs). However, it
is still difficult and costly for designers that need a
unique set of agent modeling features to either develop
a new agent modeling language from scratch or undertake
the task of modifying an existing language. In addition
to the modeling itself, in both cases a significant
effort needs to be expended in building or adapting
tools to support the language. An extensible agent
modeling language is crucial to experimenting with and
building tools for novel modeling constructs that arise
from evolving research. Existing approaches typically
support a basic set of modeling constructs very well,
but adapt to others poorly. A declarative language such
as XML and its supporting tools provides an ideal
platform upon which to develop an extensible modeling
language for multi-agent systems. In this paper we
describe xTAO, an extensible agent modeling language,
and also demonstrate its value in the context of a
real-world application.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Orso:2005:SCR,
author = "Alessandro Orso and Bryan Kennedy",
title = "Selective capture and replay of program executions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083251",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we present a technique for selective
capture and replay of program executions. Given an
application, the technique allows for (1) selecting a
subsystem of interest, (2) capturing at runtime all the
interactions between such subsystem and the rest of the
application, and (3) replaying the recorded
interactions on the subsystem in isolation. The
technique can be used in several scenarios. For
example, it can be used to generate test cases from
users' executions, by capturing and collecting partial
executions in the field. For another example. it can be
used to perform expensive dynamic analyses off-line.
For yet another example, it can be used to extract
subsystem or unit tests from system tests. Our
technique is designed to be efficient, in that we only
capture information that is relevant to the considered
execution. To this end, we disregard all data that,
although flowing through the boundary of the subsystem
of interest, do not affect the execution. In the paper,
we also present a preliminary evaluation of the
technique performed using SCARPE, a prototype tool that
implements our approach.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Palankar:2005:MTH,
author = "Mayur Palankar and Jonathan E. Cook",
title = "Merging traces of hardware-assisted data breakpoints",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083252",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Future improvements in hardware and O/S support for
monitoring programs will depend on providing feedback
for current support (even if it is quite limited). We
look at using hardware breakpoint registers and
performance counters in order to trace data accesses in
a program. We first present a small experiment to
understand how these features can be used to monitor a
program. and then detail an algorithm for using these
limited resources to trace any amount of data accesses
in a program and achieve a complete and correct trace
by merging partial traces.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Paradkar:2005:CSF,
author = "Amit Paradkar",
title = "Case studies on fault detection effectiveness of model
based test generation techniques",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083286",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Model-based test generation (MBTG) is becoming an area
of active research. These techniques differ in terms of
(1) modeling notations used, and (2) the adequacy
criteria used for test generation. This paper (1)
reviews different classes of MBTG techniques at a
conceptual level, and (2) reports results of two case
studies comparing various techniques in terms of their
fault detection effectiveness. Our results indicate
that MBTG technique which employs mutation and
explicitly generates state verification sequences has
better fault detection effectiveness than those based
on boundary values, and predicate coverage criteria for
transitions. Instead of a default adequacy criteria,
certain techniques allow the user to specify test
objectives in addition to the model. Our experience
indicates that the task of defining appropriate test
objectives is not intuitive. Furthermore, notations
provided to describe such test objectives may have
inadequate expressive power. We posit the need for a
suitable fault modeling notation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pettersson:2005:MPS,
author = "Niklas Pettersson",
title = "Measuring precision for static and dynamic design
pattern recognition as a function of coverage",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083253",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We strive to detect design pattern like patterns in
software. This cannot be done efficiently with
sufficient precision using only static analysis; we
need to combine static and dynamic analysis. In this
process, the pattern candidates produced from static
analysis are monitored during executions of the
software: Candidates detected by static analysis
violating the expected dynamic protocol of the pattern
are excluded. In this article, we investigate where to
put effort when trying to perform high precision
pattern detection in code. We do so by investigating
which parameters are most important to improve the
precision of the detection process: precision of
initial static analysis or coverage of the dynamic
analysis. Varying the precision of the dynamic analysis
is a third important parameter, but this parameter is
left as a constant during our experiments. The results
show that simple behavioral protocols double the
precision when 30\% coverage is obtained. We also have
indications that simple behavioral protocols give very
high precision when high coverage is obtained. In such
case, the quality of the static analysis is only
interesting for precision if high coverage cannot be
reached.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rawashdeh:2005:UTD,
author = "Osamah A. Rawashdeh and Garrett D. Chandler and James
E. Lumpp",
title = "A {UAU} test and development environment based on
dynamic system reconfiguration",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083227",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes ongoing research to develop a
framework for implementing dynamically reconfiguring
avionics and control systems for unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs) and a test and development environment
for experimental UAVs. The framework supports graceful
degradation, where hardware and software failures cause
a reduction in the quality or capability of the control
system but does not result in total system failure. The
approach uses a graphical specification representing
modular software interdependencies and a runtime system
manager that reconfigures the system. The techniques
are currently being applied to the design of UAV
control systems as part of the BIG BLUE Mars airplane
testbed project at the University of Kentucky.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ren:2005:TAT,
author = "Jie Ren and Richard Taylor and Paul Dourish and David
Redmiles",
title = "Towards an architectural treatment of software
security: a connector-centric approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083203",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Security is a very important concern for software
architecture and software components. Previous modeling
approaches provide insufficient support for an in-depth
treatment of security. This paper argues for a more
comprehensive treatment based on software connectors.
Connectors provide a suitable vehicle to model,
capture, and enforce security. Our approach models
security principal, privilege, trust, and context of
architectural constituents. Extending our existing
architecture description language and support tools,
our approach can facilitate describing the security
characteristics of an architecture generating enabling
infrastructure, and monitoring run-time conformance.
Initial results of applying this approach are
illustrated through a case study. The contribution of
this research is a deeper and more comprehensive
treatment of architectural security through software
connectors.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rits:2005:XBB,
author = "Maarten Rits and Benjamin {De Boe} and Andreas
Schaad",
title = "{XacT}: a bridge between resource management and
access control in multi-layered applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083202",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper we describe the eXtreme access control
Tool (XacT) which provides an automated way to obtain
access control information out of multi-layered
applications. We believe that based on this information
consistent access control policies can be specified to
prevent over-privileged accounts. The main difficulty,
that leads to these over-privileged accounts, comes
from the distinction that must be made between
identifying which users should perform a workflow task
(resource management) and which users are allowed to
perform a task (access control), as well as the fact
that access control enforcement is typically spread
over different layers in applications (e.g. database
layer, operating system layer, workflow layer). In this
paper, we present an automated way to obtain access
control information out of multi-layered applications.
We base our observations on recent insights into
workflow controlled judicial information systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Robinson-Mallett:2005:GOD,
author = "Christopher Robinson-Mallett and Peter Liggesmeyer and
Tilo M{\"u}cke and Ursula Goltz",
title = "Generating optimal distinguishing sequences with a
model checker",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083283",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents an approach for the automatic
generation of shortest Distinguishing Sequences (DS)
with the Uppaal model checker. The presented method is
applicable to a large number of extended finite state
machines and it will find an optimal result, if a DS
sequence exists for the considered automaton. Our
approach is situated in an integrated testing
environment that is used to generate checking
sequences. The generation method is based on a DS
model, which is derived from the same test model that
is used for generating test cover sets. The problem of
generating DS is reduced to the definition of a DS
model and for this reason the complexity of our
approach depends mainly on the used model checking
algorithm. This means, that the presented method is
automatically improved, when the model checking
algorithm is improved. This includes the generation of
optimal DS depending on the ability of the model
checker to produce optimal results.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sadjadi:2005:TSE,
author = "S. Masoud Sadjadi and Philip K. McKinley and Betty H.
C. Cheng",
title = "Transparent shaping of existing software to support
pervasive and autonomic computing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083086",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The need for adaptability in software is growing,
driven in part by the emergence of pervasive and
autonomic computing. In many cases, it is desirable to
enhance existing programs with adaptive behavior,
enabling them to execute effectively in dynamic
environments. In this paper, we propose a general
programming model called transparent shaping to enable
dynamic adaptation in existing programs. We describe an
approach to implementing transparent shaping that
combines four key software development techniques:
aspect-oriented programming to realize separation of
concerns at development time, behavioral reflection to
support software reconfiguration at run time,
component-based design to facilitate independent
development and deployment of adaptive code, and
adaptive middleware to encapsulate the adaptive
functionality. After presenting the general model, we
discuss two specific realizations of transparent
shaping that we have developed and used to create
adaptable applications from existing programs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Salehie:2005:ACE,
author = "Mazeiar Salehie and Ladan Tahvildari",
title = "Autonomic computing: emerging trends and open
problems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083082",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The increasing heterogeneity, dynamism and
interconnectivity in software applications, services
and networks led to complex, unmanageable and insecure
systems. Coping with such a complexity necessitates to
investigate a new paradigm namely Autonomic Computing.
Although academic and industry efforts are beginning to
proliferate in this research area, there are still a
lots of open issues that remain to be solved. This
paper proposes a categorization of complexity in I/T
systems and presents an overview of autonomic computing
research area. The paper also discusses a summary of
the major autonomic computing systems that have been
already developed both in academia and industry, and
finally outlines the underlying research issues and
challenges from a practical as well as a theoretical
point of view.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sampath:2005:ACW,
author = "Sreedevi Sampath and Sara Sprenkle and Emily Gibson
and Lori Pollock and Amie Souter",
title = "Analyzing clusters of web application user sessions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083255",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "User sessions provide valuable insight into the
dynamic behavior of web applications. They also play a
key role in user-session-based testing, which gathers
user sessions in the field and replays selected
sessions to test an evolving application. To decrease
the testing and analysis effort, testers reduce the set
of collected user sessions by either clustering user
sessions by their shared URL attributes or by program
coverage requirements-based reduction techniques.
Clustering URL attributes can be considerably less
expensive; however, the tradeoff may be that clustering
is not representative of dynamic behavior similarities.
This paper describes our analysis of user session data
to reveal correlations between sessions clustered on
the sessions' attributes and the relative dynamic
behavior of the program for those sessions. The results
of our analysis also motivate other clustering and test
suite reduction techniques. Our results can also be
used to learn more about how clusters of web
application use cases are related in terms of the
underlying user session attributes, program coverage,
and fault detection.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sant:2005:ESM,
author = "Jessica Sant and Amie Souter and Lloyd Greenwald",
title = "An exploration of statistical models for automated
test case generation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083256",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we develop methods that use logged user
data to build models of a web application. Logged user
data captures dynamic behavior of an application that
can be useful for addressing the challenging problems
of testing web applications. Our approach automatically
builds statistical models of user sessions and
automatically derives test cases from these models. We
provide several alternative modeling approaches based
on statistical machine learning methods. We investigate
the effectiveness of the test suites generated from our
methods by performing a preliminary study that
evaluates the generated test cases. The results of this
study demonstrate that our techniques are able to
generate test cases that achieve high coverage and
accurately model user behavior. This study provides
insights into improving our methods and motivates a
larger study with a more diverse set of applications
and testing metrics.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sen:2005:OEK,
author = "Rohan Sen and Gregory Hackmann and Gruia-Catalin Roman
and Christopher Gill",
title = "Opportunistic exploitation of knowledge to increase
predictability of agent interactions in {MANETs}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082972",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) are dynamic
environments where frequent changes in the network
topology due to physical mobility of hosts result in
unpredictable, sporadic and transient connectivity. Due
to this high level of uncertainty, only limited
guarantees can be given for interactions among agents
that run on the mobile hosts. This is not desirable as
any interaction among agents on different hosts is
susceptible to interruption. In this paper, we explore
means to alleviate the level of uncertainty in a MANET
by having hosts and agents share knowledge of their
non-functional attributes such as location, velocity,
etc. with each other. This shared knowledge can be used
to compute, for example, the points in space and time
when two hosts are likely to be within communication
range. This information can then be provided to
individual agents, making them more aware of the
constraints within which they operate and thereby
giving them a chance to tailor their behavior so that
they are less affected by unpredictable disconnections.
The contributions of this paper are a minimalist
formalism for knowledge exchange, a software
architecture supporting knowledge exchange, and an
empirical evaluation of the benefits of exploiting
knowledge to increase the predictability of
interactions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Shin:2005:CBS,
author = "Michael E. Shin and Daniel Cooke",
title = "Connector-based self-healing mechanism for components
of a reliable system",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083068",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes the self-healing mechanism for
components in reliable systems. Each component in a
self-healing system is designed as a layered
architecture, structured with the healing layer and the
service layer. The healing layer of a self-healing
component is responsible for detection of anomalous
objects in the service layer, reconfiguration of the
service layer, and repair of anomalous objects
detected. The service layer of a self-healing component
provides functionality to other components, which
consists of tasks (concurrent or active objects),
connectors, and passive objects accessed by tasks. A
connector supports the self-healing mechanism for
self-healing components as well as encapsulates the
synchronization mechanism for message communication
between tasks in a component. Connectors are involved
in detection of anomalous objects, reconfiguration of
components, and repair of anomalous objects. This paper
also specifies connectors --- the message queue
self-healing connector. message buffer self-healing
connector, and message buffer and response self-healing
connector --- which provide functionalities for the
self-healing mechanism.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sohr:2005:AEA,
author = "Karsten Sohr and Gail-Joon Ahn and Lars Migge",
title = "Articulating and enforcing authorisation policies with
{UML} and {OCL}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083215",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Nowadays, more and more security-relevant data are
stored on computer systems; security-critical business
processes are mapped to their digital pendants. This
situation applies to various critical infrastructures
requiring that different security requirements must be
fulfilled. It demands a way to design and express
higher-level security policies for such critical
organizations. In this paper we focus on authorisation
policies to demonstrate how software engineering
techniques can help validate authorisation constraints
and enforce access control policies. Our approach
leverages features and functionalities of the UML/OCL
modeling methods as well as model driven approach to
represent and specify authorisation model and
constraints. Using our authorisation constraints
editor, we articulate role-based authorisation
policies. Also, we attempt to validate and enforce such
constraints with the USE (UML Specification
Environment) tool.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Srivastava:2005:ASM,
author = "Deepti Srivastava and Priya Narasimhan",
title = "Architectural support for mode-driven fault tolerance
in distributed applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083226",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many distributed applications exhibit different types
of system behaviors, or modes, during the course of
their operation. Each such mode may have different
functional and non-functional requirements (such as
fault tolerance, availability, and security). A static
software fault-tolerance solution can not cater to the
needs of every mode, and also does not utilize system
resources intelligently. A flexible architecture is
required to provide dependability that can be tailored
for such applications. We propose a novel mode-driven
fault-tolerance approach that includes: (i) a generic
framework to extend the specification of modes with
fault-tolerance requirements, and (ii) a software
architecture that uses this description to provide the
appropriate fault tolerance for each mode at runtime.
We also present a case study using a distributed
multi-modal CORBA application to demonstrate the
effectiveness of our approach.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Staron:2005:EAU,
author = "Miroslaw Staron and Ludwik Kuzniarz and Christian
Thurn",
title = "An empirical assessment of using stereotypes to
improve reading techniques in software inspections",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083308",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Stereotypes were introduced into the Unified Modeling
Language (UML) in order to provide a means of
customizing the language for particular needs. The
stereotypes can increase the comprehension of UML
diagrams and therefor influence reading techniques used
for inspections of software artefacts. In this paper we
evaluate how the usage of stereotypes in UML designs
influences outcomes of three reading techniques used
for verification and validation of UML models. The
study presented in this paper is done in the context of
the UML domain modeling, but the results can be
generalized to other kinds of models expressed in UML.
The results show that the presence of stereotypes
improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the
studied methods and shows the magnitude of the
improvements. We also investigate which of the reading
techniques are the most efficient and effective for
analysis of UML designs with stereotypes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tripathi:2005:PDC,
author = "Anand Tripathi and Devdatta Kulkarni and Tanvir
Ahmed",
title = "Policy-driven configuration and management of agent
based distributed systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082975",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we demonstrate a policy based approach
for building and managing large scale agent based
systems. We identify different classes of policies for
agent based component integration. We also identify the
system services and mechanisms that are required for
policy based integration of components and their
management. The utility of this approach is presented
through case studies involving two applications making
use the distributed event monitoring system that we
have developed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Verhanneman:2005:RTS,
author = "Tine Verhanneman and Frank Piessens and Bart {De Win}
and Wouter Joosen",
title = "Requirements traceability to support evolution of
access control",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083212",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "One of the hurdles in the enforcement of access
control remains the translation of the organization's
high level policy, that drives the access control
decisions, down to technology specific deployment
descriptors, configuration files and code. This huge
gap between the high level policy and the access logic
has as a consequence that it is hard to trace
implementation fragments to the actual requirement they
contribute to, and to support evolution. The notion of
an access interface is introduced as a contract between
the authorization engine and the various applications
using its services. A so-called view connector makes
sure that the application behaves consistently with
this contract. The implementation is based on aspect
orientation, rendering the whole design more robust in
the light of unanticipated changes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Viega:2005:BSR,
author = "John Viega",
title = "Building security requirements with {CLASP}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083207",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Traditionally, security requirements have been derived
in an ad hoc manner. Recently, commercial software
development organizations have been looking for ways to
produce effective security requirements. In this paper,
we show how to build security requirements in a
structured manner that is conducive to iterative
refinement and, if followed properly, metrics for
evaluation. While requirements specification cannot be
a complete science, we provide a framework that is an
obvious improvement over traditional methods that do
not consider security at all. We provide an example
using a simple three-tiered architecture. The
methodology we document is a subset of CLASP, a set of
process pieces for application security that we have
recently published, in conjunction with IBM/Rational.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Weaver:2005:CSE,
author = "Rob Weaver and Georgios Despotou and Tim Kelly and
John McDermid",
title = "Combining software evidence: arguments and assurance",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083182",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Argumentation is an approach which can be used for
describing how evidence satisfies requirements and
objectives. A structured argumentation notation allows
developers to determine the need for individual items
of evidence and allows reviewers to determine whether a
complete set of evidence satisfies the requirements.
This paper introduces an established argumentation
notation from the safety critical domain, as well as
new research into dependability arguments and assurance
of arguments. These techniques and concepts have been
applied to the development and certification of safety
critical software and it is believed they are both
applicable to and beneficial for the wider field of
evidence-based software engineering.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Weber:2005:SFT,
author = "Sam Weber and Paul A. Karger and Amit Paradkar",
title = "A software flaw taxonomy: aiming tools at security",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083209",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Although proposals were made three decades ago to
build static analysis tools to either assist software
security evaluations or to find security flaws, it is
only recently that static analysis and model checking
technology has reached the point where such tooling has
become feasible. In order to target their technology on
a rational basis, it would be useful for tool-builders
to have available a taxonomy of software security flaws
organizing the problem space. Unfortunately, the only
existing suitable taxonomies are sadly out-of-date, and
do not adequately represent security flaws that are
found in modern software. In our work, we have
coalesced previous efforts to categorize security
problems as well as incident reports in order to create
a security flaw taxonomy. We correlate this taxonomy
with available information about current high-priority
security threats, and make observations regarding the
results. We suggest that this taxonomy is suitable for
tool developers and to outline possible areas of future
research.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Weyns:2005:ADD,
author = "Danny Weyns and Kurt Schelfthout and Tom Holvoet",
title = "Architectural design of a distributed application with
autonomic quality requirements",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083076",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "An autonomic system is essentially characterized by
quality requirements that specify that the system
should be able to adapt itself (configure optimize,
heal, etc.) under varying circumstances and situations.
These quality requirements call for an architecture
centric software engineering approach. In this paper,
we discuss and illustrate the architectural design of a
complex real-world distributed application with
autonomic quality requirements. In particular, we
present an architecture with autonomous entities
(agents) for managing warehouse logistics. We
illustrate how the subsequent architectural decisions
are guided by a reference architecture for situated
multi-agent systems on the one hand, and by functional
and quality requirements of the application on the
other hand.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{DeWin:2005:TUV,
author = "Bart {De Win} and Frank Piessens and Jan Smans and
Wouter Joosen",
title = "Towards a unifying view on security contracts",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083204",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A key property of software component technology is
predictability, which means that the properties of an
overall system can be deduced from the properties of
the individual components. One of the crucial building
blocks in component technology is the notion of
component contract. In order to leverage predictability
for the construction of secure systems, security
requirements and properties must be adequately
supported by component contracts, which is currently a
challenging and open problem. This paper provides an
overview of the problem domain by presenting an initial
taxonomy of security contracts and their representative
security properties.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wu:2005:FMS,
author = "Weihang Wu and Tim Kelly",
title = "Failure modelling in software architecture design for
safety",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083222",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In mission-critical industries, early feedback on the
safety properties of a software system is critical and
cost effective. This paper presents a compositional
method for failure analysis of a system based on the
proposed software architecture. This method is based
upon the use of CSP as the failure modelling language
and its associated tools as failure analysis.
Preliminary findings from the application of this
approach are also presented.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Young:2005:PCX,
author = "S. Michelle Young and Helen M. Edwards and Sharon
McDonald and J. Barrie Thompson",
title = "Personality characteristics in an {XP} team: a
repertory grid study",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083123",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "There is a ``folk belief'' that certain personalities
fit with particular systems development roles: however,
there is little evidence to confirm this supposition.
As part of a larger study an XP development team was
investigated using a repertory grid approach (this is
discussed in detail) to determine whether coherent
personalities and characteristics emerge for different
roles. The results, which are inevitably limited,
suggest that this is the case. Further work remains to
be done to build a large corpus of data for future
analysis before firm mappings can be made between
appropriate personality characteristics and software
development roles.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zannier:2005:QEE,
author = "Carmen Zannier and Frank Maurer",
title = "A qualitative empirical evaluation of design
decisions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083124",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, we motivate examining software design
decision making and provide the process by which the
examination will occur. The objective is to provide
qualitative results indicative of rational or
naturalistic software design decision making. In a
rational decision a decision maker evaluates decision
alternatives and potential outcomes for each
alternative using a utility function and probabilities
of the outcome of each alternative. The utility
function assigns a value to each possible alternative
based on its outcome. The goal of rational decision
making is selecting the optimal alternative. A
naturalistic decision manifests itself in dynamic and
continually changing conditions, embodies real-time
reactions to these changes, embraces ill-defined tasks,
and has a goal of selecting a satisfactory alternative.
The proposed empirical qualitative study consists of
inductive and deductive interviewing and deductive
observations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zhang:2005:SAS,
author = "Ji Zhang and Betty H. C. Cheng",
title = "Specifying adaptation semantics",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083220",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Computer software must dynamically adapt to changing
conditions. In order to fully realize the benefit of
dynamic adaptation, it must be performed correctly. The
correctness of adaptation cannot be properly addressed
without precisely specifying the requirements for
adaptation. This paper introduces an approach to
formally specifying adaptation requirements in temporal
logic. We introduce A-LTL, an adaptation-based
extension to linear temporal logic, and use this logic
to specify three commonly used adaptation semantics.
Neighborhood composition and sequential composition
techniques are developed and applied to A-LTL to
construct the specification of an adaptive system. We
introduce adaptation semantics graphs to visually
present the adaptation semantics. Specifications for
adaptive systems can be automatically generated from
adaptation semantics graphs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dinkel:2005:MNR,
author = "Michael Dinkel and Uwe Baumgarten",
title = "Modeling nonfunctional requirements: a basis for
dynamic systems management",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--8",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083191",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The management of dynamic systems is an upcoming
challenge for software engineers in automotive and
other embedded systems. The complexity of current
automotive computing systems is already difficult to
handle for car makers and the expected growth in the
area of electronic devices in vehicles will even
intensify this situation. This paper presents a model
based approach for enabling automatic configuration of
distributed component oriented systems. Nonfunctional
requirements and capabilities of software components
and platforms are explicitly modeled and provide for
well-founded statements whether a component is able to
execute on a certain platform or not. With application
models and platform models the validity of a
configuration is defined in this paper. The models even
allow reconfigurations based on information regarding
the actual system context like user behavior, backend
or environmental sensor information.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Garcia:2005:SELb,
author = "Alessandro Garcia and Ricardo Choren and Carlos Lucena
and Alexander Romanovsky and Holger Giese and Danny
Weyns and Tom Holvoet and Paolo Giorgini",
title = "{Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent
Systems --- SELMAS 2005}: workshop report",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--8",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082998",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper is intended to sum up the results of the
4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for
Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2005) held in
St. Louis, Missouri, USA, May 15--16, 2005, as part of
the 27$^{th}$ International Conference on Software
Engineering (ICSE'05). The main purpose of this
workshop was to share and pool together the collective
experience of people, both academics and practitioners,
who are actively working on software engineering for
large-scale multi-agent systems. A selected set of
expanded workshop papers and invited papers will appear
in the 4$^{th}$ edition of the book Software
Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems (LNCS, Springer,
2006). The theme of this workshop edition was
``Software Everywhere --- Context-Aware Agents''. The
workshop consisted of an opening presentation, several
paper presentations organized into three technical
sessions, two keynotes, one panel, and two discussion
groups. During the workshop we informally reviewed
ongoing and previous work and debated a number of
important issues. The SELMAS 2005 Web site, including
the electronic version of this report, can be found at
www.teccomm.les.inf.pucrio.br/selmas2005. We begin by
presenting an overview of our goals and the workshop
structure, and then focus on the workshop technical
program and results.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jamali:2005:LAR,
author = "Nadeem Jamali and Shangping Ren",
title = "A layered architecture for real-time distributed
multi-agent systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--8",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082978",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Real-time computations in open distributed systems
have functional as well as coordination requirements.
Specifically, distributed agents may require to be
coordinated to satisfy real-time and other quality of
service (QoS) constraints. However, this coordination
is difficult to achieve because of the unpredictability
of computational resource availability in an open
system.A three-layered architecture for computations in
an open distributed multi-agent system is presented,
which keeps functional, coordination and resource
concerns of an application separate, allowing each to
be studied separately. Functional requirements of the
computation are pursued by a system of primitive agents
called actors. Timing constraints are imposed on these
agents through meta-operations carried out by
coordinators. Resource encapsulations called cyberorgs
are used for creating execution environments for agents
and coordinators with predictable availability of
resources. Programming constructs are developed for
implementing cyber-orgs and coordinators.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Klein:2005:ADP,
author = "Florian Klein and Holger Giese",
title = "Analysis and design of physical and social contexts in
multi-agent systems using {UML}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--8",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082969",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Multi-agent technology promises to provide the ability
to adapt to changing external contexts. To tap this
potential, context needs to play a central role in the
analysis and design of multi-agent systems. In this
paper, a pragmatic approach to the classification and
modeling of the relevant contexts is presented,
focusing on a useful operational description rather
than epistemological correctness. We then show how our
approach supports the analysis and design of physical
and social contexts for embedded multi-agent systems
using the UML, providing a number of different
examples.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mertens:2005:CAD,
author = "Koenraad Mertens and Tom Holvoet and Yolande Berbers",
title = "A case for adaptation of the distributed environment
layout in multiagent applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--8",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082974",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A multiagent application consists of an environment
and a number of agents. The environment contains
information that the agents use and manipulate to do
their work. When a multiagent system is distributed
over a number of different hosts (i.e. more than one
execution platform is used), the environment has to be
distributed as well. The distributed layout of the
environment can influence the performance of agents and
of the system. In this paper we discuss when a
distributed environment can dynamically change its
distribution layout. Our focus is on a distributed
environment in which mobile agents move around and are
aware of the distributed nature of the system. Changes
to the layout of the distribution are not only
triggered by the agents (like other,
application-specific actions), but they can also be
triggered by external events, and the environment
itself has the ability to pro-actively change its
distribution layout over the different hosts when this
improves the behavior and efficiency of the
application. Using a specific application (solving
distributed constraint satisfaction problems) as an
example, we indicate the usefulness of changes to the
distribution layout and how they can be incorporated
easily into a multiagent application design. It turns
out that for some problems, the improvement in
efficiency can be more than 30\%.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schelfthout:2005:VCA,
author = "Kurt Schelfthout and Tom Holvoet and Yolande Berbers",
title = "Views: customizable abstractions for contextaware
applications in {MANETs}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--8",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082973",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Programming applications for highly dynamic
environments such as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) is
complex, since the working context of applications
changes continuously. This paper presents ``views'' as
abstractions for representing and maintaining context
information, tailored to applications in MANETs. An
application agent can define a view by declaratively
describing the context information it is interested in.
A supporting middleware platform, called ObjectPlaces,
ensures that the information represented by a view
continuously reflects the agent's context information,
despite the dynamic situation in a MANET. We elaborate
on the distributed protocol that ObjectPlaces uses to
maintain the information of views, and give a thorough
evaluation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2005:SEEc,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software Engineering Education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "6--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082985",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "To date I have not received any comments regarding Don
Reifer's article ``Educating Software Engineers: An
Industry Viewpoint'' in the last SEEd column. Perhaps
there are a few letters to the editor. By the way, I
would like to complement Will Tracz SEN editor. He does
an excellent job pulling each issue of SEN together,
and we are indebted to the time and effort he
contributes to making SEN very readable and
informative.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Parnas:2005:GSE,
author = "David Parnas and Lillian Chik-Parnas",
title = "Goals for software engineering student education",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "6--8",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082986",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tichy:2005:COS,
author = "Matthias Tichy and Holger Giese and Daniela Schilling
and Wladimir Pauls",
title = "Computing optimal self-repair actions: damage
minimization versus repair time",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083224",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The dependability of a software system can be improved
by online redeployment of failed software components
using appropriate system self-repair actions. The
effect of different self-repair actions can vary to a
great extent w.r.t. the resulting temporary service
unavailability and reduced redundancy of services. We
therefore developed an approach to efficiently compute
self-repair actions which realize requested repair
steps in a nearly optimal manner. We show that our
approach achieves a suitable compromise between the
usually infeasible optimal deployment modification
w.r.t. damage minimization and repair time minimization
by presenting a number of simulation results.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2005:PMH,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Project management: here we go again!",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "8--8",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082987",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In the 9 June issue of Network Computing, Tim Wilson
(``What's a Project Manager to Do?'') quotes Standish
Group numbers regarding the success rate of IT
projects: $ \bullet $ 53\% ``challenged'' (past
deadline or over budget) $ \bullet $ 18\% failed
(terminated before completion, or completed and never
used) $ \bullet $ 29\% successfully completed (on time
and on budget)",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2005:PSG,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "In praise of {SE} Geeks",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "8--9",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082988",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2005:SNSd,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "10--18",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082990",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We have periodic brown bag lunches at the office
where, in addition to free pizza, colleagues present a
short briefing on some technical topic. A recent
presentation provided a short primer on Aspect Oriented
Programming, or AOP. AOP is also sometimes referred to
by the acronym AOSD, for Aspect-Oriented Software
Development. I knew a little about AOP before the
presentation, how the behavior of AOP programs change
depending upon the included programming aspects, but I
had no idea of the power and danger of this extension
to traditional OO programming. So after the briefing, I
went for a little surfing expedition to learn more
about AOP.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2005:RPd,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "19--35",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1082992",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relating to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-anachem:2005:RSE,
author = "Mordechai Ben-anachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Software Endgames: Eliminating
Defects, Controlling Change, and the Countdown to
On-Time Delivery}} by Robert Galen, Dorset House, ISBN:
0-932633-62-5, 2005}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "82--83",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083028",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Che:2005:RAM,
author = "Haoyang Che",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Agile Modeling: Effective
Practice for eXtreme Programming and the Unified
Process}} by Scott W. Ambler, John Wiley and Sons, Inc,
2002, 0-471-20282-7}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "83--83",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083029",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Marliss:2005:RSM,
author = "G. S. Marliss",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Systems Modeling and
Requirements Specification Using ECSAM: an Analysis
Method for Embedded and Computer-Based Systems}} by
Jonah Z. Lavi and Joseph Kudish, Dorset House
Publishing Co. Inc., 2005, ISBN 0-932633-45-5}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "4",
pages = "83--84",
month = jul,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083030",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:14:51 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2005:FTLb,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "Frontmatter ({TOC}, Letters, Philosophy of computer
science, Interviewers needed, Taking software
requirements creation from folklore to analysis, {SW}
components and product lines: from business to systems
and technology, Software engineering survey)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "0--0",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095431",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chung:2005:SIW,
author = "Lawrence Chung and Xavier Franch and Neil Maiden",
title = "{Second International Workshop on Models and Processes
for the Evaluation of Off-the-Shelf Components
(MPEC'05)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095434",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Off-The-Shelf Software components (hereafter OTS) play
an increasingly important role in software systems
development. One of the central activities in a
successful OTS-based system development is OTS
evaluation, which is one of the cornerstones of OTS
selection, OTS implementation and cost models for OTS.
Achieving a better understanding of this activity is
the objective of the ``International Workshop on Models
and Processes for the Evaluation of OTS Components
(MPEC)''. After the first edition collocated with
ICSE'04, a second edition has taken place (May
21$^{th}$, 2005, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA), again as
a satellite event of ICSE. This paper reports on the
structure of the workshop, presenting short summaries
of the talks given and the research issues identified
and heavily discussed during the workshop. More details
are available at the workshop URL:
http://www.lsi.upc.es/events/mpec.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dalal:2005:AMB,
author = "Siddhartha R. Dalal and Ashish Jain and Jesse Poore",
title = "Advances in model-based software testing {(A-MOST)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095436",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This is a summary of the Advances in Model-Based
Software Testing (A-MOST) workshop held on May 15-16,
2005, in St. Louis, Missouri. The workshop had
approximately 40 participants. The goals of this
workshop were to offer a comprehensive overview of
model-based testing to the ICSE community, and bring
the researchers and practitioners together to discuss
advances, applications, and the complex problems yet to
be solved in model-based testing. The workshop was
lively and maintained participant interest for the
entire two-day program. A brief summary based upon
agenda items is provided. Details on the workshops are
archived at http://aetgweb.argreenhouse.com.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Diehl:2005:RMI,
author = "Stephan Diehl and Ahmed E. Hassan and Richard C.
Holt",
title = "Report on {MSR 2005: International Workshop on Mining
Software Repositories}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095433",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A one-day workshop on the topic of Mining Software
Repositories (MSR) was held at ICSE 2005 in St. Louis,
Missouri. Researchers and practitioners in the MSR
field try to transform static record keeping software
repositories to active ones. These repositories permit
researchers to gain empirically based understanding of
software development, while software practitioners use
these repositories to predict and plan various aspects
of their project. Following the success of last year's
workshop, MSR 2005 had a large number of high quality
submissions and a great number of participants. 22
papers were accepted from 38 submissions --- 11 papers
were presented as Lightning talks (5 mins) and another
11 papers were presented as regular talks (15 mins).
The Lighting talks were followed with a walk-around
demo and discussion session. This report includes an
overview of the presentations made during the day and a
summary of the issues raised throughout the workshop.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2005:RLO,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "The risks of large organizations in developing complex
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095444",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The risks to the large organization of being able to
complete the development of large software intensive
systems on time and in budget include not just the
defining and maintaining of proper requirements and
work processes, but also in the defining and
maintaining of the proper organizational work
structures. Bureaucratic structures prevalent in large
organizations can be inefficient and irrational
especially in regards to unplanned surprises,
exigencies, contingencies, and the emergent properties
that are the normal part of the development and
integration of first-of and one-of-a-kind large
systems. All large software intensive systems, at their
true core, are experiments, and experimentation and
bureaucracy have proved to be, over time, destructively
antithetical in basic values. Conway's law, first
stated in 1968, has by the lights of 2005 provided only
a superficial explanation of the antipathy of
bureaucracy towards the unknown and risk. The belief
that ``[o]rganizations which design systems \ldots{}
are constrained to produce designs which are copies of
the communication structures of these organizations'',
can be easily refuted by noting that hierarchical
organizations have been quite successful in designing
and implementing networked systems subsequent to the
invention of Ethernet and TCP/IP. The example provided
by Conway was not sufficient by itself to draw the
conclusion was made, a common fallacy of cause and
effect, but he was certainly on an interesting path of
investigation. Large system development failures cannot
be prevented solely through improved planning,
requirements, processes and software. Improvement must
also come from the recognition of the limits of
organization, planning and process; the recognition of
the basic antipathy between bureaucracy and risk; the
recognition of the need for organizational structures
that scale yet remain responsive; the recognition of
the need for better attitudes towards faults and
failures, and the recognition that in order to reduce
the risks that are inherent when the technical becomes
political, that one must reduce the risks of speaking
truth to power. The short article that follows is
intended to raise more questions than provide answers,
and the references are intended to provide a starting
point for further research.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Aggarwal:2005:ECM,
author = "K. K. Aggarwal and Yogesh Singh and Pravin Chandra and
Manimala Puri",
title = "An expert committee model to estimate lines of code",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095439",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Resource Estimation is a challenging activity, in the
early stages of project development. Once the
functionality desired by the user is ascertained,
function points can be calculated. This paper proposes
to estimate Lines of Code once the Function Point count
is known, using linear regression techniques and also a
neural network model. These two are then combined to
propose an expert committee model which gives better
results. This is validated by empirical data available
from ISBSG data set (release 9).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bhansali:2005:USS,
author = "P. V. Bhansali",
title = "Universal software safety standard",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095440",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper identifies the minimum subset required for
a truly universal safety-critical software standard.
This universal software standard could be used in but
is not limited to the following application domains:
commercial, military and space aviation; medical
diagnostic and therapeutic instruments; automotive and
transportation systems; industrial process control and
robotics; nuclear power plants and weapons control;
commercial appliances and ride electronics. The
standard takes into account that safety is a system
attribute but focuses on software as the critical
component. Its roots are based in MoD 00-55, 56,
DO-178B, ARP 4754 and 4761, Mil-Std-882 and Software
Safety Handbook, IEC 61508, IEC 60880, ANSI/ISA-S84.01,
ANSI/AAMI SW68:2001, NASA-STD-8719.13, UL 1998, EN
50128, MISRA Automotive Standard, and IEEE 1228. This
minimum subset uses existing system and software
technology and can be adapted to future applications. A
universal software safety standard would benefit the
entire safety-critical industry by lowering the cost
and improving the quality of software by having common
processes and tools. As an additional benefit, various
application sectors could share data on the efficacy of
each technique used in the development and verification
of safety-critical software. This in turn could improve
the overall safety of systems in the future.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bontemps:2005:SSM,
author = "Yves Bontemps and Alexander Egyed",
title = "{Scenarios and State Machines: Models, Algorithms, and
Tools}: a summary of the 4th workshop",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095437",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report summarizes the Workshop on Scenarios and
State Machines: Models, Algorithms, and Tools, held in
St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on 21 May 2005, in
conjunction with the International Conference on
Software Engineering (ICSE 2005). The workshop
consisted of a keynote and nine presentations. The
workshop web page, which includes presented papers and
the keynote presentation, can be found at
http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~ybo/scesm05/.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Darbari:2005:MBS,
author = "Manuj Darbari and Vipin Saxena",
title = "Modeling biological systems: a unified approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095441",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper we demonstrate the relevance of
abstraction, reuse, objects, classes, component and
inheritance hierarchies, multiplicity, visual modeling,
and other current software development best practices.
We show how it is possible to start with a direct
diagrammatic representation of a biological structure
such as a cell, using terminology familiar to
biologists, and by following a process of gradually
adding more and more detail, arrive at a system with
structure and behavior of arbitrary complexity that can
run and be observed on a computer. We will be
discussing various tools of UML used to describe
biological modeling.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Budgen:2005:REB,
author = "David Budgen and Barbara Kitchenham",
title = "Realising evidence-based software engineering: a
report from the workshop held at {ICSE 2005}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--5",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095435",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Context: The workshop was held to explore the
potential for adapting the ideas of evidence-based
practices as used in medicine and other disciplines for
use in software engineering. Objectives: To devise ways
of developing suitable evidence-based practices and
procedures, especially the use of structured literature
reviews, and introducing these into software
engineering research and practice. Method: Three
sessions were dedicated to a mix of presentations based
on position papers and interactive discussion, while
the fourth focused upon the key issues as decided by
the participants. Results: An initial scoping of the
major issues, identification of useful parallels, and
some plans for future development of an evidence-based
software engineering community. Conclusions: While
there are substantial challenges to introducing
evidence-based practices, there are useful experiences
to be drawn from a variety of other domains.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zayaraz:2005:SQA,
author = "G. Zayaraz and P. Thambidurai and Madhu Srinivasan and
Paul Rodrigues",
title = "Software quality assurance through {COSMIC FFP}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--5",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095445",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Success in software development depends on the
satisfaction of the quality requirements stated by the
stakeholders. Software architecture ensures development
of quality software. Quality measurement at the
software architecture level leads to risk mitigation,
cost reduction and quality assurance. Existing software
architectural measurement techniques are qualitative in
nature. However, quantification of quality measures
facilitates the process of effective quality assurance.
In this paper, we propose a new quantitative
measurement technique based on COSMIC Full Function
Points (CFFP) and ISO 9126 quality standards. Though
CFFP methodology was basically designed to measure the
functional size of software at the requirements level,
attempt has been made to apply COSMIC FFP principles at
the architectural level to measure quality attributes
based on ISO 9126 quality standards.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fass:2005:SAT,
author = "Leona F. Fass",
title = "Some agent theory for the semantic web",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--6",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095442",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We take the position that for any goal achievable on
the Semantic Web, there will be a ``best'' system of
Web-dwelling software agents to realize that goal, and
that such a system may be discovered effectively. The
process of determining the ``best'' agent system may be
overseen by a distinguished Manager Agent. But with
realistic time and space constraints, and the dynamic
nature of the Semantic Web, finding an approximating
system may be acceptable. The approximation then may be
adapted iteratively, to approach the ideal. We show
that very practical researchers have looked at software
agents and Semantic Web problems in a similar way,
determining approximating sub-optimal systems and
subsequently adapting them. Their applied research
confirms that theory provides a good foundation for
practice.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Riehle:2005:ESC,
author = "Richard Riehle",
title = "Engineering on the surprise continuum: as applied to
software practice",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--6",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095443",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Speakers at conferences often mention the Principle of
Least Surprise. This article explores the notion of
surprise on a Surprise Tolerance Continuum. We also
comment on how different disciplines benefit from
managing surprise. Since this publication deals with
software engineering, we focus on problems related to
the creation, management, and maintenance of
software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nierstrasz:2005:SMA,
author = "Oscar Nierstrasz and St{\'e}phane Ducasse and Tudor
G{\u{\i}}rba",
title = "The story of {{\sc Moose}}: an agile reengineering
environment",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "1--10",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081707",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "{\sc Moose} is a language-independent environment for
reverse- and re-engineering complex software systems.
{\sc Moose} provides a set of services including a
common meta-model, metrics evaluation and
visualization, a model repository, and generic GUI
support for querying, browsing and grouping. The
development effort invested in {\sc Moose} has paid off
in precisely those research activities that benefit
from applying a combination of complementary
techniques. We describe how {\sc Moose} has evolved
over the years, we draw a number of lessons learned
from our experience, and we outline the present and
future of {\sc Moose}.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2005:SNSe,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "8--15",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1095447",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Our last survey of Internet software security sites
was about four years ago. I thought it was about time
to take another look at the web to see what has been
added in the last few years. Some of the sites we've
visited before have added extensive new information and
resources for developers working on secure software.
And this time around, I'd like to focus on some open
source software that can help you test and evaluate
your applications.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Robillard:2005:AGS,
author = "Martin P. Robillard",
title = "Automatic generation of suggestions for program
investigation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "11--20",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081711",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Before performing a modification task, a developer
usually has to investigate the source code of a system
to understand how to carry out the task. Discovering
the code relevant to a change task is costly because it
is an inherently human activity whose success depends
on a large number of unpredictable factors, such as
intuition and luck. Although studies have shown that
effective developers tend to explore a program by
following structural dependencies, no methodology is
available to guide their navigation through the
typically hundreds of dependency paths found in a
non-trivial program. In this paper, we propose a
technique to automatically propose and rank program
elements that are potentially interesting to a
developer investigating source code. Our technique is
based on an analysis of the topology of structural
dependencies in a program. It takes as input a set of
program elements of interest to a developer and
produces a fuzzy set describing other elements of
potential interest. Empirical evaluation of our
technique indicates that it can help developers quickly
select program elements worthy of investigation while
avoiding less interesting ones.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{McCloskey:2005:ANA,
author = "Bill McCloskey and Eric Brewer",
title = "{ASTEC}: a new approach to refactoring {C}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "21--30",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081712",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The C language is among the most widely used in the
world, particularly for critical infrastructure
software. C programs depend upon macros processed using
the C preprocessor, but these macros are difficult to
analyze and are often error-prone[4]. Existing tools
that analyze and transform C source code have
rudimentary support for the preprocessor, leading to
obscure error messages and difficulty refactoring. We
present a three part solution: (1) a replacement macro
language, ASTEC, that addresses the most important
important deficiencies of the preprocessor and that
eliminates many of the errors it introduces; (2) a
translator, MACROSCOPE, that converts existing code
into ASTEC semi-automatically; and (3), an ASTEC-aware
refactoring tool that handles preprocessor constructs
naturally.ASTEC's primary benefits are its
analyzability and its refactorability. We present
several refactorings that are enabled by ASTEC.
Additionally, ASTEC eliminates many of the sources of
errors that can plague C preprocessor macros; Ernst et
al.[4] estimate that more than 20\% of macros may
contain errors. In this paper, we describe our
translation and refactoring tools and evaluate them on
a suite of programs including OpenSSH and the Linux
kernel.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henzinger:2005:PI,
author = "Thomas A. Henzinger and Ranjit Jhala and Rupak
Majumdar",
title = "Permissive interfaces",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "31--40",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081713",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A modular program analysis considers components
independently and provides a succinct summary for each
component, which is used when checking the rest of the
system. Consider a system consisting of a library and a
client. A temporal summary, or interface, of the
library specifies legal sequences of library calls. The
interface is safe if no call sequence violates the
library's internal invariants; the interface is
permissive if it contains every such sequence. Modular
program analysis requires full interfaces, which are
both safe and permissive: the client does not cause
errors in the library if and only if it makes only
sequences of library calls that are allowed by the full
interface of the library. Previous interface-based
methods have focused on safe interfaces, which may be
too restrictive and thus reject good clients. We
present an algorithm for automatically synthesizing
software interfaces that are both safe and permissive.
The algorithm generates interfaces as graphs whose
vertices are labeled with predicates over the library's
internal state, and whose edges are labeled with
library calls. The interface state is refined
incrementally until the full interface is constructed.
In other words, the algorithm automatically synthesizes
a typestate system for the library, against which any
client can be checked for compatibility. We present an
implementation of the algorithm which is based on the
BLAST model checker, and we evaluate some case
studies.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Letier:2005:FTL,
author = "Emmanuel Letier and Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee and
Sebastian Uchitel",
title = "Fluent temporal logic for discrete-time event-based
models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "70--79",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081719",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Fluent model checking is an automated technique for
verifying that an event-based operational model
satisfies some state-based declarative properties. The
link between the event-based and state-based formalisms
is defined through ``fluents'' which are state
predicates whose value are determined by the
occurrences of initiating and terminating events that
make the fluents values become true or false,
respectively. The existing fluent temporal logic is
convenient for reasoning about untimed event-based
models but difficult to use for timed models. The paper
extends fluent temporal logic with temporal operators
for modelling timed properties of discrete-time
event-based models. It presents two approaches that
differ on whether the properties model the system state
after the occurrence of each event or at a fixed time
rate. Model checking of timed properties is made
possible by translating them into the existing untimed
framework.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Shen:2005:TUF,
author = "Junrong Shen and Xi Sun and Gang Huang and Wenpin Jiao
and Yanchun Sun and Hong Mei",
title = "Towards a unified formal model for supporting
mechanisms of dynamic component update",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "80--89",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081720",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The continuous requirements of evolving a delivered
software system and the rising cost of shutting down a
running software system are forcing researchers and
practitioners to find ways of updating software as it
runs. Dynamic update is a kind of software evolution
that updates a running program without interruption.
This paper covers the fundamental issues of the
mechanisms of dynamic update theoretically. Based on a
similarity analysis of many typical approaches to
dynamic update during the past decades, we propose a
unified formal model (namely, Dynamic Update Connector)
to specify mechanisms of updating an architectural
component, and reason about its properties. The model
borrows the concept of connectors from software
architecture community and is specified using process
algebra CSP. We also demonstrate the applications of
our DUC model.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Renieris:2005:APP,
author = "Manos Renieris and Shashank Ramaprasad and Steven P.
Reiss",
title = "Arithmetic program paths",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "90--98",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081721",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We present Arithmetic Program Paths, a novel,
efficient way to compress program control-flow traces
that reduces program bit traces to less than a fifth of
their original size while being fast and memory
efficient. In addition, our method supports online,
selective tracing and compression of individual
conditionals, trading off memory usage and compression
rate. We achieve these properties by recording only the
directions taken by conditional statements during
program execution, and using arithmetic coding for
compression. We provide the arithmetic coder with a
probability distribution for each conditional that we
obtain using branch prediction techniques. We
implemented the technique and experimented on several
SPEC 2000 programs. Our method matches the compression
rate of state-of-the-art tools while being an order of
magnitude faster.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ducasse:2005:MAR,
author = "St{\'e}phane Ducasse and Tudor G{\^\i}rba and Oscar
Nierstrasz",
title = "{Moose}: an agile reengineering environment",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "99--102",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081723",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software systems are complex and difficult to analyze.
Reengineering is a complex activity that usually
involves combining different techniques and tools.
MOOSE is an reengineering environment designed to
provide the necessary infrastructure for building new
tools and for integrating them. MOOSE centers on a
language independent meta-model, and offers services
like grouping, querying, navigation, and
meta-descriptions. Several tools have been built on top
of MOOSE dealing with different aspects of
reengineering like: visualization, evolution analysis,
semantic analysis, concept analysis or dynamic
analysis.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schmerl:2005:DDA,
author = "Bradley Schmerl and David Garlan and Hong Yan",
title = "Dynamically discovering architectures with
{DiscoTect}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "103--106",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081724",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "One of the challenges for software architects is
ensuring that an implemented system faithfully
represents its architecture. We describe and
demonstrate a tool, called DiscoTect, that addresses
this challenge by dynamically monitoring a running
system and deriving the software architecture as that
system runs. The derivation process is based on
mappings that relate low level system-level events to
higher-level architectural events. The resulting
architecture is then fed into existing architectural
design tools so that comparisons can be conducted with
the design time architecture and architectural analyses
can be re-run to ensure that they are still valid. In
addition to the demonstration, we briefly describe the
mapping language and formal definition of the language
in terms of Colored Petri Nets.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sliwerski:2005:HRR,
author = "Jacek {\'S}liwerski and Thomas Zimmermann and Andreas
Zeller",
title = "{HATARI}: raising risk awareness",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "107--110",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081725",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "As a software system evolves, programmers make changes
which sometimes lead to problems. The risk of later
problems significantly depends on the location of the
change. Which are the locations where changes impose
the greatest risk? Our HATARI prototype relates a
version history (such as CVS) to a bug database (such
as BUGZILLA) to detect those locations where changes
have been risky in the past. HATARI makes this risk
visible for developers by annotating source code with
color bars. Furthermore, HATARI provides views to
browse through the most risky locations and to analyze
the risk history of a particular location.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Inverardi:2005:CET,
author = "Paola Inverardi and Henry Muccini and Patrizio
Pelliccione",
title = "{CHARMY}: an extensible tool for architectural
analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "111--114",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081726",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "CHARMY is a framework for designing and validating
architectural specifications. In the early stages of
the software development process, the CHARMY framework
assists the software architect in the design and
validation phases. To increase its usability in an
industrial context, the tool allows the use of UML-like
notations to graphically design the system. Once the
design is done, a formal prototype is automatically
created for simulation and analysis purposes. The
framework provides extensibility mechanisms to enable
the introduction of new design and analysis features.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Xie:2005:CPS,
author = "Yichen Xie and Alex Aiken",
title = "Context- and path-sensitive memory leak detection",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "115--125",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081728",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We present a context- and path-sensitive algorithm for
detecting memory leaks in programs with explicit memory
management. Our leak detection algorithm is based on an
underlying escape analysis: any allocated location in a
procedure P that is not deallocated in P and does not
escape from P is leaked. We achieve very precise
context- and path-sensitivity by expressing our
analysis using boolean constraints. In experiments with
six large open source projects our analysis produced
510 warnings of which 455 were unique memory leaks, a
false positive rate of only 10.8\%. A parallel
implementation improves performance by over an order of
magnitude on large projects; over five million lines of
code in the Linux kernel is analyzed in 50 minutes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Metz:2005:PDC,
author = "Edu Metz and Raimondas Lencevicius and Teofilo F.
Gonzalez",
title = "Performance data collection using a hybrid approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "126--135",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081729",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Performance profiling consists of monitoring a
software system during execution and then analyzing the
obtained data. There are two ways to collect profiling
data: event tracing through code instrumentation and
statistical sampling. These two approaches have
different advantages and drawbacks. This paper proposes
a hybrid approach to data collection that combines the
completeness of event tracing with the low cost of
statistical sampling. We propose to maximize the
weighted amount of information obtained during data
collection, show that such maximization can be
performed in linear time or is NP-hard depending on the
data collected and the collection implementation. We
propose an approximation algorithm for NP-hard case.
Our paper also presents an application of the formal
approach to an example use case.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Srinivas:2005:SAP,
author = "Kavitha Srinivas and Harini Srinivasan",
title = "Summarizing application performance from a components
perspective",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "136--145",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081730",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In the era of distributed development, it is common
for large applications to be assembled from multiple
component layers that are developed by different
development teams. Layered applications have deep call
paths and numerous invocations (average call stack
depth of up to 75, and upto 35 million invocations in
the applications we studied) making summarization of
performance problems a critical issue. Summarization of
performance by classes, methods, invocations or
packages is usually inadequate because they are often
at the wrong level of granularity. We propose a
technique that uses thresholding and filtering to
identify a small set of interesting method invocations
in components deemed interesting by the user. We show
the utility of this technique with a set of 7 real-life
applications, where the technique was used to identify
a small set (10-93) of expensive invocations which
accounted for 82-99\% of the overall performance costs
of the application. Our experience shows that this type
of characterization can help quickly isolate the
specific parts of a large system that can benefit most
from performance tuning.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Haran:2005:ACT,
author = "Murali Haran and Alan Karr and Alessandro Orso and
Adam Porter and Ashish Sanil",
title = "Applying classification techniques to
remotely-collected program execution data",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "146--155",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081732",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "There is an increasing interest in techniques that
support measurement and analysis of fielded software
systems. One of the main goals of these techniques is
to better understand how software actually behaves in
the field. In particular, many of these techniques
require a way to distinguish, in the field, failing
from passing executions. So far, researchers and
practitioners have only partially addressed this
problem: they have simply assumed that program failure
status is either obvious (i.e., the program crashes) or
provided by an external source (e.g., the users). In
this paper, we propose a technique for automatically
classifying execution data, collected in the field, as
coming from either passing or failing program runs.
(Failing program runs are executions that terminate
with a failure, such as a wrong outcome.) We use
statistical learning algorithms to build the
classification models. Our approach builds the models
by analyzing executions performed in a controlled
environment (e.g., test cases run in-house) and then
uses the models to predict whether execution data
produced by a fielded instance were generated by a
passing or failing program execution. We also present
results from an initial feasibility study, based on
multiple versions of a software subject, in which we
investigate several issues vital to the applicability
of the technique. Finally, we present some lessons
learned regarding the interplay between the reliability
of classification models and the amount and type of
data collected.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Basit:2005:DHL,
author = "Hamid Abdul Basit and Stan Jarzabek",
title = "Detecting higher-level similarity patterns in
programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "156--165",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081733",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Cloning in software systems is known to create
problems during software maintenance. Several
techniques have been proposed to detect the same or
similar code fragments in software, so-called simple
clones. While the knowledge of simple clones is useful,
detecting design-level similarities in software could
ease maintenance even further, and also help us
identify reuse opportunities. We observed that
recurring patterns of simple clones --- so-called
structural clones --- often indicate the presence of
interesting design-level similarities. An example would
be patterns of collaborating classes or components.
Finding structural clones that signify potentially
useful design information requires efficient techniques
to analyze the bulk of simple clone data and making
non-trivial inferences based on the abstracted
information. In this paper, we describe a practical
solution to the problem of detecting some basic, but
useful, types of design-level similarities such as
groups of highly similar classes or files. First, we
detect simple clones by applying conventional
token-based techniques. Then we find the patterns of
co-occurring clones in different files using the
Frequent Itemset Mining (FIM) technique. Finally, we
perform file clustering to detect those clusters of
highly similar files that are likely to contribute to a
design-level similarity pattern. The novelty of our
approach is application of data mining techniques to
detect design level similarities. Experiments confirmed
that our method finds many useful structural clones and
scales up to big programs. The paper describes our
method for structural clone detection, a prototype tool
called Clone Miner that implements the method and
experimental results.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sullivan:2005:IHI,
author = "Kevin Sullivan and William G. Griswold and Yuanyuan
Song and Yuanfang Cai and Macneil Shonle and Nishit
Tewari and Hridesh Rajan",
title = "Information hiding interfaces for aspect-oriented
design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "166--175",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081734",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The growing popularity of aspect-oriented languages,
such as AspectJ, and of corresponding design
approaches, makes it important to learn how best to
modularize programs in which aspect-oriented
composition mechanisms are used. We contribute an
approach to information hiding modularity in programs
that use quantified advising as a module composition
mechanism. Our approach rests on a new kind of
interface: one that abstracts a crosscutting behavior,
decouples the design of code that advises such a
behavior from the design of the code to be advised, and
that can stipulate behavioral contracts. Our interfaces
establish design rules that govern how specific points
in program execution are exposed through a given join
point model and how conforming code on either side
should behave. In a case study of the HyperCast overlay
network middleware system, including a real options
analysis, we compare the widely cited oblivious design
approach with our own, showing significant weaknesses
in the former and benefits in the latter.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Camara:2005:IPC,
author = "Ant{\'o}nio S. Camara",
title = "Innovations in pervasive computing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "176--176",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081708",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Pervasive computing is a broad term that may have
different meanings. In this talk, we will focus on its
ubiquitous and persistent dimensions. Fundamental
methods and conventional applications of pervasive
computing are briefly reviewed considering the most
common technologies (hardware and software) and user
interfaces. Two innovative applications of pervasive
computing are presented: Undercover2, a persistent
world location based multi-player mobile game; and
L-INK, a ubiquitous computing application based on
photo-chemical principles. Undercover2 is an
application that shows how to mix virtual and real
worlds in a mobile environment. The design of its
interface, game engine, messaging, positioning and
billing system is described herein. Future developments
of the game and related applications derived from the
current market experience are also discussed.L-INK is
an application where one attempts to escape traditional
computation by either pre-programming or triggering a
chain of photo-chemical reactions. One can then
visualize the computing efforts in non-electronic
surfaces such as textiles, wood and paper. L-INK is
limited to pictorial calculus formulations. With this
approach, images are not decoded numerically or
verbally. It is shown that these formulations may be
sufficient for a broad range of applications. They
include interactive T-shirts, tables and paper maps.
Innovation is invention translated into products that
the consumer is willing to pay. The management of this
translation for Undercover and L-INK, two pioneer
applications of pervasive computing, is paradigmatic of
the challenges facing a spin-off from university
research. The log of the events that went from early
brainstorms to products available in the market is
presented for illustrative purposes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bevan:2005:FSE,
author = "Jennifer Bevan and E. James {Whitehead, Jr.} and
Sunghun Kim and Michael Godfrey",
title = "Facilitating software evolution research with kenyon",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "177--186",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081736",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software evolution research inherently has several
resource-intensive logistical constraints. Archived
project artifacts, such as those found in source code
repositories and bug tracking systems, are the
principal source of input data. Analysis-specific
facts, such as commit metadata or the location of
design patterns within the code, must be extracted for
each change or configuration of interest. The results
of this resource-intensive ``fact extraction'' phase
must be stored efficiently, for later use by more
experimental types of research tasks, such as algorithm
or model refinement. In order to perform any type of
software evolution research, each of these logistical
issues must be addressed and an implementation to
manage it created. In this paper, we introduce Kenyon,
a system designed to facilitate software evolution
research by providing a common set of solutions to
these common logistical problems. We have used Kenyon
for processing source code data from 12 systems of
varying sizes and domains, archived in 3 different
types of software configuration management systems. We
present our experiences using Kenyon with these
systems, and also describe Kenyon's usage by students
in a graduate seminar class.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kim:2005:ESC,
author = "Miryung Kim and Vibha Sazawal and David Notkin and
Gail Murphy",
title = "An empirical study of code clone genealogies",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "187--196",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081737",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zhang:2005:MEH,
author = "Xiangyu Zhang and Rajiv Gupta",
title = "Matching execution histories of program versions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "197--206",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081738",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We develop a method for matching dynamic histories of
program executions of two program versions. The matches
produced can be useful in many applications including
software piracy detection and several debugging
scenarios. Unlike some static approaches for matching
program versions, our approach does not require access
to source code of the two program versions because
dynamic histories can be collected by running
instrumented versions of program binaries. We base our
matching algorithm on comparison of rich program
execution histories which include: control flow taken,
values produced, addresses referenced, as well as data
dependences exercised. In developing a matching
algorithm we had two goals: producing an accurate match
and producing it quickly. By using rich execution
history, we are able to compare the program versions
across many behavioral dimensions. The result is a fast
and highly precise matching algorithm. Our algorithm
first uses individual histories of instructions to
identify multiple potential matches and then it refines
the set of matches by matching the data dependence
structure established by the matching instructions. To
test our algorithm we attempted matching of execution
histories of unoptimized and optimized program
versions. Our results show that our algorithm produces
highly accurate matches which are highly effective when
used in comparison checking approach to debugging
optimized code.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kuncak:2005:RAA,
author = "Viktor Kuncak and Daniel Jackson",
title = "Relational analysis of algebraic datatypes",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "207--216",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081740",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We present a technique that enables the use of finite
model finding to check the satisfiability of certain
formulas whose intended models are infinite. Such
formulas arise when using the language of sets and
relations to reason about structured values such as
algebraic datatypes. The key idea of our technique is
to identify a natural syntactic class of formulas in
relational logic for which reasoning about infinite
structures can be reduced to reasoning about finite
structures. As a result, when a formula belongs to this
class, we can use existing finite model finding tools
to check whether the formula holds in the desired
infinite model.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bierhoff:2005:LOS,
author = "Kevin Bierhoff and Jonathan Aldrich",
title = "Lightweight object specification with typestates",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "217--226",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081741",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Previous work has proven typestates to be useful for
modeling protocols in object-oriented languages. We
build on this work by addressing substitutability of
subtypes as well as improving precision and conciseness
of specifications. We propose a specification technique
for objects based on abstract states that incorporates
state refinement, method refinement, and orthogonal
state dimensions. Union and intersection types form the
underlying semantics of method specifications. The
approach guarantees substitutability and behavioral
subtyping. We designed a dynamic analysis to check
existing object-oriented software for protocol
conformance and validated our approach by specifying
two standard Java libraries. We provide preliminary
evidence for the usefulness of our approach.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fischer:2005:JDP,
author = "Jeffrey Fischer and Ranjit Jhala and Rupak Majumdar",
title = "Joining dataflow with predicates",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "227--236",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081742",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Dataflow analyses sacrifice path-sensitivity for
efficiency and lead to false positives when used for
verification. Predicate refinement based model checking
methods are path-sensitive but must perform many
expensive iterations to find all the relevant facts
about a program, not all of which are naturally
expressed and analyzed using predicates. We show how to
join these complementary techniques to obtain efficient
and precise versions of any lattice-based dataflow
analysis using predicated lattices. A predicated
lattice partitions the program state according to a set
of predicates and tracks a lattice element for each
partition. The resulting dataflow analysis is more
precise than the eager dataflow analysis without the
predicates. In addition, we automatically infer
predicates to rule out imprecisions. The result is a
dataflow analysis that can adaptively refine its
precision. We then instantiate this generic framework
using a symbolic execution lattice, which tracks
pointer and value information precisely. We give
experimental evidence that our combined analysis is
both more precise than the eager analysis in that it is
sensitive enough to prove various properties, as well
as much faster than the lazy analysis, as many relevant
facts are eagerly computed, thus reducing the number of
iterations. This results in an order of magnitude
improvement in the running times from a purely lazy
analysis.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Holmes:2005:SER,
author = "Reid Holmes and Robert J. Walker and Gail C. Murphy",
title = "Strathcona example recommendation tool",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "237--240",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081744",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Using the application programming interfaces (API) of
large software systems requires developers to
understand details about the interfaces that are often
not explicitly defined. However, documentation about
the API is often incomplete or out of date. Existing
systems that make use of the API provide a form of
implicit information on how to use that code. Manually
searching through existing projects to find relevant
source code is tedious and time consuming. We have
created the Strathcona Example. Recommendation Tool to
assist developers in finding relevant fragments of
code, or examples, of an API's use. These examples can
be used by developers to provide insight on how they
are supposed to interact with the API.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tillmann:2005:PUTa,
author = "Nikolai Tillmann and Wolfram Schulte",
title = "Parameterized unit tests with {Unit Meister}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "241--244",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081745",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Parameterized unit tests extend the current industry
practice of using closed unit tests defined as
parameterless methods. Traditional closed unit tests
are re-obtained by instantiating the parameterized unit
tests. We have developed the prototype tool Unit
Meister, which uses symbolic execution and constraint
solving to automatically compute a minimal set of
inputs that exercise a parameterized unit test given
certain coverage criteria. In addition, the
parameterized unit tests can be used as symbolic
summaries during symbolic execution, which allows our
approach to scale for arbitrary abstraction levels.
Unit Meister has a command-line interface, and is also
integrated into Visual Studio 2005 Team System.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chatley:2005:KLP,
author = "Robert Chatley and Thomas Timbul",
title = "{KenyaEclipse}: learning to program in eclipse",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "245--248",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081746",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A fundamental part of a Computer Science degree is
learning to program. Rather than starting students on a
full commercial language, we favour using a dedicated
``teaching language'' to introduce programming
concepts. At the same time, we want to introduce
students to popular tools that assist in the software
development process. However, up until now our teaching
language, Kenya, has not been supported by professional
IDEs. Therefore, we have been unable to progress
smoothly from first principles to the state of the art
within one environment. We present work that integrates
the Kenya language into the Eclipse environment.
Students can now become familiar with the major
features of a professional IDE while learning to
program, and experience a smooth transition to
commercial languages within the same environment. One
of the hardest things to teach students is good
programming style. Compilers reveal syntactic and type
errors, but do not analyse style. We have harnessed
as-you-type code checking, as seen in Eclipse's Java
development tools, to provide advice on program style
as well as correctness.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Grigorenko:2005:VTG,
author = "Pavel Grigorenko and Ando Saabas and Enn Tyugu",
title = "Visual tool for generative programming",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "249--252",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081747",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A way of combining object-oriented and structural
paradigms of software composition is demonstrated in a
tool for generative programming. Metaclasses are
introduced that are components with specifications
called metainterfaces. Automatic code generation is
used that is based on structural synthesis of programs.
This guarantees that problems of handling data
dependencies, order of application of components, usage
of higher-order control structures etc are handled
automatically. Specifications can be written either in
a specification language or given visually on an
architectural level. The tool is Java-based and
portable.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tillmann:2005:PUTb,
author = "Nikolai Tillmann and Wolfram Schulte",
title = "Parameterized unit tests",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "253--262",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081749",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Parameterized unit tests extend the current industry
practice of using closed unit tests defined as
parameterless methods. Parameterized unit tests
separate two concerns: (1) They specify the external
behavior of the involved methods for all test
arguments. (2) Test cases can be re-obtained as
traditional closed unit tests by instantiating the
parameterized unit tests. Symbolic execution and
constraint solving can be used to automatically choose
a minimal set of inputs that exercise a parameterized
unit test with respect to possible code paths of the
implementation. In addition, parameterized unit tests
can be used as symbolic summaries which allows symbolic
execution to scale for arbitrary abstraction levels. We
have developed a prototype tool which computes test
cases from parameterized unit tests. We report on its
first use testing parts of the {.NET} base class
library.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sen:2005:CCU,
author = "Koushik Sen and Darko Marinov and Gul Agha",
title = "{CUTE}: a concolic unit testing engine for {C}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "263--272",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081750",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In unit testing, a program is decomposed into units
which are collections of functions. A part of unit can
be tested by generating inputs for a single entry
function. The entry function may contain pointer
arguments, in which case the inputs to the unit are
memory graphs. The paper addresses the problem of
automating unit testing with memory graphs as inputs.
The approach used builds on previous work combining
symbolic and concrete execution, and more specifically,
using such a combination to generate test inputs to
explore all feasible execution paths. The current work
develops a method to represent and track constraints
that capture the behavior of a symbolic execution of a
unit with memory graphs as inputs. Moreover, an
efficient constraint solver is proposed to facilitate
incremental generation of such test inputs. Finally,
CUTE, a tool implementing the method is described
together with the results of applying CUTE to
real-world examples of C code.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Veanes:2005:OTM,
author = "Margus Veanes and Colin Campbell and Wolfram Schulte
and Nikolai Tillmann",
title = "Online testing with model programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "273--282",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081751",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Online testing is a technique in which test derivation
from a model program and test execution are combined
into a single algorithm. We describe a practical online
testing algorithm that is implemented in the
model-based testing tool developed at Microsoft
Research called Spec Explorer. Spec Explorer is being
used daily by several Microsoft product groups. Model
programs in Spec Explorer are written in the high level
specification languages AsmL or Spec\\#. We view model
programs as implicit definitions of interface automata.
The conformance relation between a model and an
implementation under test is formalized in terms of
refinement between interface automata. Testing then
amounts to a game between the test tool and the
implementation under test.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kramer:2005:EDS,
author = "Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee",
title = "Engineering distributed software: a structural
discipline",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "283--285",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081709",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The role of structure in specifying, designing,
analysing, constructing and evolving software has been
the central theme of our research in Distributed
Software Engineering. This structural discipline
dictates formalisms and techniques that are
compositional, components that are context independent
and systems that can be constructed and evolved
incrementally. This extended abstract overviews our
development of a structural approach to engineering
distributed software and gives indications of our
future work which moves from explicit to implicit
structural specification. With the benefit of hindsight
we attempt to give a ``rational history'' to our
research.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Liu:2005:SSM,
author = "Chao Liu and Xifeng Yan and Long Fei and Jiawei Han
and Samuel P. Midkiff",
title = "{SOBER}: statistical model-based bug localization",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "286--295",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081753",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Automated localization of software bugs is one of the
essential issues in debugging aids. Previous studies
indicated that the evaluation history of program
predicates may disclose important clues about
underlying bugs. In this paper, we propose a new
statistical model-based approach, called SOBER, which
localizes software bugs without any prior knowledge of
program semantics. Unlike existing statistical
debugging approaches that select predicates correlated
with program failures, SOBER models evaluation patterns
of predicates in both correct and incorrect runs
respectively and regards a predicate as bug-relevant if
its evaluation pattern in incorrect runs differs
significantly from that in correct ones. SOBER features
a principled quantification of the pattern difference
that measures the bug-relevance of program predicates.
We systematically evaluated our approach under the same
setting as previous studies. The result demonstrated
the power of our approach in bug localization: SOBER
can help programmers locate 68 out of 130 bugs in the
Siemens suite when programmers are expected to examine
no more than 10\% of the code, whereas the best
previously reported is 52 out of 130. Moreover, with
the assistance of SOBER, we found two bugs in bc 1.06
(an arbitrary precision calculator on UNIX/Linux), one
of which has never been reported before.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Livshits:2005:DFC,
author = "Benjamin Livshits and Thomas Zimmermann",
title = "{DynaMine}: finding common error patterns by mining
software revision histories",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "296--305",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081754",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A great deal of attention has lately been given to
addressing software bugs such as errors in operating
system drivers or security bugs. However, there are
many other lesser known errors specific to individual
applications or APIs and these violations of
application-specific coding rules are responsible for a
multitude of errors. In this paper we propose DynaMine,
a tool that analyzes source code check-ins to find
highly correlated method calls as well as common bug
fixes in order to automatically discover
application-specific coding patterns. Potential
patterns discovered through mining are passed to a
dynamic analysis tool for validation; finally, the
results of dynamic analysis are presented to the user.
The combination of revision history mining and dynamic
analysis techniques leveraged in DynaMine proves
effective for both discovering new application-specific
patterns and for finding errors when applied to very
large applications with many man-years of development
and debugging effort behind them. We have analyzed
Eclipse and jEdit, two widely-used, mature, highly
extensible applications consisting of more than
3,600,000 lines of code combined. By mining revision
histories, we have discovered 56 previously unknown,
highly application-specific patterns. Out of these, 21
were dynamically confirmed as very likely valid
patterns and a total of 263 pattern violations were
found.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Li:2005:PMA,
author = "Zhenmin Li and Yuanyuan Zhou",
title = "{PR-Miner}: automatically extracting implicit
programming rules and detecting violations in large
software code",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "306--315",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081755",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Programs usually follow many implicit programming
rules, most of which are too tedious to be documented
by programmers. When these rules are violated by
programmers who are unaware of or forget about them,
defects can be easily introduced. Therefore, it is
highly desirable to have tools to automatically extract
such rules and also to automatically detect violations.
Previous work in this direction focuses on simple
function-pair based programming rules and additionally
requires programmers to provide rule templates. This
paper proposes a general method called PR-Miner that
uses a data mining technique called frequent itemset
mining to efficiently extract implicit programming
rules from large software code written in an industrial
programming language such as C, requiring little effort
from programmers and no prior knowledge of the
software. Benefiting from frequent itemset mining,
PR-Miner can extract programming rules in general forms
(without being constrained by any fixed rule templates)
that can contain multiple program elements of various
types such as functions, variables and data types. In
addition, we also propose an efficient algorithm to
automatically detect violations to the extracted
programming rules, which are strong indications of
bugs. Our evaluation with large software code,
including Linux, PostgreSQL Server and the Apache HTTP
Server, with 84K--3M lines of code each, shows that
PR-Miner can efficiently extract thousands of general
programming rules and detect violations within 2
minutes. Moreover, PR-Miner has detected many
violations to the extracted rules. Among the top 60
violations reported by PR-Miner, 16 have been confirmed
as bugs in the latest version of Linux, 6 in PostgreSQL
and 1 in Apache. Most of them violate complex
programming rules that contain more than 2 elements and
are thereby difficult for previous tools to detect. We
reported these bugs and they are currently being fixed
by developers.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Estublier:2005:RVL,
author = "Jacky Estublier and German Vega",
title = "Reuse and variability in large software applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "316--325",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081757",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Reuse has always been a major goal in software
engineering, since it promises large gains in
productivity, quality and time to market reduction.
Practical experience has shown that substantial reuse
has only successfully happened in two cases: libraries,
where many generic and small components can be found;
and product lines, where domains-specific components
can be assembled in different ways to produce
variations of a given product. In this paper we examine
how product lines have successfully achieved reuse of
coarse-grained components, and the underlying factors
limiting this approach to narrowly scoped domains. We
then build on this insight to present an approach,
called software federation, which proposes a mechanism
to overcome the identified limitations, and therefore
makes reuse of coarse-grained components possible over
a larger range of applications. Our approach extends
and generalizes the product line approach, extending
the concepts and mechanisms available to manage
variability. The system is in use in different
companies, validating the claims made in this paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pettersson:2005:IEB,
author = "Ulf Pettersson and Stan Jarzabek",
title = "Industrial experience with building a web portal
product line using a lightweight, reactive approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "326--335",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081758",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Imprecise, frequently changing requirements and short
time-to-market create challenges for application of
conventional software methods in Web Portal
engineering. To address these challenges, ST
Electronics (Info-Software Systems) Pte. Ltd. applied a
lightweight, reactive approach to support a Web Portal
product line. Unique characteristics of the approach
were fast, low-cost migration from a single
conventional Web Portal towards a reusable ``generic
Web Portal'' solution, effective handling of large
number of functional variants and their dependencies,
the ability to rapidly develop new Web Portals from the
generic one, and to independently evolve multiple Web
Portals without ever losing a connection between them
and the ``generic Web Portal''. The initial Web Portal
was built using state-of-the-art conventional methods.
The Web Portal was not flexible enough to reap the
benefits of new business opportunities that required
the company to rapidly develop and further maintain
many similar Web Portals. To overcome the limitations
of the conventional solution, a reuse technique called
XVCL was applied incrementally. Over a period of three
weeks, the conventional solution was converted into a
Web architecture capable of handling nine Web Portals
from a base of code smaller than the original Web
Portal. In the paper, we describe the process that led
to building the above Web Portal product line. We
explain the difficulties in building an effective
generic Web solution using conventional techniques. We
analyze our reuse-based solution in qualitative and
quantitative ways.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Xu:2005:IDR,
author = "Chang Xu and S. C. Cheung",
title = "Inconsistency detection and resolution for
context-aware middleware support",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "336--345",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081759",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Context-awareness is a key feature of pervasive
computing whose environments keep evolving. The support
of context-awareness requires comprehensive management
including detection and resolution of context
inconsistency, which occurs naturally in pervasive
computing. In this paper we present a framework for
realizing dynamic context consistency management. The
framework supports inconsistency detection based on a
semantic matching and inconsistency triggering model,
and inconsistency resolution with proactive actions to
context sources. We further present an implementation
based on the Cabot middleware. The feasibility of the
framework and its performance are evaluated through a
case study and a simulated experiment, respectively.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Aranda:2005:AAS,
author = "Jorge Aranda and Steve Easterbrook",
title = "Anchoring and adjustment in software estimation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "346--355",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081761",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Anchoring and adjustment is a form of cognitive bias
that affects judgments under uncertainty. If given an
initial answer, the respondent seems to use this as an
'anchor', adjusting it to reach a more plausible
answer, even if the anchor is obviously incorrect. The
adjustment is frequently insufficient and so the final
answer is biased. In this paper, we report a study to
investigate the effects of this phenomenon on software
estimation processes. The results show that anchoring
and adjustment does occur in software estimation, and
can significantly change the resulting estimates, no
matter what estimation technique is used. The results
also suggest that, considering the magnitude of this
bias, software estimators tend to be too confident of
their own estimations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hochstein:2005:CSR,
author = "Lorin Hochstein and Victor R. Basili and Marvin V.
Zelkowitz and Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth and Jeff
Carver",
title = "Combining self-reported and automatic data to improve
programming effort measurement",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "356--365",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081762",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Measuring effort accurately and consistently across
subjects in a programming experiment can be a
surprisingly difficult task. In particular, measures
based on self-reported data may differ significantly
from measures based on data which is recorded
automatically from a subject's computing environment.
Since self-reports can be unreliable, and not all
activities can be captured automatically, a complete
measure of programming effort should incorporate both
classes of data. In this paper, we show how
self-reported and automatic effort can be combined to
perform validation and to measure total programming
effort.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Baroni:2005:QAU,
author = "Aline L{\'u}cia Baroni",
title = "Quantitative assessment of {UML} dynamic models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "366--369",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081764",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this work we plan to provide a suite of measures to
address mainly two problem areas within contemporary
object-oriented software measurement: (i) the lack of
measures for the early stages of system development,
like conceptual modeling and (ii) the lack of measures
for dynamic models of an object-oriented system. Our
suite of measures is going to be taken from UML 2.0
diagrams. OCL (Object-Constraint Language) and the UML
2.0 meta-model will be used to formalize and
contextualize the definitions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{LeGear:2005:RTC,
author = "Andrew {Le Gear} and Jim Buckley",
title = "Reengineering towards components using
{``Reconn-exion''}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "370--373",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081765",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Continuing to develop software from scratch will not
be feasible indefinitely. Reusing existing software
would seem to be a viable solution to this problem. The
paradigm of component-based development (CBD)
explicitly accounts for reuse in its process.
Unfortunately the majority of existing software systems
are not implemented using CBD, thus reusing portions of
this software using CBD becomes difficult.
Reengineering and maintenance research contains a
plethora of software analysis and restructuring
techniques that could be used to help us exploit legacy
applications for reuse. This thesis focuses on two such
techniques and combines variations of them for the
purpose of component recovery: A feature location
technique called Software Reconnaissance and a design
recovery technique called Software Reflexion Modelling.
Their combination is called ``Component Reconn-exion.''
We describe the technique, highlight results and
evaluation to date and finally discuss further work
necessary to complete our contribution as a PhD.
thesis.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Erfurth:2005:UUP,
author = "Ivonne Erfurth and Wilhelm Rossak",
title = "{UPEX}: user participation by example",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "374--376",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081766",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The failure of projects is often based on difficulties
in the direct and indirect communication between
developer and customer teams. For the customer it is
hard to understand the frequently used terms, process
models, and technological concepts. Developers have a
hard time to understand domain specific processes and
structures, and exhibit a tendency to abstract concrete
examples to higher level constructs. This makes it
difficult for the customer team to understand the
developing architecture and processes, and to match
their needs and intentions, during evaluation phases,
to seemingly unrelated generalised drawings and
specifications. This set of problems is especially hard
to avoid during the development of dynamic, distributed
systems with multiple nodes and possibly asynchronous
behaviour. Our research tries to mediate in this
conflict by providing a customer-friendly reference
model as basis of communication in early development
phases. This model presents and simulates the dynamic
aspects of (distributed) systems without immediate
abstraction from examples and allows for a stepwise
generalisation and evaluation with help of the customer
team. In its final version the reference model will
serve as a requirements statement for the professional
developer.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Barbosa:2005:RCS,
author = "Marco Antonio Barbosa",
title = "A refinement calculus for software components and
architectures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "377--380",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081767",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The complexity and ubiquity achieved by software in
the present world makes it imperative, more than ever,
the availability of both technologies and sound methods
to drive its development. Programming ' in--the--large
', component--based programming and software
architecture are popular expressions which embody this
concern and correspond to driving forces in current
software engineering. In such a context, this paper
reports on the research, which constitutes the PhD
project of the author, on a formal calculus for
reasoning about and transforming component--based
architectures.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sherriff:2005:UVV,
author = "Mark Sherriff",
title = "Utilizing verification and validation certificates to
estimate software defect density",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "381--384",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081768",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In industry, information on defect density of a
product tends to become available too late in the
software development process to affordably guide
corrective actions. Our research objective is to build
a parametric model which utilizes a persistent record
of the validation and verification (V\&V) practices
used with a program to estimate the defect density of
that program. The persistent record of the V\&V
practices are recorded as certificates which are
automatically recorded and maintained with the code.
PhD Advisor: Dr. Laurie Williams, [email protected]",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hordijk:2005:SFI,
author = "Wiebe Hordijk and Roel Wieringa",
title = "Surveying the factors that influence maintainability:
research design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "5",
pages = "385--388",
month = sep,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1095430.1081769",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:07 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We want to explore and analyse design decisions that
influence maintainability of software. Software
maintainability is important because the effort
expended on changes and fixes in software is a major
cost driver. We take an empirical, qualitative
approach, by investigating cases where a change has
cost more or less than comparable changes, and
analysing the causes for those differences. We will use
this analysis of causes as input to following research
in which the individual contributions of a selection of
those causes will be quantitatively analysed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{staff:2005:FTLc,
author = "{ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Staff}",
title = "Frontmatter ({TOC}, Letter from the vice-chair,
Letters to the editor, Programmer productivity,
Software assurance, Workshop and conference summaries,
Calendar of events)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "6",
pages = "0--0",
month = nov,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1102107.1102108",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:11 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Feller:2005:OSA,
author = "Joseph Feller and Brian Fitzgerald and Scott Hissam
and Karim Lakhani and Walt Scacchi",
title = "{Open Source Application Spaces: 5th Workshop on Open
Source Software Engineering}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1102107.1102110",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:11 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Building on the success of the first four workshops in
the series, which were held at ICSE 2001 (Toronto),
ICSE 2002 (Orlando), ICSE 2003 (Portland) and ICSE 2004
(Edinburgh), the 5$^{th}$ Workshop on Open Source
Software Engineering, (``Open Source Application
Spaces'') brought together researchers and
practitioners for the purpose of building a roadmap of
the ways in which various computing application spaces
have been impacted by open source software and also by
open source development methods, tools and
organizational structures.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kanaskar:2005:GSM,
author = "Nitin V. Kanaskar and Umit Topaloglu and Coskun
Bayrak",
title = "{Globus} security model for grid environment",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "6",
pages = "1--9",
month = nov,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1102107.1102112",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:11 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Grid technology is increasingly being looked upon as a
natural extension of the internet for engaging in
complex data processing tasks over resources which are
distributed across the world. Architects and developers
employing grid systems must take into consideration
security implications. Dynamic generation of virtual
organizations leads to a synergistic picture which has
to address security requirements never encountered
before. Globus toolkit has devised a framework for
making secure use of grid resource components which has
been proved to be a feasible solution by a number of
academic and scientific organizations. This paper is an
attempt to identify and discern mechanisms proposed by
Globus security model with certain test scenarios.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2005:SEEd,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "6",
pages = "3--4",
month = nov,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1102107.1102114",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:11 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This is my first column using the electronic version
only formatting. The SEEd column did not appear in the
previous issue because I was still trying to figure out
the new schedule of six issues per year instead of 4.
Interesting how we become creatures of habit,
especially as we grow older. So now I have the schedule
figured out, but have to decide whether I am going to
do six shorter columns a year or stick to 4 longer
columns a year, missing one here and there.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2005:SNSf,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "6",
pages = "5--13",
month = nov,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1102107.1102116",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:11 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is one of the more
popular buzzwords floating around the software
engineering community these days. But what the heck is
a Service Oriented Architecture? In various places I
have seen SOA called an approach to software design, a
reuse strategy, a development methodology, or a design
pattern. Can an SOA be used to describe an entire
enterprise architecture or does SOA refer to a single
application architecture? For example, the Federal
Enterprise Architecture contains a service component
model, implying that a complete enterprise architecture
could be composed entirely of services. Finally, is an
SOA an effective architecture for actually implementing
software? We'll try to find web resources that can help
answer these questions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2005:RPe,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "30",
number = "6",
pages = "14--25",
month = nov,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1102107.1102118",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:11 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relating to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{staff:2006:FTL,
author = "{ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Staff}",
title = "Frontmatter ({TOC}, Letter from the chair, Letter from
the editor, Letters to the editor, {ACM} policy and
procedures on plagiarism, {PASTE} abstracts, Calendar
of future events, Workshop and conference
information)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "0--0",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108769",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Das:2006:PM,
author = "Manuvir Das",
title = "{PASTE} at {Microsoft}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "1--1",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108794",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Windows division of Microsoft Corporation is in
the midst of a massive effort to improve the security
and reliability of the next release of the product ---
Windows Vista. In this talk, I will explain how the
Center for Software Excellence at Microsoft has used
program analysis technology to build the tools that
enable this effort. Along the way, I will cover the
current Windows engineering process and the role of the
tools in the process, the core program analysis
techniques we have invented and used in the tools,
business and environment issues that govern the
engineering process, and research directions suggested
by our experience so far.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gill:2006:ISC,
author = "Nasib S. Gill",
title = "Importance of software component characterization for
better software reusability",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "1--3",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108771",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component-based software development (CBSD) is the
process of assembling existing software components in
an application such that they interact to satisfy a
predefined functionality. This approach can potentially
be used to reduce software development costs, assemble
systems rapidly, and reduce the maintenance overhead.
One of the key challenges faced by software developers
is to make component-based development (CBD) an
efficient and effective approach. Since components are
to be reused across various products and
product-families, components must be characterized and
tested properly. The present paper is a survey paper
and firstly, it discusses CBD and related issues that
help improving software reuse. Testing of third party
components is a very difficult task in the absence a
properly characterized software component. Besides
improving software reusability, component
characterization also provides better understanding of
architecture, better retrieval, better usage and better
cataloguing. This paper mainly discusses the essence of
proper component characterization that ultimately helps
the developers in software reuse, which is highly
desirable in component-based software development.
Further, paper also discusses other benefits of
component characterization that are most essential in
component-based development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kushwaha:2006:MCI,
author = "Dharmender Singh Kushwaha and A. K. Misra",
title = "A modified cognitive information complexity measure of
software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "1--4",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108776",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Most discipline of science have their own method of
investigation built on foundation that is empirical and
verifiable. Cognitive Informatics is no different.
Cognitive Informatics is a field that studies internal
information processing mechanism of the human brain and
its application in software coding and computing. This
paper attempts to empirically demonstrate the amount of
information contained in software and develops a
concept of cognitive information complexity measure
based on the information contained in the software. It
is found that software with higher cognitive
information complexity measure has more information
units contained in it. Therefore cognitive information
complexity measure can be used to understand the
cognitive information complexity and the information
coding efficiency of the software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zirkind:2006:HDI,
author = "Givon Zirkind",
title = "How data inspection and consideration, provides for
index compression and record access optimization of
genetic databases",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "1--4",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108779",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "With the many advances in computer hardware, the
constant and historical challenges of optimization in
processing and data storage diminished if not
disappeared almost entirely. With hard drives getting
larger and larger, while prices keep dropping; and the
same occurring to memory; computer programs have turned
more and more into bloatware. Likewise, processing
speed has made efficiency and streamlining of program
code, virtually a non-issue. The field of genetic
research provides the perfect regeneration of those
classical challenges to computer engineers. Genetic
research requires extremely large databases, with
extremely large indexes, with complex search criteria,
with an extremely large number of inquiries and
searches initiated remotely. Often, search requests are
initiated over long geographic distances. To improve
database performance, indexing access speed, and reduce
index size, the author developed a new, genetic
database, herein discussed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Riehle:2006:LCS,
author = "Richard Riehle",
title = "Linguistic continuity in software engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "1--5",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108774",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many different concerns contribute to the complexity
of software development. Some of these concerns are
easy to spot. Others are right in front of us all along
but not explicitly identified in a way that makes them
intellectually accessible. We describe an idea that has
always been in the background of awareness for
programmers and software designers, but which seldom
gets sufficient acknowledgement to be written about on
its own. We call this linguistic [dis]continuity.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wang:2006:ERT,
author = "Yuan Wang and Feng Xu and Jian L{\"u}",
title = "Establishing recommendation trust relationships for
internetwares",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "1--5",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108777",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Internetware is a kind of significant emerging
software systems built upon the coordination of
autonomous, heterogeneous, and distributed software
entities in the Internet. For the openness and dynamism
of Internetwares, there are no central controllers
existing to choose reliable software entities for them.
Recently some distributed systems apply recommendation
as the evidence to choose reliable entities, which may
be a new approach suitable for internetwares. However,
how to establish the recommendation trust relationships
(RTR) among entities in the Internet dynamically is a
very hard problem. This paper proposes an approach
based on the relevant experiences to establish RTR
among software entities dynamically during the runtime
of internetwares. The main work includes: (1) providing
a general approach to quantify trust and a description
for experiences; (2) presenting an approach to evaluate
recommendations based on the idea of hypothesis testing
in statistics; (3) evolving the RTR based on the
evaluations by considering history information and
information quantity of interactions. It will be a
beneficial contribution to the reliability and
evolution of internetwares. A simulation is conducted
to verify the rationality and validity of the approach
at the end of the paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Girardi:2006:OBK,
author = "Rosario Girardi and Alisson Neres Lindoso",
title = "An ontology-based knowledge base for the
representation and reuse of software patterns",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "1--6",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108772",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The description, localization and effective reuse of
software patterns and systems of patterns can be
approached through an ontology-based formalism. An
ontology is an explicit specification of objects,
concepts and entities of an area of interest, besides
the relationships between these concepts expressed
through axioms. This work introduces ONTOPATTERN, an
ontology that represents knowledge about how patterns
are described and about their relationships in a
pattern system. Patterns are included as instances of
classes in the ontology, thus turning ONTOPATTERN a
knowledge base where concepts are semantically related
and where searches and inferences can be made thus
facilitating the understanding and reuse of patterns.
The use of ONTOPATTERN is illustrated through an
example on the construction of a multi-agent
framework.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kushwaha:2006:RAC,
author = "Dharmender Singh Kushwaha and A. K. Misra",
title = "Robustness analysis of cognitive information
complexity measure using {Weyuker} properties",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "1--6",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108775",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Cognitive information complexity measure is based on
cognitive informatics, which helps in comprehending the
software characteristics. For any complexity measure to
be robust, Weyuker properties must be satisfied to
qualify as good and comprehensive one. In this paper,
an attempt has also been made to evaluate cognitive
information complexity measure in terms of nine Weyuker
properties, through examples. It has been found that
all the nine properties have been satisfied by
cognitive information complexity measure and hence
establishes cognitive information complexity measure
based on information contained in the software as a
robust and well-structured one.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zacharias:2006:PAD,
author = "Manousaridis Zacharias and Sagheb-Tehrani Mehdi and
Mamaloukas Christos",
title = "Practical aspects of {DSS} design for commodities
transportation during special events",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "1--6",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108778",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Transport firms that daily pickup or deliver
commodities encounter a plethora of problems relating
to their Vehicle Routing and Scheduling (VRS)
activities. To make decisions about Routing and
Scheduling during special events is even more
complicated process. During the Athens Olympic Games
2004 in Athens, the Vehicle Routing and Scheduling
problem was very keen. Actually, the commodities
transportation had to be done within strictly defined
time-periods and under many security and traffic
restrictions [2], [8]. ``Xenios'' is a specific DSS
that was developed to assist the daily VRS activities
of Greek transport firms during special events. This
system incorporated essential functions of GIS,
database systems and model management techniques to
support overall routing, scheduling and decision-making
processes for VRS problems encountered during the
Athens 2004 Olympic Games (ATHENS 2004). Our work aimed
at the successful setting up of DSS ``Xenios'' so that
it could cover a wide range of variations of the VRS
problem, especially problems with hard time-windows in
the route generation [15], [17]. The first step in the
development of any specific DSS is the identification
of the applying problem dimensions [3], [7], [10]. In
order to make easier the development procedure, we
tried to classify the most significant VRS problem
dimensions that have common characteristics in groups.
According to our consideration, this work could
accelerate and ease the development of the specific
DSS.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Oquendo:2006:FMS,
author = "Flavio Oquendo",
title = "Formally modelling software architectures with the
{UML} 2.0 profile for {$ \pi $-ADL}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "1--13",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108773",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A key aspect of the design of any software system is
its architecture. An architecture description, from a
runtime perspective, should provide a formal model of
the architecture in terms of components and connectors,
their ports and behaviours, and how they are composed
together. The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is
widely used in the design of software systems and has
recently been extended to better support software
architecture description. This paper presents the UML
2.0 Profile for {\pi}-ADL, a novel ADL that has been
designed in the ArchWare European Project. It briefly
presents {\pi}-ADL and its UML 2.0 Profile, then it
illustrates through a case study how the UML 2.0
Profile for {\pi}-ADL can be used for formally
modelling software architectures. The toolset for
supporting the UML 2.0 Profile for {\pi}-ADL is
outlined: it supports architecture modelling,
architectural behaviour animation, and model checking
of architectural properties.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bradbury:2006:EFC,
author = "Jeremy S. Bradbury and James R. Cordy and Juergen
Dingel",
title = "An empirical framework for comparing effectiveness of
testing and property-based formal analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "2--5",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108795",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Today, many formal analysis tools are not only used to
provide certainty but are also used to debug software
systems --- a role that has traditional been reserved
for testing tools. We are interested in exploring the
complementary relationship as well as tradeoffs between
testing and formal analysis with respect to debugging
and more specifically bug detection. In this paper we
present an approach to the assessment of testing and
formal analysis tools using metrics to measure the
quantity and efficiency of each technique at finding
bugs. We also present an assessment framework that has
been constructed to allow for symmetrical comparison
and evaluation of tests versus properties. We are
currently beginning to conduct experiments and this
paper presents a discussion of possible outcomes of our
proposed empirical study.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2006:R,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "Reminiscences",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "4--4",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108781",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "My favorite column in ACM publications is the
``Reminiscences on Influential Papers'' in the SIGMOD
Record. I don't know of anything else like it,
anywhere. Each issue contains a handful of short essays
(usually 2 or 3 long paragraphs), explaining why one
research paper or another made an impression. Usually,
the cited paper influenced the author's Ph.D. thesis or
subsequent research.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2006:SNSa,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "5--13",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108783",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The September issue of IEEE Spectrum was dedicated to
a special report on failed software development
projects. Led by the cover story on the FBI Virtual
Case File, also known as Trilogy, the magazine
contained several case studies on software projects
that blew up during development or shortly after
release. Readers of Peter Neumann's RISKS column or
books by Yourdon, Glass, and others know that software
development failures are noting new.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Liang:2006:EIC,
author = "Donglin Liang and Maikel Pennings and Mary Jean
Harrold",
title = "Evaluating the impact of context-sensitivity on
{Andersen}'s algorithm for {Java} programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "6--12",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108797",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Program analysis and program optimization of Java
programs require reference information that estimates
the instances of classes that may be accessed through
dereferences. Recent work has presented several
approaches for adapting Andersen's algorithm [1] ---
the most precise flow-insensitive and
context-insensitive points-to analysis algorithm
developed for C --- for analyzing Java programs (e.g.,
[5, 9, 12]). Studies in our previous work [6] indicate
that this algorithm may compute very imprecise
reference information for Java programs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hovemeyer:2006:ETS,
author = "David Hovemeyer and Jaime Spacco and William Pugh",
title = "Evaluating and tuning a static analysis to find null
pointer bugs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "13--19",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108798",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Using static analysis to detect memory access errors,
such as null pointer dereferences, is not a new
problem. However, much of the previous work has used
rather sophisticated analysis techniques in order to
detect such errors. In this paper we show that simple
analysis techniques can be used to identify many such
software defects, both in production code and in
student code. In order to make our analysis both simple
and effective, we use a non-standard analysis which is
neither complete nor sound. However, we find that it is
effective at finding an interesting class of software
defects. We describe the basic analysis we perform, as
well as the additional errors we can detect using
techniques such as annotations and inter-procedural
analysis. In studies of both production software and
student projects, we find false positive rates of
around 20\% or less. In the student code base, we find
that our static analysis techniques are able to
pinpoint 50\% to 80\% of the defects leading to a null
pointer exception at runtime.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2006:RPa,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "14--19",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108785",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relating to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Privat:2006:LTS,
author = "Jean Privat and Roland Ducournau",
title = "Link-time static analysis for efficient separate
compilation of object-oriented languages",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "20--27",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108799",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Compilers used in industry are mainly based on a
separate compilation framework. However, the knowledge
of the whole program improves efficiency of
object-oriented language compilers, therefore more
efficient implementation techniques are based on a
global compilation framework. In this paper, we propose
a compromise by including three global compilation
techniques (type analysis, coloring and binary tree
dispatching) in a separate compilation framework. Files
are independently compiled into standard binary files
with unresolved symbols. The program is build by
linking object files: files are gathered and analyzed,
some link code is generated then symbols are
resolved.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2006:RTS,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Trustworthy Systems Through
Quantitative Software Engineering}} by Lawrence
Bernstein and C. M. Yuhas, IEEE Computer Society Press,
2005}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "27--28",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108787",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bernstein:2006:RCE,
author = "Larry Bernstein",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Competitive Engineering}} by
Tom Gilb, Elsevier, 2005. ISBN: 0-7506-6507-6}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "28--28",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108788",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kumar:2006:LOP,
author = "Naveen Kumar and Bruce R. Childers and Mary Lou
Soffa",
title = "Low overhead program monitoring and profiling",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "28--34",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108801",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Program instrumentation, inserted either before or
during execution, is rapidly becoming a necessary
component of many systems. Instrumentation is commonly
used to collect information for many diverse analysis
applications, such as detecting program invariants,
dynamic slicing and alias analysis, software security
checking, and computer architecture modeling. Because
instrumentation typically has a high run-time overhead,
techniques are needed to mitigate the overheads. This
paper describes ``instrumentation optimizations'' that
reduce the overhead of profiling for program analysis.
Our approach applies transformations to the
instrumentation code that reduce the (1) number of
instrumentation points executed, (2) cost of
instrumentation probes, and (3) cost of instrumentation
payload, while maintaining the semantics of the
original instrumentation. We present the
transformations and apply them for program profiling
and computer architecture modeling. We evaluate the
optimizations and show that the optimizations improve
profiling performance by 1.26-2.63x and architecture
modeling performance by 2-3.3x.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tallam:2006:CAI,
author = "Sriraman Tallam and Neelam Gupta",
title = "A concept analysis inspired greedy algorithm for test
suite minimization",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "35--42",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108802",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software testing and retesting occurs continuously
during the software development lifecycle to detect
errors as early as possible and to ensure that changes
to existing software do not break the software. Test
suites once developed are reused and updated frequently
as the software evolves. As a result, some test cases
in the test suite may become redundant as the software
is modified over time since the requirements covered by
them are also covered by other test cases. Due to the
resource and time constraints for re-executing large
test suites, it is important to develop techniques to
minimize available test suites by removing redundant
test cases. In general, the test suite minimization
problem is NP complete. In this paper, we present a new
greedy heuristic algorithm for selecting a minimal
subset of a test suite T that covers all the
requirements covered by T. We show how our algorithm
was inspired by the concept analysis framework. We
conducted experiments to measure the extent of test
suite reduction obtained by our algorithm and prior
heuristics for test suite minimization. In our
experiments, our algorithm always selected same size or
smaller size test suite than that selected by prior
heuristics and had comparable time performance.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cook:2006:MSU,
author = "Jonathan Cook and Alessandro Orso",
title = "{MonDe}: safe updating through monitored deployment of
new component versions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "43--46",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108803",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Safely updating software at remote sites is a cautious
balance of enabling new functionality and avoiding
adverse effects on existing functionality. A useful
first step in this process would be to evaluate the
performance of a new version of a component on the
current workload before enabling its functionality.
This step would let the engineers assess the
component's performance over more (and more realistic)
data points than by simply performing regression
testing in-house. In this paper we propose to evaluate
the performance of a new version of a component by (1)
deploying it to remote sites, (2) running it in a
controlled environment with the actual workloads being
generated at that site, and (3) reporting the results
back to the development engineers. Running the new
version can either be done on-line, alongside the
current system, or offline, using capture-replay
techniques. By running at the remote site and reporting
concise results, issues of data security, protection,
and confidentiality are diminished, yet the new version
can be evaluated on real workloads.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Myers:2006:MDS,
author = "Andrew Myers",
title = "Making distributed systems secure with program
analysis and transformation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "47--47",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108805",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Building secure distributed systems is difficult, and
making sure they are secure is even harder. For strong
security, a variety of different mechanisms are used,
such as encryption, digital signatures, access control,
and replication. But once the system is built, it is
difficult to know that system-level security objectives
have been achieved.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hamlet:2006:IST,
author = "Dick Hamlet",
title = "Invariants and state in testing and formal methods",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "48--51",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108806",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Logical formulas called invariants are a staple of
formal methods for program analysis. Persistent-state
variables appear in these formulas playing their proper
intuitive role, which is somewhere between inputs and
internal variables. In software testing theory, on the
contrary, state is not usually accorded explicit
treatment. Comparing the viewpoints of formal methods
and testing theory suggests new roles that formal
methods can play in testing. This examination is
motivated by recent systems such as Daikon, which use
both tests and invariants.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hampapuram:2006:SPS,
author = "Hari Hampapuram and Yue Yang and Manuvir Das",
title = "Symbolic path simulation in path-sensitive dataflow
analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "52--58",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108808",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Symbolic path simulation is becoming an increasingly
important component in many static analysis tasks. The
emergence of inter-procedural path-sensitive dataflow
algorithms has both raised the demands and posed new
challenges for effective techniques in path feasibility
analysis. This paper develops a general-purpose path
simulator and applies it to support path-sensitive
dataflow analysis. The core component of the path
simulator is a simulation engine that supports a wide
variety of programming language features. This
simulation engine can be ``wrapped'' with an interface
layer to support a given client application. As a
concrete case study, we discuss the experiences gained
in integrating the path simulator with ESP, a software
validation tool for C/C++ programs. We apply ESP to
validate a future version of Windows against critical
security properties. Our results show that the global
path simulation mechanism is both critical in improving
precision and scalable enough to be of practical use.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pickett:2006:SSF,
author = "Christopher J. F. Pickett and Clark Verbrugge",
title = "{SableSpMT}: a software framework for analysing
speculative multithreading in {Java}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "59--66",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108809",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/multithreading.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/virtual-machines.bib",
abstract = "Speculative multithreading (SpMT) is a promising
optimisation technique for achieving faster execution
of sequential programs on multiprocessor hardware.
Analysis of and data acquisition from such systems is
however difficult and complex, and is typically limited
to a specific hardware design and simulation
environment. We have implemented a flexible,
software-based speculative multithreading architecture
within the context of a full-featured Java virtual
machine. We consider the entire Java language and
provide a complete set of support features for
speculative execution, including return value
prediction. Using our system we are able to generate
extensive dynamic analysis information, analyse the
effects of runtime feedback, and determine the impact
of incorporating static, offline information. Our
approach allows for accurate analysis of Java SpMT on
existing, commodity multiprocessor hardware, and
provides a vehicle for further experimentation with
speculative approaches and optimisations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Strout:2006:RIP,
author = "Michelle Mills Strout and John Mellor-Crummey and Paul
Hovland",
title = "Representation-independent program analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "67--74",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108810",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Program analysis has many applications in software
engineering and high-performance computation, such as
program understanding, debugging, testing, reverse
engineering, and optimization. A ubiquitous compiler
infrastructure does not exist; therefore, program
analysis is essentially reimplemented for each compiler
infrastructure. The goal of the OpenAnalysis toolkit is
to separate analysis from the intermediate
representation (IR) in a way that allows the orthogonal
development of compiler infrastructures and program
analysis. Separation of analysis from specific IRs will
allow faster development of compiler infrastructures,
the ability to share and compare analysis
implementations, and in general quicker breakthroughs
and evolution in the area of program analysis. This
paper presents how we are separating analysis
implementations from IRs with analysis-specific,
IR-independent interfaces. Analysis-specific IR
interfaces for alias/pointer analysis algorithms and
reaching constants illustrate that an IR interface
designed for language dependence is capable of
providing enough information to support the
implementation of a broad range of analysis algorithms
and also represent constructs within many imperative
programming languages.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{VanPut:2006:LNC,
author = "Ludo {Van Put} and Bjorn {De Sutter} and Matias Madou
and Bruno {De Bus} and Dominique Chanet and Kristof
Smits and Koen {De Bosschere}",
title = "{LANCET}: a nifty code editing tool",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "75--81",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108812",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents LANCET, a multi-platform software
visualization tool that enables the inspection of
programs at the binary code level. Implemented on top
of the link-time rewriting framework DIABLO, LANCET
provides several views on the interprocedural control
flow graph of a program. These views can be used to
navigate through the program, to edit the program in a
efficient manner, and to interact with the existing
whole-program analyses and optimizations that are
implemented in DIABLO or existing applications of
DIABLO. As such, LANCET is an ideal tool to examine
compiler-generated code, to assist the development of
new compiler optimizations, or to optimize assembly
code manually.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Barnett:2006:WPU,
author = "Mike Barnett and K. Rustan M. Leino",
title = "Weakest-precondition of unstructured programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "82--87",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108813",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Program verification systems typically transform a
program into a logical expression which is then fed to
a theorem prover. The logical expression represents the
weakest precondition of the program relative to its
specification; when (and if!) the theorem prover is
able to prove the expression, then the program is
considered correct. Computing such a logical expression
for an imperative, structured program is
straightforward, although there are issues having to do
with loops and the efficiency both of the computation
and of the complexity of the formula with respect to
the theorem prover. This paper presents a novel
approach for computing the weakest precondition of an
unstructured program that is sound even in the presence
of loops. The computation is efficient and the
resulting logical expression provides more leeway for
the theorem prover efficiently to attack the proof.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Christodorescu:2006:SAX,
author = "Mihai Christodorescu and Nicholas Kidd and Wen-Han
Goh",
title = "String analysis for x86 binaries",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "88--95",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108814",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Information about string values at key points in a
program can help program understanding, reverse
engineering, and forensics. We present a
static-analysis technique for recovering possible
string values in an executable program, when no debug
information or source code is available. The result of
our analysis is a regular language that describes a
superset of the string values possible at a given
program point. We also impart some of the lessons
learned in the process of implementing our analysis as
a tool for recovering C-style strings in x86
executables.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rountev:2006:SCF,
author = "Atanas Rountev and Olga Volgin and Miriam Reddoch",
title = "Static control-flow analysis for reverse engineering
of {UML} sequence diagrams",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "96--102",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108816",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "UML sequence diagrams are commonly used to represent
the interactions among collaborating objects.
Reverse-engineered sequence diagrams are constructed
from existing code, and have a variety of uses in
software development, maintenance, and testing. In
static analysis for such reverse engineering, an open
question is how to represent the intraprocedural flow
of control from the code using the control-flow
primitives of UML 2.0. We propose simple UML extensions
that are necessary to capture general flow of control.
The paper describes an algorithm for mapping a
reducible exception-free intraprocedural control-flow
graph to UML, using the proposed extensions. We also
investigate the inherent tradeoffs of different problem
solutions, and discuss their implications for
reverse-engineering tools. This work is a substantial
step towards providing high-quality tool support for
effective and efficient reverse engineering of UML
sequence diagrams.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Khurshid:2006:GSE,
author = "Sarfraz Khurshid and Yuk Lai Suen",
title = "Generalizing symbolic execution to library classes",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "103--110",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108817",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Forward symbolic execution is a program analysis
technique that allows using symbolic inputs to explore
program executions. The traditional applications of
this technique have focused on programs that manipulate
primitive data types, such as integer or boolean.
Recent extensions have shown how to handle reference
types at their representation level. The extensions
have favorably been backed by advances in constraint
solving technology, and together they have made
symbolic execution applicable, at least in theory, to a
large class of programs. In practice, however, the
increased potential for applications has created
significant issues with scalability of symbolic
execution to programs of non-trivial size --- the
ensuing path conditions rapidly become unfeasibly
complex. We present Dianju, a new technique that aims
to address the scalability of symbolic execution. The
fundamental idea in Dianju is to perform symbolic
execution of commonly used library classes (such as
strings, sets and maps) at the abstract level rather
than the representation level. Dianju defines semantics
of operations on symbolic objects of these classes,
which allows Dianju to abstract away from the
complexity that is normally inherent in library
implementations, thus promising scalable analyses based
on symbolic execution.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Perkins:2006:AGR,
author = "Jeff H. Perkins",
title = "Automatically generating refactorings to support {API}
evolution",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "1",
pages = "111--114",
month = jan,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1108818",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:12 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "When library APIs change, client code should change in
response, in order to avoid erroneous behavior,
compilation failures, or warnings. Previous research
has introduced techniques for generating such client
refactorings. This paper improves on the previous work
by proposing a novel, lightweight technique that takes
advantage of information that programmers can insert in
the code rather than forcing them to use a different
tool to re-express it. The key idea is to replace calls
to deprecated methods by their bodies, where those
bodies consist of the appropriate replacement code.
This approach has several benefits. It requires no
change in library development practice, since
programmers already adjust method bodies and/or write
example code, and there are no new tools or languages
to learn. It does not require distribution of new
artifacts, and a tool to apply it can be lightweight.
We evaluated the applicability of our approach on a
number of libraries and found it to to be applicable in
more than 75\% of the cases.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Blundell:2006:AGT,
author = "Colin Blundell and Dimitra Giannakopoulou and Corina
S. P{\u{a}}s{\u{a}}reanu",
title = "Assume-guarantee testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "1:1--1:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123060",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/multithreading.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Verification techniques for component-based systems
should ideally be able to predict properties of the
assembled system through analysis of individual
components before assembly. This work introduces such a
modular technique in the context of testing.
Assume-guarantee testing relies on the (automated)
decomposition of key system-level requirements into
local component requirements at design time. Developers
can verify the local requirements by checking
components in isolation; failed checks may indicate
violations of system requirements, while valid traces
from different components compose via the
assume-guarantee proof rule to potentially provide
system coverage. These local requirements also form the
foundation of a technique for efficient predictive
testing of assembled systems: given a correct system
run, this technique can predict violations by
alternative system runs without constructing those
runs. We discuss the application of our approach to
testing a multi-threaded NASA application, where we
treat threads as components.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "1",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Collins:2006:ADV,
author = "Michael Collins and Charles Reynolds and Christine Le
and Cihan Varol and Coskun Bayrak",
title = "Automated data verification in a format-free
environment",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "1--4",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118539",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Data collection and interpretation are vital for
innumerable purposes: both commercial and academic.
Sifting through vast mountains of data to separate
correct information from incorrect can be expensive
both in terms of money and of time. Automation of as
much of this process as possible is the key to
collecting useful information in an efficient and
timely manner. This paper discusses a system designed
to automate the comparison of raw collected data to
store of previously verified data. This comparison can
be used both to estimate the accuracy and the value of
the collected data. In addition, it is possible to
gauge the efficacy of various collection methods. In
this system special attention was paid to accepting a
wide range of document formats and to properly handling
data sets whose attribute types might be differently
organized than those in the reference data.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kushwaha:2006:CCM,
author = "Dharmender Singh Kushwaha and A. K. Misra",
title = "Cognitive complexity metrics and its impact on
software reliability based on cognitive software
development model",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "1--6",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118544",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software metrics provide a quantitative basis for the
development and validation of models of software
development process. Information gained from metrics is
used in managing the development process in order to
improve the reliability and quality of software
product. The software metric is used to estimate
various parameters of software development lifecycle
such as cost, schedule productivity, quality and
reliability. In this paper, an attempt has been made to
frame the cognitive complexity metrics that will aid in
increasing the reliability of software product being
developed during the development lifecycle.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Diev:2006:SEM,
author = "Sergey Diev",
title = "Software estimation in the maintenance context",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "1--8",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118540",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This article describes an extension of the Use Case
Points method of software estimation. The main goal of
this extension, called UCPm, is to reflect the
specifics of the maintenance phase of software life
cycle. UCPm takes into consideration the complexity of
the base system. Then, UCPm does not consider the
environmental factor as size-contributing entity and
defines product size only via unadjusted use case
points and technical factor. UCPm also applies four
technical factors at the use case level, rather than at
the level of the overall product. The method has been
applied to more than 30 projects in the course of work
on achieving CMM Level 4. It was found that even when
requirements are not produced in the use case style, it
is relatively easy to build a use case model for the
purpose of estimation. It is also believed that the
relatively high level of UCP/UCPm reduces the amount of
work on estimation. In our preliminary estimates, one
use case point maps to approximately four function
points.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Misic:2006:PEP,
author = "Vojislav B. Mi{\v{s}}i{\'c}",
title = "Perceptions of extreme programming: an exploratory
study",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "1--8",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118542",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Extreme Programming (XP) is probably the best known
and (arguably) the most controversial of the so-called
agile software development methodologies. The paper
presents the main findings of a small pilot survey
about user perceptions of XP.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mateescu:2006:AAA,
author = "Radu Mateescu and Flavio Oquendo",
title = "{$ \pi $-AAL}: an architecture analysis language for
formally specifying and verifying structural and
behavioural properties of software architectures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "1--19",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118541",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A key aspect of the design of any software system is
its architecture. An architecture description, from a
runtime perspective, provides a formal representation
of the architecture in terms of its components and
connectors, their ports and behaviours, and how they
are composed together. In the past decade, several
Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) have been
defined for representing the structure and behaviour of
software architectures. However, describing the
structure and behaviour of an architecture in terms of
a configuration of components and connectors is needed,
but it is not enough. Indeed, in addition to
representing software architectures, we need to
rigorously specify their required and desired
architectural properties, in particular related to
completeness, consistency and correctness. This article
presents {\pi}-AAL, a novel Architecture Analysis
Language (AAL) that has been designed in the ArchWare
European Project to address formal analysis of software
architectures. It is a formal, well-founded
theoretically language based on the modal
{\mu}-calculus designed to enable the specification of
structural and behavioural properties and their
verification using an analytical toolset based on
theorem proving and model checking techniques.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2006:RTS,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "A rational theory of system-making systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "1--20",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118543",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "All current models of software development abstract
away key interactions of the hosting organization, the
results of which can be seen in practice with the
common reoccurrence of large software intensive system
project failures. Poor model matches with reality can
be detected by anomaly, by paradox, and by poor results
when approved process is properly applied. The current
paradigm is that the software development process (and
the more inclusive systems development process) must be
abstracted away from the host organization, and that
this abstraction must be treated as the whole of the
model. This model began its life as a useful fiction to
permit a cutting out of what for small projects were
(at the time) second-order factors to enable a more
concentrated analysis on the principal factors. For the
smaller software project, this model has, and continues
to work quite well. But over the decades, as systems
and systems makers have grown in size and complexity,
this working fiction has outgrown its ability to model
reality, and at the same time due to past success, has
assumed the trappings of a truth; a law not to be
questioned. Arguments to date on software process have
been only about what variant methodology to apply and
how strict one should be in applying methods, but never
about the validity of the boundaries of the model. All
efforts for improvement have been no more than
continual tweaking of a bad model to see what happens.
The paradigm for a better model begins with the
realization that the larger the system maker and the
larger the system, the greater the influence of the
internally directed goals, the politics and the
structures of the organization have on the design and
implementation of the product. This paper attempts to
reintroduce these externalities through a new model;
the system-making system model. This model can be used
to explain observations; predict outcomes; identify
where current theory should no longer be treated as law
and where current practice should no longer treated as
optimal. The advantage of this model happens also to be
its only drawback (sigh), that politics must be
discussed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bidinger:2006:DTD,
author = "Philippe Bidinger and Matthieu Leclercq and Vivien
Qu{\'e}ma and Alan Schmitt and Jean-Bernard Stefani",
title = "Dream types: a domain specific type system for
component-based message-oriented middleware",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "2:1--2:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123061",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We present a type system for the Dream component-based
message-oriented middleware. This type system aims at
preventing the erroneous use of messages, such as the
access of missing content. To this end, we adapt to our
setting a type system developed for extensible
records.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "2",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ciobanu:2006:SLC,
author = "Gabriel Ciobanu and Dorel Lucanu",
title = "A specification language for coordinated objects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "3:1--3:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123062",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The paper presents a specification language of
autonomous objects supervised by a coordinating
process. The coordination is defined by means of an
interaction wrapper. The coordination semantics is
described in the terms of bisimulation relations. The
properties of the coordinated objects are expressed as
temporal formulas, and verified by specific
model-checking algorithms. We use the alternating bit
protocol to exemplify our specification language and
its semantics. This approach allows a clear separation
of concerns: the same coordinating process can be used
with different concurrent objects, and the same objects
can be used with a different coordinator. Thus our
specification language allows easy modifications and
customization. The method is effective in assembling
increasingly complex systems from components. Moreover,
composing different coordinating processes can be done
without changing the code of the coordinated objects.
In this way, the difficult task of implementing the
mechanism of coordination becomes substantially
easier.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "3",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2006:SEEa,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "3--3",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118546",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "I have strived to sprinkle different points of view
from various sources regarding software engineering
education through this column. Views from academics,
researchers and software practitioners --- notably
people with extensive experience. This column provides
a different perspective, someone just starting their
career as a software engineer. I won't say anything
else here as you will find our guest columnist, Jeremy
Lanman, speaks for himself.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lanman:2006:ISE,
author = "Jeremy T. Lanman",
title = "Industrial software engineering: developing software
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "3--5",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118547",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software Engineering is an incredibly complex
interdisciplinary subject that requires intense problem
solving and communication skills. It is an art and a
science which requires an open mind and adaptation to
various domains \ldots{} in essence, a software
engineer must think outside of the box! I started my
path in software engineering with the undergraduate
computer science program at Butler University. There I
learned the common fundamentals of computer science
through studying algorithms and data structures, theory
of computing, databases, and of course discrete
mathematics. In addition to a traditional computer
science program, a software engineering curriculum was
introduced. Although, nearing graduation, I decided to
take a couple of these software classes, and afterwards
it was clear to me that my passion was to develop
software systems. I decided to learn more and enrolled
into a graduate program in software engineering at
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. At ERAU, I had
specific courses in each area of the software
engineering development lifecycle, and collaborative
corporate internships to apply my knowledge. My most
profound internship was with the aerospace defense
contractor, Lockheed Martin Corporation. It was there
where I truly learned how to be an ``Industrial
Software Engineer''.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Brim:2006:CIA,
author = "Lubo{\v{s}} Brim and Ivana {\v{C}}ern{\'a} and
Pavl{\'\i}na Va{\v{r}}ekov{\'a} and Barbora Zimmerova",
title = "Component-interaction automata as a
verification-oriented component-based system
specification",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "4:1--4:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123063",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In the paper, we present a new approach to component
interaction specification and verification process
which combines the advantages of both architecture
description languages (ADLs) at the beginning of the
process, and a general formal verification-oriented
model connected to verification tools at the end. After
examining current general formal models with respect to
their suitability for description of component-based
systems, we propose a new verification-oriented model,
Component-Interaction automata, and discuss its
features. The model is designed to preserve all the
interaction properties to provide a rich base for
further verification, and allows the system behaviour
to be configurable according to the architecture
description (bindings among components) and other
specifics (type of communication used in the
synchronization of components).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "4",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2006:LHB,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "Lonesome hacker blues",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "5--5",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118548",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "I'm sitting in my office, daydreaming. My friends are
out skiing this weekend, but I promised to come in and
fix this custom control, so it can be tested for
shipment next week. The product managers told me about
it at 5 last night.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Xu:2006:PMP,
author = "Jing Xu and Alexandre Oufimtsev and Murray Woodside
and Liam Murphy",
title = "Performance modeling and prediction of enterprise
{JavaBeans} with layered queuing network templates",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "5:1--5:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123064",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component technologies, such as Enterprise Java Beans
(EJB) and {.NET}, are used in enterprise servers with
requirements for high performance and scalability. This
work considers performance prediction from the design
of an EJB system, based on the modular structure of an
application server and the application components. It
uses layered queueing models, which are naturally
structured around the software components. This paper
describes a framework for constructing such models,
based on layered queue templates for EJBs, and for
their inclusion in the server. The resulting model is
calibrated and validated by comparison with an actual
system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "5",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lumpe:2006:CEM,
author = "Markus Lumpe and Jean-Guy Schneider",
title = "{Classboxes}: an experiment in modeling compositional
abstractions using explicit contexts",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "6:1--6:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123065",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The development of flexible and reusable abstractions
for software composition has suffered from the inherent
problem that reusability and extensibility are hampered
by the dependence on position and arity of parameters.
In order to address this issue, we have defined
{\lambda} F, a substitution-free variant of the
{\lambda}-calculus where names are replaced with
first-class namespaces and parameter passing is modeled
using explicit contexts. We have used {\lambda} F to
define a model for classboxes, a dynamically typed
module system for object-oriented languages that
provides support for controlling both the visibility
and composition of class extensions. This model not
only illustrates the expressive power and flexibility
of {\lambda} F as a suitable formal foundation for
compositional abstractions, but also assists us in
validating and extending the concept of classboxes in a
language-neutral way.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "6",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tomayko:2006:PJT,
author = "James E. Tomayko",
title = "{Professor James E. Tomayko}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "6--6",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118549",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Carnegie Mellon professor and alumnus James Tomayko
(HS'71,'80), a founder and former director of the
Master in Software Engineering (MSE) program in the
School of Computer Science (SCS), died on Monday, Jan.
9, 2006, after a long illness. He was 56.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2006:RPb,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "6--16",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118551",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relating to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kulczycki:2006:SBA,
author = "Gregory Kulczycki and Murali Sitaraman and Bruce W.
Weide and Atanas Rountev",
title = "A specification-based approach to reasoning about
pointers",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "7:1--7:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123066",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper explains how a uniform, specification-based
approach to reasoning about component-based programs
can be used to reason about programs that manipulate
pointers. No special axioms, language semantics, global
heap model, or proof rules for pointers are necessary.
We show how this is possible by capturing pointers and
operations that manipulate them in the specification of
a software component. The proposed approach is
mechanizable as long as programmers are able to
understand mathematical specifications and write
assertions, such as loop invariants. While some of the
previous efforts in reasoning do not require such
mathematical sophistication on the part of programmers,
they are limited in the kinds of properties they can
prove about programs that use pointers. We illustrate
the idea using a ``Splice'' operation for linked lists,
which has been used previously to explain other
analysis techniques. Not only can the proposed approach
be used to establish shape properties given lightweight
specifications, but also it can be used to establish
total correctness given more complete specifications.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "7",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Thang:2006:SVI,
author = "Nguyen Truong Thang and Takuya Katayama",
title = "Specification and verification of inter-component
constraints in {CTL}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "8:1--8:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123067",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The most challenging issue of component-based software
is about component composition. Current component
specification, in addition to the syntactic level, is
very limited in dealing with semantic constraints. Even
so, only static aspects of components are specified.
This paper gives a formal approach to make component
specification more comprehensive by including component
semantic. Fundamentally, the component semantic is
expressed via the powerful temporal logic CTL. There
are two semantic aspects in the paper, component
dynamic behavior and consistency --- namely a component
does not violate some property in another when
composed. Based on the proposed semantic, components
can be efficiently cross-checked for their consistency
by an incremental verification method --- OIMC, even
for many future component extensions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "8",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chalin:2006:NNR,
author = "Patrice Chalin and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Rioux",
title = "Non-null references by default in the {Java} modeling
language",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "9:1--9:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123068",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Based on our experiences and those of our peers, we
hypothesized that in Java code, the majority of
declarations that are of reference types are meant to
be non-null. Unfortunately, the Java Modeling Language
(JML), like most interface specification and
object-oriented programming languages, assumes that
such declarations are possibly-null by default. As a
consequence, developers need to write specifications
that are more verbose than necessary in order to
accurately document their module interfaces. In
practice, this results in module interfaces being left
incompletely and inaccurately specified. In this paper
we present the results of a study that confirms our
hypothesis. Hence, we propose an adaptation to JML that
preserves its language design goals and that allows
developers to specify that declarations of reference
types are to be interpreted as non-null by default. We
explain how this default is safer and results in less
writing on the part of specifiers than null-by-default.
The paper also reports on an implementation of the
proposal in some of the JML tools.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "9",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Perez-Serrano:2006:SDC,
author = "Pedro L. P{\'e}rez-Serrano and Marisol
S{\'a}nchez-Alonso",
title = "Specification and design of component-based
coordination systems by integrating coordination
patterns",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "10:1--10:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123069",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Rewriting logic has been revealed as a powerful tool
to represent concurrent and state-transitions aspects
in a declarative way, providing an adequate environment
to specify and execute system representations.
Moreover, rewriting logic is reflective, allowing for
the definition of operations that transform, combine
and manipulate specification modules by making use of
the logic itself. Taking advantage of these
capabilities, this paper presents a set of tools based
on the rewriting logic language Maude to express the
specifications of component-based systems with
important coordination constraints, where coordination
aspects are treated as separate components from
functional ones. This representation allows for the
testing of the system behavior from the early stages in
the development process by executing the
specifications. In addition, the development of basic
coordination patterns using UML is presented to
describe the coordination relationships between
components in any system, providing a standard notation
that complements the tools of the proposal.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "10",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ceballos:2006:CST,
author = "Rafael Ceballos and Rafael Martinez Gasca and Diana
Borrego",
title = "Constraint satisfaction techniques for diagnosing
errors in design by contract software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "11:1--11:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123070",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Design by Contract enables the development of more
reliable and robust software applications. In this
paper, a methodology that diagnoses errors in software
is proposed. This is based on the combination of Design
by Contract, Model-based Diagnosis and Constraint
Programming. Contracts are specified by using
assertions. These assertions together with an
abstraction of the source code are transformed into
constraints. The methodology detects if the contracts
are consistent, and if there are incompatibilities
between contracts and source code. The process is
automatic and is based on constraint programming.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "11",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Junior:2006:CCC,
author = "Francisco Heron de Carvalho Junior and Rafael Dueire
Lins",
title = "A categorical characterization for the compositional
features of the \# component model",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "12:1--12:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123071",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The \# programming model attempts to address the needs
of the high performance computing community for new
paradigms that reconcile efficiency, portability,
abstraction and generality issues on parallel
programming for high-end distributed architectures.
This paper provides a semantics for the compositional
features of \# programs, based on category theory.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "12",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ereno:2006:SPL,
author = "Montse Ere{\~n}o and Uxue Landa and Dra. Rebeca
Cortazar",
title = "Software product lines structuring based upon market
demands",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "13:1--13:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123072",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Nowadays the increasing demand for customized products
and services in traditional areas such as Automation
Manufacturing or Aeronautical Component Engineering is
being satisfied with a new approach called ``Product
Platform''. This successful approach is also being
considered in the design of software-based components
in these areas, which are recognized as complex and
critical. In this paper, we present the research that
is being carried out at Mondragon University. This
effort focuses on the analysis of existing Product
Platform Development methods and the transference of
this know-how to Software Product Development. As a
result, a Software Product Line (SPL) development
method will be defined and applied in a real case. This
method will be based upon market demands, so it should
be flexible enough to respond to customer's requests
and market pressure. In this paper we will explain in
detail one step of the process. This step is concerned
with how QFD technique can be used to the specification
of components in a SPL.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "13",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Guerrouat:2006:CBS,
author = "Abdelaziz Guerrouat and Harald Richter",
title = "A component-based specification approach for embedded
systems using {FDTs}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "14:1--14:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123073",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents a framework for specification and
testing of component-based embedded systems using
formal description techniques (FDTs). We deal with
embedded systems from the point of view of
communication and thus we propose a communication model
for them. We further explain the meaning of
component-based embedded systems and how these can be
specified using FDTs. FDTs such as Estelle and SDL are
based on EFSMs (Extended finite State Machines) and
have been widely used in the automation of the
development process of protocols and communicating
systems, i.e. for specification, analysis and
validation purposes. The main goal of this work is to
demonstrate the reusability of FDTs for component-based
systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "14",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chekin:2006:TIS,
author = "Konstantin Chekin",
title = "Theory of infinite streams and objects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "15:1--15:??",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1108768.1123074",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper provides a theory of infinite streams and
objects, which contains our point of view on the
problem of formal modelling of behaviors of objects and
their systems with big or infinite number of internal
states.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "15",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2006:SNSb,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "17--25",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118553",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "I've titled this article ``Requirements Management'',
but I actually want to discuss several topics related
to the collection, modeling, management,
implementation, testing, and tracing of requirements in
a software system. That's quite a list of topics
associated with software requirements, but the
requirement set is typically the starting point for
building any software-based system. Sure, if you're
prototyping or a hobbyist just messing around, you may
be able to dive in and just start coding. But a
professional software engineer, building a product for
a customer, will use some form of requirements
specification to describe what is to be built and to
set the customer expectations on what the finished
product will do.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Feng:2006:RBM,
author = "Yu Feng",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{The Build Master: Microsoft's
Software Configuration Management Best Practices}} by
Vincent Maraia, Addison-Wesley, 2005, 0-321-33205-9}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "32--32",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118556",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2006:RST,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{System Testing with an
Attitude: an Approach That Nurtures Front-Loaded
(Designed and built in \ldots{} not tested in!)
Software Quality}} by Nathan Petschenik, Dorset House
Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-932633-46-3}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "32--33",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118557",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2006:RJE,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Just Enough Requirements
Management: Where Software Development Meets
Marketing}} by Alan M. Davis, Dorset House Publishing,
2005, ISBN 0-932633-64-1}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "33--33",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118558",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2006:RHB,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Hiring The Best Knowledge
Workers, Techies and Nerds}} by Johanna Rothman, Dorset
House, 2004, 0-932633-59-5}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "34--34",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118559",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2006:RMW,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Mobile Wireless
Communications}} by Mischa Schwarz, Cambridge
University Press, 2005, 0-521-84347-2}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "34--34",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118560",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2006:RPI,
author = "Will Tracz",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Process Improvement in Practice
--- A Handbook for IT Companies}} by Tore Dyb{\"a},
Torgeir Dings{\o}yr, and Nils Brede Moe, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2004, ISBN 1-4020-7869-2}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "2",
pages = "35--35",
month = mar,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1118537.1118561",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:15 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bajaj:2006:SEF,
author = "Nonika Bajaj and Alok Tyagi and Rakesh Agarwal",
title = "Software estimation: a fuzzy approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "1--5",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127881",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software projects are failing because of the poor
project planning and due to this estimation have gained
interest in recent times. Estimation process reduces
the risk around schedule and cost. Effective software
project estimation is one of the most challenging
activities in software development that software
industries are facing. Proper project planning and
control is not possible without a reliable estimate.
Top down and bottom up are traditionally the most
commonly used techniques to estimate the effort of the
software project. Studies suggest that the software
companies should use Bottom up approach unless they
have a vast experience from the similar projects. The
goal of this research work is to extend the existing
bottom up approach to achieve greater precision in the
estimates. This work proposes the use and concepts of
fuzzy set theory to extend the Bottom up approach to
Fuzzy bottom up approach. With the productivity rate
generated by fuzzy bottom up, derived values such as
effort of development can be more precisely
determined.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Beaver:2006:EDT,
author = "Justin M. Beaver and Guy A. Schiavone",
title = "The effects of development team skill on software
product quality",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "1--5",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127882",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper provides an analysis of the effect of the
skill/experience of the software development team on
the quality of the final software product. A method for
the assessment of software development team skill and
experience is proposed, and was derived from a
workforce management tool currently in use by the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Using
data from 26 small-scale software development projects,
the team skill measures are correlated to 5 software
product quality metrics from the ISO/IEC 9126 Software
Engineering Product Quality standard. In the analysis
of the results, development team skill is found to be a
significant factor in the adequacy of the design and
implementation. In addition, the results imply that
inexperienced software developers are tasked with
responsibilities ill-suited to their skill level, and
thus have a significant adverse effect on the quality
of the software product.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bhatt:2006:IFO,
author = "Pankaj Bhatt and Williams K. and Gautam Shroff and
Arun K. Misra",
title = "Influencing factors in outsourced software
maintenance",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "1--6",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127883",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software lifecycle management is a complex phenomenon
with each stage posing its unique technical and other
challenges. Maintenance and enhancement of software
brings in its own share of complexities to this phase.
While uncertainties associated with software baseline
in themselves pose a huge challenge in planning and
estimation of maintenance activities, there are several
other factors that contribute to overall success of
software maintenance project especially in an
outsourcing scenario. This paper brings out the results
of an analysis of some such factors, their
interrelationship and influence on software maintenance
activities and effort.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ranjan:2006:HMA,
author = "Prabhat Ranjan and A. K. Misra",
title = "A hybrid model for agent based system requirements
analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "1--7",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127886",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many well known agent-oriented software analysis
method have been proposed such as GAIA, ROADMAP,
PROMETHUS and TROPOS methodology. Out of the numerous
proposed methods, selecting a particular analysis
method is again a problem, as every method has its own
advantages and disadvantages. There is an ongoing
effort to find such a comprehensive agent oriented
analysis method, which addresses most of the parameters
of software analysis and also satisfies most of the
existing methodology properties. In our previous work,
we presented a methodology for open and adaptive system
to provide a clear separation between requirement
gathering and analysis phases. In this paper, we
propose a new analysis method based on the methodology
proposed by us in our previous work. An agent-based
system is a complex software system with functional and
non-functional attributes. Non-functional requirements
(NFRs) are crucial software requirements that have been
specified early in the software development process
while eliciting the functional requirements (FRs) in
agent oriented software development. Some of the
functional and non-functional attributes are of a
crosscutting nature i.e. it is difficult to represent
clearly how an attribute may effect several other
requirements simultaneously. This new analysis
methodology splits the analysis phase into the System
User centric Analysis and the System centric Analysis
phases. This refinement is achieved by identification
and separation of all requirements into three types of
requirements i.e. Functional, Non-Functional and
Crosscutting requirements.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rotondi:2006:CHA,
author = "Guido Rotondi and Gianpiero Guerrera",
title = "A consistent history authentication protocol",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "1--7",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127887",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/cryptography2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Traditional strong authentication systems rely on a
certification chain to delegate the authority of
trusting an intermediate end. However, in some
practical life scenarios a relayed authentication is
not accepted and thus it would be advisable a straight
proof of trustiness with a direct interaction with the
involved party. Our protocol introduces a registry of
certified operations from which it descends the
authentication and the consequent proof of identity.
Despite the fact that such system requires for
registrar initialization, the Consistent History
Protocol provides a reasonable degree of reliability in
identifying subjects at the steady state. As
application, we deployed the protocol in the indirect
electronic data collection scenario, where large data
flows have to be exchanged and certified among a set of
mutually trusted Institutions. The experimental results
report the processing overhead introduced by the
authentication protocol, which results negligible with
respect a classical strong authentication method built
around the OpenSSL library.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Yang:2006:MAA,
author = "Qun Yang and Xianchun Yang and Manwu Xu",
title = "A mobile agent approach to dynamic architecture-based
software adaptation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "1--7",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127889",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Increasingly, software are required to be ready to
adapt itself to the changing environment caused by a
wide range of maintenance, evolution and operation
problems. Furthermore, in large complex distributed
systems and continuous running systems, the traditional
approaches to bringing about change require that the
system be taken offline temporarily, which is often
undesirable due to requirements for high availability.
To address this new kind of capability, dynamic
software adaptation, which refers to software changes
in both structure and behavior without bring it down,
is proposed. In this paper, we explore an
architecture-based mobile agent approach to dynamic
software adaptation. Our goal is to automate the
software adaptation on the fly on the basis of
explicating and reasoning about architectural knowledge
about the running system. For that, we introduce the
dynamic software architecture, which means the
architecture itself can also be introspected and
altered at runtime, to guide and control the
adaptation. We use the architectural reflection to
observe and control the system architecture, while use
the architectural style to ensure the consistency and
correctness of the architecture reconfiguration. To
handle the adaptation of the running system, mobile
agents, which is well suited for complex management
issues, is employed. Mobile agents carry self-contained
mobile code and act upon running components. The usage
of meta-architecture and the mobile agents not only
forms an adaptation feedback loop onto the running
system, it also separates the concerns among the
architectural model, the target system and the
facilities use for adaptation. It will simplify the
developing, deploying and maintaining of the system,
while pose a good basis for enabling the reuse of the
adaptation facilities.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Oquendo:2006:MMD,
author = "Flavio Oquendo",
title = "{$ \pi $-Method}: a model-driven formal method for
architecture-centric software engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "1--13",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127885",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software systems have become increasingly complex and
are often used in highly dynamic, distributed and
mobile environments. Formal development of such
software systems in order to guarantee their
completeness and correctness is a large research
challenge. This article presents the {\pi}-Method, a
novel formal method that has been designed in the
ArchWare European Project to address model-driven
development of safe software systems. It is a
well-founded theoretically method relying on formal
foundations: its formal language for architecture
description is based on the {\pi}-calculus, for
architecture analysis on the {\mu}-calculus, and for
architecture transformation and refinement on the
rewriting logic. The {\pi}-Method, like formal methods
such as B, FOCUS, VDM, and Z, aims to provide full
support for formal development of software systems.
However, unlike these methods that do not provide any
architectural support, the {\pi}-Method has been built
from scratch to formally support architecture-centric
component-based model-driven development. Furthermore,
a major impetus behind defining formal languages and
method is that their formality renders them suitable to
be manipulated by software tools. Indeed, a
comprehensive toolset supporting formal model-driven
engineering has been developed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wang:2006:SDG,
author = "Zhong-Jie Wang and De-Chen Zhan and Xiao-Fei Xu",
title = "{STCIM}: a dynamic granularity oriented and stability
based component identification method",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "1--14",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127888",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Among recent developments in the field of software
reuse has been the increasing reuse of coarse-grained
components, and it has been proved that granularity has
great impact on component's reuse performance. However,
previous studies have ignored rigorous and effective
methods to support coarse-grained component
identification and design, particularly granularity
optimization design. In this paper, a stability-based
component identification method, STCIM, is presented to
resolve this problem. First a feature-oriented
component model and the corresponding component
granularity metrics are briefly presented. By
establishing mappings between business model space and
component space, component design process may be
regarded as the process of decomposition, abstraction
and composition of business model elements, with four
different mapping strategies discussed to obtain
dynamic component granularities. Furthermore, it is
thought that component granularity is closely
correlative to the stability of business models: the
more stable the business model, the larger the
corresponding component granularity may be. A metrics
for model stability with three factors, i.e., number of
isomers, stability entropy and isomer similarity, is
presented, and the corresponding component
identification algorithm based on Most Stable Set is
discussed in details. Finally a practical case is
described to validate the method in this paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Amorim:2006:MLS,
author = "Leonardo Amorim and Paulo Maciel and Meuse Nogueira
and Raimundo Barreto and Eduardo Tavares",
title = "Mapping live sequence chart to coloured {Petri} nets
for analysis and verification of embedded systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "1--25",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127880",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents a methodology for mapping the Live
Sequence Chart (LSC) language to an equivalent Coloured
Petri Net (CPN) model as an approach for analysis and
verification of embedded systems' properties. LSC is a
language for system specification, allowing one to
specify what should happen for all execution of the
system as well as the modeling of anti-scenarios.
However, analysis and verification of systems'
properties are not possible. In order to allow
diagnosis of inconsistent specifications, besides
simulation, verification and analysis should be
considered. Therefore the proposition of a CPN model
for LSC allows verification and analysis of systems
described in LSC, hence, contributing for increasing
designers' confidence on the system development process
and reducing risks that may lead to project failure.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Leavens:2006:PDJ,
author = "Gary T. Leavens and Albert L. Baker and Clyde Ruby",
title = "Preliminary design of {JML}: a behavioral interface
specification language for {Java}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "1--38",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127884",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "JML is a behavioral interface specification language
tailored to Java(TM). Besides pre- and postconditions,
it also allows assertions to be intermixed with Java
code; these aid verification and debugging. JML is
designed to be used by working software engineers; to
do this it follows Eiffel in using Java expressions in
assertions. JML combines this idea from Eiffel with the
model-based approach to specifications, typified by VDM
and Larch, which results in greater expressiveness.
Other expressiveness advantages over Eiffel include
quantifiers, specification-only variables, and frame
conditions. This paper discusses the goals of JML, the
overall approach, and describes the basic features of
the language through examples. It is intended for
readers who have some familiarity with both Java and
behavioral specification using pre- and
postconditions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2006:SEEb,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "5--5",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127891",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "You may have noticed that recent SEEd columns have
included insights from a number of guest contributors.
I hope you find these different perspectives
interesting and useful. For this column I am honored to
have Dennis Frailey as guest contributor. As many of
you know, Dennis is a Principal Fellow at Raytheon, a
software practitioner, an adjunct professor of computer
science and engineering, and an ABET evaluator.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Frailey:2006:WMR,
author = "Dennis J. Frailey",
title = "What math is relevant for a {CS} or {SE} student?: an
employer's perspective",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "6--7",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127892",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In the Fall of 2005, Kenneth A. Williams began a
discussion on the SIGCSE email list on the topic of
what math is relevant for a student in the computing
sciences. He began by questioning the value of
differential equations, stating that he was ``\ldots{}
unable to find a homework assignment or exam question
in any Computer Science course that requires
differential equations for its solution.'' [1] I was
one of several respondents to that email. This article
is a somewhat expanded version of my remarks on that
topic.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2006:HN,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "Be here now",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "7--7",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127894",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Be here now. Improve this moment by responding to the
people and the situation around you, deliberately, not
randomly. Of course, one must plan, too, but don't get
carried away.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2006:SNSc,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "8--16",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127896",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The World Wide Web is a wonderful place for research,
but finding relevant information can sometimes be a
problem. Most of the major search engines are great at
finding key words or performing Boolean searches on key
words, but there's no way to add meaning to the
searches. For example, every month I pick a software
engineering topic and search the web, looking for web
sites containing research and reference material
pertaining to the selected topic. Traditional Google
searches yield tons of results, but very few of these
hits actually wind up as featured sites in the column.
When I run a search, instead of the reference and
educational information I'm looking for, I get all
sites relating to the selected topic, including
advertising, jokes, blogs, eBay auctions and other
content unsuitable for my purposes. I have no way of
telling the search engines to show me all white papers
or journal articles relating to ``topic X''.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2006:RPc,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "17--24",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127898",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Clarke:2006:HPR,
author = "Lori A. Clarke and David S. Rosenblum",
title = "A historical perspective on runtime assertion checking
in software development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "25--37",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127900",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report presents initial results in the area of
software testing and analysis produced as part of the
Software Engineering Impact Project. The report
describes the historical development of runtime
assertion checking, including a description of the
origins of and significant features associated with
assertion checking mechanisms, and initial findings
about current industrial use. A future report will
provide a more comprehensive assessment of development
practice, for which we invite readers of this report to
contribute information.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bernstein:2006:RPS,
author = "Larry Bernstein",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Practical Support for CMMI-SW
Software Project Documentation Using IEEE Software
Engineering Standards}} by Susan K. Lan and John W.
Walz, IEEE Computer Society Wiley Interscience, 2006,
ISBN: 0-471-73849-2}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "41--41",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127902",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bernstein:2006:RMC,
author = "Larry Bernstein",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Mobile Computing Principles}}
by Reza B'Far, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN:
0-521-81733-1}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "41--42",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127903",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Petro:2006:RMJ,
author = "Andrew Petro",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{More Java Gems}} by Dwight
Deugo, Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN:
0-521-77477-2}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "42--42",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127904",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Elssamadisy:2006:RHJ,
author = "Amr Elssamadisy",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Hibernate: a J2EE Developer's
Guide by Will Iverson}}, Pearson Education Inc., 2005,
ISBN: 0-471-20282-7}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "42--43",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127905",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Elssamadisy:2006:RFD,
author = "Amr Elssamadisy",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Fit for Developing Software:
Framework for Integrated Tests}} by Rick Mugridge and
Ward Cunningham, Pearson Education Inc., 2005, ISBN:
0-321-26934-9}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "43--44",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127906",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Glass:2006:RCP,
author = "Robert L. Glass",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{COBOL Programmers Swing With
Java}} by E. Reed Doke, Bill C. Hardgrave and Richard
A. Johnson, Cambridge University Press, 2005}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "3",
pages = "44--45",
month = may,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127907",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:17 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ali:2006:IES,
author = "Muhammad Raza Ali",
title = "Imparting effective software engineering education",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "1--3",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142960",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software plays a critical role in industry, academia
and everyday life. Owing to the fact that practices in
other fields such as science, engineering and business
have changed over the years. Nature of real world
problems is rapidly changing. As a result Software
engineering has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic
discipline of engineering, software engineers of the
twenty-first century face new challenges and their
roles are being constantly redefined. In order to
better equip software engineers for these roles,
software engineering education has to be constantly
reviewed and innovations must be introduced. This paper
suggests some measures (utilizing some recent
innovations) that can help improve software engineering
education Better preparing software engineering
students for professional careers. Target audiences for
this paper are mainly those software engineering
educators who are willing to improve education at their
universities/colleges.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Garzia:2006:HSS,
author = "Mario Garzia and John Hudepohl and Will Snipes and
Michael Lyu and John Musa and Carol Smidts and Laurie
Williams",
title = "How should software reliability engineering {(SRE)} be
taught?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142961",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This article on teaching software reliability
engineering (SRE) represents a consensus of views of
experienced software reliability engineering leaders
from diverse backgrounds but with ties to education:
directors of software reliability and software
reliability training in industry, a consultant who
teaches SRE practice to industry, and university
professors. The first topic covered is how to attract
participants to SRE courses. We then analyze the
job-related educational needs of current and future
(those now university students) software practitioners,
SRE practitioners, researchers, and nonsoftware
professionals. Special needs relating to backgrounds,
limited proficiency in the course language, and work
conflicts are outlined. We discuss how the needs
presented should influence course content and
structure, teaching methods, and teaching materials.
Finally, we cover our experiences with distance
learning and its special needs. Some of this article
applies to any course and is not SRE-specific.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kushwaha:2006:CWB,
author = "Dharmender Singh Kushwaha and R. K. Singh and A. K.
Misra",
title = "Cognitive web based software development process:
towards a more reliable approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142963",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Web engineering is a mix of scientific, engineering,
management and cognitive principles that are used to
create web based software applications. In order to
successfully build large and complex web based
applications, web developers and practitioners should
adopt a disciplined development process in order to
achieve the desired goals. It is by far more complex
than the conventional software development process,
where we have a fair idea about the users. Hence we
cannot proceed by the conventional methods and
processes for successful web based software
development. The complexity of Web based-software
applications is by far very different from traditional
procedural or object-oriented paradigms. The failure
rate of web based applications is particularly higher.
To increase the success rates, we should acknowledge
that it is a mix of engineering, management and
cognitive principles involving a high user-centric
bias. There are numerous factors that contribute to the
complexity of web based applications. Unfortunately,
the complexity issues have not been even paid due
attention although numerous authors have pointed
towards high failure rates of web based software
applications. The existing models have not been able to
reduce the failure rate of web based software
applications. This paper makes an attempt to propose
the major factors responsible for failure of web based
applications. We emphasize on user-centric and a more
holistic approach of requirement engineering to help
increase the success rate and reliability of web based
software applications. Finally the complexity issues of
web application and importance of operation research is
highlighted.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2006:CPS,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "A critical programmer searches for professionalism",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "1--17",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142962",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The phrase ``critical programmer'' in this article's
title is meant to be thought of as the programmer who
carefully, respectfully, questions conventional wisdom.
The particular conventional wisdom under consideration
here (held mainly by those who do not write programs,
as part of a team, for pay) to be critically thought
about is the accountability of the software programmer,
whether the programmer should alone be held strictly
accountable for software faults, that if the programmer
were provided a more rigorous education, if the
programmer were to conduct him or herself in a more
professional manner and held to a greater professional
standard, that fewer software faults would result. The
critical question is, is the premise valid? Should the
programmer be the one solely held accountable for
software faults? Would greater education and
professionalism solve all software faults or only some,
and if only some, then which ones? The critical
analysis that follows investigates these as well as
other radical questions, (radical as in ``root'', not
as in ``revolutionary''), such as: What is
accountability? What is trust? What is professionalism?
Where do software faults come from, and What can be
done?",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Darroch:2006:AFP,
author = "Fiona Darroch and Mark Toleman",
title = "{ACM Fellow} profile: {Bob Glass}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "2--6",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1150033",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2006:SEEc,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "8--8",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142965",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "I hope you took some time to read Dennis Frailey
contribution ``What Math is Relevant for a CS or SE
Student? --- An Employer's Perspective'' in the
previous SEEd column as it provided many useful
insights for both software educators and practitioners.
In this column Tim Lethbridge provides his reflections
on this years Conference on Software Engineering and
Training, CSEE\&T 2006. Before reading Tim's
contribution, there are two brief points I would to
highlight.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lethbridge:2006:RC,
author = "Timothy C. Lethbridge",
title = "Reflections on {CSEE\&T} 2006",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "8--9",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142966",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The 19th Conference on Software Engineering Education
and Training (CSEE\&T) was held at the Turtle Bay
Resort, on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, April
19-21, 2006.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2006:GP,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "Growing up is painful",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "9--9",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142968",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Anyone who's raised teenagers knows it. Anyone who
remembers his or her own teens does, too. Years of
dealing with peer pressure. Trying to fit in with the
crowd, or rejecting them utterly and going one's own
way. Getting kicked around by the older crowd. Deciding
whether to grow up to be like one's friends, one's
parents, or one's heroes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Raccoon:2006:LPS,
author = "L. B. S. Raccoon",
title = "A leadership primer for software engineers",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "10--15",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142970",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The principles of leadership resemble the life lessons
we (are supposed to) learn as children: introduce
yourself first, accentuate the positive, and set an
example for others. Everyone knows most of them,
already. The hard part of leading (the secret of
leading) is that you have to do it, and do it
consistently. This essay is intended for career
software engineers who want to help their friends and
colleagues in the SE community to succeed, whether
helping their teams to complete projects or helping the
SE profession to thrive.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2006:J,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "{JavaScript}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "16--24",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142972",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A whole article on JavaScript? You bet. JavaScript has
always been the glue that holds your HTML pages
together and now, in conjunction with XML, JavaScript
is enjoying a new wave of popularity. So I thought I'd
dedicate this month's column to a short exploration of
JavaScript and highlight some sites that will not only
help you write JavaScript, but also explore some of the
things you can do with JavaScript.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2006:RPd,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "25--37",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142974",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relating to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Breu:2006:REB,
author = "Silvia Breu",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Eclipse --- Building
Commercial-Quality Plug-Ins}} by Eric Clayberg and Dan
Rubel, Addison-Wesley, 2004, 0-321-22847-2}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "39--39",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142976",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Law:2006:RMI,
author = "James Law",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Migrating to IPv6}} by Marc
Blanchet, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 2006,
0-471-49892-0}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "39--40",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142977",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2006:RWW,
author = "Will Tracz",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Weinberg on Writing: The
Fieldstone Method}} by Gerald M. Weinberg, Dorsett
House, 2006}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "4",
pages = "40--40",
month = jul,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1142958.1142978",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:19 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{deBoer:2006:AKD,
author = "Remco C. de Boer",
title = "Architectural knowledge discovery: why and how?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "1:1--1:??",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1178641",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The need for a method for architectural knowledge
discovery stems from the difficulty to find relevant
architectural knowledge in the documentation that
accompanies a software product. This difficulty arises
in particular when the document set is very large, and
has been expressed by auditors as a need for a
``reading guide'' during a case study we conducted at a
company that performs software product audits. Based on
the needs of these auditors, we identify the main
characteristics an architectural knowledge discovery
method should exhibit. This paper argues that Latent
Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a promising technique for
architectural knowledge discovery.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "1",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dahiya:2006:AAO,
author = "Deepak Dahiya and Rajinder K. Sachdeva",
title = "Approaches to aspect oriented design: a study",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163531",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "There is a need to study various approaches in the use
of object-oriented design patterns and aspect oriented
design approach in enterprise systems for architecture
and its implementation. The development of aspect
oriented requirements gathering approach, design
notation and environment for development of enterprise
systems needs to be further refined in the context of
software applications and industry. Current development
in aspects and the path to future work in this
direction is highlighted regarding developing a
general-purpose design language for aspect oriented
software development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rekoske:2006:PEV,
author = "Jeffrey Rekoske and Hamid Ghasemiyeh and Ahmed Salem",
title = "A practical extension to the {VORD} model",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "1--5",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163532",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes an extension to the VORD model
and attempts to resolve its lack of direct support for
viewpoint interaction. Supporting the viewpoint
interaction provides a useful tool for analyzing
requirements changes and automating systems. It can
also be used to indicate when multiple requirements are
specified as a single requirement. The extension is
demonstrated with the bank auto-teller system that was
part of the original VORD proposal.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Singh:2006:EBE,
author = "R. K. Singh and Pravin Chandra and Yogesh Singh",
title = "An evaluation of {Boolean} expression testing
techniques",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "1--6",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163534",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Increase in the size and complexity of the software
developed has made software testing a challenging
exercise. A number of testing techniques are available
but they differ in terms of statement coverage,
condition coverage and particularly in fault detection
capabilities. The size of the test suite also differs
from one technique to other. Fault that has propagated
into the system inadvertently, especially into the
branch statements, have severe effects as they affect
the logic of the program. In this paper, an
experimental evaluation of the popular branch-testing
techniques (Elmendorf's method, Boolean Operator (BOR),
Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MCDC), and
Reinforced Criteria/Decision Coverage (RCDC)) is
presented. These techniques are evaluated on the basis
of types of faults they identify, size of the test
suite and their effectiveness in fault detection. For
experiments, various branch statements used and
referred in literature are selected. Test cases and
mutants were prepared for these branch statements.
Mutants were prepared by seeding single operator and
operand faults into the statements. The results
indicate that for a subset of fault types BOR is
effective. A variant of MCDC and RCDC demonstrate
better performance on the full class of faults and are
only slightly worse than Elmendorf's (CEG) method test
suite.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kushwaha:2006:ICI,
author = "Dharmender Singh Kushwaha and A. K. Misra",
title = "Improved cognitive information complexity measure: a
metric that establishes program comprehension effort",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "1--7",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163533",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Understanding the software system is known as program
comprehension and is a cognitive process. This
cognitive process is the driving force behind creation
of software that is easier to understand i.e. has lower
cognitive complexity, because essentially it is the
natural intelligence of human brain that describes the
comprehensibility of software. The research area
carrying out this study is cognitive informatics. This
work has developed an improved cognitive information
complexity measure (CICM) that is based on the amount
of information contained in the software and
encompasses all the major parameters that have a
bearing on the difficulty of comprehension or cognitive
complexity of software. It is also able to establish
the relationship between cognitive complexity of a
program and time taken to understand the program, thus
mapping closely to the comprehension strategy of a
person.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Counsell:2006:OOC,
author = "Steve Counsell and Stephen Swift and Allan Tucker and
Emilia Mendes",
title = "Object-oriented cohesion subjectivity amongst
experienced and novice developers: an empirical study",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "1--10",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163530",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The concept of software cohesion in both the
procedural and object-oriented paradigm is well known
and documented. What is not so well known or documented
is the perception of what empirically constitutes a
cohesive 'unit' by software engineers. In this paper,
we describe an empirical investigation using
object-oriented (OO) classes as a basis. Twenty-four
subjects (drawn from IT experienced and novice groups)
were asked to rate ten classes sampled from two
industrial systems in terms of their overall
cohesiveness; a class environment was used to carry out
the study. Three hypotheses were investigated as part
of the study, relating to class size, the role of
comment lines and the differences between the two
groups in terms of how they rated cohesion. Several key
results were observed. Firstly, class size (when
expressed in terms of number of methods) only
influenced the perception of cohesion by novice
subjects. Secondly, well-commented classes were rated
more highly amongst IT experienced than novice
subjects. Thirdly, results suggest strongly that
cohesion comprises a combination of various class
factors including low coupling, small numbers of
attributes and well-commented methods, rather than any
single, individual class feature per se. Finally, if
the research supports the view that cohesion is a
subjective concept reflecting a cognitive combination
of class features then cohesion is also a surrogate for
class comprehension.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Falessi:2006:DDR,
author = "Davide Falessi and Martin Becker and Giovanni
Cantone",
title = "Design decision rationale: experiences and steps ahead
towards systematic use",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "2:1--2:??",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1178642",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Design decisions crucially influence the success of
every software project. While the resulting design is
typically documented quite well, the situation is
usually different for the underlying rationale and
decision-making process. Despite being recognized as a
helpful approach in general, the explicit documentation
of Design Decision Rationale (DDR) is not yet largely
utilized due to some inhibitors (e.g., additional
documentation effort). Experience with other qualities,
e.g. software reusability, evidently shows that an
improvement of these qualities only pays off on a large
scale and therefore has to be pursued in a strategic,
pre-planned, and carefully focused way. In this paper
we argue that this also has to be considered for
documenting DDR. To this end the paper presents: (i)
the Decision, Goal, and Alternatives (DGA) DDR
framework, (ii) experience in dealing with DGA, (iii)
motivators and inhibitors of using DDR, and (iv) an
approach for systematic DDR use that follows
value-based software engineering principles.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "2",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Farenhorst:2006:TKS,
author = "Rik Farenhorst",
title = "Tailoring knowledge sharing to the architecting
process",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "3:1--3:??",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1178643",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Sharing knowledge pertaining to software architectures
becomes increasingly important. If this knowledge is
not explicitly stored or communicated, valuable
knowledge dissipates. However, knowledge sharing is
challenged by the fact that stakeholders are often
located at large distances from each other, now that
offshoring and virtual organizations become the trend.
We conjecture that successful architectural knowledge
sharing is only possible when the sharing mechanisms
are tailored to the architecting process. We base this
claim on observations made during a case study in a
large software organization, and some important lessons
learned from these observations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "3",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Capilla:2006:WBT,
author = "Rafael Capilla and Francisco Nava and Sandra P{\'e}rez
and Juan C. Due{\~n}as",
title = "A web-based tool for managing architectural design
decisions",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "4:1--4:??",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1178644",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software architectures represent the design for
describing the main parts of a software system. In
software projects, different stakeholders with
different roles may need to share the documentation
generated during the project. Also, during the
architecture construction phase we need to communicate
the architecture to the stakeholders involved in the
process, but the lack of tools for documenting,
managing and sharing this architectural knowledge
constitutes a big barrier. In other cases it can be
useful to recreate the design decisions taken because
such decisions are frequently lost during the
development process. To cover these issues, we outline
in this paper a web-based tool able to record and
manage architecture design decisions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "4",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2006:RC,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "Roller coaster",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "4--4",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163516",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Sometimes, debugging reminds me of a sine wave, you
know, the 5 stages of grief, followed by the 5 stages
of the fix. Today is a
7-out-of-10-green-lights-on-the-way-to-work kind of
day. I'm feeling fine, not great, not bad, just
cruising along, when my project manager hands me a bug
report.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Berzal:2006:CPL,
author = "Fernando Berzal",
title = "A crossword on programming languages",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "5--5",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163518",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sinnema:2006:UVM,
author = "Marco Sinnema and Jan Salvador van der Ven and Sybren
Deelstra",
title = "Using variability modeling principles to capture
architectural knowledge",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "5:1--5:??",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1178645",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In the field of software architectures, there is an
emerging awareness of the importance of architectural
decisions. In this view, the architecting process is
explained as a decision process, while the design and
eventually the software system are seen as the result
of this decision process. However, the effects of
different alternatives on the quality of the system
often remain implicit. In the field of software product
families, the same issues arise when configuring
products. We propose to use the proven expertise from
COVAMOF, a framework for managing variability, to solve
the issues that arise when relating quality attributes
to architectural decisions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "5",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Garcia:2006:DMA,
author = "Alessandro Garcia and Thais Batista and Awais Rashid
and Claudio Sant'Anna",
title = "Driving and managing architectural decisions with
aspects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "6:1--6:??",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1178646",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software architects face decisions every day which
have a broadly-scoped impact on the software
architecture. These decisions are the core of the
architecting process as they typically have
implications in a multitude of architectural elements
and views. Without an explicit representation and
management of those crucial choices, architects cannot
properly communicate and reason about them and their
crosscutting effects. The result is a number of
architectural breakdowns, such as decreased
evolvability, time-consuming trade-off analysis, and
unmanageable traceability. Aspects are a natural way to
capture widely-scoped architectural decisions and
promote software architectures with superior
modularity.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "6",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2006:SNSd,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "6--15",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163520",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "I mention many different free open source software
(FOSS) products in this column in conjunction with the
topics I select each month. This month, instead of
focusing on a single topic, I thought I'd present a
collection of some of the most popular free and open
source software products currently in production in
order to give you an impression on the size and scope
of FOSS packages available.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2006:RPe,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "16--21",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163522",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expresses are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relating to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall);
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rappl:2006:IIW,
author = "Martin Rappl and Alexander Pretschner and Christian
Salzmann and Thomas Stauner",
title = "{3rd Intl. ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for
Automotive Systems}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "22--23",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163524",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This workshop summary outlines the main results of the
one-day International Workshop on Software Engineering
for Automotive Systems [5], held in conjunction with
the 28th International Conference on Software
Engineering (ICSE'06). In the sequel, a brief overview
of the presented papers is given and the most
interesting discussions are highlighted.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Garcia:2006:SEL,
author = "Alessandro Garcia and Holger Giese and Alexander
Romanovsky and Ricardo Choren and Ho-fung Leung and
Carlos Lucena and Florian Klein and Eric Platon",
title = "{Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent
systems --- SELMAS 2006}: workshop report",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "24--32",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163525",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper is intended to sum up the results of the
5th International Workshop on Software Engineering for
Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2006) held in
Shanghai, China, May 22-23, 2006, as part of the 28th
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE
2006). The main purpose of this workshop was to share
and pool together the collective experience of people,
both academics and practitioners, who are actively
working on software engineering for large-scale
multi-agent systems. A selected set of expanded
workshop papers and invited papers will appear in the
5th edition of the book Software Engineering for
Multi-Agent Systems (LNCS, Springer, 2007). The theme
of this workshop edition was ``Building Dependable
Multi-Agent Systems''. The workshop consisted of an
opening presentation, several paper presentations
organized into four technical sessions, two keynotes
and two discussion groups. During the workshop we
informally reviewed ongoing and previous work and
debated a number of important issues. The SELMAS 2006
Web site can be found at
www.teccomm.les.inf.puc-rio.br/selmas2006. We begin by
presenting an overview of our goals and the workshop
structure, and then focus on the workshop technical
program and results.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lago:2006:FWS,
author = "Patricia Lago and Paris Avgeriou",
title = "{First Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural
Knowledge}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "32--36",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163526",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The first SHARK (SHAring and Reusing architectural
Knowledge) workshop, attempted to explore the state of
the art as well as the state of the practice in this
emerging field. This workshop report presents the
themes of the workshop, it summarizes the results of
the discussions held about various topics, and suggests
some research topics that are worthwhile to pursue in
the future.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{DiNitto:2006:RIW,
author = "Elisabetta {Di Nitto} and Robert J. Hall and Jun Han
and Yanbo Han and Andrea Polini and Kurt Sandkuhl and
Andrea Zisman",
title = "Report on the {International Workshop on Service
Oriented Software Engineering (IW-SOSE06)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "36--38",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163527",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents a report of the International
Workshop on Service Oriented Software Engineering
colocated with ICSE2006. In particular, we shortly
present the papers that have been accepted for
publication in the workshop proceedings, the keynote
speech, and the discussion topics that have emerged
during the workshop.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Whittle:2006:IWS,
author = "Jon Whittle and Leif Geiger and Michael Meisinger",
title = "{5th Intl. Workshop on Scenarios and State Machines:
Models --- Algorithms --- and Tools (SCESM)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "5",
pages = "39--40",
month = sep,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1163514.1163528",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:20 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "SCESM'06 was the 5th International Workshop on
Scenarios and State Machines: Models, Algorithms and
Tools. It was a one day ICSE'06 workshop taking place
on May 27, 2006. Details about SCESM'06 may be found at
http://ise.gmu.edu/scesm06/.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{staff:2006:FTM,
author = "{ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Staff}",
title = "Frontmatter ({TOC}, Miscellaneous material)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "0--0",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218777",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anbalagan:2006:CAJ,
author = "Prasanth Anbalagan and Tao Xie",
title = "{Clamp}: automated joinpoint clustering and pointcut
mining in aspect-oriented refactoring",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218795",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software refactoring consists of a set of techniques
to reorganize code while preserving the external
behavior. Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) provides
new modularization of software systems by encapsulating
crosscutting concerns. Based on these two techniques,
Aspect-Oriented (AO) refactoring restructures
crosscutting elements in code. AO refactoring includes
two steps: aspect mining (identification of aspect
candidates in code) and aspect refactoring
(semantic-preserving transformation to migrate the
aspect-candidate code to AO code). Aspect refactoring
clusters the join points for the aspect candidates and
encapsulates each cluster with an effective pointcut
definition. With the increase in size of the code and
crosscutting concerns, it is tedious to manually
identify aspects and their corresponding join points,
cluster the join points, and infer a pointcut
expression. This paper proposes an automated framework
that clusters join point candidates and infers a
pointcut expression for each cluster.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Arnautovic:2006:AGT,
author = "Edin Arnautovic and Hermann Kaindl and J{\"u}rgen
Falb",
title = "An architecture for gradual transition towards
self-managed software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218792",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "While management of today's software systems is
usually performed by humans using some user interface
(UI), autonomic systems would be self-managed. Our
research addresses the research problem of gradual
transition towards self-managed software systems and
proposes and investigates a particular architecture for
its solution. In particular, we propose unified
communication between a system to be managed and its
(human or autonomic) manager. Such communication is
specified using our high-level discourse metamodel
based on insights from theories of human communication.
This should make such communication easier to design
and understand by humans.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dig:2006:RAS,
author = "Danny Dig and Kashif Manzoor and Tien N. Nguyen and
Ralph Johnson",
title = "Refactoring-aware software merging and configuration
management",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218797",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Refactoring tools allow programmers to change their
source code quicker than before. However, the
complexity of these changes cause versioning tools that
operate at a file level to lose the history of entities
and be unable to merge refactored entities. This
problem can be solved by semantic, operation-based SCM
with persistent IDs. MolhadoRef, our proto-type, can
successfully merge edit and refactoring operations
which were performed on different development branches,
preserves program history better and makes it easier to
understand program evolution.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dyer:2006:NPD,
author = "Robert Dyer and Harish Narayanappa and Hridesh Rajan",
title = "{Nu}: preserving design modularity in object code",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218802",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/virtual-machines.bib",
abstract = "For a number of reasons, such as to generate object
code that is compliant with the existing virtual
machines (VM), current compilers for aspect-oriented
languages sacrifice design modularity when transforming
source to object code by losing textual locality and
intermingling concerns in the object code. Sacrificing
design modularity has significant costs, especially in
terms of the speed of incremental compilation. We
present an intermediate language design that preserves
aspect-oriented design modularity in Java byte code. We
briefly describe our extensions to the Sun Hotspot VM
to support the new intermediate language design.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hanna:2006:SEB,
author = "Youssef Hanna and Hridesh Rajan",
title = "{SLEDE}: event-based specification of sensor network
security protocols",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218801",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The semantic gap between specification and
implementation languages for sensor networks security
protocols impedes the specification and verification of
the protocols. In this work, we present SLEDE, an
event-based specification language and its verifying
compiler that address this semantic gap. We demonstrate
the features of SLEDE through an example specification
of the {\mu}Tesla, secure broadcast protocol for sensor
networks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kiniry:2006:FTR,
author = "Joseph R. Kiniry and Alan E. Morkan and Dermot Cochran
and Martijn Oostdijk and Engelbert Hubbers",
title = "Formal techniques in a remote voting system",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218793",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Kiezen op Afstand (KOA) is a Free Software, remote
voting system developed for the Dutch government in
2003/2004. In addition to being Open Source, key
components have been, or are currently being formally
specified and verified. These include a tally system
and a modeling of the Irish electoral system. In this
paper, we describe the formal techniques incorporated
during the development of components of the KOA system.
It also includes continuing work including the
development of a platform for trustworthy voting from a
mobile phone.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kotb:2006:ISD,
author = "Yasser Kotb and Takuya Katayama",
title = "Improving software documentation using textual
entailment",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218796",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Formal online errors/bugs documentation of real-time
software is a difficult and error prone task.
Conceptual and tool support for this activity plays a
central role in the agenda of building large complex
software products, especially if this software targets
market abroad that requires a continuous massive inflow
of data customers' needs and a regarding product
requirements. Unfortunately, the manual linkage that is
routinely performed today is cumbersome,
time-consuming, and error-prone. This paper presents a
framework to explore the redundancy of error reports in
online documentation. The framework employs a recent
natural language processing technique called Textual
Entailment.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Larson:2006:SID,
author = "Eric Larson",
title = "{SUDS}: an infrastructure for dynamic software bug
detection using static analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218790",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "SUDS is a powerful infrastructure for creating dynamic
bug detection tools. Its instrumentation engine is
designed in a manner that allows users to create their
own correctness models quickly but is flexible to
support construction of a wide range of different
tools. Several static analysis phases improve the
number of bugs found, the quality of the defects
detected, and the run-time performance. The
effectiveness of SUDS is demonstrated by showing that
is capable of finding high-quality bugs with reasonable
performance.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Memmert:2006:OGC,
author = "Juri Memmert and Hridesh Rajan",
title = "{Osiris}: generating concern models from source code",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218800",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Comprehending software is hard. There's an inversely
proportional relationship between a software system's
complexity and size on the one hand and the usability
of existing approaches for program comprehension on the
other. Ironically, the need for these approaches
increases directly proportional with the size of the
system. In this work, we describe our approach and tool
Osiris for automatic generation of concern models from
source code. Our approach helps in program
comprehension by identifying coherent sets of methods,
grouping them into concerns and propagating these
concerns along the concern graph of the application.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rajan:2006:ARB,
author = "Ajitha Rajan",
title = "Automated requirements-based test case generation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218799",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Black-box testing is a technique in which test cases
are derived from requirements without regard to the
internal structure of the implementation. In current
practice, the black-box test cases are derived manually
from requirements. Manually deriving test cases from
requirements is a costly and time consuming process. In
this paper, we present the notion of autogenerating
black-box test cases from requirements, that can result
in dramatic time and cost savings. To accomplish this,
we use requirements formalized as temporal logic
properties. We define coverage metrics directly on the
structure of the formalized requirements, and use an
automated test case generation tool, like the model
checker, to generate test cases from formal
requirements that satisfy the desired criteria. To
evaluate the effectiveness of black-box test suites
generated in this manner, we measure the implementation
coverage achieved by the test suites, and their
fault-finding effectiveness. In [11], we conducted a
preliminary investigation using a close to production
model of a Flight Guidance System developed at Rockwell
Collins Inc. We autogenerated requirements-based test
suites for three different requirements coverage
criteria and evaluated them by measuring the
implementation coverage achieved.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sabetzadeh:2006:RDA,
author = "Mehrdad Sabetzadeh and Shiva Nejati and Steve
Easterbrook and Marsha Chechik",
title = "A relationship-driven approach to view merging",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218794",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A key problem in view-based software development is
merging a set of disparate views into a single seamless
view. To merge a set of views, we need to know how they
are related. In this extended abstract, we discuss the
methodological aspects of describing the relationships
between views. We argue that view relationships should
be treated as first-class artifacts in the merge
problem and propose a general approach to view merging
based on this argument. We illustrate the usefulness of
our approach by instantiating it to the state-machine
modelling domain and developing a flexible tool for
merging state-machines.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schroter:2006:WDB,
author = "Adrian Schr{\"o}ter and Thomas Zimmermann and Rahul
Premraj and Andreas Zeller",
title = "Where do bugs come from?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218791",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "``Where do bugs in programs come from?'' --- this is
one of the pivotal research questions in software
engineering. To answer it, one can find out which parts
of a program are more defect-prone than others, and
then investigate which properties correlate with defect
density. In other words, once we can measure the
effect, we can search for its causes. Bug databases of
open-source projects are a good place to begin search
because they record all the problems that occurred
during the projects's lifetime. However, the location
of the fix (and thus the defect) is hidden in version
archives and has to be extracted separately [5]. As a
result one obtains a mapping from defects to code
locations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Uzuncaova:2006:PSD,
author = "Engin Uzuncaova and Sarfraz Khurshid",
title = "Program slicing for declarative models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--2",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218798",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The declarative modeling language Alloy and its
automatic analyzer provide an effective tool-set for
building designs of systems and checking their
properties. The Alloy Analyzer performs bounded
exhaustive analysis using off-the-shelf SAT solvers.
The analyzer's performance hinges on the complexity of
the models and so far, its feasibility has been shown
only within small bounds. With the growing popularity
of analyzable declarative modeling languages, in
general, and Alloy, in particular, it is imperative to
develop new techniques that allow the underlying
solvers to scale to real systems. We present Kato, a
novel technique that defines program slicing for
declarative models and enables efficient analyses using
existing analyzers, such as the Alloy Analyzer. Given a
declarative model, Kato identifies a slice, which
represents the model's core: a satisfying solution to
the slice can be systematically extended to generate a
solution for the entire model, while unsatisfiability
of the core implies unsatisfiability of the entire
model. The experimental results show that it is
possible to achieve a significant improvement in the
solving time.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Misra:2006:MTV,
author = "Sanjay Misra and Hurevren Kilic",
title = "Measurement theory and validation criteria for
software complexity measures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--3",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218782",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The relation between measurement theory and evaluating
criteria for software complexity measure is well
established by several researchers. A new software
complexity measure should also be satisfied by
measurement theory criteria. However, most of the
developers of new complexity measures do not care about
measurement theory. In this paper, we evaluate
measurement theory and point out why measurement theory
is not well applicable for evaluating complexity
measure.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Diev:2006:UCM,
author = "Sergey Diev",
title = "Use cases modeling and software estimation: applying
use case points",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--4",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218780",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This article discusses software size/effort estimation
by the Use Case Points method (UCP). It is based on the
experience accumulated during deployment of the UCP in
a software development department of a major financial
institution. Typical for such an environment is that
software is developed on top of existing applications,
and that there are significant differences between
projects in business domains, scope, size, complexity,
project management details, etc. In a previous article
[3] an extension of the Use Case Points method, called
UCPm, was described that addresses these issues. Due to
their level, use cases make high-level estimation
easier. However, this article, presenting a number of
real world situations, demonstrates that to obtain
reasonably accurate estimates we need to reflect in use
case models some aspects of the existing application
and of the current project. It also suggests some
clarifications of the concept of use case transaction
and outlines some ways to support use case models
consistency within and across projects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ranjan:2006:ABS,
author = "Prabhat Ranjan and A. K. Misra",
title = "Agent based system development: a domain-specific goal
approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--6",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218783",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "It is unlikely that a single analysis model will be
able to analyze the requirements for the complete
system. For capturing and analyzing the overall
requirement separate models and analyst experts are
needed. It is necessary to model at different level of
abstraction so that both domain experts and developers
can get an idea of the overall system behavior or focus
on a particular part of the system in detail if
required. This paper proposes a methodology, which is
an improved process for requirements gathering and
analysis. The proposed methodology is based on
model-based techniques to provide a specific model for
the type of requirements to be gathered. This
methodology also provides domain-based technique, for
providing a domain specific goal model for domain
experts. The domain specific technique also provides
multiple level of analysis and refinement process of
goal in all domains by specific domain experts.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cohen:2006:TAC,
author = "Myra B. Cohen and Joshua Snyder and Gregg Rothermel",
title = "Testing across configurations: implications for
combinatorial testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--9",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218785",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "User configurable software systems allow users to
customize functionality at run time. In essence, each
such system consists of a family of potentially
thousands or millions of program instantiations.
Testing methods cannot test all of these
configurations, therefore some sampling mechanism must
be applied. A common approach to providing such a
mechanism has been to use combinatorial interaction
testing. To date, however, little work has been done to
quantify the effects of different configurations on a
test suites' operation and effectiveness. In this paper
we present a case study that investigates the effects
of changing configurations on two types of test suites.
Our results show that test coverage and fault detection
effectiveness do not vary much across configurations
for entire test suites; however, for individual test
cases and certain types of faults, configurations
matter.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{deFigueiredo:2006:GIT,
author = "Andr{\'e} L. L. de Figueiredo and Wilkerson L. Andrade
and Patr{\'\i}cia D. L. Machado",
title = "Generating interaction test cases for mobile phone
systems from use case specifications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--10",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218788",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The mobile phone market has become even more
competitive, demanding high quality standards. In this
context, applications are built as sets of
functionalities, called features. Such features are
combined in use scenarios of the application. Due to
the fact that the features are usually developed in
isolation, the tests of their interactions in such
scenarios are compromised. In this paper, we present a
proposal of specifying feature interaction requirements
with use cases; generating a behavioral model from such
specification; and a strategy for generating test cases
from the behavioral model that aims to extract feature
interaction scenarios in such a way that interactions
can be tested.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fraser:2006:PRS,
author = "Gordon Fraser and Franz Wotawa",
title = "Property relevant software testing with
model-checkers",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--10",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218787",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Verification is applied to software as a proof method
with respect to its requirements. Software testing is
necessary due to the fact that verification is often
infeasible. Automation is desirable since the
complexity and the effort involved are significant.
However, automated software testing is commonly used to
ensure confidence in the conformance of an
implementation to an abstract model, not to its
requirement properties. In this paper, we introduce the
notion of property relevance of test-cases. Property
relevant test-cases can be used to determine property
violations. It is shown how to detect the properties
relevant to a test-case. New coverage criteria based on
property relevance are introduced. Automated generation
of test-suites satisfying these criteria is also
presented. Finally, feasibility is illustrated with an
empirical evaluation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Robinson-Mallett:2006:ACC,
author = "Christopher Robinson-Mallett and Robert M. Hierons and
Peter Liggesmeyer",
title = "Achieving communication coverage in testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--10",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218786",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper considers the problem of testing the
communication between components of a timed distributed
software system. We assume that communication is
specified using timed interface automata and use
computational tree logic (CTL) to define coverage
criteria that refer to send- and receive-statements and
communication paths. Given such a state-based
specification of a distributed system and a concrete
coverage goal, a model checker is used in order to
determine the coverage provided by a finite set of
test-cases, expressed using sequence diagrams. If parts
of the specification remain uncovered then a goal is
derived so that the model checker can be used to
generate test cases that increase the coverage provided
by the test suite. A major benefit of the presented
approach is the generation of a potentially minimal set
of test cases with the confidence that every
interaction between components is executed during
testing. A potential additional benefit of this
approach is that it provides a visual description of
the state based testing of distributed systems, which
may be beneficial in other contexts such as education
and program comprehension. The complexity of our
approach strongly depends on the input model, the
testing goal, and the model checking algorithm, which
is implemented in the used tool. While a particular
model checker, UPPAAL, was used, it should be
relatively straightforward to adapt the approach for
use with other CTL based model checkers.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Brooks:2006:SPI,
author = "Andy Brooks",
title = "Software process improvement uncut: interviews",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--11",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218779",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Publication in software engineering usually means
materials are highly sanitized and readers, whether
they be students, educators, or professional engineers,
are not exposed often to the full underlying detail. To
address this lack of exposure, an interview guide and
the interview results on a software process improvement
(SPI) project are presented uncut.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Becker:2006:TSS,
author = "Steffen Becker and Wilhelm Hasselbring and Alexandra
Paul and Marko Boskovic and Heiko Koziolek and Jan
Ploski and Abhishek Dhama and Henrik Lipskoch and
Matthias Rohr and Daniel Winteler and Simon Giesecke
and Roland Meyer and Mani Swaminathan and Jens Happe
and Margarete Muhle and Timo Warns",
title = "Trustworthy software systems: a discussion of basic
concepts and terminology",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "1--18",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218781",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Basic concepts and terminology for trustworthy
software systems are discussed. Our discussion of
definitions for terms in the domain of trustworthy
software systems is based on former achievements in
dependable, trustworthy and survivable systems. We base
our discussion on the established literature and on
approved standards. These concepts are discussed in the
context of our graduate school TrustSoft on trustworthy
software systems. In TrustSoft, we consider
trustworthiness of software systems as determined by
correctness, safety, quality of service (performance,
reliability, availability), security, and privacy.
Particular means to achieve trustworthiness of
component-based software systems --- as investigated in
TrustSoft --- are formal verification, quality
prediction and certification; complemented by fault
diagnosis and fault tolerance for increased
robustness.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2006:SEEd,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software Engineering Education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "9--9",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218804",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Do you read Money Magazine? If so, did you see the
Money Magazine article on the Best Jobs in America? If
not, did you see any news from about this article? If
you are a software engineer, then can you guess what
the Number 1 ranked job is? If you knew/guessed
Software Engineering, then you are right. Check out
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/ if
you don't believe it. It is very important to note that
they didn't say computer science, information
technology or computer programming, it was software
engineering. Does this mean that our discipline is
getting more noticed? More respect? Let's hope so.
Also, let's hope that Money Magazine really knows what
software engineering is, and what a software engineer
does. You can determine that by reading the articles
details of a career in software engineering yourself.
Here are a few details from the article to help
motivate you.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2006:BAN,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "{Burt} add numbers: a tale of software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "10--10",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218805",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "One day, an agent from the government asked Burt, a
software engineer of great renown, who lives near the
realm of possibility, to write a program to add up the
numbers from 1 to 10. Apparently, the government adds
numbers quite often, and when the government wants to
automate their processes they consult with the best and
the brightest. On the grounds that there is nothing
quite so banal as the answer to a question, Burt turned
down the commission, which would have rewarded him with
one hour of time on the government's biggest iron: a
super duper computer. Besides, other commissions kept
him busy.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2006:SNSe,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "11--20",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218807",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "I talk about software security on a regular basis in
this column. Past articles have featured web sites
addressing security design tips and techniques,
security reporting sites, and other security resources
available on the Internet. I'd like to stop talking
about security but the subject seems to keep coming up
in the press. Recent news reports on lost laptops
compromising personal data, security of voting
machines, new zero day exploits, and new rootkits would
indicate that we are still not where we need to be in
the field of software security.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2006:RPf,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "21--37",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218809",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relating to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kramer:2006:RAS,
author = "Jeff Kramer and Orit Hazzan",
title = "The Role of Abstraction in Software Engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "38--39",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1226833",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2006:RIC,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{IEEE Computer Society
Real-World Software Engineering Problems: a Self-Study
Guide for Today's Software Professional}} by J.
Fernando Naveda and Stephen B. Seidman, Prentice Hall,
2006, ISBN 0-471-71051-2}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "58--58",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218811",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2006:RDT,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Design For Trustworthy
Software}} by Bijay K. Jayaswal and Peter C. Patton,
Prentice Hall, 2007, ISBN 0-13-187250-8}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "58--59",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218812",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
note = "See response \cite{Jayaswall:2006:RAD}.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jayaswall:2006:RAD,
author = "Bijay Jayaswall",
title = "Response from authors of {``Design For Trustworthy
Software''}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "59--59",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218813",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
note = "See \cite{Schaefer:2006:RDT}.",
abstract = "It is true that quality processes have not served
software development well, and that is why we wrote the
book, to correct the past abuses that seem to pain the
reviewer. But quality is no longer the third rail of
software design and development; one can now touch it
and draw power from it without limiting one's career.
It is also true that we are now working as consultants,
but we have together spent some 80 years as university
teachers of software and/or hardware development or
quality process management.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2006:RCD,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Catastrophe Disentanglement}}
by E. M. Bennatan, Addison Wesley, 2006, ISBN
0-321-33662-0}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "59--60",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218814",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Weber-Wulff:2006:RFG,
author = "Debora Weber-Wulff",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Fascicle 4: Generating All
Trees --- History of Combinatorial Generation}} by
Donald E. Knuth, Addison-Wesley, 2006, ISBN
0-321-33570-8}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "31",
number = "6",
pages = "60--60",
month = nov,
year = "2006",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1218776.1218815",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:21 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2007:FTL,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "Frontmatter ({TOC}, Letters, Calendar, Calls)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "1",
pages = "0--0",
month = jan,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1226816.1226817",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Notkin:2007:FFa,
author = "David Notkin",
title = "{FAQs} and figures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "1",
pages = "3--3",
month = jan,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1226816.1226819",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and
Methodology (TOSEM) was founded in 1992 under the
guidance of Rick Adrion as the charter Editor-in-Chief
(EIC). Thompson ISI's Impact Factor rankings for 2005,
the most recently published, ranks TOSEM second out of
79 journals in the software engineering category. The
Impact Factor is a ratio of the number of citations in
2005 of a given journal compared to the journal's total
articles for 2004 and 2003. In other words, Rick and
his successors as EIC --- Axel van Lamsweerde and Carlo
Ghezzi --- have taken TOSEM from zero to sixty in just
15 years. They didn't make this remarkable leap alone:
they had help from ACM, from the exceptionally diligent
editorial assistants, from the dedicated associate
editors, and of course from the software engineering
research community, in particular the reviewers and,
even more, the authors.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ellis:2007:SEE,
author = "Heidi Ellis",
title = "Software engineering: effective teaching and learning
approaches and practices",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "1",
pages = "4--4",
month = jan,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1226816.1226822",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A much-needed book presenting the latest developments
in software engineering education will be published in
early 2008 by the IDEA Group, Inc. Titled Software
Engineering: Effective Teaching and Learning Approaches
and Practices, the book is edited by Heidi Ellis
(Trinity College), Steven Demurjian (University of
Connecticut), and Fernando Naveda (Rochester Institute
of Technology). The book will contain contributions
from approximately 20 software engineering educators
from around the world and encompasses areas including
student assessment and learning, innovative teaching
methods, project-based software engineering,
educational technology, professional practice and
ethics, curriculum management and certification and
licensing. To give you a taste of what is coming,
tentative chapter titles include Software Engineering
Apprenticeship by Immersion, Managing the Intellectual
Commons Associated with Academic Software Teams, and
Professional Software Engineering Credentials: An
International Perspective.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2007:SEEa,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "1",
pages = "4--4",
month = jan,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1226816.1226821",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In my last column I mentioned the article in Money
Magazine regarding the Best Jobs in America. The number
one rated job was software engineer (Check out the
following URL for more information
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/). A
number of people responded to my column and were
skeptical about my optimistic viewpoint. They basically
pointed out several things: First, jobs in many hot
areas tend to either be cyclic or fade away (recall the
line from the Beatles song 19$^{th}$ Nervous Breakdown
--- ``your father's still perfecting ways of making
sealing wax''). Second, one typically does not pursue a
career in engineering just to make money. It is
something one must like and enjoy as a career path.
Please keep these in mind when advising students,
however, I still feel optimistic about careers in
software engineering for students who are interested in
software development and the management of software
projects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2007:HL,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "Hacking with love",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "1",
pages = "4--5",
month = jan,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1226816.1226823",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "I like pasta. As a kid, I ate spaghetti a couple times
a week, sometimes more often. We made sauce from
whatever was at hand, usually canned tomatoes and
frozen hamburger, though today I prefer fancier
versions like marinara made from fresh ingredients and
sausage. I always enjoy sharing dinner with Edo and
Patty. Patty is a fabulous cook and Edo, born and
raised in Italy, is proud of, dare I say passionate
about, his heritage. Edo once explained in great depth
over a couple of bottles of Italian wine that what I
like isn't Italian food, but an American
transmogrification. I had heard comments to that effect
before but, until then, I hadn't met anyone who knew
enough and cared enough to explain. Then I read Heat,
in which Bill Buford writes about making and obsessing
over Italian food.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2007:SNSa,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "1",
pages = "6--14",
month = jan,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1226816.1226825",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In addition to all of the free and open source
software (FOSS) and specialized information available
on the web, the Internet is also a great place to get
specific answers to your specific problems. There are
thousands of forums where you can post a question and,
hopefully, some kind soul will post a reply. These help
forums vary in quality and depth of information, but if
you're stuck on a particular problem, it can't hurt to
toss your question out to the masses. Even if you don't
get the exact answer to your question or some of the
replies are dead wrong, you may benefit from the
responses in that they may give you a new way of
looking at the problem. You just might get that bolt of
lightning you need to solve the problem by yourself.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2007:RPa,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "1",
pages = "15--20",
month = jan,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1226816.1226827",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relating to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Emmerich:2007:IRM,
author = "Wolfgang Emmerich and Mikio Aoyama and Joe Sventek",
title = "The impact of research on middleware technology",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "1",
pages = "21--46",
month = jan,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1226816.1226829",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The middleware market represents a sizable segment of
the overall Information and Communication Technology
market. In 2005, the annual middleware license revenue
was reported by Gartner to be in the region of 8.5
billion US Dollars. In this article we address the
question whether research had any involvement in the
creation of the technology that is being sold in this
market? We attempt a scholarly discourse. We present
the research method that we have applied to answer this
question. We then present a brief introduction into the
key middleware concepts that provide the foundation for
this market. It would not be feasible to investigate
any possible impact that research might have had.
Instead we select a few very successful technologies
that are representative for the middleware market as a
whole and show the existence of impact of research
results in the creation of these technologies. We
investigate the origins of web services middleware,
distributed transaction processing middleware, message
oriented middleware, distributed object middleware and
remote procedure call systems. For each of these
technologies we are able to show ample influence of
research and conclude that without the research
conducted by PhD students and researchers in university
computer science labs at Brown, CMU, Cambridge,
Newcastle, MIT, Vrije, and University of Washington as
well as research in industrial labs at APM, AT\&T Bell
Labs, DEC Systems Research, HP Labs, IBM Research and
Xerox PARC we would not have middleware technology in
its current form. We summarise the article by
distilling lessons that can be learnt from this
evidenced impact for future technology transfer
undertakings.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2007:RSM,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Software Measurement and
Estimation: a Practical Approach}} by Linda M. Laird
and M. Carol Brennan, Wiley-Interscience, 2006}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "1",
pages = "47--47",
month = jan,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1226816.1226831",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Feng:2007:RCD,
author = "Yu Feng",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{The Cognitive Dynamics of
Computer Science: Cost-Effective Large Scale Software
Development}} by Szabolcs Michael de Gyurky, Wiley-IEEE
Computer Society, 2006, 0-471-97047-6}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "1",
pages = "47--48",
month = jan,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1226816.1226832",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2007:SDR,
author = "Peter Neumann",
title = "Session details: Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "1",
pages = "??--??",
month = jan,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/3263112",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:27 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rech:2007:DTS,
author = "J{\"o}rg Rech",
title = "Discovering trends in software engineering with
{Google Trend}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--2",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234765",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Trends are a valuable tool to shape one's research,
decide on acquisitions, inform about technologies or
standards used in the development process. Google
Trends is a new service by Google for researching the
amount of searches and news articles collected by their
search engines, which can be used to discover trends in
software engineering. In May 2006 Google Trends was
opened to the public to support researching trends
based on searches to Google Search and news articles
collected in Google News. This short paper shows how
information from Google Trend can be used to analyze
media attention, search interests, and cause-effect
relations of one topic or between multiple topics such
as technologies, tools, or methodologies.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rech:2007:PAS,
author = "J{\"o}rg Rech",
title = "Podcasts about software engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--2",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234764",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Podcasts are a new form of information source that
enables every-one to listen to information stored in
audio files --- similar to audio books --- on the
internet. Podcasts are a valuable tool to spread
in-formation in acoustic form especially such as
interviews with experts from industry, features about
new technologies, or news from conferences. Similar to
radio these contributions are stored on the internet
and can be downloaded by anyone, anytime, and anywhere.
This paper presents several podcasts for software
engineering and the technology behind Podcasting.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Diev:2007:RDM,
author = "Sergey Diev",
title = "Requirements development as a modeling activity",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--3",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234756",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Considering requirements development as a modeling
activity, this paper outlines our view of what a
requirements model is. It then introduces some
techniques useful in requirements development:
concept-based requirements and requirements
molecules.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hazzan:2007:WSE,
author = "Orit Hazzan and Yael Dubinsky",
title = "Why software engineering programs should teach agile
software development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--3",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234758",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper we propose ten reasons why it is
important, suitable and timely to introduce agile
software development into software engineering programs
in the academia. These reasons address technical,
social and cognitive issues.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Misra:2007:MTV,
author = "Sanjay Misra and Hurevren Kilic",
title = "Measurement theory and validation criteria for
software complexity measures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--3",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234760",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The relation between measurement theory and evaluating
criteria for software complexity measure is well
established by several researchers. A new software
complexity measure should also be satisfied by the
measurement theory criteria. However, most of the
developers of new complexity measures do not care about
measurement theory. In this paper, we evaluate
measurement theory and point out why measurement theory
is not well applicable for evaluating complexity
measure.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rech:2007:VSS,
author = "J{\"o}rg Rech and Waldemar Sch{\"a}fer",
title = "Visual support of software engineers during
development and maintenance",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--3",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234766",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software systems have reached a level of complexity
that puts them beyond our ability to evolve and
maintain them easily. This increases the need for
soft-ware organizations to develop new or rework
existing systems with high quality. CodeSonar was
developed to support software engineers during software
development and maintenance activities through the
visualization of source code and quality defects using
a visual interface in the eclipse IDE. A first
qualitative evaluation indicates that it helps the user
in navigating in the software system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fass:2007:FWU,
author = "Leona F. Fass",
title = "Fostering web use in some real environments",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--4",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234754",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Web-based systems accessed in real environments are
analyzed, identifying technical and non-technical
factors critical to good practice and effective use.
User-centric and e-enabling approaches to successful
deployment are suggested, applying theoretical
background and interactions with practitioners to
assess feasibility of practice. Specific technical
innovations by Web and Semantic Web researchers and
practitioners are recommended, as is user education and
community support, to foster widespread successful Web
and Semantic Web use.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gill:2007:CTR,
author = "Nasib S. Gill and Pradeep Tomar",
title = "{CBS} testing requirements and test case process
documentation revisited",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--4",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234757",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component-based software testing is an important
capability that supports productivity and quality
assurance in component-based software development. The
increased size and complexity of software systems has
led to the current focus on developing distributed
applications that are constructed primarily using
components. Thus, the component-based systems require
efficient and effective ways to test these systems and
need to develop effective techniques for testing
various aspects of the components such as reusability,
security, dependability and safety. Study on the
subject by several researchers indicates that more than
fifty percent of the cost of software development is
devoted to testing and it results into very high cost
for testing complex software. The present paper is
aimed at improving component-based system testing while
considering two factors: component-based system testing
requirement and test case process documentation.
Lastly, the paper also discusses the limitations of
component-based software testing that hinders
component-based development.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jiufu:2007:ISB,
author = "Liu Jiufu",
title = "Integration of statechart and B method based analysis
and verification for flight control software of
unmanned aerial vehicle",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--4",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234759",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "B is a formal method which enables the automatic
generation of an executable code through successive
refinements from an abstract specification. Unified
Modeling Language (UML) specifications can be formally
verified by analyzing the corresponding B
specification, and integration of UML specifications
and B method can overcomes the drawbacks of UML. In
this paper Statemate, one tool supporting the virtual
prototype technology, is used, and the flight control
software behaviors are presented in the form of
statecharts The B method is adopted to translate the
statecharts into B specification of flight control
software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Romanovsky:2007:LFT,
author = "Alexander Romanovsky",
title = "A looming fault tolerance software crisis?",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--4",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234767",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Experience suggests that it is edifying to talk about
software crises at NATO workshops. It is argued in this
position paper that proper engineering of fault
tolerance software has not been getting the attention
it deserves. The paper outlines the difficulties in
building fault tolerant systems and describes the
challenges software fault tolerance is facing. The
solution being advocated is to place a special emphasis
on fault tolerance software engineering which would
provide a set of methods, techniques, models and tools
that would exactly fit application domains, fault
assumptions and system requirements and support
disciplined and rigorous fault tolerance throughout all
phases of the life cycle. The paper finishes with an
outline of some directions of work requiring special
focused efforts from the R\&D community.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Diev:2007:SCR,
author = "Sergey Diev",
title = "Structuring complex requirements",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--5",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234755",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Sets of requirements that analysts are dealing with
are often big and complex. That makes requirements
structuring one of the most important activities in
requirements engineering, because of how requirements
are structured and presented directly impacts the
requirements development process and the quality of
requirements. In this methodological paper we argue
that a requirements analyst has to build a requirements
architecture that fits the properties of the problem.
In particular, the requirements analyst should create a
clear vision of the principles governing how
requirements are being defined, built and presented. We
review some of the instruments that an analyst can use
to structure requirements: requirements sets, views,
levels and links. Among static views we emphasize
concepts view, and also consider functions view,
application architecture view, and other views; among
dynamic views we consider use cases view, operational
scenarios view, events view, and others. We
specifically notice the importance of individual
requirements sets, the purpose of which is to reveal
the requirements for a particular element (concept,
function, action, etc.). We argue in favor of
differentiating between requirements model and
requirements representation. We demonstrate on examples
how requirements architecture is needed in complex
contexts.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Misra:2007:ECC,
author = "Sanjay Misra and A. K. Misra",
title = "Evaluation and comparison of cognitive complexity
measure",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--5",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234761",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Weyuker properties have been suggested as a guiding
tool in identification of a good and comprehensive
complexity measure. In this paper, an attempt has been
made to compare cognitive complexity measure in terms
of nine Weyuker's properties with other complexity
measures, such as McCabe's, Halstead's and Oviedo's
complexity measures. Our intension is to study what
kinds of new information about the measures are able to
give.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Podgorelec:2007:ESC,
author = "Vili Podgorelec and Marjan Heri{\v{c}}ko",
title = "Estimating software complexity from {UML} models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--5",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234763",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The possibility of predicting complexity of a software
system in the design phase would be of an immense
benefit for estimating complexity and with it
associated effort of the implemented system. In this
paper we cogitate on estimating complexity of a
software system based on the UML models of the system.
We test whether there is a valid relation between the
complexities of an implemented software system and its
UML model; and how this relation can be appropriately
used. The measuring is performed with the fractal
complexity measure a, which is based on long-range
power law correlations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nami:2007:ADE,
author = "Mohammad Reza Nami and Mehdi Sagheb Tehrani and Mohsen
Sharifi",
title = "Applying domain engineering using {RAISE} into a
particular banking domain",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--6",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234762",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Recently, several flavors of formal methods have been
gaining industrial acceptance and production quality
software tools have begun emerging. Domain Engineering
(DE) has been introduced as one of outstanding ideas in
software development. It serves Formal Methods (FMs)
that provide a rigorous, mathematical based framework
for specifying, defining, and verifying systems in the
software development for critical systems. New software
engineering includes three phases consisting of domain
engineering, requirement engineering, and design and
implementation. The purpose of this paper is to
introduce the key concepts of domain engineering with
providing overview information about formal methods and
applying RAISE as a formal method that has been used
successfully on various, diverse applications. Then, a
particular banking domain is specified with using them.
Formal model presented in this paper is provable to
implement this domain. With merginging object oriented
technology with domain engineering, this model can be
extended for serving in distributed systems. It
improves reusability and reliability in such
environments.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rosa:2007:FFM,
author = "Nelson Souto Rosa and Paulo Roberto Freire Cunha",
title = "A formal framework for middleware behavioural
specification",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--7",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234768",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The number of open specifications of middleware
systems and middleware services is increasing. Despite
their complexity, they are traditionally described
through APIs (the operation signatures) and informal
prose (the behaviour). This fact often leads to
ambiguities, whilst making difficult a better
understanding of what is actually described. This paper
presents a formal framework, specified in LOTOS
(Language Of Temporal Ordering Specification), for the
specification of middleware systems. The framework
consists of a set of basic/common middleware components
and some guidelines on how to compose them. The
components of the framework facilitate the formal
specification of different middleware systems. In order
to illustrate how the framework may be used, it is
adopted to specify procedural (synchronous) and
message-oriented (asynchronous) middleware systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tavares:2007:SSH,
author = "Eduardo Tavares and Raimundo Barreto and Paulo Maciel
and Meuse {Oliveira, Jr.} and Leonardo Amorim and
Fernando Rocha and Ricardo Lima",
title = "Software synthesis for hard real-time embedded systems
with multiple processors",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--10",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234769",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Hard real-time embedded systems have stringent timing
constraints that must be met in order to ensure the
correct functioning of the system. In many cases, these
systems are composed of several CPU-bound tasks, which
may need to rely on multiple processors, since just a
single processor may not allow meeting all timing
constraints. In order to deal with stringent
constraints, specialized operating system kernels are
often adopted in real-time embedded systems. However,
the operating system usage may introduce significant
overheads in execution time as well as in memory
requirement. Software synthesis is an alternative
approach to operating systems usage, since it can
generate tailored code that satisfy: (i) functional,
performance, and resource constraints; and (ii) other
features such as scheduling, resource management,
communication and synchronization. In this paper, a
software synthesis approach based on a formalism,
namely, time Petri nets, is presented in order to
generate predictable scheduled code for hard real-time
embedded systems with multiple processors.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bastani:2007:RAF,
author = "Behzad Bastani",
title = "A requirements analysis framework for open systems
requirements engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "1--19",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234753",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Requirements Engineering [26, 27] is an old discipline
which has been conveniently subject to being overlooked
by system designers. Most requirements analysis
writings either advise general guidelines which are
short of any concrete operational aspects, or they are
not simply at the scale of complex open systems
construction. This paper presents a new analytical
framework and a method which considers an end-to-end
view of a system, and is specifically designed to
support the requirements analysis and design of open
systems. The paper briefly discusses the conceptual
shortcomings in this area, presents an analytical
perspective for requirements engineering, and proposes
a new framework called ``Abstraction-oriented Frames''.
This framework is a hybrid model consisting of three
major parts offering a specific operational approach
based on a consistent end-to-end analytical view of the
system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Notkin:2007:FFb,
author = "David Notkin",
title = "{FAQs} and figures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "6--7",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234743",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "As I await questions from the community about ACM
TOSEM (see my last column), let me bring you up to date
on a few things. Any of you that have been authors or
reviewers for TOSEM in the past few years have had to
tussle with the manuscript processing system that ACM
uses --- Manuscript Central. ScholarOne, the company
that developed Manuscript Central, was acquired
relatively recently by Thompson Scientific. The
software is used by several thousand journals
worldwide, covering many different scholarly
disciplines. Professional societies, government
agencies and commercial publishers use Manuscript
Central.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2007:CK,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "Cocoa Krispies",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "7--7",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234744",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2007:SNSb,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}: solving the software quality problem",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "8--17",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234745",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The subtitle to this month's article is just meant to
grab your attention. I assure you, this column will not
be solving the software quality problem. What I do hope
to do is point you at some interesting web sites that
discuss potential solutions to the software quality
problem and let you solve it on your own.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2007:RPb,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "18--23",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234746",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relating to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2007:RMT,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Managing the Testing Process}}
by Rex Black, Wiley 2002}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "28--32",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234748",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2007:RPS,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Productive Software Test
Management}} by Michael W. Evans, Wiley 1984}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "32--32",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234749",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2007:RST,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Software Testing Management}}
by Thomas C. Royer, P-H 1993}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "32--33",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234750",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Anonymous:2007:RCB,
author = "Anonymous",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Change-based Test Management}}
by Jon Sistowicz and Ray Arell, Intel Press 2001}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "2",
pages = "33--34",
month = mar,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1234741.1234751",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:28 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bhansali:2007:MP,
author = "P. V. Bhansali",
title = "The {MCDC} paradox",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "3",
pages = "1--4",
month = may,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1241572.1241581",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MCDC) is a
structural testing strategy required to verify Level A
software used in commercial aviation. In DO-178B, Level
A software is defined as software whose anomalous
behavior would cause or contribute to a failure of
system function resulting in a catastrophic failure
condition for the aircraft. Paradoxically, this
technique does not detect common errors, yet it
consumes a large portion (approximately 25\%) of the
verification budget because of the number of test cases
required to satisfy this coverage. Furthermore, this
approach is directly applicable to only high-level
languages, making its applicability of limited value to
assembly language programs and machine-level code which
could have been generated by auto code tools. A simpler
approach is suggested in this paper that would better
detect these common errors and would be more
cost-effective for all applications.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Misra:2007:VMC,
author = "Sanjay Misra",
title = "Validating modified cognitive complexity measure",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "3",
pages = "1--5",
month = may,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1241572.1241583",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A newly proposed complexity measure is acceptable,
only when its usefulness has been proved by a
validation process. In our previous work, we proposed
Modified Cognitive Complexity Measure (MCCM). In this
paper, MCCM has been evaluated and validated through a
practical framework and principle of measurement
theory. It has been found to satisfy most of the
parameters required by the practical framework and
measurement theory. Additionally, empirical validation
through case study and comparative study proved the
robustness of the proposed measure.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Yu:2007:EER,
author = "Ping Yu and Xiaoxing Ma and Jian Lu",
title = "Expectation, experiment and reflection on {Internet}
software evolution",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "3",
pages = "1--5",
month = may,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1241572.1241585",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Dynamic evolution is a challenging requirement of
software application systems running in the open,
dynamic and uncertain Internet. In this paper, we
investigate expectations of Internet software evolution
and propose a dynamic software architecture oriented
approach. Notably, architecture information is reified
as explicit and manipulable entities to support a
runtime architecture meta-model, which is causally
connected to the system implementation and
specification. Moreover, mobile agent technology is
exploited to implement the built-in architecture
meta-model, supervising all evolutionary behaviors
during runtime. A prototype supporting platform named
Artemis-ARC is implemented as an attempt to facilitate
the development of dynamically evolvable application
systems. Based on existing practice, some reflection on
Internet software evolution is also illustrated.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pedreira:2007:SRS,
author = "Oscar Pedreira and Mario Piattini and Miguel R. Luaces
and Nieves R. Brisaboa",
title = "A systematic review of software process tailoring",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "3",
pages = "1--6",
month = may,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1241572.1241584",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Although software process proposals appear
continuously, it is difficult to fit any of them into a
given company as they are. Thus, some kind of
adaptation or tailoring is always necessary. The goal
of software process tailoring is to adapt an
``off-the-shelf'' software process to meet the needs of
a specific organization or project. Although process
tailoring is a mandatory activity in most software
process proposals, it is usually carried out by
following an ad-hoc approach, and the amount of
research done on this topic to date can be considered
small. This paper presents a systematic review of
software process tailoring, analyzing the existing
approaches towards this activity, discussing the main
issues related to the problem, and providing an
up-to-date and complete framework in which to position
new research activities.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Krishnan:2007:CTL,
author = "R. Krishnan and S. Murali Krishna and P. Siva
Nandhan",
title = "Combinatorial testing: learnings from our experience",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "3",
pages = "1--8",
month = may,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1241572.1241582",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Combinatorial testing methods address generation of
test cases for problems involving multiple parameters
and combinations. The Orthogonal Array Based Testing
Strategy (OATS) is one such combinatorial testing
method, a systematic, statistical way of testing
pair-wise interactions. It provides representative
(uniformly distributed) coverage of all variable pair
combinations. This makes the technique particularly
useful for testing of software, wherever there is
combinatorial explosion: a. In system testing for
handling feature interactions b. In integration testing
components c. It is also quite useful for testing
products with a large number of configuration
possibilities. One of the fundamental assumptions
behind OATS approach is that a subset covering all
pair-wise combinations will be more effective than a
randomly selected subset. OATS provides a means to
select a minimal test set that guarantees testing the
pair-wise combinations of all the selected variables.
Covering pair-wise combinations has been reported to be
very effective in the literature. Successful use of
this technique, with 50\% effort saving and improved
testing with a factor of 2.6 is reported in the
literature. In this paper, we report on the in-house
web-based application that we designed and implemented
to support customized version of OATS and our
experience in piloting and getting this method used in
projects. In the in-house tool we have introduced a
number of additional features, that help in generation
and post processing of test-cases. We have also
designed a supporting process for using this method,
and we discuss the steps in this process in the paper.
We share details on application in feature testing of a
mobile phone application. This method has also been
successfully used in designing feature interaction test
cases and for augmenting the regression suite to
increase coverage.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Notkin:2007:ATFa,
author = "David Notkin",
title = "{ACM TOSEM}: {FAQs} and figures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "3",
pages = "6",
month = may,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1241572.1241574",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2007:SEEb,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education: {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "3",
pages = "6--7",
month = may,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1241572.1241575",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Hazzan:2007:ISI,
author = "Orit Hazzan",
title = "The influence of software intangibility on computer
science and software engineering education",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "3",
pages = "7--8",
month = may,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1241572.1241576",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this short essay I will discuss how the fact that
software is an intangible object influences Computer
Science (CS) and Software Engineering (SE) education.
Based on several observations that result from this
analysis (Part A), I will then highlight the importance
of teaching soft ideas in the framework of CS and SE
education (Part B).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2007:ST,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "Software traumatica",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "3",
pages = "8--9",
month = may,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1241572.1241577",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2007:SNSc,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "3",
pages = "10--19",
month = may,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1241572.1241578",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2007:RPc,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "3",
pages = "20--24",
month = may,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1241572.1241579",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Arell:2007:WJR,
author = "Ray Arell",
title = "Wonderful Jupiter?: (A Rebuttal)",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "3",
pages = "26",
month = may,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1241572.1241587",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Banerjee:2007:OET,
author = "Jayasri Banerjee and Anup Kumar Bandyopadhyay and Ajit
Kumar Mandal",
title = "Ordering of events in two-process concurrent system",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "1:1--1:??",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281423",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/d/dijkstra-edsger-w.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Dijkstra's weakest precondition calculus is extended
to capture temporal ordering in concurrent systems.
This is done by defining temporal ordering predicates
that is used to describe necessary conditions. A new
logical connective, viz., ``implies in the past'' is
also defined to describe the cause and effect
relationships. Ordering mechanism used in Peterson's
two process mutual exclusion algorithm is explained by
proving a theorem.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "1",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Banerjee:2007:ADW,
author = "Jayasri Banerjee and Anup Kumar Bandyopadhyay and Ajit
Kumar Mandal",
title = "Application of {Dijkstra}'s weakest precondition
calculus to {Dining Philosophers} problem",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "2:1--2:??",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281424",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/d/dijkstra-edsger-w.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Dijkstra's weakest precondition calculus is used to
model the well known Dining Philosophers problem.
Process and state definitions are done in such a manner
that only the deadlock property of the system is
highlighted. Care has been taken to choose the proper
details such that it is not too elaborate to obscure
the requirements also not be too abstract to mask the
actual analytical needs. State transition rules specify
the system behavior. Intuitive reasoning as well as
formal technique has been applied to get the deadlock
condition. Two well known solutions are specified and
proved. The proof technique being analytical, its
complexity does not depend on the size of the problem.
The second solution requires an event ordering and
therefore a temporal ordering predicate has been used
to prove its correctness.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "2",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Farooq:2007:RDV,
author = "Ayaz Farooq and Reiner R. Dumke",
title = "Research directions in verification and validation
process improvement",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "3:1--3:??",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281425",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software process establishment, evaluation and
improvement are key research areas in the software
engineering field today. Extensive research has been
carried out and many different kinds of approaches
exist to improve the software process and even more
efforts are underway. Verification and validation
process, which is part of the broader software process
activities, plays a vital role in quality and
profitability of the developed product but is believed
to consume major portion of the development expenses
and resources. Probably, research towards improving the
verification and validation process has not been as
actively directed as compared to software process
improvement research. This paper identifies several
potential future research directions towards improving
verification and validation process.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "3",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Khemakhem:2007:SES,
author = "Sofien Khemakhem and Khalil Drira and Mohamed Jmaiel",
title = "{SEC+}: an enhanced search engine for component-based
software development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "4:1--4:??",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281426",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents an ontology to describe functional
and non-functional properties of software components,
associated with a portable implementation for enhanced
discovering. Without leaving the development
environment, the developer loads SEC+, a persistent
component that acts as an intelligent search engine. It
generates a query from developer specification. It
handles generated queries and automatically locates and
presents a list of compliant components that could be
used in the current development situation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "4",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Krishnan:2007:CQT,
author = "R. Krishnan and S. Murali Krishna and Nishil Bharill",
title = "Code quality tools: learning from our experience",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "5:1--5:??",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281427",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper we share some of our experiences
relating to tools used in coding phase. We primarily
focus our discussion on two topics, namely UT (Unit
Testing) and Memory related errors. Unit Testing (UT)
[1] is a critical early-phase verification activity
that ensures the quality of the product soon after the
code is ready. Newer paradigms of software development
like Extreme Programming [7] have a strong focus on UT.
However, UT is very effort-intensive as it involves
test harness development and repetitive execution. In
Motorola software Group, we evaluated a set of
commercial tools and selected a tool for use in our
projects. In this paper, we will share the evaluation
criteria, which was identified for the tool selection
and the various technical challenges encountered in
adopting a UT tool solution in a heterogeneous
environment along with the associated learning. One of
the major challenges encountered, was arriving to a
consensus on definition of term 'Unit'. The other
issues included handling of complex data structures,
event driven code, integration with development
environment etc. One of the major categories of errors
introduced and found in coding phase relates to memory.
As these errors may have security implications, leaving
them undetected might be a big risk. For trapping
memory related errors, a framework to categorize these
errors was created along with the associated code
samples. In this paper, two types of memory related
errors will be discussed, namely memory leak and buffer
overflow. This memory related errors can be exploited
to compromise the security of the system. This paper
also discusses the causes, types and impact of buffer
overflows, as well as the precautions to be taken to
prevent buffer overflows.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "5",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lins:2007:AWS,
author = "Fernando Ant{\^o}nio Aires Lins and Jos{\'e} Carlos
dos Santos J{\'u}nior and Nelson Souto Rosa",
title = "Adaptive web service composition",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "6:1--6:??",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281428",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Web services have played an important role in the
development of distributed systems. In particular, the
possibility of composing already implemented web
services in order to provide a new functionality is an
interesting approach for building distributed
applications and business processes. The possibility of
dynamically composing web services is also apparent.
Current approaches address to this point, but they do
not adopt established specifications, like WS-BPEL, as
they usually propose modifications in the rules of
business process specifications by imposing more
difficulties to implement the system. This paper
proposes a policy-driven approach for enabling web
service adaptability through a semantic modification in
the invocation primitive of WS-BPEL, whilst maintaining
its syntax unaffected. Hence, programmers may define
dynamic web service compositions without changing the
source code. The approach has been applied to a loan
approval system in order to illustrate it.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "6",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Riehle:2007:DSC,
author = "Richard Riehle",
title = "Designing software components to tolerances",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "7:1--7:??",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281429",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many traditional engineering designs, other than
software, depend on the physical properties of
components. Those properties enable the engineer to
specify precise tolerances between those components.
Software components are abstractions with no inherent
physical properties. The absence of physical properties
makes it more difficult, but not impossible, to design
to tolerances. This paper describes some design metrics
for designing software components to tolerances. It
uses some already established design metrics, and
expands on the role of other software practices already
available. This paper also restricts the discussion to
software components, rather than to the algorithms
contained within those components.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "7",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Notkin:2007:ATFb,
author = "David Notkin",
title = "{ACM TOSEM}: {FAQs} and figures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "8--8",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281435",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "As the eagle-eyed among you may have noticed, ACM
TOSEM has a new editorial charter. Approved by both the
TOSEM editorial board and the ACM Publications Board,
it is now posted to the TOSEM website.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2007:GTE,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "The Grand Theory of Everything: what man-made systems
are, and why they fail",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "8:1--8:??",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281430",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Grand Theory of Everything (tGToE) is a powerful,
elegant and unique Model which may be used towards the
Understanding and Development of Man-Made Systems. This
Model may be used to Identify, Explore, and Predict
Faults of Systems-Making, and Faults in Systems and
Faults in Systems-Use. Although the tGToE Model
provides an Understanding of Systems and Choices, it
may not necessarily identify Best Choices or Practical
Solutions as that requires Judgment. As all Models are
Abstractions, the Possibility of oversimplification
that applies to Models applies equally to tGToE.
Refinement of this Model has led the Author to several
Curious Observations on Paradoxes in Systems and
Observations on the Use of Power in Organizations.
Depending on the Ethics of the Reader, the application
of tGToE may be used to solve Great Problems or to
cause Great Mischief and Harm.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "8",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Senthil:2007:ICM,
author = "R. Senthil and D. S. Kushwaha and A. K. Misra",
title = "An improved component model for component based
software engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "9:1--9:??",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281431",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper focuses on Component Based Software
Engineering (CBSE) and generic connectors for the
software components. An attempt has been made to
describe n-tier architecture; in particular, data
access architecture in a component based application.
It attempts to express how data access objects interact
with business-tier and data-tier in achieving reusable,
robust and scalable component based architecture by
implementing Data Adapter interface. It has been able
to establish that code efficiency increases when data
access object implements the data adapter interface by
performing unit test on the code. It has also been able
to show that there exists a loose coupling in the
component based architecture.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "9",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2007:S,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "Superhack",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "9--9",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281436",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Sunil has a photographic memory. He closes his eyes
and imagines code in his mind, and he edits by moving,
inserting, and deleting the text mentally, until it
looks just right. Then he types it in from top to
bottom and it usually runs right the first time. Sunil
has read many books of algorithms and patterns over the
years. He can flick to a page, conjure it in his mind,
and type what he needs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Singh:2007:STS,
author = "Yogesh Singh and Bindu Goel",
title = "A step towards software preventive maintenance",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "10:1--10:??",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281432",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In a world interwoven economically, increasing
dependence on critical software applications either in
transaction processing (banking, Government services
etc) or manufacturing automation (automobiles,
pharmaceuticals, chemicals) has accentuated the
economic impact aging software can have. Software with
increased usage operating in unforeseen conditions at
throughput much higher then initial expectations can
degrade fast leading to higher altered form and
dramatic drop in performance indicators. In the current
paper we have tried to analyse the issues governing
software maintenance and how preventive maintenance
which is still considered a very evolving field in the
context of software engineering can help the software
product age usefully. We have also attempted to address
the above in the essence of how it is done for hardware
preventive maintenance which is a better understood and
commercially accepted concept. Finally we suggest model
for the preventive maintenance integrated within
software life cycle.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "10",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2007:SNSd,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "10--19",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281437",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Database programming doesn't provide the excitement of
game programming or the instant gratification of a
flashy web application, but the ability to store and
retrieve information in an organized manner is vital to
the operation of many client-server or web-based
applications. Construction of a solid application often
depends upon a well built database to provide
persistent storage of the data needed to power the
application. So although database planning and design
may be boring, it is a necessary step in the software
engineering process.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Taibi:2007:CCO,
author = "Fathi Taibi and Jacob K. Daniel and Fouad Mohammed
Abbou",
title = "On checking the consistency of {Object-Z} classes",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "11:1--11:??",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281433",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Requirements elicitation involves gathering
requirements from different stakeholders. Different
stakeholders often hold different views of how a system
should behave, resulting in inconsistencies between
their descriptions. Rigorous consistency checking
methods can be effectively applied if the different
views are formally specified. This is possible because
of the unambiguous and precise nature of formal
specification languages. However, ensuring that each
formal view is self-consistent is critical before
checking that the different views are inter-consistent.
In this paper, an algorithm is proposed to check the
self-consistency of the classes of an Object-Z
specification. The proposed approach combines
specification testing, model abstraction, and model
checking to perform the verification.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "11",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2007:RPd,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "20--29",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281438",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Clements:2007:AAD,
author = "Paul Clements and David Emery and Rich Hilliard and
Philippe Kruchten",
title = "{Aspects in Architectural Description}: report on a
first workshop at {AOSD 2007}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "33--35",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281440",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The First Workshop on Aspects in Architectural
Description was held in Vancouver, British Columbia as
a part of Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD)
2007. This workshop report presents a summary of the
topics addressed, contributions and issues raised, and
workshop conclusions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Budgen:2007:REB,
author = "David Budgen and Pearl Brereton",
title = "{Realising Evidence-Based Software Engineering
(REBSE-2)}: a report from the workshop held at {ICSE
2007}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "36--39",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281441",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Context: The REBSE international workshops are
concerned with exploring the adaptation and use of the
evidence-based paradigm in software engineering
research and practice, through a mix of presentations
and discussion. Objectives: These were to explore both
experience with, and potential for, evidence-based
software engineering (EBSE); to consider how this might
affect empirical practices in software engineering; and
to work towards creating a community of researchers to
practice and promote EBSE. Method: Three sessions were
dedicated to a mix of presentations and interactive
discussion, while the fourth was dedicated to
summarising progress and identifying both issues of
concern and actions to pursue. Conclusions: While we
identified a number of issues, a key need is clearly to
have a central repository to both provide information
and to maintain a record of activity in this area.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pretschner:2007:IIW,
author = "Alexander Pretschner and Christian Salzmann and
Bernhard Sch{\"a}tz and Thomas Stauner",
title = "{4th Intl. ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for
Automotive Systems}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "40--40",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281442",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper summarizes the fourth International
Workshop on Software Engineering for Automotive
Systems, held in conjunction with ICSE 2007.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Avgeriou:2007:AKR,
author = "Paris Avgeriou and Philippe Kruchten and Patricia Lago
and Paul Grisham and Dewayne Perry",
title = "Architectural knowledge and rationale: issues, trends,
challenges",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "41--46",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281443",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The second workshop on Sharing and Reusing
Architectural Knowledge (SHARK) and Architecture
rationale and Design intent (ADI) was held jointly with
ICSE 2007 in Minneapolis. This report presents the
themes of the workshop, summarizes the results of the
discussions held, and suggests some topics for future
research.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sawyer:2007:WCR,
author = "Pete Sawyer and Barbara Paech and Patrick Heymans",
title = "Working conference on requirements engineering:
foundation for software quality {(REFSQ'07)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "47--53",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281444",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "REFSQ'07 took place over the 11$^{th}$ and 12$^{th}$
June 2007 in the beautiful Norwegian city of Trondheim.
It was attended by 47 people from 14 countries, who
came to present and/or discuss 27 papers, the insights
they offered and the issues they raised. During the
course of the two days, a number of recurrent and
important themes emerged. These were co-design of
requirements and architecture,
analyst-stakeholder-developer communication,
requirements dependencies, the role of value in
requirements engineering (RE) and the role and the
progress made by research in RE.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2007:RTC,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{TSP: Coaching Development
Teams}} by Watts S. Humphrey, Addison-Wesley, 2006}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "4",
pages = "53--53",
month = jul,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1281421.1281446",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:30 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Marovac:2007:UBE,
author = "Nenad Marovac",
title = "{UML} based embedded documentation for semi-automatic
software development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1290993.1290997",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:32 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A few years ago we introduced a concept of ``Embedded
Software Documentation''. This embedded documentation
consists of special documenting structures referred to
as Flagged Sentences. The purpose of Flagged Sentences
is to assists us in reading and understanding software
programs and their individual components during the
maintenance of these programs and reuse of the
components. This embedded documentation also helps us
in functional decomposition of given problems and
design of related computer programs and in ensuring the
consistency of interfaces within these programs. After
the introduction of Object Oriented Modeling and
Design, we expanded the concept of Flagged Sentences to
incorporate a specification and classification
mechanism based on Object Oriented Modeling and Design.
This paper presents new extensions to deal with both:
UML language for modeling of problems and software
components implementing solutions to these problems,
and Unified Process for iterative development of
software systems. The basic objective in the current
expansion of Flagged Sentences is to accommodate Object
Oriented Modeling using UML, and to communicate all the
necessary information to tasks that are part of modern
and efficient development environments for software
production. The information is provided in a format
that is easy to extract and automatically organize,
classify and use. The information includes data about
application domains, problems to be solved, the
associated software systems being developed and the
related documentations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Riehle:2007:FDS,
author = "Richard Riehle",
title = "Failure-driven software safety",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1290993.1290998",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:32 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software safety and software risk management are two
of the most important facets of modern software
engineering. To understand safety requires that we
understand first what is not safe. This paper examines
the concept of failure in software engineering and
describes an approach to failure-driven software design
(FDSD).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Grover:2007:FUC,
author = "P. S. Grover and Rajesh Kumar and Arun Sharma",
title = "Few useful considerations for maintaining software
components and component-based systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "5",
pages = "1--5",
month = sep,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1290993.1290995",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:32 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component-Based Systems (CBS) maintenance may require
several activities different than normal applications,
such as upgrading the functionality of black-box
components (for which code may not be available),
replacement of older version components with the new
ones for better and improved functionality, tracing the
problem of compatibility between the new components
with system, and so on. The focus of this paper is on
investigating several issues and concerns about
maintainability of component-based systems. It also
explores the acceptance of maintainability
characteristics and sub-characteristics as defined in
ISO9126 quality model for CBS. The paper proposes two
new sub-characteristics, namely trackability and
portability, to be included under the maintenance
activity.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Huang:2007:PDS,
author = "Gang Huang",
title = "Post-development software architecture",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "5",
pages = "1--9",
month = sep,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1290993.1290996",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:32 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software architecture (SA) plays an important role in
software development. Since the lifecycle stages post
development become more and more important and face
with many challenges similar to the development, it is
a natural idea to introduce or extend SA into the
stages post development. In this paper, we present our
practices and experiences on applying software
architecture into the deployment and maintenance of
J2EE (Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition) applications,
including the tool and principles of SA-based J2EE
deployment and SA-based J2EE online maintenance. It
demonstrates that (1) SA can help to achieve a
holistic, fine-grained and automated deployment of
large-scale distributed systems by visualizing the
structure of the system to be deployed; (2) SA can
provide an understandable, operational and global view
for online maintenance by organizing the fragmented and
trivial management mechanisms; (3) Extending SA into
the stages post development makes it possible that the
whole lifecycle of a software system can be governed by
SA with many benefits, e.g. consistency, traceability,
responsiveness, etc.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Notkin:2007:ATFc,
author = "David Notkin",
title = "{ACM TOSEM}: {FAQs} and figures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "5",
pages = "5--6",
month = sep,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1290993.1291000",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:32 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Reviewers are an essential --- and voluntary ---
cornerstone of ACM TOSEM, as for every peer-reviewed
publication. Sitting in the EIC seat has provided me,
not surprisingly, with a firsthand look at many
reviewers, many reviews, and many reactions to reviews
by authors and associate editors alike.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2007:SEEc,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education: {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "5",
pages = "6--6",
month = sep,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1290993.1291001",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:32 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2007:SNSe,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "5",
pages = "7--16",
month = sep,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1290993.1291002",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:32 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A good user interface is key to most programs.
Designing an intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI)
that makes it easy for users to get information in to
and out of your application is a hallmark of a killer
app. Most software engineers are not graphic designers
and most graphic designers are not software engineers
and therein lies the problem. In this month's article I
hope to provide software engineers with advice on
graphic design and introduce graphic designers to some
software tools that will help them realize their design
in code. If you happen to be a graphic designer and a
software engineer, you may find some useful tools and
tips at the sites listed below.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2007:RPe,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "5",
pages = "17--25",
month = sep,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1290993.1291003",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:32 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Garcia:2007:ACM,
author = "Alessandro Garcia and Phil Greenwood and George
Heineman and Robert Walker and Yuanfang Cai and Hong
Yul Yang and Elisa Baniassad and Cristina Videira Lopes
and Christa Schwanninger and Jianjun Zhao",
title = "{Assessment of Contemporary Modularization Techniques
--- ACoM'07}: workshop report",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "5",
pages = "31--37",
month = sep,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1290993.1291005",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:32 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The effective assessment of emerging modularization
technologies plays a pivotal role on: (i) a better
understanding of their real benefits and drawbacks when
compared to conventional development techniques, and
(ii) their effective transfer to mainstream software
development. This report is intended to summarize the
results of the 1st International Workshop on Assessment
of Contemporary Modularization Techniques (ACoM'07)
held in Minneapolis, USA, May 22, 2007, as part of the
29th International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE'07). The main purpose of this workshop was to
share and pool the collective experience of people
interested in and actively working on assessment of
innovative modularization techniques. The workshop
consisted of an opening presentation, several paper
presentations organized into three technical sessions,
and four discussion groups. During the workshop
presentations and discussions, the authors and
participants directly and indirectly reviewed ongoing
and previous work and debated a number of important
issues on contemporary modularity assessment. The
ACoM'07 website, including the electronic version of
this report, can be found at
www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/ACoM.07/. We begin by
presenting an overview of our goals and the workshop
structure, and then focus on the workshop technical
program and results.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Carver:2007:PWR,
author = "Jeffrey Carver",
title = "Post-workshop report for the {Third International
Workshop on Software Engineering for High Performance
Computing Applications (SE-HPC 07)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "5",
pages = "38--43",
month = sep,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1290993.1291006",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:32 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This is the report from a one-day workshop that took
place on Saturday, May 26, 2007 as part of the
International Conference on Software Engineering in
Minneapolis, MN, USA.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Banerjee:2007:CIT,
author = "Jayasri Banerjee and Anup Kumar Bandyopadhyay and Ajit
Kumar Mandal",
title = "On the correctness issues in two-process mutual
exclusion algorithms",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "6",
pages = "1:1--1:??",
month = nov,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1317471.1317473",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Correctness issues in two process mutual exclusion
algorithms are investigated. A new theorem is proposed
and proved that describes the key concept involved in
such algorithms. For the purpose of proving the
techniques developed in [3] are used. Result of this
theorem is applied to two different algorithms of which
one could be proved incorrect. Technique developed in
[3] is also used to prove the correct algorithm.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "1",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bandyopadhyay:2007:MFS,
author = "Anup Kumar Bandyopadhyay",
title = "Modeling fairness and starvation in concurrent
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "6",
pages = "2:1--2:??",
month = nov,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1317471.1317474",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/d/dijkstra-edsger-w.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Standard temporal logic is augmented and a new
temporal quantifier viz., never is defined. This
augmented logic is integrated in Dijkstra's weakest
precondition calculus. Definitions for fairness and
starvation for concurrent systems in terms of weakest
precondition are presented. According to the existing
concept fairness for a transition rule asserts that if
a rule remains continuously enabled (weak fairness) or
repeatedly enabled (strong fairness), then it must be
executed., where in the proposed definition fairness is
related to the permission for execution where
starvation relies upon actual execution. This
definition is used to prove fairness of a given
concurrent system. Through different examples it is
shown that fairness is not the only prerequisite for
starvation freedom. Available techniques use 'leads to'
operator that forecasts system behavior where the
proposed proof technique moves backward in time.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "2",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bastani:2007:HLO,
author = "Behzad Bastani and Hoda Bastani",
title = "High-level open evolvable systems design by
process-oriented modeling: application to {DNA}
replication mechanism",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "6",
pages = "3:1--3:??",
month = nov,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1317471.1317475",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Open Evolvable Systems' design requires a
methodological [1] and conceptual paradigm different
from the conventional software design. Evolvable
Systems' research [2, 6, 16, and 17] has established
itself as a new research field, but the content is more
domain-oriented than universal. Consequently, major
contributions toward substantiation of that universal
methodological and conceptual paradigm are yet to come.
In this paper we present a new perspective and method
for the general-purpose design of Evolvable Systems.
The paper presents the attributes of the Evolvable
Systems and discusses the distinction between Evolvable
Systems' and conventional software design as well as
the methodological ramifications. We pose and address
the question of what is an efficient methodology for
designing a system for which we do not know the
boundaries? We present our version of Process-oriented
Modeling as the key method in the high-level design of
Evolvable Systems and show its utilization in
implementation of one modeling case of a complex
Evolvable System, the DNA replication process. We also
present the dynamic aspects of the design process
management and pre-code verifications in the framework
of Quantified Controls and Simulations.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "3",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cordeiro:2007:TAH,
author = "Lucas Cordeiro and Raimundo Barreto and Rafael
Barcelos and Meuse Oliveira and Vicente Lucena and
Paulo Maciel",
title = "{TXM}: an agile {HW\slash SW} development methodology
for building medical devices",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "6",
pages = "4:1--4:??",
month = nov,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1317471.1317476",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Arterial oxygen saturation and heart rate measured by
pulse oximetry is widely used to monitor critical care
patients. This kind of system is classified as embedded
hard real-time system and requires rigorous development
methodologies to guarantee the correctness and
timeliness of the application. Therefore, the proposed
development methodology combines agile principles with
organizational patterns and adapts them to build
medical devices focusing on the issues related to the
system's constraints and safety. Strong unit testing is
the foundation of the proposed methodology for ensuring
timeliness and correctness. Moreover, platform-based
design approach is used to balance costs and
time-to-market in view of performance and functionality
constraints. We conclude that the proposed methodology
reduces significantly the design time and cost as well
as leads to better software modularity and safety.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "4",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Riehle:2007:IMR,
author = "Richard Riehle",
title = "Institutional memory and risk management",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "6",
pages = "5:1--5:??",
month = nov,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1317471.1317477",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software risk management is a critical aspect of
software engineering. Software risks based on metrics
derived from a large number of similar projects, along
with effective statistical methods, can improve risk
prediction, assessment, and management.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "5",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ploski:2007:RIS,
author = "Jan Ploski and Matthias Rohr and Peter Schwenkenberg
and Wilhelm Hasselbring",
title = "Research issues in software fault categorization",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "6",
pages = "6:1--6:??",
month = nov,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1317471.1317478",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software faults are a major threat for the
dependability of software systems. When we intend to
study the impact of software faults on software
behavior, examine the quality of fault tolerance
mechanisms, or evaluate diagnostic techniques, the
issue of distinguishing fault categories and their
frequency distribution arises immediately. This article
surveys the literature that provides quantitative data
on categories of software faults and discusses the
applicability of these software fault category
distributions to fault injection case studies.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "6",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wang:2007:MEO,
author = "Yi Wang and Defeng Guo and Huihui Shi",
title = "Measuring the evolution of open source software
systems with their communities",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "6",
pages = "7:1--7:??",
month = nov,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1317471.1317479",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/gnu.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Open Source Software (OSS) has become the subject of
much commercial and academic interest in last few
years. As traditional software, OSS also evolves to
fulfill the need of stakeholders. Therefore, providing
quantitative metrics for OSS evolution has also become
an urgent issue. However, most existing studies of
software evolution have been performed on systems
developed within a single company using traditional
management techniques. These metrics models are
inadequate to measure OSS evolution. In this paper, we
describe a preliminary evolution metrics set for
evaluating OSS. The most significant novelty of this
model is that it takes specific properties of Open
Source Community (OSC) into consideration. In another
word, we measure the evolution of OSS and OSC together.
We also provide a lightweight case study on Ubuntu
project using this metrics set. We find out that the
Open Source Community and its members also play
essential role in OSS evolution. We expect this metrics
model can bring better understandings and explanations
of phenomena in open source development and
evolution.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "7",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Zirkind:2007:ADC,
author = "Givon Zirkind",
title = "{AFIS} data compression: an example of how domain
specific compression algorithms can produce very high
compression ratios",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "6",
pages = "8:1--8:??",
month = nov,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1317471.1317480",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This article describes the development and
implementation of a data compression algorithm designed
specifically for fingerprints, referred to as GBP
compression. The algorithm is herein discussed. Data
Compression algorithms can be designed for general
applications, meaning the input data is unknown. This
is more commonly referred to as generic data. [LI01]
Or, data compression algorithms can be designed for
specific applications. e.g. AFIS [Automated Fingerprint
Identification Systems] ``When the input is known,
higher compression ratios can be achieved with the
knowledge of the input data stream.'' To-date, the
highest compression ratio for an unknown input data
stream, for all data compression algorithms, is JPEG
with an average compression ratio range of 1:17 ---
1:23. [PEN03] The algorithm herein discussed, has a
compression ratio range of 1:68 --- 1:92. There is a
value, time and place for each design method ---
generic or specific --- depending upon a variety of
factors. Due to the nature of the use of AFIS for law
enforcement and incrimination as well as criminal
conviction, there are social issues that make data
integrity of paramount concern. This factor influences
algorithm selection and design. A lossless algorithm is
a must! Also, the nature of AFIS is such that it
operates across borders and between states,
municipalities and jurisdictions. In addition to the
usual issues and resistance to accepting new
technology, including software [e.g. resistance to
change, fear of system failure, etc.], there are the
issues of changing engineering standards [hardware and
software] which are governmentally determined as well
as governmental policy decisions. Likewise, the
portability required in implementing a new algorithm,
will have to deal with a variety of hardware and
software; as well as be designed to integrate into
existing systems. This integration must include the
ability to incorporate existing JPEG data files, from
existing police databases. This requires a handshaking
of standards and conversion programs that maintain data
integrity. In addition, there is an in depth discussion
of the limits of compression with a novel
perspective.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "8",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2007:ES,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "On the economics of software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "6",
pages = "8--9",
month = nov,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1317471.1317482",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Source is not precious. One can go to code.google.com
and download source by the gigabyte. That's a lot. It
would take most people an entire career to read and
appreciate a gigabyte of code. Reading one chapter of a
book per hour or a 50,000 word novel in twelve hours
corresponds to reading 1 billion characters in 20
years, at 40 hours per week. Wading through gigabytes
of code to find the few lines that one cares about can
take a long time. On the other hand, applications are
valuable, because they do specific things for specific
users. Working apps consist of specific bodies of
source.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2007:SNSf,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "6",
pages = "10--19",
month = nov,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1317471.1317483",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The web has a lot of sites devoted to testing and test
tools. If you are in charge of designing a test program
for your development, a few hours surfing the sites
listed here could get you off to a pretty good start.
We'll visit some of the sites that offer test tools,
but for the most part, I'm going to focus on sites that
talk about testing, test methods, and test plans. There
will be plenty of sites that have links to the tools,
so you can take off from there. But remember, a test
tool is not a test plan.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2007:RPf,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "32",
number = "6",
pages = "20--27",
month = nov,
year = "2007",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1317471.1317484",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:33 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relevant to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2008:HE,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "The human element",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "1",
pages = "1:1--1:??",
month = jan,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1344452.1344454",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:34 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "1",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2008:SEEa,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software Engineering Education: {SEEd}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "1",
pages = "2:1--2:??",
month = jan,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1344452.1344455",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:34 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "2",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2008:SNSa,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "1",
pages = "3:1--3:??",
month = jan,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1344452.1344456",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:34 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "3",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2008:RPa,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "1",
pages = "4:1--4:??",
month = jan,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1344452.1344457",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:34 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "4",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Cordeiro:2008:ADM,
author = "Lucas Cordeiro and Carlos Mar and Eduardo Valentin and
Fabiano Cruz and Daniel Patrick and Raimundo Barreto
and Vicente Lucena",
title = "An agile development methodology applied to embedded
control software under stringent hardware constraints",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "1",
pages = "5:1--5:??",
month = jan,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1344452.1344459",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:34 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In recent years, discrete control systems play an
important role in the development and advancement of
modern civilization and technology. Practically every
aspect of our life is affected by some type of control
systems. This kind of system maybe classified as an
embedded real-time system and requires rigorous
methodologies to develop the software that is under
stringent hardware constraints. Therefore, the proposed
development methodology adapts agile principles and
patterns in order to build embedded control systems
focusing on the issues related to the system's
constraints and safety. Strong unit testing is the
foundation of the proposed methodology for ensuring
timeliness and correctness. Moreover, platform-based
design approach is used to balance costs and
time-to-market in view of performance and functionality
constraints. We conclude that the proposed methodology
reduces significantly the design time and cost as well
as leads to better software modularity and
reliability.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "5",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fass:2008:ELL,
author = "Leona F. Fass",
title = "An ethnocentric look at the law and technology
interface",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "1",
pages = "6:1--6:??",
month = jan,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1344452.1344460",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:34 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We often conduct ethnocentric research, observing
everyday citizen end-users in their own environments to
assess their access, technological and policy concerns.
Our recent research has revealed that many end-user
concerns are on the interface of Law and Technology.
Such interface issues also have become apparent
throughout our own interactions with software and the
Web, as well as within our specific research into
eCommerce; Link Analysis and Data Mining; and the
Semantic Web applied to eGovernment and Homeland
Security. Among the relevant areas we now address are
information security and integrity; barriers
(intentional or otherwise) to access; security-privacy
trade-offs; the need for user education; and importance
of cooperation among stakeholders, policymakers and
experts in Technology-related Law. We illustrate that
in many policy areas of evolving Law related to
Technology there may be no general decision procedure;
many decisions can only be made case-by-case. We
strongly support ethnocentric studies by practitioners
of Software Engineering, experts in Technology Law and
policymakers. This can identify specific critical
deployment issues that might otherwise be overlooked
within traditional research venues. We believe that
many end-user concerns on the Law and Technology
interface, once recognized, can be alleviated by
Software Engineering professionals.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "6",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2008:SAS,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "A systems analysis of systems integration",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "1",
pages = "7:1--7:??",
month = jan,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1344452.1344461",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:34 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Most if not all complex issues stated as problems
intended to result in new systems may be analyzed using
systems decomposition and then constructed by
synthesis. Systems decomposition starts with a complex
problem that may or may not be obviously solvable and
deconstructs that problem into smaller more tractable
problems that can be solved. Construction by synthesis
treats the smaller solutions as building blocks. The
key practical advantage to synthesis is that it permits
concurrency of construction. The subsystems may be
developed and tested independently in isolation. Not
until integration will subsystems need to be brought
together. Decomposition and synthesis are the ideal in
theory. In practice there can be any number of
problems. Potentially the most fatal of flaws can occur
during decomposition where errors in abstraction lead
to over-idealization of subsystem independence.
Over-idealization leads to under-specification, that
what is presumed to be independent is not. Once errors
in subsystem specification are made, independent
development ensures that undetected dependencies will
remain undetected. Subsystem dependencies are hidden
time bombs, dormant until the subsystems are brought
together for systems integration. In systems
integration the latent dependencies interact and
explode in a manner most combinatorial. The term often
used to describe the excitation of dormant dependencies
is ``emergent behavior''. Emergent behavior is but one
factor that plagues the integration of large software
intensive systems. There have been few published
analyses or case studies dedicated to systems
integration, in particular analyses deemed useful as
``lessons learned'' for others to follow. This paper
takes a hesitant first step, not towards a ``lessons
learned'' but towards the meta, an estimation of the
boundaries of what it might take before one can provide
a useful ``lessons learned''.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "7",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tuya:2008:CEW,
author = "Javier Tuya and Javier Dolado and Ma Jose Suarez-Cabal
and Claudio de la Riva",
title = "A controlled experiment on white-box database
testing",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "1",
pages = "8:1--8:??",
month = jan,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1344452.1344462",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:34 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Controlled experiments are a powerful way to assess
and compare the effectiveness of different techniques.
In this paper we present the experimental results of
the evaluation of the effectiveness of a structural
test coverage criterion developed for SQL queries when
used by a tester to guide the selection of database
test cases. We describe a controlled experiment
designed for comparing this criterion with other
conventional criteria such as equivalence partitioning
and boundary value analysis. The results show that (1)
the use of the structural coverage allows the tester to
develop more effective test cases, (2) the
effectiveness is higher when considering the kind of
faults that are more specifically related to SQL than
other kinds of faults, and (3) the results give us some
insight into how to improve the coverage criterion.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "8",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tracz:2008:RGR,
author = "Will Tracz",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Geekonomics: The Real Cost of
Insecure Software}} by David Rice, Addison-Wesley,
2008, 362 pp., 0-321-47789-8 (hardback), \$29.99}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "1",
pages = "9:1--9:??",
month = jan,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1344452.1344464",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:34 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "9",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Foos:2008:TXB,
author = "R{\"u}diger Foos and Christian Bunse and Hagen
H{\"o}pfner and Torsten Zimmermann",
title = "{TML}: an {XML-based} test modeling language",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "1:1--1:??",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350809",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Quality is a key property of modern software systems.
In addition, to quality improvement strategies such as
CMM or CMMI and manual checking approaches such as
reviews or inspections, software testing is the major
quality assurance activity in most projects. Literally
speaking, software testing is nearly as essential as
writing code itself. Due to its prominent role there
are quite a number of commercial and open-source test
tools available. However, the question remains if an
organisation should rely on a single tool or if it
should follow a more general strategy using several
tools? Practical experience has shown that the latter
strategy is more promising by covering multiple quality
aspects that cannot be covered by a single tool,
although it requires a means of communication between
tools (i.e., a tool independent test language). This
paper introduces a XML-based and test tool independent
test modeling language that support creating general
test cases. The language separates test logic from test
tool specific code. Thus, a test case only has to be
specified once and can then be executed by several test
tools.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "1",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bandyopadhyay:2008:WPB,
author = "Anup Kumar Bandyopadhyay",
title = "Weakest precondition based verification tool that
models spatial ordering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "2:1--2:??",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350808",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Weakest precondition based method for specification
and verification of geographically distributed system
is described. For this purpose spatial predicates have
been defined. A distributed mutual exclusion algorithm
is proposed and is used to illustrate this verification
tool.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "2",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gill:2008:DIO,
author = "Nasib S. Gill and Balkishan",
title = "Dependency and interaction oriented complexity metrics
of component-based systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "3:1--3:??",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350810",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component-Based Development (CBD) practice is gaining
popularity among software developers in the software
industry. Researcher community is striving hard to
identify the attributes characterizing component-based
development and further proposing metrics that may help
in controlling the complexity of the component-based
systems. The present paper introduces a set of
component-based metrics, namely, Component Dependency
Metric (CDM) and Component Interaction Density Metric
(CIDM), which measure the dependency and coupling
aspects of the software components respectively. Graph
theoretic notions have been used to illustrate the
dependency and interaction among software components
for all the four cases chosen for present study.
Dependency and interaction-oriented complexity metrics
for component-based systems have been computed. The
results of the present study are quite encouraging and
may further help the researchers in controlling the
complexity of component-based systems so as to minimize
the integration and maintenance costs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "3",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kharb:2008:CMC,
author = "Latika Kharb and Rajender Singh",
title = "Complexity metrics for component-oriented software
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "4:1--4:??",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350811",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component-based software development (CBSD) has become
one of the preferred streams for developing large and
complex systems by integrating prefabricated software
components that not only facilitates the process of
software development but is also changing the ways for
software professionals to develop software
applications. Till today, numerous attempts have been
made by several organizations, software development
teams, developers as well as researchers to improve
component-oriented software systems (COSS) through
improved measurement tools and techniques i.e. through
an effective metrics. Our paper is a simple attempt to
work for the demand of an appropriate and relevant
integration metrics for the measurement of complexity
of a software component that could be used as one of
the approaches for further guidance in component
complexity measurement and problem reduction. We
represented a component metrics as an instantiation of
the integration complexity measurement which can then
be evaluated using appropriate metric tools. The work
presented in this paper introduces a perception of
component-oriented software systems complexity and also
defines some new complexity metrics.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "4",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Riehle:2008:JDU,
author = "Dirk Riehle",
title = "{JUnit} 3.8 documented using collaborations",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "5:1--5:??",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350812",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes the design of the unit testing
framework JUnit v3.8. The documentation technique
employed is an enhanced version of collaboration-based
design, also known as role modeling. In
collaboration-based design, objects are viewed as
playing multiple roles in different contexts, and
different contexts are viewed as task specific
collaborations. The documentation accounts for every
method in the JUnit 3.8 framework by assigning it to a
role. It thereby investigates whether roles and
collaborations can serve as basic units of
functionality provided by a design like a framework.
Such a measure of functionality can serve multiple
purposes, for example estimating implementation efforts
or measuring complexity.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "5",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Notkin:2008:ATFa,
author = "David Notkin",
title = "{ACM TOSEM FAQs} and figures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "5--6",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350803",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2008:SEEb,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software Engineering Education: {SEEd}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "6--6",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350804",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Srivastava:2008:NHP,
author = "Praveen R. Srivastava and Deepak Pareek and Kailash
Sati and Dinesh C. Pujari and G. Raghurama",
title = "Non homogeneous {Poisson} process based cumulative
priority model for determining optimal software testing
period",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "6:1--6:??",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350813",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A software organization can obtain benefits from
testing only when testing time is optimized and
components of greater priorities are tested much
rigorously. Critical errors, if remain undetected
during testing can result in loss of revenues and
goodwill for the organization. In this paper, we
present a cumulative priority based model for
determining the optimal testing period. Here we provide
a Non Homogeneous Poisson Process based model to help
organizations achieve optimum software testing with
minimal time and money loss.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "6",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wei:2008:CBR,
author = "Wang Wei and Li Tong",
title = "Component behavior relativity analysis",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "7:1--7:??",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350814",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component-Based Development, CBD for short, is
becoming a main stream software development paradigm
which reuses the off-the-shelf components and assembles
them together to form a component-based application.
CBD paradigm obviously has aroused a great attention
among the engineering and academic domain and many new
concepts, tools, and development methodologies have
been coming out. However, CBD paradigms are usually
questioned by its feasibility and performance. The
inherent reason of this dilemma is lacking a
methodology to guide researchers or engineers to
clarify the behavior relativity among components. In
this paper we proposed a new formalism, named component
network, which is an extension of Petri net and its
powerful capability to modeling distributed system is
the guarantee of successful modeling component-based
system. Further more, a series operation and theorems
are presented, which are concerned to be the footstone
of component behavior relativity analysis and software
evolution research.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "7",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wu:2008:ABM,
author = "Jiankun Wu and Linpeng Huang and Dejun Wang",
title = "{ASM}-based model of dynamic service update in
{OSGi}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "8:1--8:??",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350815",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "An ASM-based high level semantical model for
service-oriented systems based on OSGi and supporting
service dynamic updating is provided in this paper. The
model not only provides the refinement methods but also
gives the final model that specifies the constraint of
OSGi. The resulting formal model can be applied in
several ways. First, it enables checking or comparing
existing systems based on OSGi to determine if they
satisfy the dynamic updating demands and provide the
necessary functionalities. Furthermore, it can serve as
a basis for high level specification of a new system or
components or updating constraint. Finally, the model
is also useful in reasoning about the properties of
service-oriented dynamic updating system based on
OSGi.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "8",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2008:SNSb,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "8--17",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350805",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Yu:2008:IMR,
author = "Liguo Yu and Srini Ramaswamy",
title = "Improving modularity by refactoring code clones: a
feasibility study on {Linux}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "9:1--9:??",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350816",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Modularity is an important principle of software
design. It is directly associated with software
understandability, maintainability, and reusability.
However, as software systems evolve, old code segments
are modified / removed and new code segments are added,
the original modular design of the program might be
distorted. One of the factors that can affect the
modularity of the system is the introduction of code
clones --- a portion of source code that is identical
or similar to another --- in the software evolution
process. This paper applies clone detection techniques
to study the modularity of Linux. The code clones are
first identified using an automatic tool. Then each
clone set is analyzed by a domain expert to classify it
into one of the three clone concern categories:
singular concern, crosscutting concern, and partial
concern. Different approaches to dealing with these
different categories of code clones are suggested in
order to improve modularity.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "9",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2008:RPb,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "18--28",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350806",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gorschek:2008:IGR,
author = "Tony Gorschek and Samuel Fricker and Robert Felt and
Claes Wohlin and Michael Mattsson",
title = "{1st International Global Requirements Engineering
Workshop --- GREW'07}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "2",
pages = "29--32",
month = mar,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1350802.1350807",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:35 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "GREW'07 was held in conjunction with the International
Conference on Global Software Engineering in Munich
Germany. The aim was to bring researchers and industry
practitioners together to discuss the area of global
product development from a requirements engineering and
product management perspective. The workshop aimed to
analyze selected challenges put forward by accepted
papers from both industry and academia. The session
discussions then focused on identifying future needs
for research, the relevance of which was assured by
good industry presence at the workshop. The workshop
resulted in a number of findings that can play an
important role to further develop the field of global
product management and requirements engineering.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bastani:2008:POA,
author = "Behzad Bastani",
title = "Process-oriented abstraction of the complex evolvable
systems: problem model construction",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "1:1--1:??",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1360608",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Architectural design and lifecycle management of
complex Evolvable Systems encounter contexts and
environments in which ambiguity and volatility are of
essence. Ambiguity relates to the content of the
information the architect has available at the time of
the design and maps to the aspects, dimensions and
boundaries of the system. Volatility represents
constant changes of vision, knowledge and information
due to the advances in science or techniques of
handling and demands the architect to redesign the
system to match the new realities of the time. As a
result, the nature of the complex Evolvable Systems
introduces serious challenges to the conventional
Software Architecture and Software Engineering. This
paper presents a new method called Nuclear-Process
Oriented Analysis and Modeling (NPOAM), for the design
of complex Open Evolvable Systems [1], and focuses on
its implementation within the scope of the Problem
Model construction [2] for a Cardiac Arrhythmia
Management model. Our Problem Model construction
develops its conceptualization on the premises of the
complexities and requirements of scientific domains.
Yet its applicability is not exclusive to scientific
domains but since it is designed for more complex
scientific environments, it is perfectly applicable to
business domains as well. One of the critical
contributions of NPOAM is providing the capability of
random process modeling and design. The paper concludes
with addressing the model analysis and verification
issues.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "1",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Borsoi:2008:DMP,
author = "Beatriz Terezinha Borsoi and Jorge Luis Risco
Becerra",
title = "Definition and modeling of process using object
orientation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "2:1--2:??",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1360609",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software development processes can be represented as
objects because they and the elements that compose them
have attributes and operations, can be linked by
relationships and have behavior and states. Therefore,
this paper proposes a way to represent processes and
their elements as objects. This proposal can be used to
represent process models benefiting from the object
orientation properties and to define tools to automate
processes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "2",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Khemakhem:2008:EESa,
author = "Sofien Khemakhem and Khalil Drira and Emna Khemakhem
and Mohamed Jmaiel",
title = "An experimental evaluation of {SEC+}, an enhanced
search engine for component-based software
development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "3:1--3:??",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1360610",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Current approaches for service discovery are
inherently restricted to the exact querying. This may
provide incomplete answers since queries are often
overspecified and may lead to low precision and recall.
To alleviate these problems, we achieved an
experimental evaluation that uses of the enhanced
search engine, SEC+. This engine is based on the
subsumption mechanism and a function that calculates
the semantic distance. Both the used rate and the
non-functional features are considered to filter the
selection. We show that such a solution can improve the
quality of the search and can enhance both the recall
and the precision.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "3",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lallchandani:2008:SUA,
author = "Jaiprakash T. Lallchandani and R. Mall",
title = "Slicing {UML} architectural models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "4:1--4:??",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1360611",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We propose a technique for static and dynamic slicing
of UML models. For a software architecture specified
using UML, we first transform the systems'
architectural model into an intermediate representation
which we have named Model Dependency Graph(MDG). MDG
combines information available in various sequence
diagrams along with the relevant information available
in class diagrams into an integrated UML model. For a
given slicing criterion, our slicing algorithm
traverses the constructed MDG to identify the relevant
model elements. Our algorithm's novelty lies in its
computing a slice based on an integrated UML model as
against independently processing separate UML diagrams,
and determining the implicit interdependencies among
the different model elements distributed across various
UML diagrams.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "4",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2008:SEEc,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "5--5",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1360604",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2008:DDM,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "Debugging debugged, a metaphysical manifesto of
systems integration",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "5:1--5:??",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1361095",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Systems designers will most often design to the N-1
criterion whether the designers know they are doing so
or not. Systems designed to the N-1 criterion detect,
isolate and (possibly) recover from at most one fault
at a time. In contrast to the N-1 criterion, systems
integrators must fault isolate in the presence of
multiple simultaneous faults and in the absence of user
guides. The purpose of this paper is to debug the
debugging process used by systems integrators. To that
end this paper describes the systems integration
environment, identifies factors that drive the
efficiency of that effort and provides a critique of
the historical roots of architectural firewalls. (If
there were no firewalls everything could theoretically
interfere with everything else as only the stricture of
time would prevent everything from happening at once.
Yet a perfect firewall would be an impossibility; a
Maxwell's demon of information.) This paper
penultimately provides philosophical musings, a
self-reflection on meanings uncovered. As this paper
has strong non-linear content an attempt has been made
for textual constraint by theme: I. The Systems
Integration Environment II. An Efficient Systems
Integration Efficiency Metric III. Architectural
Investigations IV. the Problem Behind the Problem
(tPBtP)",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "5",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kushwaha:2008:STE,
author = "Dharmender Singh Kushwaha and A. K. Misra",
title = "Software test effort estimation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "6:1--6:??",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1361211",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software Testing is an important process of software
development that is performed to support and enhance
reliability and quality of the software. It consist of
estimating testing effort, selecting suitable test
team, designing test cases, executing the software with
those test cases and examining the results produced by
those executions. Studies indicate that more than fifty
percent of the cost of software development is devoted
to testing, with the percentage for testing critical
software being even higher. Unless we can predict the
testing effort and find efficient ways to perform
effective testing, the percentage of development costs
devoted to testing will increase significantly coupled
with mismatch in project costing and development
schedule. In order to estimate the testing effort, this
paper makes an attempt to establish Cognitive
Information Complexity Measure (CICM) as an appropriate
estimation tool.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "6",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2008:HSN,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "{Hell}'s software nightmares",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "6--6",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1360605",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2008:RSC,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Secure Coding in C and C++}} by
Robert C. Seacord, Addison Wesley, 2006, paperback,
ISBN 0-321-33572-4, 341 pp., \$39.99}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "7:1--7:??",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1373360",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "7",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2008:SNSc,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "7--16",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1360606",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2008:RML,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Modal Logic for Philosophers}}
by James W. Garson, Cambridge University Press, 2006,
pp. 471}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "8:1--8:??",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1373361",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "8",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2008:RPS,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Review of {{\booktitle{Practical Support for ISO 9001
Software Project Documentation}} by Susan K. Land and
John W. Walz, IEEE Computer Society and
Wiley-Interscience, 2006 (by IEEE CS), ISBN-13
978-0-471-76867-8, pp. 432}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "9:1--9:??",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1373362",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "9",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2008:RPc,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "3",
pages = "17--28",
month = may,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1360602.1360607",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:37 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Serfass:2008:SSP,
author = "Doug Serfass and Kalyan S. Thiparthi and Coskun
Bayrak",
title = "Search, sort, pagination, association and (other)
{CRUD}: a comparison of {ActiveScaffold} and {MyFaces}
tomahawk",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "1:1--1:??",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384140",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Web applications have many more model objects exposed
on the backend, or admin side, than they do on the
front, or public side. Coding interfaces for all those
models is redundant and a waste of resources when all
that is needed is Search, Sort, Pagination, (support
for) Association and CRUD. Implementing these
interfaces can often require more programming time than
the public side of an application. We will analyze an
application that was developed using Ruby on Rails (or
Rails) [1] and ActiveScaffold [2]. We will compare a
subset of the ActiveScaffold portion of this
application with an example created using Java and
MyFaces Tomahawk [3]. ActiveScaffold and MyFaces
Tomahawk are open source software (OSS). Our results
will show that ActiveScaffold has a greater number of
features and is more reusable than MyFaces Tomahawk.
This information is useful to web developers
responsible for creating the admin interfaces of web
applications.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "1",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2008:MSD,
author = "Craig Henderson",
title = "Managing software defects: defect analysis and
traceability",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "2:1--2:??",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384141",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper describes a mechanism for presenting
software defect metrics to aid analysis. A graphical
representation of the history of software builds is
presented, that records software build quality in a way
that cannot be displayed in a single numerical table,
and is visually more appealing and more easily
digestible than a series of related tables. The radial
analysis charts can be used to represent derivative
information in a two-dimensional form and is
demonstrated with practical examples of Defect Analysis
and Root Cause Analysis.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "2",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Khemakhem:2008:EESb,
author = "Sofien Khemakhem and Khalil Drira and Emna Khemakhem
and Mohamed Jmaiel",
title = "An experimental evaluation of {SEC+}, an enhanced
search engine for component-based software
development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "3:1--3:??",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384143",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Current approaches for service discovery are
inherently restricted to the exact querying. This may
provide incomplete answers since queries are often
overspecified and may lead to low precision and recall.
To alleviate these problems, we achieved an
experimental evaluation that uses of the enhanced
search engine, SEC+. This engine is based on the
subsumption mechanism and a function that calculates
the semantic distance. Both the used rate and the
non-functional features are considered to filter the
selection. We show that such a solution can improve the
quality of the search and can enhance both the recall
and the precision.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "3",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kaur:2008:CPS,
author = "Parminder Kaur and Hardeep Singh",
title = "Certification process of software components",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "4:1--4:??",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384142",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component based systems are the result of structuring
a system according to particular design pattern which
involves components, component frameworks, component
models, component composition, component interfaces,
contracts and certification. The success of
component-based software engineering depends on system
integrator's ability to select the most suitable
components for their intended application. This is only
possible if component suppliers have clear and reliable
information about their component's functional and
nonfunctional properties. The component attributes
allow system integrator to better classify the
components. This paper makes an effort to define
certain properties of a component, which are helpful
during their classification process. This paper also
tries to enlighten the component
certification/accreditation process, which helps
component suppliers to issue the guarantee of claimed
functional properties and quality attributes.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "4",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Basci:2008:EMX,
author = "Dilek Basci and Sanjay Misra",
title = "Entropy metric for {XML DTD} documents",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "5:1--5:??",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384144",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has been gaining
extraordinary acceptance from many diverse enterprise
software companies for their object repositories, data
interchange, and development tools. Further, many
different domains, organizations and content providers
have been publishing and exchanging information via
internet by the usage of XML and standard schemas.
Efficient implementation of XML in these domains
requires well designed XML schemas. In this point of
view, design of XML schemas plays an extremely
important role in software development process and
needs to be quantified for ease of maintainability. In
this paper, we propose a new metric based on the
entropy concept from information theory for the
assessment of the structural complexity of XML schema
documents written in W3C Document Type Definition
(DTD), language. The new metric has been demonstrated
with examples and supported by comparison with the
other well known structure metrics applied on XML
schema documents.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "5",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nami:2008:COO,
author = "Mohammad Reza Nami",
title = "A comparison of object-oriented languages in software
engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "6:1--6:??",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384145",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Object-oriented programming is still a relatively new
technology in the world of web development.
Object-oriented programming languages directly support
the object notions of classes, inheritance, information
hiding, and dynamic binding. In Object-Oriented
Programming, a program is seen as comprising a
collection of individual modules, or objects, that act
on each other. Each of these objects could be seen as
an independent program in itself, with a distinct role
or responsibility. Object-Oriented Programming provides
greater flexibility and easier maintenance across large
systems and can sometimes make understanding and
analyzing complex procedures a lot easier. This paper
presents a comparison of object-oriented programming in
software engineering including properties of Java, C++,
Eiffel, and Smalltalk languages.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "6",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Notkin:2008:ATFb,
author = "David Notkin",
title = "{ACM TOSEM}: {FAQs} and figures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "6--6",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384148",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "It's been a while since I've written a column on
TOSEM. One reason for this is, of course, that I simply
haven't gotten to it. The other reason for this is
because of you: I've had few, if any, questions or
comments about TOSEM from the SEN readership. If this
was because everything at TOSEM was perfect and we were
so transparent that you knew everything we knew, I'd be
thrilled. But that's just never the case. So, please
send me email with your comments, questions, concerns,
TOSEM-related jokes, or whatever.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Srivastva:2008:TCP,
author = "Praveen Ranjan Srivastva and Krishan Kumar and G.
Raghurama",
title = "Test case prioritization based on requirements and
risk factors",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "7:1--7:??",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384146",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "To test software products effectively, large number of
test cases are designed. But it is nearly impossible to
execute all the tests due to tight time constraints and
some other reasons such as availability of experts etc.
Due to these reasons, the necessity of reducing the
number of test cases comes into existence. Test case
prioritization helps to reduce the number of test
cases. This paper presents an approach that focuses on
prioritizing the test cases. Proposed approach
prioritizes test cases on the basis of requirements
identified and risk factors that can occur in a
software project.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "7",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2008:SNSd,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "7--16",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384149",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This column usually focuses on web sites that explore
various software engineering topics such as
requirements engineering, development methodologies,
test strategies, data and database engineering and so
on. This month, however, I thought I'd talk about the
people who have contributed to the state of the
software engineering art by developing and refining the
approaches and methodologies that we use every day.
Sometimes we take the simple things for granted. For
example, the notion of software modules seems second
nature to most of us. That would not have been true had
it not been for David Parnas. So for this month's
column I thought I'd focus on web sites dedicated to
the people and, by extension, their work.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Varnell-Sarjeant:2008:MMR,
author = "Julia F. Varnell-Sarjeant",
title = "Managing a man-rated software development program via
risk mitigation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "8:1--8:??",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384147",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper discusses a different approach to managing
risk in a man-rated software system. This approach
emphasizes identifying and targeting the right risks in
order to apply effective mitigation activities. It
addresses the risk of not understanding the customer
wishes, of unreliable software product, and selection
of inappropriate reuse. When the right risks are
identified with sufficient granularity, resources can
be focused on mitigating only those risks. Resources
are not spent mitigating general risks or non-risks.
The cost can be more correctly estimated and overruns
controlled.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "8",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2008:RPd,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "17--26",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384150",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relevant to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bass:2008:LMS,
author = "Len Bass and Brian Berenbach",
title = "{Leadership and Management in Software Architecture
(LMSA'08)}: a report on an {ICSE} workshop",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "27--29",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384151",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This is a report of the Leadership and Management in
Software Architecture workshop that took place at ICSE
2008. The workshop focused on the non-technical aspects
of software architecture. In particular, it focused on
the skills that a software architect should have as
well as the type of support an organization should
provide for the architect.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chroust:2008:HCC,
author = "Gerhard Chroust",
title = "History of computers can raise student's interest",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "4",
pages = "29--29",
month = jul,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1384139.1384152",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:38 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "What was software development back in the 1960's and
how did it evolve?",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2008:SNSe,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "5",
pages = "1:1--1:??",
month = sep,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1402530",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:39 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "1",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2008:RPe,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "5",
pages = "2:1--2:??",
month = sep,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1402532",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:39 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relevant to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "2",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Paech:2008:RWC,
author = "Barbara Paech and Patrick Heymans and Anne Persson",
title = "Report working conference on requirements engineering:
foundation for software quality {(REFSQ'08)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "5",
pages = "3:1--3:??",
month = sep,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1402529",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:39 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "REFSQ'08 took place over the 16 th and 17 th June 2008
in the lively French city of Montpellier. 40
participants spent two days very intensively discussing
the contributions of 17 papers, their implications and
combinations. In these discussions some recurrent
topics and new trends were emphasized: the importance
of understanding the context and effectiveness of RE
techniques, the multiplicity of requirements
representations and their integration, the support for
creativity, the necessity to make the body of knowledge
better accessible e.g. through an open source RE tool
community, and the challenges of RE for innovative or
large-scale systems as well as of RE decision making in
an uncertain environment.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "3",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Babu:2008:MBD,
author = "Chitra Babu and R. Vijayalakshmi",
title = "Metrics-based design selection tool for aspect
oriented software development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "5",
pages = "4:1--4:??",
month = sep,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1402522",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:39 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software metrics provide a means for software
practitioners to assess the quality of their software.
Ideally, this information should be available earlier
in the software development lifecycle, since changes
are much more expensive to incorporate in the later
stages. Design level metrics offer an elegant way of
capturing this information. Research in software design
metrics has focused primarily on procedural and object
oriented software. However, such metrics are currently
not available for Aspect Oriented Software Development
(AOSD), which is an emerging paradigm. Aspect Oriented
Programming (AOP) is an approach that allows
programmers to modularize crosscutting concerns that
are scattered across multiple modules. Separation of
concerns through aspects has the advantages of
increased reliability, adaptability and better reuse.
The objective of this paper is to propose suitable
metrics for the Aspect Oriented Design (AOD) and to
develop a tool that will automatically select a better
design based on the proposed metrics. In this paper,
class and sequence diagrams are used to represent an
AOD. The proposed design level metrics are applied to
two alternative designs of an illustrative case study.
The tool selects the design that better suits
stakeholder requirements, based on logical inferences
obtained from these metrics regarding the quality of
the Aspect Oriented software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "4",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mishra:2008:SOS,
author = "Deepti Mishra and Alok Mishra",
title = "Some observations on staff estimation metrics for
object: oriented software engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "5",
pages = "5:1--5:??",
month = sep,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1402523",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:39 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Object-Oriented software projects are becoming more
popular than structured (functional) technology based
projects in the present scenario. Object Technology
(OT) offers support to deliver products to market more
quickly and to provide high quality products with lower
maintenance costs. As expertise in managing
Object-Oriented (OO) project grows, such a body of OO
metric knowledge will become increasingly usable across
the Industry. There is need for good OO metrics for
both process and product management. Estimation is an
important field of software engineering. In this work
we have proposed model for staffing estimation by using
available metrics in OO and taking affecting factors
into consideration.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "5",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mishra:2008:DIC,
author = "Deepti Mishra and Alok Mishra",
title = "Design issues in client-server software maintenance",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "5",
pages = "6:1--6:??",
month = sep,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1402524",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:39 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software requires maintenance because there are often
some errors remaining in the system that must be
removed as they are discovered. Even without errors,
software frequently undergoes change. The main reason
is that software must be enhanced to include more
features. Client-server software maintenance is not as
simple as centralized software maintenance because
client-server software systems are more complex than
software for centralized systems. Cost associated with
software maintenance is top most cost in software
development, so there is a need to develop software
which has maintainability i.e. the ease with which a
system can be maintained. Therefore, the design and
development of client-server software systems should be
done keeping in mind the maintainability of the
resultant software systems. There are various design
issues related with the maintainability of the
software. If we take care of these issues at the time
of design, then the resultant system will have better
maintainability and thus maintenance efforts of such
system will be reduced.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "6",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Riehle:2008:PUC,
author = "Richard Riehle",
title = "Playscript for use cases",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "5",
pages = "7:1--7:??",
month = sep,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1402525",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:39 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The concept of use case has become popular in
developing requirements for software systems. It is
even recommended as an inherent part of the Unified
Modeling Language (UML). An early predecessor of the
use case for systems and procedures practice in the
1960's was the Playscript procedure. This article
describes how Playscript can contribute to better use
cases.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "7",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tavares:2008:GIO,
author = "Andre L. C. Tavares and Marco Tulio Valente",
title = "A gentle introduction to {OSGi}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "5",
pages = "8:1--8:??",
month = sep,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1402526",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:39 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) is a
framework that supports the implementation of
component-based, service-oriented applications in Java.
The framework manages the life-cycle of modules (called
bundles in OSGi) and provides means to publish and
search for services. Moreover, it supports the dynamic
install and uninstall of bundles. Nowadays, OSGi is
used in many application domains, including mobile
phones, embedded devices, and application servers. In
this paper, we provide a gentle introduction to the
basic services provided by OSGi. The presentation is
guided by a simple case study, involving the
implementation of a Dictionary System.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "8",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Vinita:2008:REO,
author = "Vinita and Amita Jain and Devendra K. Tayal",
title = "On reverse engineering an object-oriented code into
{UML} class diagrams incorporating extensible
mechanisms",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "5",
pages = "9:1--9:??",
month = sep,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1402527",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:39 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Reverse engineering is the key idea for reconstruction
of any existing system. In this paper, we propose an
algorithm to reverse engineer an object-oriented code
into Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagram. Our
algorithm is very general in nature and can be applied
to any object-oriented code irrespective of the
object-oriented programming language. In our paper we
consider an object-oriented pseudocode similar to C++
to implement our algorithm. Some of the researchers
have dealt in the past the problem of reverse
engineering an object-oriented code to UML class
diagrams. However, none of these researchers have
treated all the constructs available in UML class
diagrams. Unlike the previously done work on reverse
engineering into UML, our algorithm generates rules for
a complete set of constructs available in UML class
diagrams. It includes classes, relationships, objects,
attributes, operations, inheritance, associations,
interfaces and other extensible mechanisms also. This
algorithm can be viewed as a solution to reverse
engineer any available object-oriented software. An
application for the implementation of above said rules
using C++ code is also included in the paper. We
thoroughly compare our work with the similar type of
earlier work in this area and uncover the deficiencies
in these previous available works. Moreover our motive
in this paper is to prepare rules to reverse engineer
C++ code into UML class diagrams and not to generate
any tools.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "9",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Xia:2008:PSA,
author = "Feng Xia and Longhua Ma and Zhe Peng",
title = "Programming {Scilab} in {ARM Linux}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "5",
pages = "10:1--10:??",
month = sep,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1402528",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:39 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Scilab is a free and open source alternative to
commercial scientific software packages for numerical
computations. It provides an open programming
environment along with a large number of powerful
primitives. To realize the full potential of Scilab in
embedded systems, this paper presents programming
techniques essential for using Scilab in the ARM Linux
environment. The Scilab package that usually runs on
general-purpose computers is ported to the embedded
Linux platform with an ARM9 processor. The programming
of embedded software and hardware drivers using the
ported Scilab package is addressed. Examples are given
for illustrating the programming techniques. The cost
of the embedded platform developed in this work is very
low thanks to the free nature of the software packages
used. The flexibility of embedded software built on
this platform can be maximized since the source code is
open.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "10",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Booch:2008:OOA,
author = "Grady Booch and Robert A. Maksimchuk and Michael W.
Engle and Bobbi J. Young and Jim Connallen and Kelli A.
Houston",
title = "Object-oriented analysis and design with applications,
third edition",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "5",
pages = "11:1--11:??",
month = sep,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1413138",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:39 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "11",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Berkun:2008:APM,
author = "Scott Berkun",
title = "The art of project management",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "5",
pages = "12:1--12:??",
month = sep,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1402521.1413139",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:39 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
articleno = "12",
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Romanovsky:2008:DID,
author = "Alexander Romanovsky",
title = "{DEPLOY}: industrial deployment of advanced system
engineering methods for high productivity and
dependability",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "6",
pages = "1--3",
month = nov,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1449603.1449612",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:40 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The work of the new FP7 ICT DEPLOY Integrated Project
(February 2008 --- January 2012) [1] is driven by the
tasks of achieving and evaluating industrial take-up,
initially by DEPLOY industrial partners, of DEPLOY
methods and tools, together with the necessary further
research on methods and tools.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Grover:2008:MCG,
author = "P. S. Grover and Rajesh Kumar and Avadhesh Kumar",
title = "Measuring changeability for generic aspect-oriented
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "6",
pages = "1--5",
month = nov,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1449603.1449610",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:40 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Maintenance of software systems has become a major
concern for software developers and users. In
environments, where software changes are frequently
required to improve software quality, chan-geability is
an important characteristic of maintainability in
ISO/IEC 9126 quality standards. Many researchers and
practition-ers have proposed changeability assessment
techniques for Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). To the best of our
knowledge, no one has proposed chan-geability
assessment technique for generic Aspect-Oriented (AO)
Systems. AOP is an emerging technique that provides a
means to clearly encapsulate and implement aspects that
crosscut other modules. In this paper, we have defined
a generic changeability assessment technique that takes
into account two well known fami-lies of available AOP
languages viz, AspectJ and CaesarJ. A co-relation
analysis between changeability and dependency has been
performed. Result shows that highly dependent AO
systems will absorb low changeability.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Singh:2008:DRM,
author = "Paramvir Singh and Hardeep Singh",
title = "{DynaMetrics}: a runtime metric-based analysis tool
for object-oriented software systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "6",
pages = "1--6",
month = nov,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1449603.1449614",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:40 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many Runtime/Dynamic metric suites for object-oriented
software systems have been devised over the past
decade. This paper introduces a new dynamic
metric-based evaluation and analysis tool for Java and
C++ software called DynaMetrics that is capable of
evaluating and analyzing all the major dynamic metrics
known till date. DynaMetrics also compares them with
their static counterparts in order to find the
usefulness of individual metric. The paper is part of
our ongoing research on runtime/dynamic metrics for
object-oriented software systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kalaimagal:2008:RSC,
author = "Sivamuni Kalaimagal and Rengaramanujam Srinivasan",
title = "A retrospective on software component quality models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "6",
pages = "1--10",
month = nov,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1449603.1449611",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:40 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The academic and commercial sectors have shown an
interest in Component Based Software Development (CBSD)
because developing and using various component forms as
building blocks can significantly enhance software
based system development and use. The perspective of
reduced development costs and shorter life-cycles acts
as a motivation for this interest. The idea is to
create high quality parts and join them together to
form a functioning system. One of the most critical
processes in CBSD is the selection of appropriate COTS
components that meet the user's requirements. An
important step in the component selection process is
the evaluation of components using quality models.
Current component selection approaches try to propose
appropriate quality models for the effective assessment
of such components. These proposals attempt to define
quality characteristics, attributes, and metrics which
are specific to the particular nature of components and
CBSD. This paper presents a retrospective on the
current quality models proposed and are available for
the evaluation of software components.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sharma:2008:EQS,
author = "Arun Sharma and Rajesh Kumar and P. S. Grover",
title = "Estimation of quality for software components: an
empirical approach",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "6",
pages = "1--10",
month = nov,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1449603.1449613",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:40 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component-Based Development (CBD) approach now is
widely accepted in software industry. This approach
enables efficient application development through the
integration of already developed software components.
The success of these applications heavily depends upon
the selection of appropriate components to fit customer
requirements. Therefore it is very necessary to
evaluate the quality of components before using them in
the final system. Quality models proposed so far can
not be fully implemented as-it-is on components and
component-based systems (CBS) due to architectural
differences in the development approach. Present paper
surveys a number of quality models for traditional and
component-based systems and proposes a new model for
CBS by proposing some new characteristics, which may be
very relevant in the context of components. All the
quality characteristics may not be of prime importance
for an application to be developed for a specific
domain. Therefore, it is necessary to identify only
those characteristics/sub-characteristics, which may
have higher priorities over the others. The present
work uses Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to assign
the weight values to the characteristics for the
proposed model. These weight values are then used to
evaluate the quality contribution of
sub-characteristics, characteristics and then finally
the overall quality of the component by using the
appropriate metrics. This approach can be used to
identify and select better quality component among
several others which can be used in the final system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2008:SNSf,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "6",
pages = "5--14",
month = nov,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1449603.1449606",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:40 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2008:RPf,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "6",
pages = "15--24",
month = nov,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1449603.1449607",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:40 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relevant to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Riehle:2008:GI,
author = "Richard Riehle",
title = "The {GSwERC} initiative",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "6",
pages = "25--25",
month = nov,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1449603.1449608",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:40 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Article 5 ID: 1449608 DOI: 10.1145/1449603.1449608 It
has long been recognized that there is a need for a
comprehensive model for graduate software engineering
education in the U.S. and worldwide. This article
describes such an initiative and invites interested
parties to participate.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rombach:2008:IRP,
author = "Dieter Rombach and Marcus Ciolkowski and Ross Jeffery
and Oliver Laitenberger and Frank McGarry and Forrest
Shull",
title = "Impact of research on practice in the field of
inspections, reviews and walkthroughs: learning from
successful industrial uses",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "33",
number = "6",
pages = "26--35",
month = nov,
year = "2008",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1449603.1449609",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:40 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software inspections, reviews, and walkthroughs have
become a standard process component in many software
development domains. Maturity level 3 of the CMM-I
requires establishment of peer reviews [12] and
substantial sustained improvements in quality and
productivity have been reported as a result of using
reviews ([16], [21], [22], [27]). The NSF Impact
project identifies the degree to which these industrial
success cases have been instigated and improved by
research in software engineering. This research
identifies that there is widespread adoption of
inspections, reviews or walkthroughs but that companies
do not generally exploit their full potential. However
there exist sustained industrial success cases with
respect to the wide-spread and measurably successful
application of them. It also identifies research in
software engineering that can be credibly documented as
having influenced the industrial success cases.
Credible documentation may exist in the form of
publications or documented reports by witnesses. Due to
the semi-formal nature of inspections, reviews, and
walkthroughs, a specific focus is given to empirical
research results as motivators for adoption. Through
the examination of one detailed case study, it is shown
that software engineering research has had a
significant impact on practice and that the impact can
be traced in this case from research to that practice.
The case study chosen provides evidence of both success
and failure regarding sustained application in
practice. Thus the analysis of historic impact chains
of research reveals a clear impact of software
engineering research on sustained industrial success
for inspections, reviews and walkthroughs. More
importantly, in impact chains where the empirical
results have not been established, we conclude that
success has not been achieved or has not been
sustained. The paper closes with (1) lessons learned
for creating the sustained use and impact of
semi-formal software engineering processes, (2) a
request for researchers and practitioners to further
consider how their work can improve the effectiveness
of research and practice, and (3) a request to
contribute additional success cases and impact factors
to the authors database for future enhancements of this
paper.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lee:2009:PRA,
author = "Tony Lee",
title = "Peer review assessment standard for object oriented
analysis and design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "1--3",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457516.1457525",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper, the author discusses some peer review
pitfalls, as well as, the key elements in an effective
peer review session. The paper also provides the
assessment standard checklist for object-oriented (OO)
analysis and design professionals during a peer review
inspection.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chahal:2009:MSS,
author = "Kuljit Kaur Chahal and Hardeep Singh",
title = "Metrics to study symptoms of bad software designs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "1--4",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457516.1457522",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Design of a software product largely influences its
quality. Good design is one of the pre-requisites of a
high quality product. Me-trics are usually used to
assess the quality of software designs. The metrics for
object oriented design focus on design characteristics,
such as abstraction, coupling, cohesion, inheritance,
polymorphism and encapsulation and are applied at
attribute, method, class, pack-age, file and systems
levels. Design metrics help the software de-signers to
understand the problem areas in a design and to develop
prediction models. A number of studies have modeled
relation-ships between object oriented metrics and
reusability, defects and faults, maintainability, and
effort, and cost savings. So design me-trics can give
an early indication of goodness of design and thus of
the software product developed using that design. If
designers know symptoms of bad design then it is
helpful for them to avoid the bad design. In this
paper, we have explored some of the symp-toms of bad
design and studied metric relationships which
high-light these symptoms.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pandey:2009:MSD,
author = "R. K. Pandey",
title = "Managing software design complexity: facade vs
role-based design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "1--4",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457516.1457526",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Good software design practice calls for minimizing
coupling and maximizing cohesiveness. The use of roles
in CBSE has been shown to help in achieving the
above-mentioned design goal. The idea of role-based
component design is that the public interface is split
into smaller interfaces that model the different roles
a component can take in a system. In addition, we have
the design pattern facade which is just opposite to
what role-based design philosophy advocates. Yet both
design approaches claim to reduce the overall
complexity of the system. In this paper we make an
investigation into these two design approaches in order
to understand how these two contradictory design
principles can help the designer in managing
complexity.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Singh:2009:AMP,
author = "Yogesh Singh and Pradeep Kumar Bhatia and Omprakash
Sangwan",
title = "{ANN} model for predicting software function point
metric",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "1--4",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457516.1460352",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software Engineering measurement and analysis
specially, size estimation initiatives have been in the
center of attention for many firms. Function Point (FP)
metric is among the most commonly used techniques to
estimate the size of software system projects or
software systems for measuring the functionality
delivered by a system. In this paper we explore an
alternative, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approach
for predicting function Point. We proposed an ANN model
to explore neural network as tool for function point
metric. A multilayer feed forward network is trained
using backpropagation algorithm and demonstrated to be
suitable. The training and validation data is randomly
selected from the data repository of 365 projects [7].
The experimental results of two validation sets each of
55 projects indicate that the Mean Absolute Relative
Error (MARE) was 0.198 and 0.145 of ANN model and shows
that ANN model is a competitive model as Function Point
Metric.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Babu:2009:FMT,
author = "Chitra Babu and Harshini Ramnath Krishnan",
title = "Fault model and test-case generation for the
composition of aspects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "1--6",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457516.1457521",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is an emerging
paradigm that enhances the modularity of
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) by eliminating
tangling and scattering in the code. The scattering
code is encapsulated within a module called an Aspect.
A join point is an execution point in a program. When
there is more than one aspect sharing the same join
point then it becomes necessary to identify the faults
that occur during their composition. A Fault model is
instrumental in identifying the faults that can occur
in any software system. Research works so far have
focused on the composition of Aspects only from the
implementation standpoint. It is necessary to identify
these faults during the design process, early in the
software development lifecycle. This would help in
adopting better coding strategies that result in
modular, reusable and maintainable code. Towards this
objective, this paper proposes a candidate fault model
that identifies the faults which occur during Aspect
Composition from the design. Use-case scenarios and
sequence diagrams are used to reflect the design of the
system. The proposed fault model identifies the faults
from the sequence diagrams. Test cases are generated
from the design using black-box testing strategy. The
proposed fault model is also applied to an illustrative
case study and has been validated using test case
coverage analysis.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Singh:2009:ASV,
author = "Yogesh Singh and Arvinder Kaur and Ruchika Malhotra",
title = "Application of support vector machine to predict fault
prone classes",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "1--6",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457516.1457529",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Empirical validation of software metrics to predict
quality using machine learning methods is important to
ensure their practical relevance in the software
organizations. It would also be interesting to know the
relationship between object-oriented metrics and fault
proneness. In this paper, we build a Support Vector
Machine (SVM) model to find the relation-ship between
object-oriented metrics given by Chidamber and Kemerer
and fault proneness. The proposed model is empirically
evaluated using open source software. The performance
of the SVM method was evaluated by Receiver Operating
Characteristic (ROC) analysis. Based on these results,
it is reasonable to claim that such models could help
for planning and performing testing by focusing
resources on fault-prone parts of the design and code.
Thus, the study shows that SVM method may also be used
in constructing software quality models. However,
similar types of studies are required to be carried out
in order to establish the acceptability of the model.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Diev:2009:QCR,
author = "Sergey Diev",
title = "Querying complex requirements",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "1--7",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457516.1457523",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "For large and complex projects the structure of
requirements becomes a factor of utmost importance.
This paper suggests a small set of primitive constructs
that allow requirements to be expressed and structured
in various views. Among ways to increase the quality of
requirements this paper considers (i) the network
metaphor and (ii) conceptual modeling, which includes
requirements crystallization activity. Then query types
that follow the suggested meta-model are introduced and
discussed. These queries operate at several levels:
text, element, diagram, and model. This paper has a
methodological flavor at two levels: First, it suggests
a specific way of developing requirements; second, it
aims to demonstrate the relationship between the
meta-model we choose and the set of query types we
build for it. A visual editor VR (Visual Requirements)
has been developed to support the approach and queries
described here. Among other applications, VR has been
used in the maintenance context to estimate, on the
base of use cases models, the size of more than a
hundred of software initiatives, including
multi-million-dollar projects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Suman:2009:SME,
author = "Rajiv Ranjan Suman and Rajib Mall",
title = "State model extraction of a software component by
observing its behavior",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "1--7",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457516.1460353",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We propose a novel black-box approach to reverse
engineer the state model of a software component. We
assume that in different states of a component,
different subsets of its services are supported and
state of a component may change due to invocation of
its services. Therefore, we construct the state model
of a component by tracking the changes (if any) to its
supported services that occur after accessing its
services. Case study carried out by us shows that our
approach can generate the state model with sufficient
accuracy and completeness for simple components.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Richter:2009:CBN,
author = "Karsten Richter",
title = "Causal-based networks supporting process improvement",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "1--9",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457516.1457527",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper includes a causal-based modelling of
software measurement processes in order to clarify the
real situations in the empirical software engineering
field. A first overview about existing causal network
approaches shows the problems and possible benefits
using these formal techniques in the software
engineering area. The definition and extension of the
causal modelling using causal networks helps to
understand the relationships between the different
software process artefacts and their causalities. The
causal network based process model (CNPM) concept is
based on the causal network idea of Pearl. The
description of first applications of the CNPM approach
for CMMI demonstrates the empirical reasoning of the
software improvement processes in an explicit manner.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Jiau:2009:TCD,
author = "Hewijin Christine Jiau and Jinghong Cox Chen",
title = "Test code differencing for test-driven refactoring
automation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "1--10",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457516.1457524",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Test-driven refactoring (TDR) requires the developer
to finish test adaptation before applying refactoring.
However, the current approaches of TDR usually
compromise the principle of Test-First and make the
refactoring intent implicit. The failed delivery of
refactoring intent hinders the opportunity of
test-driven refactoring automation (TDRA). In this
paper, a test code differencing algorithm TestDiff is
provided to extract refactoring intents from test
adaptation. A tool, Refiner, is demonstrated and
evaluated by real cases.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2009:SMD,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "Software maturity: design as dark art",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "1--36",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457516.1457528",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "What does it mean for a profession to be considered
mature? How valid is the claim that software faults may
be excused due to the immaturity of the field? In
giving that claim serious consideration, one might
assume that there are stages to maturity, that maturity
doesn't arrive in the world fully formed. If so, an
understanding of maturity may be found from the viewing
of the differences across various professions in terms
of stages of maturity, perhaps signaled by how a
profession detects and handles faults. The question
thus becomes more refined, ``Are software professionals
more or less mature than their counterparts in
respective fields in regards to the detection and
handling of faults?'' Which raises the previously
begged but now follow-up question: ``To whom should
software professionals be compared?'' The down-select
for professions to choose for this comparison was
straightforward. First, to disregard a comparison with
the physical sciences as one could make a strong case
that programming is nothing more than data and rules.
Ones and zeros may represent any object, on, off, true,
not true, apples, oranges, aelopiles and zeppelins, and
that rules on objects are infinitely mutable, literally
valid now and invalid one-half a tenth of a millisecond
later. Software is distinctively arbitrary where the
physical sciences are not (well, except perhaps for the
quantum and the astro). In joining software with the
soft sciences, the likeliest candidates for comparison
were identified as the fields of economics and law.
Economics at first glance appears to be a combination
of mathematics and logic applied to finance, and law
appears to be a combination of philosophy and logic
applied to rules of conduct. There also appears a
commonality with these particular soft sciences and
software in the attributes of design. Professionals in
the field of economics design models of the world in
terms of money. Professionals in the field of law
design models of the world in terms of behavioral
control, and software professionals design models for
any purpose in any terms that one may choose to take.
Software may be used to model both economics and law,
so why not compare software professionals to their
counterparts in economics and law. On further
investigation in development of this text, the
rationale for this investigation hurt the premise, for
if one considered that software is applied logic, then
software has no reason to be considered an immature
field. Logic and philosophy go back at least to the
ancient Greeks, to Aristotle! If software is immature
in the light of history, then what would that say about
the maturity of logic and philosophy? (Hush, you
cynics!) This author began to have severe doubts, that
perhaps this whole line of investigation was naively
misguided. Further investigation yielded additional
insights, that although maturity may be an interesting
topic in its own right, perhaps it wasn't key to
understanding software faults, that perhaps instead, it
was the art of design, design being a common feature
across software, economics and law. With this new
direction in mind, and then taking one step back for
perspective, perhaps the common feature across the
professions could be the design of design? And so this
author meandered on, down paths less traveled and more
shadowed (note the subtitle), observing and describing
all of interest, and taking off yet again in directions
oblique, the instinct of authorial self-restraint
placed in competition with curiosity, all tugged and
pulled and fretted at this author. The conflict of
design choice reflected in an investigation of design
choice! Oh, how self-similar! Deja vu all over again!
The themes of this paper that continued beyond the
initial investigation of maturity are as follows: A
study of games versus competition in design. The limits
of competition and the implications of these limits. A
revisit of standing philosophical problems in computer
science, in particular: Chess, Searle's Chinese Room
and the Turing Test, studied as competitions. An
exploration of the meta in design. Conclusions, which
were in the first draft imagined to be most unlikely
given the initial premise but in revision became
necessary and unavoidable.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2009:SNSa,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "7--16",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1457516.1457519",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2009:RPa,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "17--26",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relevant to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Daughtry:2009:CRS,
author = "John Daughtry and Janet Burge and John M. Carroll and
Colin Potts",
title = "Creativity and rationale in software design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "1",
pages = "27--29",
month = jan,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:41 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "An NSF sponsored workshop on Creativity and Rationale
in Software Design was held at University Park, PA in
June, 2008. The participants represented the spectrum
of software design, which was reflected in the
discussions. This report summarizes the workshop with
respect to the discipline of software engineering.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pandey:2009:RSE,
author = "R. K. Pandey",
title = "Relativity in software engineering measurements",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--3",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507211",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Though the relevance of the term relativity in
software engineering measurements may appear strange,
as the term has been known to have been associated with
the name of the famous physicist of the 20th century,
Albert Einstein, for his landmark work on the theory of
relativity. The basic idea behind the theory of
relativity is that since space and time are relative
concepts rather than absolute accordingly physical
measurements are also relative not absolute, and that
is how the principle of length contraction and time
dilation were discovered. Somewhat similar phenomenon
is observed in the software engineering measurements of
various attributes of the software products, software
processes and software projects. For example, the value
of LOC metric because of no standard definition of line
of source code differs from language to language.
Similarly Halstead's software science metrics differs
depending upon what implementation language is used. In
this paper an investigation is made into such aspects
of software engineering metrics and their overall
impact on the software development activities.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bagchi:2009:MSD,
author = "Tapan P. Bagchi",
title = "Models for software defects and testing strategies",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--4",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507202",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This note analytically assesses the risk of releasing
defective software that cannot be exhaustively tested,
and of needlessly testing defect-free software.
Specifically, it quantifies the probability of
committing Type I ($ \alpha $) and Type II errors ($
\beta $) in software development when one may release
software that still is faulty or do needless testing
since the test methods themselves may not be perfect.
The study uses Truncated-Poisson and geometric
distributed path lengths and Bernoulli-type inspection
errors to link $ \alpha $ and $ \beta $ to software
design features, the development philosophies employed,
and certain aspects that include code quality,
cyclomatic complexity and the average length of basis
paths. For risk reduction this study finds quantitative
justification for raising test coverage, perfecting the
test methods, the adoption of recent innovations and
programming methods such as component-based design, SOA
and XP as ways to raise the likelihood that the product
developed will be fault free. Results are relatively
robust with respect to the probability distributions
assumed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nelson:2009:CWQ,
author = "Stephen Nelson and Co{\c{s}}kun Bayrak",
title = "Categorizing web queries",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--4",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507210",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Over the past ten years, the user base for the World
Wide Web (WWW) has grown over 400\% [1]. This increased
user base has naturally led to an enormous amount of
data available for users to search. Corporations, such
as Google, often store user search records and there
are many concerns, as well as positive aspects, for how
search records may be used. One aspect in particular,
categorizing web queries, presents several challenges.
This paper will discuss the challenging aspects of
categorizing web queries, review previous categorical
research, and conclude with a method for tackling one
of the challenging aspects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saxena:2009:PFP,
author = "Vipin Saxena and Manish Shrivastava",
title = "Performance of function point analysis through {UML}
modeling",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--4",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507214",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In software development, estimation of software size
is one of the major activities. Various types of
metrics are available for computation of software size.
It is necessary to check the performance of each
metric. Lines of code, objects and function point
analysis are widely used for measurements of software
size, cost and schedule of development. The Function
Point (FP) Analysis is one of the most promising
techniques for measuring the functionality delivered by
a system. Mostly, this method is used with traditional
software development practices but can also be applied
for object-oriented software development. The present
paper deals with judging of the performance of function
point analysis for the object-oriented software systems
by the use of well know Unified Modeling Language
(UML). A case study of Web-based Document Management
System is reported for FP analysis through UML class
diagram.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Srivastava:2009:CEG,
author = "Praveen Ranjan Srivastava and Parshad Patel and
Siddharth Chatrola",
title = "Cause effect graph to decision table generation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--4",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507216",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Cause-Effect Graphing (CEG) is used to identify test
cases from a given specification to validate its
corresponding implementation. This paper gives detail
about this technique of software testing. It also shows
how the CEG technique can be used to test that software
fulfill requirement specification or not. This paper
surveys how CEG converted into decision table. The aim
of this paper is to overcome existing algorithm's
shortcomings and generate all possible test cases.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Srivastava:2009:UGA,
author = "Praveen Ranjan Srivastava and Priyanka Gupta and
Yogita Arrawatia and Suman Yadav",
title = "Use of genetic algorithm in generation of feasible
test data",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--4",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507217",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In recent years researchers have applied the concept
of Genetic Algorithm in generation of test data for
effective software testing. Several attempts have been
made to develop a system to generate test data
automatically. The existing such systems do not
guarantee to generate test data in only feasible paths.
This paper proposes a method to generate feasible test
data, using Genetic Algorithm.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saini:2009:TPO,
author = "Dinesh Kumar Saini",
title = "Testing polymorphism in object oriented systems for
improving software quality",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--5",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507212",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "With object-oriented approaches, testing should center
on objects, classes, generic classes and super classes,
inheritance and polymorphism, instead of subprograms.
In object-oriented software test, the feature of
inheritance and polymorphism produces the new obstacle
during dynamic testing. Polymorphism becomes a problem
in dealing with object-oriented software testing. In
this paper various issues and problems that are
associated with testing polymorphic behavior of objects
in object oriented systems is discussed. I propose a
testers perspective method to assess the polymorphism
in design stage. This way it also provides useful
information for developer to probe into the fault that
is hidden from test in early stage. Thus it will help
in improving the quality of object oriented software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saxena:2009:PEO,
author = "Vipin Saxena and Deepak Arora",
title = "Performance evaluation for object oriented software
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--5",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507213",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/csharp.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Distributed computing has become an integral part of
large and complex computation used in large
organizations. It not only hides the complexities of
processing from its user but it also delivers
high-level security, reliability and availability. In
this regard, software and hardware competence must be
considered as a performance parameter for any
distributed computer system. For maximum throughput,
the software running on any hardware architecture
should be capable enough to utilize the available
resources at its highest efficiency. The main objective
of this paper is to measure the performance of
processors for different object-oriented software
system frameworks. The authors have chosen two types of
object oriented software system frameworks: C\#, based
on Microsoft {.NET} Framework and Visual C++, based on
Microsoft Foundation Classes. For processing needs, two
processors: Pentium D and Core 2 Duo are considered,
each having multiple execution cores in it. Before
evaluating the performance of these processors, a UML
model is presented for the process execution in a
distributed computing scenario. Along with UML class
and sequence diagram, a comparative study between
performances of aforesaid software system is also
reported.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Khan:2009:MBT,
author = "R. A. Khan and K. Mustafa",
title = "Metric based testability model for object oriented
design {(MTMOOD)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--6",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507204",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper does an extensive review on testability of
object oriented software, and put forth some relevant
information about class-level testability. Testability
has been identified as a key factor to software
quality, and emphasis is being drawn to predict class
testability early in the software development life
cycle. A Metrics Based Model for Object Oriented Design
Testability (MTMOOD) has been proposed. The
relationship from design properties to testability is
weighted in accordance with its anticipated influence
and importance. A suit of adequate object-oriented
metrics useful in determining testability of a system
has been proposed, which may be used to locate parts of
design that could be error prone. Identification of
changes in theses parts early could significantly
improve the quality of the final product and hence
decrease the testing effort. The proposed model has
been further empirically validated and contextual
interpretation has been drawn using industrial software
projects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mao:2009:SFP,
author = "Chengying Mao",
title = "Software faults prediction based on grey system
theory",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--6",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507206",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Whenever a new maintenance stage is started or a new
software version is released, it is necessary to
predict the possible number of failures. The data
sequence recorded during software maintenance is
characterized by small samples and uncertainty, so the
modeling technology in grey system theory is very
suitable for handling such data. The paper proposed the
basic prediction framework based on grey model GM(1),
(1) firstly, and then two prediction models and
implementation steps are represented according to two
special applications, respectively. One is used for
interval prediction of software faults, and the other
is used for predicting fault number with the direction
of related factors recorded during software maintenance
process. The results of two examples showed that using
three different techniques for three different cases
can achieved more accurate prediction.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sharma:2009:RAS,
author = "Arun Sharma and P. S. Grover and Rajesh Kumar",
title = "Reusability assessment for software components",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--6",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507215",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software reuse has been used as a tool to reduce the
development cost and time of the software. Nowadays, in
fact, majority of software systems are being developed
from an assembly of existing reusable components. In
order to assess the reuse of components effectively, it
is necessary to measure the reusability of these
components. Paper proposes Artificial Neural Network
based approach to assess the reusability of software
component. This work will help developers to select the
best component in terms of its reusability, which will
improve the maintainability of the overall system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Aggarwal:2009:WHC,
author = "Naveen Aggarwal and Nupur Prakash and Sanjeev Sofat",
title = "{Web} hypermedia content management system effort
estimation model",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--7",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507201",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This study aims at creation of a well defined
estimation model which can be used to estimate the
effort required for designing and developing the web
hypermedia content management systems. The data from
the different content management system projects are
studied and the linear regression approach is used to
finalize the model. This model also provides guidelines
to calculate phase wise distribution of effort. The
model is designed to help project manager to estimate
effort at the very early stage of requirement analysis.
A set of questionnaire is used to estimate the
complexity of the project, which has to be filled after
completing the initial requirement analysis. Final
effort is estimated using the project size and the
different adjustment factors. For better calculation of
these adjustments factors, these are categorized into
three categories based on their characteristics such as
Production and General system characteristics. This
model is proposed to be used differently for the
different types of projects. These projects are
categorized based on their size and total/build effort
ratio. The size of the project is estimated by using
the modified object point analysis approach. The
estimated effort is further phase wise distributed for
better scheduling of the project. Another questionnaire
is used to refine the model and it has to be filled by
the project managers after completing the project. The
proposed model is validated by studying twelve
completed projects taken from industry and seventy
different projects completed by the students. The
proposed model shows a great improvement as compared to
the earlier models used in effort estimation of CMS
projects.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bandyopadhyay:2009:FCC,
author = "Anup Kumar Bandyopadhyay",
title = "Fairness and conspiracy concepts in concurrent
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--8",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507203",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/bibnet/authors/d/dijkstra-edsger-w.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many different fairness notions are available in
literature. One should choose the proper definition
that match with the system under consideration. In this
paper we consider two known fairness definitions, viz.,
weak fairness and strong fairness. It is argued that
these concepts are suitable for determining the degree
of fairness of a given system. For only starvation
freedom we require a minimum degree of fairness which
we call least fairness. This idea is illustrated using
two practical examples. Conspiracy is another very
important issue in concurrent system. We have defined
conspiracy in connection with all the fairness notions.
Conspiracy resistant implementation is illustrated
using a starvation free solution to dining philosophers
problem. Dijkstra's weakest precondition calculus is
used as the analytical tool.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Najumudheen:2009:DGB,
author = "ESF Najumudheen and Rajib Mall and Debasis Samanta",
title = "A dependence graph-based representation for test
coverage analysis of object-oriented programs",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--8",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507208",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Test coverage analysis is used to determine the extent
to which different features of interest are exercised
by a given test suite. For object-oriented programs, it
involves determining the extent to which features such
as inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic binding, etc. are
exercised. As object-oriented coverage analysis using
only source code or object code is difficult and
inefficient, the source code is converted to a suitable
intermediate representation for subsequent analysis. We
propose a dependence graph-based representation for
object-oriented programs, named Call-based
Object-Oriented System Dependence Graph (COSDG). COSDG
captures the important object-oriented features,
provides details of method visibility in a derived
class, and differentiates various calling contexts with
different type of method call edges: simple, inherited,
and polymorphic. We also propose an algorithm to
construct COSDG incrementally. Though COSDG has been
developed primarily to aid test coverage analysis, it
can be used in a variety of other software engineering
applications also.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Medikonda:2009:FSS,
author = "Ben Swarup Medikonda and Seetha Ramaiah Panchumarthy",
title = "A framework for software safety in safety-critical
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--9",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507207",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software for safety-critical systems must deal with
the hazards identified by safety analysis in order to
make the system safe, risk-free, and fail-safe. Because
human lives may be lost and tremendous economic costs
may result if the software fails, the development of
high-integrity software adopts practices that impose
greater rigor on the software development processes.
Software safety is a composite of many factors.
Existing software quality models like McCall's and
Boehm's and ISO 9126 are inadequate in addressing the
software safety issues of real time safety-critical
embedded systems. At present there does not exist any
standard framework that comprehensively addresses the
factors, criteria and metrics (FCM) approach of the
quality models in respect of software safety. The
safety of a software component must be considered
within the context of both the overall system of which
it is a component and the environment in which this
system operates. It is not useful to investigate the
safety of a software component in isolation. This paper
proposes a new framework for software safety based on
the McCall's software quality model that specifically
identifies the criteria corresponding to software
safety in safety critical applications. The criteria in
the proposed software safety framework pertains to
system hazard analysis, completeness of requirements,
identification of software-related safety-critical
requirements, safety-constraints based design, run-time
issues management, and software safety-critical
testing. This framework is then applied to a prototype
safety-critical system viz. a software--based Railroad
Crossing Control System (RCCS) to validate its
utility.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nayak:2009:MBT,
author = "Ashalatha Nayak and Debasis Samanta",
title = "Model-based test cases synthesis using {UML}
interaction diagrams",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--10",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507209",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "UML 2.0 interaction diagrams model interactions in
complex systems by means of operation fragments and a
systematic testing approach is required for the
identification and selection of test cases. The major
problem for test cases synthesis from such an
interaction diagram is to arrive at a comprehensive
system behavior in the presence of multiple, nested
fragments. In this regard, our approach is towards
systematic interpretation of flow of controls as well
as their subsequent usage in the test case synthesis.
We also simplify the proposed flow of controls on the
basis of control primitives resulting from UML 2.0
fragments and bring it to a testable form known as
intermediate testable model (ITM), which is suitable
for deriving system level test cases.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Levine:2009:DDE,
author = "Gertrude Neuman Levine",
title = "Defining defects, errors, and service degradations",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "1--14",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507205",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The study of defects is a principal topic of software
systems, af-fecting all phases of a system's lifecycle.
Defects are the cause of errors and service
degradations. Unresolved errors cause failures. If
defects cannot be prevented effectively, then error
control mechanisms must be evaluated. We introduce a
model to distinguish between defects, errors, and
service degradations. A two-dimensional classification
scheme is developed for defects, defined by the types
of process interaction and software corruption that are
involved. A third dimension is added to this taxonomy
for defects that cause service degradation, based on
the deviations in service quality that are tolerated.
We investigate the role of service degradation in error
prevention.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2009:SEEa,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "3--4",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507196",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2009:TCC,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "On technology and cultural change",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "4--4",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507197",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2009:SNSb,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "5--14",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507198",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2009:RPb,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "15--24",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1517460",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relevant to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wermelinger:2009:RIE,
author = "Michel Wermelinger and Paul Wernick and Ciar{\'a}n
Bryce",
title = "Report on the {4th International ERCIM Workshop on
Software Evolution and Evolvability (Evol '08)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "25--27",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507218",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The 4th International ERCIM Workshop on Software
Evolution and Evolvability (Evol '08) took place on
15-16 September 2008 in L'Aquila, co-located with the
23rd IEEE/ACM Conference on Automated Software
Engineering (ASE). The workshop focused on research and
practice related to the long-term evolution of software
products. For the first time two separate events,
devoted to practical and more abstract aspects of this
area, combined into a single workshop which in its
first iteration demonstrated the synergy hoped for from
this combination.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Avgeriou:2009:TUA,
author = "Paris Avgeriou and Patricia Lago and Philippe
Kruchten",
title = "Towards using architectural knowledge",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "27--30",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1507195.1507219",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The third workshop on Sharing and Reusing
Architectural Knowledge (SHARK) was held jointly with
ICSE 2008 in Leipzig, Germany. It featured two keynote
talks, thirteen research position statements and three
working groups that discussed on focused topics. This
report presents the themes of the workshop, summarizes
the results of the discussions held, and suggests some
topics for future research.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Torkar:2009:ECS,
author = "Richard Torkar and Tony Gorschek and Robert Feldt",
title = "{Eighth Conference on Software Engineering Research
and Practice in Sweden (SERPS'08)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "2",
pages = "31--33",
month = mar,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1517459.1517461",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:42 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The eight conference on software engineering research
and practice in Sweden (SERPS'08) was held in
Karlskrona, Sweden, on the 4th-5th of Nov. 2008. The
aim with SERPS'08 is to bring researchers and industry
practitioners together to discuss software engineering
issues, problems, solutions and experiences, not
necessarily from a Swedish perspective. During the
conference a number of research and industry papers
were presented and questions in connection to the
presentations were discussed. This paper is a report on
the discussions that took place, pointing towards needs
and challenges as well as areas of interest in both
academia and industry.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nami:2009:CEZ,
author = "Mohammad Reza Nami and Fatemeh Hassani",
title = "A comparative evaluation of the Z, {CSP}, {RSL}, and
{VDM} languages",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "1--4",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527211",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The software engineering process has been described in
many ways. Today, few of these deal specifically with
the use of formal methods in software engineering. New
software engineering uses formal specification
languages in system analysis, requirement analysis, and
system design to develop software for critical-safety
systems. Formal specification languages describe the
system at a much higher level than a programming
language. They are categorized into model-oriented,
constructive, algebraic, process model, hybrid, and
logical. This paper describes the properties and types
of formal specification languages in software
engineering. It then compares the Z, VDM, RSL, and CSP
formal specification languages from different point of
views.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bhatti:2009:XBF,
author = "Shahid Nazir Bhatti and Asif Muhammad Malik",
title = "An {XML-based} framework for bidirectional
transformation in model-driven architecture {(MDA)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "1--5",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527206",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A model transformation in Model-Driven Architecture is
the generation of a target model from a source model,
which is normally based on different processes. These
processes are described by a transformation definition,
consisting of a number of transformation rules, and
executed with the help of a transformational tool. In
Model-Driven Architecture approach, bidirectionality is
one of the most desirable features of the
transformational process. Here bi-directionality means
that a transformation can be applied from source to
target as well as back from target to source model.
Different technologies are available which provide
bidirectionality between platform specific models to
Code Generation but hardly any tool is providing
bidirectionality between platform independent models to
platform specific models. Here we proposed an XML-Based
Bidirectional Transformation Model (as a framework) for
Model-Driven Architecture that provides
bidirectionality between platform independent model and
platform specific model.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chhabra:2009:EOO,
author = "Jitender Kumar Chhabra and Varun Gupta",
title = "Evaluation of object-oriented spatial complexity
measures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "1--5",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527208",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Spatial complexity measures help in the estimation of
the effort re-quired in the process of program
comprehension. These spatial com-plexity measures have
been proposed for procedure-oriented software as well
as object-oriented software. In this paper, an at-tempt
has been made to evaluate object-oriented spatial
complexity measures using formal evaluation frameworks
proposed by Weyu-ker and Briand et al. A practical and
useful complexity measure must satisfy most of the
properties given in these frameworks. The results of
this study show that object-oriented spatial metrics
satisfy all properties and parameters required by these
two evaluation frameworks and thus these spatial
measures are robust and useful.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mittal:2009:SMA,
author = "Harish Mittal and Pradeep Bhatia",
title = "Software maintainability assessment based on fuzzy
logic technique",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "1--5",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527210",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software maintenance is a process of modifying
existing operational software while leaving its primary
functions intact. Easily maintainable software saves
large costs in industries. Software maintainability
assessment is a major issue these days. In order to
assess maintainability we consider four major aspects
of software i.e., average numbers of live variables,
average life span of variables, average cyclomatic
complexity and the comment ratio. This paper proposes a
fuzzy logic based precise and easy approach to quantify
maintainability of software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saini:2009:EIM,
author = "Dinesh Kumar Saini and Jabar H. Yousif and Wail M.
Omar",
title = "Enhanced inquiry method for malicious object
identification",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "1--5",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527213",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper proposes a new technique for malicious
object detection and identification. The technique is
based on a concept of virus inquiry. The inquiry is an
activity that is performed by the malicious object
during its initiation. The malicious object uses this
activity to ensure its uniqueness in memory. The
inquiry can be regarded as a common behavior of
malicious object such as viruses. The proposed system
is designed using the concept of Object Oriented
Programming (OOP) that treats the operating system,
user program, and virus as objects. It is constructed
of three elementary objects that perform their
activities depending on two databases.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tsui:2009:DST,
author = "Frank Tsui and Andy Wang and Kai Qian",
title = "A discussion on security typing and measurement for
{SOA}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "1--5",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527214",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In a service oriented environment, using SOA
technologies, different business entities and services
are combined together. Such an environment introduces
various security vulnerabilities. This paper proposes
an innovative approach to address SOA application
security through security typing. We first define
security typing concepts, its declaration and
definition, with a simple security type, SST, as an
example. We then explore various operations under this
concept including type equivalence, type compatibility,
and type inference. We show, through unary and binary
operational examples, that measuring security
characteristics requires a clear understanding of the
metric scale level and that often times extending an
ordinal scale metric to ratio level can be misleading.
Our idea and approach to SST may be generalized in the
future to more sophisticated security typing.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Yang:2009:DLF,
author = "Qun Yang and Man-Wu Xu and De-Chang Pi",
title = "{Delegation}: a language facility for dynamic software
adaptation",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "1--5",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527215",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Due to the growing complexity of computing systems,
and the increasing demand for high availability and
reliability of them, adapting software at runtime is
becoming more and more important. However, there is not
sufficient support for dynamic software adaptation at
the level of programming languages. In this paper, we
investigate a language feature, namely delegation, to
argue that delegation is a favorite choice to deal with
dynamic software adaptation. To do that, we present $
\phi $ calculus, which is an imperative object-based
calculus with delegation, to model essential features
of languages, with focusing on how to incorporate
delegation into programming languages to support
dynamic software adaptation. We give the operational
semantics of $ \phi $ calculus. We also state how
delegation is used in object extending and method
sharing between objects. We conclude that delegation
makes dynamic software adaptation simpler and more
flexible.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kumar:2009:GCM,
author = "Avadhesh Kumar and Rajesh Kumar and P. S. Grover",
title = "Generalized coupling measure for aspect-oriented
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "1--6",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527209",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Coupling is an internal software attribute that can be
used to indicate the degree of interdependence among
the components of a software system. Coupling in
software has been linked to predict external software
quality attributes such as fault-proneness, ripple
effects, changeability, impact analysis etc. Despite an
interesting body of work for measuring coupling in
Aspect-Oriented (AO) Systems, there is no complete
generic coupling framework for AO systems. In this
paper, we have proposed a generic coupling measurement
framework that takes into account three, the most well
known families of Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
languages, AspectJ, CaesarJ and Hyper/J. This paper
contributes to an enhanced understanding of coupling in
AO systems, which in turn helps to (i) define new
coupling metrics which permit the analysis and
comparison of Java, AspectJ, CaesarJ and Hyper/J
implementations, and (ii) integrate different existing
measures and examine same concepts from different
perspectives.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bhatti:2009:DCQ,
author = "Shahid Nazir Bhatti",
title = "Deducing the complexity to quality of a system using
{UML}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "1--7",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527207",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The aspects of quality are that it is unquantifiable
trait --- it can be discussed, felt and judged, but can
not be weighted or measured. To validate software
systems early in the development lifecycle is becoming
crucial. Early validation of functional requirements is
supported by well known approaches, while the
validation of non-functional requirements, such as
complexity or reliability, is not. Early assessment of
non-functional requirements can be facilitated by
automated transformation of software models into
(mathematical) notations suitable for validation. These
types of validation approaches are usually as
transparent to the developers as possible. The widely
acceptance of quality services will only be accepted by
users if their quality is of the most acceptable level.
UML is rapidly becoming a standard (both in development
and in research environments) for software development.
The work here in this paper is extension of Quality
with UML (QWUML, IDIMT-2004, and SEN-2005), quality of
the system measurements with modelling (UML). This
paper discusses some important issues regarding system
design modelling in association with quality,
complexity, and design aspects using UML heuristics.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Prakash:2009:IEL,
author = "Lakshmi Sunil Prakash and Dinesh Kumar Saini and N. S.
Kutti",
title = "Integrating {EduLearn} learning content management
system {(LCMS)} with cooperating learning object
repositories {(LORs)} in a peer to peer (P2P)
architectural framework",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "1--7",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527212",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "An attempt is made to integrate the EduLearn Learning
Content Management System (LCMS) components with
comparable Learning Objects Repository (LORs),
specified in Peer to Peer (P2P) architecture to provide
a better framework for sharing Learning Objects.
Learning Content Designers need to be able to access a
suitable learning object. For this the Learning Object
needs to reside in an LOR which has the capacity to
cater quickly to the needs of the Learning Content
Designer. Reuse of a Learning Object is possible only
if it is available easily and it is designed in a
standard format. Such a reusable learning object (RLO)
has the ability of being reused in different learning
contexts and for various objectives. We have proposed a
new framework for more efficient e-learning environment
by using P2P architecture and Semantic Overlay Network.
This will help in efficient management of LCMS
components and improve the performance of LCMS through
the RLO. Our framework authenticates Learning Object
Repositories and provides a better load balance for the
framework using P2P technology.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2009:SEEb,
author = "Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "4--5",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527203",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tempero:2009:SEC,
author = "Ewan Tempero",
title = "Software engineering and computer sciences: two
worlds",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "6--6",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1543818",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2009:SNSc,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "6--15",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527204",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2009:RPc,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "3",
pages = "16--29",
month = may,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1527202.1527205",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:44 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Edited by Peter G. Neumann (Risks Forum Moderator and
Chairman of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public
Policy), plus personal contributions by others, as
indicated. Opinions expressed are individual rather
than organizational, and all of the usual disclaimers
apply. We address problems relating to software,
hardware, people, and other circumstances relevant to
computer systems. To economize on space, we include
pointers to items in the online Risks Forum: (R i j)
denotes RISKS vol i number j. Cited RISKS items
generally identify contributors and sources, together
with URLs. Official RISKS archives are available at
www.risks.org (which redirects to Newcastle and gets
you nice html formatting and a search engine courtesy
of Lindsay Marshall;
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/i.j.html gets you (R i
j)) and at ftp://www.sri.com/risks.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kaur:2009:EES,
author = "Kuljit Kaur and Hardeep Singh",
title = "Evaluating an evolving software component: case of
internal design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543415",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component based development is a reuse based approach
in which already existing software components are used
to assemble a new application. One of the commonly
cited advantages of this approach is that application
quality is high because mature components are used in
the application. This indicates that as components
mature their quality improves. In this paper, we have
studied evolution of the design structure of a reusable
component using package metrics proposed by Robert
Martin. Metric values indicate that internal design of
the component has improved over time.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mishra:2009:SIS,
author = "Alok Mishra and Deepti Mishra",
title = "Some issues on scheduling estimation model for
object-oriented software projects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543419",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Object-Oriented (OO) software projects are becoming
more popular than structured (functional) technology
based projects. Object Technology (OT) offers support
to deliver products to market more quickly and to
provide high quality with lower maintenance costs.
Estimation is an important field of software
engineering and there is need for good OO metrics and
models for both process and product management. To cut
development cost and meet tight deadlines in short
staffed software projects, it is essential that
managers plan and schedule their projects in a best
possible way. To address these issues, we have proposed
a model for scheduling estimation by using available OO
metrics and affecting factors.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nami:2009:INF,
author = "Mohammad Reza Nami and Hamid Razavi and Milad Saeedi
and Navid Shahidi",
title = "Investigating a new formal model for a library system
using {B} method",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--4",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543420",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The use of formal methods for development of
safety-critical systems has motivated researchers to
serve them in distributed applications. B method has
the precision to support animation and rigorous
verification, but requires significant effort in
training to overcome the mathematical barrier that many
practitioners perceive. In this paper, an overview of B
method is described including definition, properties,
and tools. Then, a new formal model for a library
system using B is presented. This formal model can be
ex-tended in distributed environments and be integrated
with UML as further work.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Agrawal:2009:IIV,
author = "A. Agrawal and R. A. Khan",
title = "Impact of inheritance on vulnerability propagation at
design phase",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543411",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The design phase of software development provides the
foundation for secure software. Reducing vulnerability
at this phase minimizes rework in subsequent
development phases. Currently, no efficient measure or
method is available to reduce this vulnerability. In
or-der to address this problem, we have proposed an
algorithm to measure vulnerability propagation for an
object-oriented design that calculates the Attribute
Vulnerability Ratio (AVR).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ren:2009:GTB,
author = "Sheng-bing Ren and Xi-e Wang and Zhi-gang Hu and Ge Hu
and Guo-jun Wang",
title = "Graph transformation based reduction analysis of
{PID}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543422",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The influence of safety risk assessment is being
gradually recognized along with increasing importance
of system safety. In view of the effectiveness of
probabilistic influence diagram (PID) in probability
reasoning, PID was introduced into system safety risk
assessment. Combining the object-oriented method of PID
with the traditional risk analysis method, a model of
system safety risk probability was successfully
constructed. To support the construction and reduction
analysis of PID properly, an editor was designed. The
syntax and semantics of the editor were detailed in the
paper, and its technical feasibility in risk analysis
was demonstrated in a case study. Based on graph
transformation and reduction algorithms of PID, the
visualization and describing ability of reduction
analysis of PID has been further strengthened, and its
semi-automation is achieved by the editor.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Yadav:2009:MDC,
author = "A. Yadav and R. A. Khan",
title = "Measuring design complexity: an inherited method
perspective",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--5",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1564532",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Complexity is one of the important attributes of
reliability. Higher design complexity increases the
probability of error occurrences and decreases
reliability of software. Inheritance has been
indentified as a key construct to control design
complexity. This paper proposes a formula to calculate
the overall complexity of design hierarchy caused by
inherited methods.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dahiya:2009:DMF,
author = "Deepak Dahiya and Usha Batra",
title = "Distributed middleware framework using aspects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543414",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In this paper we discuss the characteristics of Aspect
Oriented Programming (AOP) and the need to introduce
aspects for distributed computing. The evolution of a
revolutionary programming paradigm that promises to
have a profound effect on the way we interact with
computers, people and places is now a days well known
as Aspect Oriented Programming. Middleware platforms,
such as RMI, CORBA, DCOM, J2EE and {.NET} platform,
offer abstractions for the complex distributed
environment. Distributed middleware [1,2,3,4] are
difficult to build and implement because the
distributed frameworks impose a large code overhead due
to the specific distributed systems programming
conventions. Further, this paper discusses the impact
of AOP on the distributed computing environment and
hence its contribution towards the design of a
distributed middleware framework.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kong:2009:UCM,
author = "Leilei Kong and Tao Yuan",
title = "Use case modeling approach for early aspect
acquisition",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543417",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In the recent years, use cases have been widely
applied in software requirement engineering, and use
cases have proven particularly valuable as part of the
requirements activities of the software process. Use
cases play more and more important roles in some modern
software processes and methods. Early aspects are
defined as crosscutting concerns in the early life
cycle phases including the requirements analysis,
domain analysis and architecture design phases. Use
case modeling approach which supports the acquisition
of early aspects is proposed. It accepted the increment
and iteration development ideas of Unified Process. The
process of use case modeling is divided by five
iterative stages which are called initial use case,
basic use case, detailed use case, advanced use case
and extend use case. The approach supports the early
aspects acquisition at requirements level, and early
aspect will be captured by analysis the use case
properties with aspect features. Modeling processes of
this kind of approach is discussed and applying the
approach to a case study and analysis are given. We
argue that identification of early aspects supports
effective determination of their mapping and influence
of artifacts at later development stages.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sanden:2009:ISD,
author = "Bo Sand{\'e}n",
title = "Inspired software design early {Jackson} methods to
thread architectures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543423",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This is a somewhat personal account of a journey
starting with assembly coding based on Jackson
Structured Programming (JSP) and ending with the design
of thread architectures for reactive software systems
using entity-life modeling (ELM). As the level of
abstraction rises, the basic concepts remain the same:
The software takes its shape from structures in the
problem domain. JSP bases control structures on regular
expressions describing data streams. Jackson System
Development (JSD) introduces long-running processes
patterned on the life histories of entities in the
problem domain. Unfortunately, implementing
long-running processes in sequential programs leads to
awkward solutions. ELM lets us implement the processes
as threads. This is a natural fit, which removes the
awkwardness.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sharma:2009:DAC,
author = "Arun Sharma and P. S. Grover and Rajesh Kumar",
title = "Dependency analysis for component-based software
systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543424",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/hash.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Interaction in component-based systems (CBS) happens
when a component provides an interface and other
components use it, and also when a component submits an
event and other component receives it. Interactions
promote dependencies. Higher dependency leads to a
complex system, which results in poor understanding and
a higher maintenance cost. Usually, dependency is
represented by an adjacency matrix used in graph
theory. However, this representation can check only for
the presence of dependency between components and does
not consider the type of interactions between these
components. Interaction type can have a significant
contribution to the complexity of the system. This
paper proposes a link-list based dependency
representation and implements it by using Hash Map in
Java. This representation can store the dependency
along with other information like, provided and
required interfaces of components along with their
types. This information can be used to analyze several
interaction and dependency related issues. This paper
also presents the results of an experiment of the
proposed approach and measures the interaction
densities and dependency level of an individual
component and for the system The results show that the
proposed metrics can also be used to identify the most
critical and isolated components in the system, which
can lead to better understanding and easy system
maintenance.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Singh:2009:PSM,
author = "Yogesh Singh and Pradeep Kumar Bhatia and Omprakash
Sangwan",
title = "Predicting software maintenance using fuzzy model",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--6",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543425",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software maintenance is commonly used to refer to the
modifications that are made to a software system after
its initial release, installed and is operational.
There is evidence that maintenance costs exceed 60
percent of the total costs of software. In this paper
we have analyzed the major factors that can affect
software maintenance and divide them into four
categories: Readability of Source Code (RSC),
Documentation Quality (DQ), Understandability of
Software (UOS), and Average Cyclomatic Complexity
(ACC). In our study we have proposed fuzzy model to
predict software maintenance using these four factors.
The proposed fuzzy model is validated and experimental
results indicate that the proposed model is suitable
for predicting software maintenance level of the
software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Reddy:2009:DOC,
author = "K. Reddy Reddy and A. Ananda Rao",
title = "Dependency oriented complexity metrics to detect
rippling related design defects",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--7",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543421",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Even though object oriented software development has
gained popularity due to its inherent features, it also
throws challenges in early detection of defects during
design phase. Detection of design defects helps in
performing appropriate refactorings in improving the
quality of design. Literature indicates that active
research is going on in detecting design defects using
metrics. The present paper introduces a set of metrics
for detecting defects in object oriented designs caused
by the presence of shotgun surgery and divergent change
bad smells. These metrics are, dependency oriented
complexity metric for structure (DOCMS(R)), dependency
oriented complexity metric for an artifact causing
ripples (DOCMA(CR)), and dependency oriented complexity
metric for an artifact affected by ripples (DOCMA(AR)).
The proposed metrics have been computed for four cases.
These metrics are used successfully in detecting design
defects and complexity. In the present study DOCMA(CR)
metric value indicated the presence of shotgun surgery
bad smell, whereas DOCMA(AR) metric value indicated the
presence of divergent change bad smell. DOCMS(R) metric
value indicated the increase in complexity of structure
(architecture) when the design defects are present.
Detecting bad smells helps in performing appropriate
refactorings to make the software maintainable and to
improve the quality of software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Biswas:2009:MBR,
author = "Swarnendu Biswas and Rajib Mall and Manoranjan
Satpathy and Srihari Sukumaran",
title = "A model-based regression test selection approach for
embedded applications",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--9",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543413",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Regression test selection techniques for embedded
programs have scarcely been reported in the literature.
In this paper, we propose a model-based regression test
selection technique for embedded programs. Our proposed
model, in addition to capturing the data and control
dependence aspects, also represents several additional
program features that are important for regression test
case selection of embedded programs. These features
include control flow, exception handling, message
paths, task priorities, state information and object
relations. We select a regression test suite based on
slicing our proposed graph model. We also propose a
genetic algorithm-based technique to select an optimal
subset of test cases from the set of regression test
cases selected after slicing our proposed model.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kaur:2009:VMC,
author = "Parminder Kaur and Hardeep Singh",
title = "Version management and composition of software
components in different phases of software development
life cycle",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--9",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543416",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The key factor of component-based software development
is the composition of pre-fabricated components.
Although research efforts have focused on this issue,
yet the optimal performance of component-based systems
has not been achieved. If the concept of version
management is introduced along with composition
technology then it will help in locating the component
mismatch in the earlier stages of software development
life cycle. This paper analyses the significance of
version management and composition of software
components in different phases like analysis phase,
design phase and deployment phase of software
development life cycle. A comparative analysis of
different available component models like COM, {.NET},
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), CORBA, SOFA, UML 2.0 and
Web Services with respect to these two issues is also
discussed.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mishra:2009:CAP,
author = "Arun Mishra and A. K. Misra",
title = "Component assessment and proactive model for support
of dynamic integration in self adaptive system",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--9",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543418",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE) is a
paradigm in use by most of the software developers. In
a multi component system, each component is a probable
point of malfunction. Typical work to make such system
more vigorous and safe are both brittle and time
intense. A model has been designed for self-adaptive
system that automates the component integration process
at runtime by accessing the equivalent component from
diversified set of components that may be needed in
future. The proposed general model is for proactive
adaptation, which pre-fetch the component from the pre
available repository. This model integrates the caching
technique to reduce the amount of time that has been
spent during search of best-fitted component to replace
the required one, when a system fails to respond due to
component failure. To pre-fetch the required component
we perform the component assessment on the basis of
numerical metadata for each component present in the
repository. In the computation of numerical metadata we
design an algorithm which uses the concept of Abstract
Syntax Tree. To ensure the consistency in the system
after the modification, we have used a technique which
is used in GUI based component architecture model. To
asses the component at run-time, we provide prototype
in {.NET} technology using its attribute feature, which
support run-time component evolution without its
execution.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Calvo-ManzanoVillalon:2009:SAR,
author = "Jose A. {Calvo-Manzano Villal{\'o}n} and Gonzalo
{Cuevas Agust{\'\i}n} and Gloria Gasca Hurtado and
Tom{\'a}s {San Feliu Gilabert}",
title = "State of the art for risk management in software
acquisition",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--10",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543426",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper presents the state of the art for risk
management in software acquisition. To determine it, a
systematic review protocol for Software Engineering is
used. Furthermore, the systematic re-view focuses on
identifying initiatives and reports of risk manage-ment
proposals for software acquisition in small settings.
Results show increasing research in risk management and
the need for more in-depth studies.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bastani:2009:COS,
author = "Behzad Bastani and David Greaves",
title = "Complex open-system design by quasi-agents:
process-oriented modeling in agent-based systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "1--14",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543412",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Drastically increasing involvement of Computer Science
in different aspects of human life and sciences and the
reciprocal dependency these sciences have developed on
Computer Science and technology have deployed extremely
challenging grounds for software architecture and
design as a discipline. The requirements related to the
management of complexity which is in the essence of
these new domains combined with sizes which are orders
of magnitude larger than the conventional business
applications necessitate development of new paradigms.
Since we are in fact beyond the age of writing one
program by one group which takes care of one type of
issue for one class of users, the new paradigms should
guarantee some type of technical pluralism which allows
indefinite number of people addressing indefinite
aspects of complex clusters of issues in an ongoing
effort over indefinite amount of time. The technical
basis should provide for easy and ideally automated
integration of all such efforts. This means the
capability of random program design and integration
based on a supporting and unifying conceptual
framework. In contributing to these principles,
Nuclear-Process Oriented Analysis and Modeling (NPOAM)
[3] presented the capability of random modeling and
design while establishing itself on the supporting
framework of Abstraction-oriented Frames [4]. In an
ongoing research to further modularize and streamline
this methodology, this paper presents the idea and
method of application of NPOAM to agent-base systems.
The accomplishment of this goal is substantiated
through a double implementation effort, one in an agent
simulation environment and the other through the use of
industrial strength modeling and application
development tools. This paper also extends the
agent-oriented framework to propose a new concept named
``quasi-agents'' which is essentially related to mostly
deterministic environments and offers examples of
quasi-agents in implementation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Notkin:2009:FF,
author = "David Notkin",
title = "{FAQs} and figures",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "6--6",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1564530",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2009:Q,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "On quality",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "7--8",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543407",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ardis:2009:SEEa,
author = "Mark A. Ardis and Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "8--8",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543408",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2009:SNSd,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "9--16",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543409",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2009:RPd,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "17--24",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543410",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bass:2009:LMS,
author = "Len Bass and Brian Berenbach",
title = "{Leadership and Management in Software Architecture
Workshop 2009} report",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "25--27",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543428",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This is a report of a workshop on Leadership and
Management in Software Architecture held at ICSE on May
19, 2009.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Daughtry:2009:AUR,
author = "John M. Daughtry and Umer Farooq and Brad A. Myers and
Jeffrey Stylos",
title = "{API} usability: report on special interest group at
{CHI}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "27--29",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543429",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The 27th annual International Conference on Human
Factors in Computing (CHI) convened in Boston, MA (USA)
from April 4-9, 2009. Included in this year's technical
program was a special interest group (SIG) meeting on
API usability. This report summarizes the SIG,
emphasizing the primary takeaways, which include a
greater understanding of the types of APIs, case
studies, and a place to share our multi-disciplinary
results.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pankratius:2009:AMS,
author = "Victor Pankratius and Adam Porter and Larry Votta",
title = "Advances in multicore software engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "30--31",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543430",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In the beautiful city of Vancouver, ICSE2009 hosted
several events devoted to advancing the
state-of-the-art in multicore software engineering.
Realizing that future performance increases will come
form parallelism, the software engineering community is
organizing to tackle the problems in this important
field. Researchers and practitioners got together to
present newest results and discuss future directions.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dranidis:2009:CPI,
author = "Dimitris Dranidis and Stephen P. Masticola and Paul
Strooper",
title = "Challenges in practice: {4th International Workshop on
the Automation of Software Test} report",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "32--34",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543431",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Fourth International Workshop on Automation of
Software Test (AST 2008) ICSE 2009 expanded previous
programs to two days, supported a special theme of
Testing Web Services, added a Case Studies from
Business and Industry session, and included a
charette-style work session. At the workshop, 15
regular papers and 7 short case-study papers were
presented in 7 sessions at the workshop. This report
summarizes the organization of the workshop as well as
the sessions and papers presented, the results of the
charette session, attendee feedback, and lessons
learned. (This is an updated and expanded version of
the workshop summary that was included in the ICSE 2009
proceedings.)",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Baillargeon:2009:WMS,
author = "Robert Baillargeon and Robert France and Steffen
Zschaler and Bernhard Rumpe and Steven V{\"o}lkel and
Geri Georg",
title = "{Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering} at
{ICSE 2009}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "34--37",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1543432",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Modeling in Software Engineering (MiSE) workshop
series provides a forum for discussing the challenges
associated with modeling software and with
incorporating modeling practices into the software
development process. The main goal of the series is to
further promote cross-fertilization between the
modeling communities (e.g., MODELS) and
software-engineering communities. In particular, the
workshop provides a medium to exchange innovative
technical ideas and experiences related to modeling.
The 2009 MiSE workshop provided a venue for
presentation and discussion of eleven papers in the
five areas of model evolution, domain specific
languages, verification and validation, model
transformation and state-of-the-art modeling usage in
software development. These papers represent a 44\%
acceptance rate to the workshop. Three posters were
also accepted. This report summarizes the discussions
and conclusions of the workshop.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ebert:2009:BRC,
author = "J{\"u}rgen Ebert",
title = "Book review: {{\booktitle{Collaborative and
Distributed Chemical Engineering From Understanding to
Substantial Design Process Support}}, Edited by Manfred
Nagl, Wolfgang Marquardt (Springer Verlag, Berlin,
2008), as Lecture Note in Computer Science 4970, ISBN
3-540-70551-1, 849 pp.}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "4",
pages = "42--43",
month = jul,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1543405.1564534",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:45 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Diaz-Herrera:2009:ESD,
author = "Jorge L. D{\'\i}az-Herrera",
title = "The ``engineering'' of software, a different kind of
engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598734",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saxena:2009:PEN,
author = "Vipin Saxena and Deepak Arora and Manish Shrivastava",
title = "Performance evaluation of network system through
{UML}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598740",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In distributing computing environments, information
processing is distributed among many computer systems
rather than confined to a single computer. They are
widely used for enhancing the performance of complex
and bulky numerical calculations. Distributed computer
systems heavily depend on efficacy of computer
networks. The performance of computer network is a
major factor in implementing software on any
distributed system as these software need critical
response time. Load balancing is an important method
for improving system performance. In present paper,
authors have estimated the performance of a local area
network system, which is evaluated through a well known
modeling language, the Unified Modeling Language. A UML
model has been designed for real case study of Sanjay
Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences,
Lucknow, India. Network performance in terms of load
balancing and sharing, is evaluated after designing UML
class and sequence diagrams.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Xavier:2009:PIS,
author = "P. Eugene Xavier and E. R. Naganathan",
title = "Productivity improvement in software projects using
2-dimensional probabilistic software stability model
{(PSSM)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "1--3",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598741",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "A 2-dimensional probabilistic model has been developed
utilizing the properties of the Random Processes to
enhance the stability of enterprise computing
applications and hence the productivity factor of
software projects. This innovative model would prove to
be better than other estimation methods including
various heuristic as well parametric approaches. A
mapping of the ``design domain'' to the ``development
domain'' and arriving at the correlation between the
parameters of the two domains form the subject of this
research. The probabilistic model developed is applied
to enterprise computing applications for enhancing the
productivity of software developers by minimizing the
production time of the software application. The basic
criteria being made use of here is to make use of the
inverse relationship that exists between complexity of
a software application and stability of the software.
The probabilistic random process model is used to
derive and utilize the correlation that exists between
function points (used in Estimation Techniques) to the
prime components defined in the Software Stability
Model (viz., EBTs, BOs and IOs).",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kalaimagal:2009:NTC,
author = "Sivamuni Kalaimagal and Rengaramanujam Srinivasan",
title = "The need for transforming the {COTS} component quality
evaluation standard mirage to reality",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598735",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Recently, there is a trend towards multi-tiered
applications. In order to produce such systems
effectively, software developers often use component
based technologies to assemble software systems instead
of developing the systems from scratch. This helps to
reduce development costs and development time. However,
this approach will work only if high quality components
are selected for the system. Hence, it becomes
necessary to evaluate the quality of COTs components
and have a trusted COTS quality standard. However, it
is not so easy to develop a quality standard for COTS
components, thereby making it a mirage. This paper
discusses why it is important to have a COTS quality
standard, the difficulties involved in framing such a
standard and how those issues can be resolved so that
in the long run at least the foundation of such a
standard can be laid. Finally, we also introduce our
quality model Q'Facto 12 that has been proposed by us
to evaluate COTS component quality and how this model
overcomes some of the debated issues.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kumar:2009:AOR,
author = "Manoj Kumar and Anjana Gosain and Yogesh Singh",
title = "Agent oriented requirements engineering for a data
warehouse",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598737",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "In recent years, a number of requirements engineering
(RE) proposals for a data warehouse (DW) systems have
been made. In the traditional/operational systems,
requirements engineering has been divided into two
phases: early and late requirements engineering phase.
Most of the data warehouse requirements engineering
(DWRE) approaches have not distinguished early
requirements engineering phase from late requirements
engineering phase. A very few approaches are seen in
the literature that explicitly model early and late
requirements for a DW. In this paper, we propose an
AGDI (Agent-Goal-Decision-Information) model to support
early requirements engineering issues for a data
warehouse. Here, early requirements have been modeled
through organization modeling and goal modeling
activities as an illustration of proposed AGDI model to
support decisional goals of the organization for which
DW is to be built.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mittal:2009:SMP,
author = "J. P. Mittal and Pradeep Bhatia and Harish Mittal",
title = "Software maintenance productivity assessment using
fuzzy logic",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "1--4",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598739",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper proposes a fuzzy logic based precise
approach to quantify maintenance productivity of
software. Cyclomatic complexity density i.e.,
cyclomatic complexity per lines of code is proposed as
a metric for software maintenance productivity.
Triangular fuzzy numbers are used to represent
cyclomatic complexity density. Fuzzy logic offers
significant advantages over other approaches due to its
ability to naturally represent qualitative aspect of
inspection data and apply flexible inference rules
based on fuzziness. The model is evaluated on the basis
of published data for a small pilot project on actual
maintenance data. However, the technique is quite
general and may be tested for medium and large projects
in other languages. Results obtained using fuzzy logic
is better than results obtained by existing technique
without fuzzy logic [9].",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Mishra:2009:DDF,
author = "Deepti Mishra and Alok Mishra",
title = "A discussion on design factors of client-server
software testability",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "1--5",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598738",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We have well established methods for testing the
software for centralized systems in which all the
software components resides on a single computer. But
client-server software systems are different from
centralized software systems because in client-server
systems, software components may be distributed among
different machines. Therefore, testing client-server
software cannot be planned from the perspective of
traditional integrated testing activities. In this
paper, we have presented some design factors that can
affect the testing of client-server software systems.
These factors should be taken into consideration during
design as it can lead to better testability in
client-server software systems.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kumar:2009:QEA,
author = "Avadhesh Kumar and P. S. Grover and Rajesh Kumar",
title = "A quantitative evaluation of aspect-oriented software
quality model {(AOSQUAMO)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "1--9",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598736",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Aspect-Oriented (AO) technology is a new paradigm and
emerging field of software development. Aspect-Oriented
Programming (AOP) cleanly encapsulates crosscutting
concerns which cannot be encapsulated or modularized by
traditional programming approaches like Module-Oriented
(MO) and Object-Oriented (OO). In order to evaluate
quality of software systems, researchers and
practitioners have proposed their software quality
characteristics and models. As AO is a new abstraction,
there is no dedicated software quality model, which can
describe and include new features of AO technology. In
this paper, a new Aspect-Oriented Software Quality
Model (AOSQUAMO) has been proposed. Analytic Hierarchy
Process (AHP) is used to evaluate quality of AO
software systems as a single parameter. This proposed
quality model further may be used to compare AO
software systems which will help consumer to choose
better quality software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Auguston:2009:SAB,
author = "Mikhail Auguston",
title = "Software architecture built from behavior models",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "1--15",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598733",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper suggests an approach to formal software
system architecture specification based on behavior
models. The behavior of the system is defined as a set
of events (event trace) with two basic relations:
precedence and inclusion. The structure of event trace
is specified using event grammars and other constraints
organized into schemas. The schema framework is
amenable to stepwise architecture refinement, reuse,
composition, visualization, and application of
automated tools for consistency checks. The concept of
event attribute supports a continuous architecture
refinement up to executable design and implementation
models.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bernstein:2009:PSEa,
author = "Larry Bernstein and H{\'a}kon {\'A}g{\'u}stsson",
title = "Pithy software engineering quotes new ``{TBD}''
column",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "6--6",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598748",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wing:2009:EGA,
author = "Michael Wing",
title = "Evolution and great apps",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "6--7",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598749",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ardis:2009:SEEb,
author = "Mark A. Ardis and Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "7--7",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598750",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2009:SNSe,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "8--17",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598752",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2009:RPe,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "18--24",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.159753",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ghanam:2009:RXW,
author = "Yaser Ghanam and Frank Maurer and Pekka Abrahamsson
and Kendra Cooper",
title = "A report on the {XP Workshop on Agile Product Line
Engineering}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "25--27",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598754",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) promises to
lower the costs of developing individual applications
as they heavily reuse existing artifacts. Besides
decreasing costs, software reuse achieves faster
development and higher quality. Traditionally, SPLE
favors big design upfront and employs traditional,
heavy weight processes. On the other hand, agile
methods have been proposed to rapidly develop high
quality software by focusing on producing working code
while reducing upfront analysis and design. Combining
both paradigms, although is challenging, can yield
significant improvements. In this workshop, we
discussed the challenges, the research questions and
the tradeoffs that need to be addressed for such an
integration to enjoy success.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Wang:2009:WAR,
author = "Xiaofeng Wang and Michael Lane and Kieran Conboy and
Minna Pikkarainen",
title = "Where agile research goes: starting from a 7-year
retrospective (report on agile research workshop at
{XP2009})",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "28--30",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598755",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report summarizes the key findings from a
workshop at the 10th International Conference on Agile
Processes and eXtreme Programming in Software
Engineering (XP2009) called ``Agile Research --- A
7-Year Retrospective'', held in Sardinia in May 2009.
The workshop was based on an open discussion around
past papers presented at the conference, identifying
current gaps and areas for future research. A research
topic map has been drawn and several future research
directions have been highlighted as the results of
running the workshop.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chitchyan:2009:REA,
author = "Ruzanna Chitchyan and Monica Pinto and Safoora Shakil
Khan",
title = "Report on early aspects at {ICSE 2009}: {Workshop on
Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering and
Architecture Design}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "30--35",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598756",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Early aspects are the crosscutting concerns that
appear at the early stages of software development,
i.e., in requirements and architecture design. But do
these early aspects span the whole development
lifecycle? How can they be traced forwards and back to
other software work products? Is AO worth the effort in
the first place? These and a number of other questions
were discussed during the [email protected] workshop in
2009. The present report contains summaries of these
discussions as well as a brief overview of the papers
accepted for the 16th.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Sillitti:2009:DES,
author = "Alberto Sillitti",
title = "Designing empirical studies: assessing the
effectiveness of agile methods",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "35--37",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598757",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The 10th International Conference on Agile Processes
and eXtreme Programming in Software Engineering (XP
2009) was held in Sardinia (Italy) in May 25-29, 2009.
The 3rd International Workshop on Designing Empirical
Studies (IWDES 2009) was organized and focused on the
assessment of the effectiveness of agile methods.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Fernandes:2009:RAM,
author = "Jo{\~a}o M. Fernandes and Luis C. Lamb and Ricardo J.
Machado and Fl{\'a}vio R. Wagner",
title = "Recent advances in model-based methodologies for
pervasive and embedded software",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "37--39",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598758",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "We report on recent advances in Model-based
Methodologies for Pervasive and Embedded Software. This
paper describes the research presented at MOMPES 2009,
the 6th edition of a workshop series. The MOMPES
workshops focus on the theoretical and practical
aspects related to the adoption of model-based
development methodologies for supporting the
construction of software for pervasive and embedded
systems. The workshops usually gather researchers from
both industry and academia. In 2009, the workshop
included papers tackling both foundational and
application research themes related to embedded
systems. We describe the main contributions of these
papers, and point out further results on recent
advances in this area.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Glinz:2009:RWC,
author = "Martin Glinz and Patrick Heymans and Anne Persson and
Guttorm Sindre and Ayb{\"u}ke Aurum and Nazim Madhavji
and Barbara Paech and Gil Regev and Roel Wieringa",
title = "Report on the working conference on requirements
engineering: foundation for software quality
{(REFSQ'09)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "40--45",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598759",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This report summarizes the presentations and
discussions at REFSQ'09, the 15th International Working
Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for
Software Quality which was held on June 8-9, 2009 in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Dubinsky:2009:SDG,
author = "Yael Dubinsky and Philippe Kruchten",
title = "{Software development governance (SDG)}: report on 2nd
workshop",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "46--47",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This is a report on the 2nd roles and responsibilities
workshop on governance software development (SDG),
which took place as part of ICSE 2009. While the first
workshop in 2008 focused on the definitions of the
concepts involved in software development governance,
the second workshop focused on case studies in which
changes are introduced to software teamwork, e.g.,
distributed and agile environments, and on governance
approaches that are used to better align software
development with the business goals.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Carver:2009:RSI,
author = "Jeffrey C. Carver",
title = "Report from the {Second International Workshop on
Software Engineering for Computational Science and
Engineering (SE-CSE 09)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "48--51",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598761",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This is the report from a one-day workshop that took
place on May 23, 2009 in as part of the International
Conference on Software Engineering in Vancouver,
Canada. The main focus of this workshop was to provide
a venue for discussion of problems related to the
application of software engineering principles to the
development of Computational Science and Engineering
software.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Lewis:2009:RWS,
author = "Grace Lewis and Dennis Smith and Len Bass and Brad
Myers",
title = "Report of the {Workshop on Software Engineering
Foundations for End-User Programming}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "51--54",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598762",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The Workshop on Software Engineering Foundations for
End-User Programming (SEEUP) was held at the 33rd
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
in Vancouver, British Columbia on May 23, 2009. This
workshop discussed end-user programming with a specific
focus on the software engineering that is required to
make it a more disciplined process, while still hiding
the complexities of greater discipline from the end
user. Speakers covered how to understand the problems
and needs of the real end users of end-user
programming. The discussion focused on the software
engineering and supporting technology that would have
to be in place to address these problems and needs.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2009:BRC,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Book Review: {{\booktitle{C Programming: a Modern
Approach}} (2nd Edit.) written by K. N. King, and
published by W. W. Norton and Company, paperback, ISBN
978-0-393-97950-3, 832 pp.}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "57--58",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598742",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Saur:2009:BRM,
author = "Joe Saur",
title = "Book review: {{\booktitle{Mathematical Modeling and
Simulation: Introduction for Scientists and Engineers}}
by Kai Velten, and published by Wiley-VCH, 2009,
paperback, ISBN 978-3-527-40758-3, 348 pp.}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "58--58",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598743",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Chodkowski:2009:BRR,
author = "Steven Chodkowski",
title = "Book Review: {{\booktitle{Research Methods for
Human-Computer Interaction}} edited by Paul Cairns and
Anna L. Cox, and published by Cambridge University
Press, 2008, paperback (also available in Hard Cover),
ISBN: 978-0-521-69031-7, 242 pp., (987-0-521-87012-2
hardcover)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "59--59",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598744",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ben-Menachem:2009:BRS,
author = "Mordechai Ben-Menachem",
title = "Book review: {{\booktitle{Software Maintenance
Management}} by Alain April and Alain Abran, and
published by Wiley Interscience (John Wiley and Sons,
Inc.), 2008, (paperback), ISBN 978-0470-14707-8, pp.
334}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "59--60",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598745",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Farrell-Vinay:2009:BRM,
author = "Peter Farrell-Vinay",
title = "Book review: {{\booktitle{Model-based software testing
and analysis in C\#}} by Jonathan Jacky, Margus Veanes,
Colin Campbell, and Wolfram Schulte, and published by
CUP, 2008, (paperback) ISB-10: 0-521-68761-6, 349
pp.}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "60--60",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598746",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/csharp.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Farrell-Vinay:2009:BRI,
author = "Peter Farrell-Vinay",
title = "Book review: {{\booktitle{Introduction to Software
Testing}}, by Paul Amman and Jeff Offutt, published by
CUP, 2008, 978-0-521-88038 322 pp., 0-471-20282-7}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "5",
pages = "60--61",
month = sep,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1598732.1598747",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:47 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bernstein:2009:PSEb,
author = "Larry Bernstein and H{\'a}kon {\'A}g{\'u}stsson",
title = "Pithy Software Engineering Quotes New Column",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640182",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Feng:2009:FFS,
author = "Yu Feng",
title = "Finding flows in software development",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1--3",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640166",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Nowadays, many developers lose their passions for
software development. Flow is a theory to describe
experience associated with optimal performance. In this
article, I analyzed essential components of flow and
their meanings for software developers. I also made
recommendations on the fields of study where flow can
be made.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gill:2009:CAP,
author = "Nasib S. Gill and Balkishan",
title = "Component adaptation process and adaptability
viewpoints",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1--3",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640173",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Component adaptation is one of the most crucial issues
in Component-Based Software Development (CBSD). The
present paper addresses the component adaptation
process consisting of three activities: Finding
Mismatch, Evaluating Adaptability and Component
Adaptation. Furthermore, this paper describes six
viewpoints for component adaptability evaluation: Cost,
Quality of Services (QoS), Fault Tolerance, Functional
Requirement, Behavioral Requirement and Technical
Requirement. Finally, this paper discusses the
importance of measuring adaptability that helps in
evaluating component adaptability.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Tee:2009:EMR,
author = "Sim Hui Tee",
title = "Eliminating method redundancy for the improvement of
inner class design",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1--3",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640174",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Inner class is a helper class that assists its outer
class to perform a specific task. It is declared within
the body of outer class. An outer class can contain
multiple inner classes in term of breadth and depth.
The design principle of inner classes is to have them
defined cohesively related to the functionality of
outer class. However, method redundancy always renders
overheads in inner class design. Eliminating method
redundancy is significant because it can reduce the
class complexity and enhance the class cohesiveness.
This research examines the method redundancy in the
inner classes. The author proposes a methodology to
rate the complexity of redundant methods in order to
reduce class complexity and enhance the inner class
design.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Catal:2009:BAS,
author = "Cagatay Catal",
title = "Barriers to the adoption of software product line
engineering",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1--4",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640164",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Software development costs and time to deploy a
software-intensive system significantly decrease when
Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) approach is
applied. Numerous case studies in industrial and
military domains have shown that reliability, quality,
productivity and user interface consistency improve
drastically in addition to the decrease of cost and
time-to-market. Also, this system engineering approach
is very effective in three market strategies known as
cost leadership, differentiation, and focusing. Despite
these measurable benefits, product line engineering
adoption is slower than the other technological trends
such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Model
Driven Development (MDD), and Aspect Oriented Software
Development (AOSD). In this paper, we investigate the
barriers to the adoption of SPLE and explore the root
causes of them from three points of views: Project
sponsor, organization, and SPLE community. We provide
suggestions for how the industry and SPLE community can
solve these multi-dimensional issues in a short term.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Drori:2009:TSD,
author = "Offer Drori",
title = "Template for a system design file using {OODPM}
version 2010",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1--4",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640165",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Object Oriented Design by Prototype Methodology
(OODPM) inte-grates two known technologies: the object
approach and the prototype concept. Object oriented
methodology is used for internal system de-sign, and
prototype methodology is used for external system
design. This document is a template for a system design
file using OODPM version 2010 (titles of paragraphs
only). For full explanations for each paragraph look at
[1]. This version developed after tens of projects that
developed and plan using 5.1 version in a very vast
projects for national information systems. This version
companion by ``User Guide OODPM Methodology for
Planning Information Systems Version 2010'' ---
meanwhile only in Hebrew.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Bhattacharyya:2009:VGN,
author = "Indrajit Bhattacharyya and Anup Kumar Bandypopadhyay
and Bhaskar Gupta and Aloknath Chattopadhyay and
Rajeswari Chattopadhyay and Kiyotoshi Yasumoto",
title = "Vector {GA}: a novel enhancement of genetic algorithms
for efficient multi-variable or multi-dimensional
search",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1--5",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640163",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Many software engineering problems can be viewed as a
large multidimensional searching problem. This paper
presents an enhancement of conventional Genetic
Algorithms (GA) for more efficient multi-variable or
multi-dimensional searches. The concept relies upon
expressing chromosomes as vectors in the required
multidimensional frame of reference. Usual GA operators
are also defined as vector operators. Comparison with
conventional genetic algorithm is made to illustrate
its superior performance.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Nami:2009:CIC,
author = "Mohammad Reza Nami and Bahareh Sheikh-Abbasi and
Marjaneh Khoshandam",
title = "A comparative introduction to {CSP} and {ACT}-{ONE}
formal languages",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1--5",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640168",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Formal Methods have changed software engineering
development process. They have been used in
implementation of software for safety-critical
environments. Formal specification languages have good
properties for describing a system. ACT-ONE and
Communicating Sequential Process (CSP) are two
specification languages we have discussed on them in
this paper. This paper compares them from different
aspects such as their styles, special symbols,
databases, and combination with other languages. As
future work, we will present a new formal model for a
distributed system in our next research.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Rehman:2009:RSD,
author = "S. Rehman and K. Mustafa",
title = "Research on software design level security
vulnerabilities",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1--5",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640171",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "One of the major problems in software security is the
lack of knowledge about security among software
developers. Even if a developer has good knowledge
about current software vulnerabilities, they generally
have little or no idea about the causes and measures
that can avoid those vulnerabilities. Now it is
established fact that most of the vulnerabilities arise
in design phase of the software development lifecycle.
Keeping in view the importance of software design level
security, a study of current software design level
vulnerabilities and their cause is conducted. In this
paper, we discuss current practices in specific
software design tasks, vulnerabilities and mitigation
mechanism. On the basis of the critical review, areas
of research are identified that warrant further
investigation.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Kaur:2009:LSU,
author = "Parminder Kaur and Hardeep Singh",
title = "A layered structure for uniform version management in
component based systems",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1--7",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640167",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The prerequisite of component-based systems is to
manage the life-cycle evolution of software components.
As there are multiple versions of constituent
components, a need exists to keep track of them.
Various version control systems, either in the form of
open-source or commercial, are available in the market
to maintain the evolution history of multiple versions
of constituent components with respect to
component-based applications. This paper dis-cusses the
requirements of a version control framework and then
presents a generic framework that can handle multiple
versions of different types of components. The
prototype framework named as Visual Version Control
Tool (VVCT), for the management of life-cycle evolution
of heterogeneous component systems, is developed and
tested using {.NET} environment. The developed tool
satisfies all the conditions required for uniform
version management and also becomes the basis for
version model, which can be used to control the
different revisions or variants of the same component
in the evolving system.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Pandey:2009:EWR,
author = "R. K. Pandey",
title = "Exploiting web resources for teaching\slash learning
best software design tips",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1--7",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640169",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/java2000.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "Teaching software design principles using conventional
class room methodologies has its own limitations and as
such is less effective. Software design being the most
crucial phase of the Software Development Life Cycle
(SDLC) requires considerable practical experience on
the part of the teacher. The approach presented in this
paper may help the computer science/software
engineering students learn the advanced level software
design tips through Internet based resources. Such type
of approaches to teaching/learning software engineering
principles through Free/Open Source (F/OSS) resources
have been quite successfully used and reported in the
literature. The approach presented in this paper is
somewhat similar and may be of great help to the
persons having background in JAVA and {.NET}
technologies and involved in the design/development of
JAVA/.NET based components/applications. The approach
has a number of advantages over the approaches used by
others and is quite effective.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Singh:2009:EAM,
author = "Ranjit Singh and Shakti Mishra and D. S. Kushwaha",
title = "An efficient asynchronous mobile web service
framework",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1--7",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640170",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "The popularity of web services within the IT industry
continuous to grow. Accessing web services from a small
device is very common these days. There are number of
challenges to access a web services on mobile device
due to its limited resources and the lack of bandwidth
in its communication network. In Mobile devices,
Synchronous web services are not feasible. It makes the
user wait while each Web service processes requests and
returns results. Asynchronous Web services invocation
solves this performance issue and enhances the end user
experience by increasing server efficiency. The
architecture of asynchronous web services is
controllable and monitorable. In order to enhance the
efficiency of a mobile web services, we have created a
bridge between telephony application and web
application. We integrate the telecommunication
facility and asynchronous invocation of web services.
It exposes telephony services as web services, so that
web application can easily access telecommunication
facilities through SMS messaging.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Samuel:2009:SBT,
author = "Philip Samuel and Rajib Mall",
title = "Slicing-based test case generation from {UML} activity
diagrams",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "1--14",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1666579",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "UML diagrams are important design and modeling
artifacts. These diagrams can also be used to generate
test cases. We present a novel test case generation
method that is based on dynamic slicing of UML activity
diagrams. We use flow dependence graph (FDG) of an
activity diagram to generate dynamic slices. Dynamic
slices are created using an edge marking method. Slices
are constructed corresponding to each conditional
predicate on activity edges and test cases are
automatically generated with respect to each slice. Our
generated test cases satisfy path coverage criterion.
Our test data generation scheme is automatic and the
test data is generated considering the slice condition.
We have implemented our approach to realize a prototype
tool.",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Ardis:2009:SEEc,
author = "Mark A. Ardis and Peter B. Henderson",
title = "Software engineering education {(SEEd)}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "5--8",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1655273",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2009:ECS,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "The epistemology of computer security",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "8--10",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1655274",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
abstract = "This paper studies computer security from first
principles. The basic questions ``Why?'', ``How do we
know what we know?'' and ``What are the implications of
what we believe?''",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Doernhoefer:2009:SNSf,
author = "Mark Doernhoefer",
title = "Surfing the net for {{\booktitle{Software Engineering
Notes}}}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "11--20",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1655275",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Neumann:2009:RPf,
author = "Peter G. Neumann",
title = "Risks to the public",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "21--24",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1655276",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Heiman:2009:BRP,
author = "Thomas Heiman",
title = "Book Review: {{\booktitle{Pattern Recognition and
Neural Networks}} by Brian D. Ripley, and published by
Cambridge University Press, 2007, Paperback, ISBN
978-0521-71770-0, pp. 403}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "28--28",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640175",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Heiman:2009:BRS,
author = "Thomas Heiman",
title = "Book Review: {{\booktitle{Simulation-Based Engineering
of Complex Systems}}, Second Edition is written by John
R. Clymer, and published by Wiley-Interscience, 2009,
ISBN 978-00470-40129-3, pp. 503}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "28--29",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640176",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2009:BRD,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "Book Review: {{\booktitle{Design, Measurement and
Management of Large-Scale IP Networks}} by Antonio
Nucci and Konstantina Papagiannaki, and published by
Cambridge University Press, 2009, 978-0-521-88069-5,
394 pp.}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "29--29",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640177",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Schaefer:2009:BRS,
author = "Robert Schaefer",
title = "Book Review: {{\booktitle{Scientific Software: a Guide
to Good Style}} by Suely Oliveira and David Stewart,
and published by Cambridge University Press, 2006,
(paperback), 0-521-67595-2, 303 pp.}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "30--30",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640178",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Henderson:2009:BRC,
author = "Craig Henderson",
title = "Book Review: {{\booktitle{Computing for Numerical
Methods using Visual C++}} by Shaharuddin Salleh,
Albert Y. Zomaya, Sakhinah Abu Bakar, and published by
Wiley-Interscience (December 14, 2007), 2007,
0-470-12795-3, 448 pp.}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "30--31",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640179",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gvero:2009:BRPa,
author = "Igor Gvero",
title = "Book Review: {{\booktitle{Practical Text Mining With
Perl}}, by Roger Bilisoly, and published by Wiley,
2009, 978-0-470-1763-6, 295pp.}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "31--31",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640180",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
@Article{Gvero:2009:BRPb,
author = "Igor Gvero",
title = "Book Review: {{\booktitle{Python for Software Design}}
by Allen B. Downey, and published by Cambridge
University Press, 2009, 978-0-521-72596-5, 251pp.}",
journal = j-SIGSOFT,
volume = "34",
number = "6",
pages = "31--32",
month = nov,
year = "2009",
CODEN = "SFENDP",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1145/1640162.1640181",
ISSN = "0163-5948 (print), 1943-5843 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0163-5948",
bibdate = "Wed Aug 1 17:15:50 MDT 2018",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/python.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigsoft2000.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes",
journal-URL = "https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J728",
}
