{"title":"Towards software analysis as a service","authors":"Giacomo Ghezzi, H. Gall","doi":"10.1109/ASEW.2008.4686315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEW.2008.4686315","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the years software engineers have come up with a myriad of specialized tools and techniques that focus on a certain type of analysis, such as metrics extraction, evolution tracking, co-change detection, bug prediction, all the way up to social network analysis of team dynamics. However, easy and straight forward synergies between these analyses/tools rarely exist because of their stand-alone nature, their platform dependence, their different input and output formats and the variety of systems to analyze. This significantly hampers their usage and reduces their acceptance by other researchers and software companies. To overcome this problem we propose a distributed and collaborative software analysis platform to enable a seamless interoperability of software analysis tools across platform, geographical and organizational boundaries. In particular, we devise software analysis tools as services that can be accessed and composed over the Internet. These distributed services shall be widely accessible through a software analysis broker where organizations and research groups can register and share their tools. To enable (semi)-automatic use and composition of these tools, they are classified and mapped into a software analysis taxonomy and adhere to specific meta-models and ontologies for their category of analysis.","PeriodicalId":215885,"journal":{"name":"2008 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering - Workshops","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121562077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A specialisation of the SQuaRE quality model for the evaluation of the software evolution and maintenance activity","authors":"Michele Bombardieri, F. Fontana","doi":"10.1109/ASEW.2008.4686328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEW.2008.4686328","url":null,"abstract":"One of the activities where companies invest the most today is software evolution and maintenance; in spite of this big effort, companies do not have a reliable and agreed model to evaluate the quality of maintenance activity and to monitor how their software evolves as a result of maintenance. Although the ISO/IEC SQuaRE quality model is well- known in industry and covers also maintenance issues, it is too general and too abstract to be directly applied; moreover some of the metrics that the model suggests are very difficult and expensive to apply. The purpose of this paper is to specialise the ISO/IEC SQuaRE quality model in order to make it easier to use for a company.","PeriodicalId":215885,"journal":{"name":"2008 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering - Workshops","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121831569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the composition of unit test suites","authors":"B. Rompaey, S. Demeyer","doi":"10.1109/ASEW.2008.4686316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASEW.2008.4686316","url":null,"abstract":"In agile software development, test code can considerably contribute to the overall source code size. Being a valuable asset both in terms of verification and documentation, the composition of a test suite needs to be well understood in order to identify opportunities as well as weaknesses for further evolution. In this paper, we argue that the visualization of structural characteristics is a viable means to support the exploration of test suites. Thanks to general agreement on a limited set of key test design principles, such visualizations are relatively easy to interpret. In particular, we present visualizations that support testers in (i) locating test cases; (ii) examining the relation between test code and production code; and (iii) studying the composition of and dependencies within test cases. By means of two case studies, we demonstrate how visual patterns help to identify key test suite characteristics.","PeriodicalId":215885,"journal":{"name":"2008 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering - Workshops","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123374940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Mariani, A. Polini, M. Caporuscio, A. Marco, H. Muccini, O. Shehory
{"title":"ARAMIS 2008 International workshop on Automated engineeRing of Autonomous and run-tiMe evolvIng Systems","authors":"L. Mariani, A. Polini, M. Caporuscio, A. Marco, H. Muccini, O. Shehory","doi":"10.1109/asew.2008.4686283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/asew.2008.4686283","url":null,"abstract":"The ARAMIS workshop provides a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present and discuss their latest research on automated techniques for managing, verifying and validating evolving t run-time systems. In particular, ARAMIS will focus on issues, challenges, and future perspectives of techniques for automated verification and validation of evolving systems, for automatic context management and for the engineering of self-healing solutions.","PeriodicalId":215885,"journal":{"name":"2008 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering - Workshops","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124344594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}