2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)最新文献

An Empirical Study into the Relationship Between Class Features and Test Smells 班级特征与考试气味关系的实证研究

2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) Pub Date : 2021-03-27 DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2016.34

Amjed Tahir, S. Counsell, Stephen G. MacDonell

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引用次数: 11

Adoption and Suitability of Software Development Methods and Practices 软件开发方法和实践的采用和适用性

2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) Pub Date : 2021-03-19 DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2016.062

Sherlock A. Licorish, Johannes Holvitie, S. Hyrynsalmi, V. Leppänen, R. Spínola, T. Mendes, Stephen G. MacDonell, Jim Buchan

引用次数: 20

Mind the Gap: Addressing Behavioural Inconsistencies with Formal Methods 注意差距:用正式方法解决行为不一致

2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) Pub Date : 2016-12-06 DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2016.051

J. Bowles, M. Caminati

引用次数: 8

Automated Deployment of Data Collection Policies over Heterogeneous Shared Sensing Infrastructures 异构共享感知基础设施上数据采集策略的自动化部署

2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) Pub Date : 2016-12-06 DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2016.053

Cyril Cecchinel, Sébastien Mosser, P. Collet

引用次数: 4

Formalization and Verification of the Powerlink Protocol Using CSP 基于CSP的Powerlink协议的形式化与验证

2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) Pub Date : 2016-12-06 DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2016.052

Haiping Pang, Ju Li, Yijia Ruan, Yanhong Huang, Jianqi Shi, S. Qin

引用次数: 3

An Empirical Analysis of Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL and the Linux Kernel OpenSSL与Linux内核漏洞实证分析

2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2016.025

Matthieu Jimenez, Mike Papadakis, Yves Le Traon

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引用次数: 21

A Model Checking Based Approach for Containment Checking of UML Sequence Diagrams 一种基于模型检查的UML序列图包含检查方法

2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) Pub Date : 2016-12-01 DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2016.021

Faiz ul Muram, Huy Tran, Uwe Zdun

{"title":"A Model Checking Based Approach for Containment Checking of UML Sequence Diagrams","authors":"Faiz ul Muram, Huy Tran, Uwe Zdun","doi":"10.1109/APSEC.2016.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APSEC.2016.021","url":null,"abstract":"The main challenge in software development process is to detect and fix the deviations of system's behaviors at different abstraction levels in early phases. For this purpose, UML 2 sequence diagrams are widely used for describing and analyzing the communication behavior of software systems. This paper describes a containment checking approach for UML 2 sequence diagrams to verify whether the behavior (or functions) described by a low-level model conforms those specified in the high-level counterpart based on model checking techniques, in order to improve the system's quality. However, creating consistency constraints and formal specifications for the sequence diagrams is a labor-intensive and error prone task. To alleviate this issue, we propose an automated transformation of sequence diagrams into formal specifications and consistency constraints that enable us to leverage the analytical powers of model checking to automatically verify the containment relationship. In addition, our approach provides the stakeholders more informative and comprehensive feedbacks regarding the inconsistency issues, and therefore helps them to efficiently identify and resolve the problems. The approach is implemented and validated using three realistic scenarios.","PeriodicalId":339123,"journal":{"name":"2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132930640","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}

引用次数: 15

Design and Implementation of Training Course for Software Process Improvement Engineers 软件过程改进工程师培训课程的设计与实施

2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) Pub Date : 2016-07-02 DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2016.065

Noriyoshi Kuno, Tsuyoshi Nakajima

引用次数: 2

Filter-INC: Handling Effort-Inconsistency in Software Effort Estimation Datasets Filter-INC:处理软件工作量估计数据集中的工作量不一致

2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) Pub Date : 2016-07-02 DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2016.035

Passakorn Phannachitta, J. Keung, K. E. Bennin, Akito Monden, Ken-ichi Matsumoto

{"title":"Filter-INC: Handling Effort-Inconsistency in Software Effort Estimation Datasets","authors":"Passakorn Phannachitta, J. Keung, K. E. Bennin, Akito Monden, Ken-ichi Matsumoto","doi":"10.1109/APSEC.2016.035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APSEC.2016.035","url":null,"abstract":"Effort-inconsistency is a situation where historical software project data used for software effort estimation (SEE) are contaminated by many project cases with similar characteristics but are completed with significantly different amount of effort. Using these data for SEE generally produces inaccurate results; however, an effective technique for its handling is yet made to be available. This study approaches the problem differently from common solutions, where available techniques typically attempt to remove every project case they have detected as outliers. Instead, we hypothesize that data inconsistency is caused by only a few deviant project cases and any attempt to remove those other cases will result in reduced accuracy, largely due to loss of useful information and data diversity. Filter-INC (short for Filtering technique for handling effort-INConsistency in SEE datasets) implements the hypothesis to decide whether a project case being detected by any existing technique should be subject to removal. The evaluation is carried out by comparing the performance of 2 filtering techniques between before and after having Filter-INC applied. The results produced from 8 real-world datasets together with 3 machine-learning models, and evaluated by 4 performance measures show a significant accuracy improvement at the confident interval of 95%. Based on the results, we recommend our proposed hypothesis as an important instrument to design a data preprocessing technique for handling effort-inconsistency in SEE datasets, definitely an important step forward in preprocessing data for a more accurate SEE model.","PeriodicalId":339123,"journal":{"name":"2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123288637","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}

引用次数: 4

System Product Line Engineering for Small Appliances with Driver Derivation 带驱动器派生的小家电系统产品线工程

2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) Pub Date : 2016-07-02 DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2016.067

Shintaro Hosoai, N. Noda, T. Kishi

{"title":"System Product Line Engineering for Small Appliances with Driver Derivation","authors":"Shintaro Hosoai, N. Noda, T. Kishi","doi":"10.1109/APSEC.2016.067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/APSEC.2016.067","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in device technology have promoted the development of small appliances such as wearable devices, IoT equipment, and small home electronics equipment. Considering a product family of such device/equipment, each product in the family may have different hardware (micro controller unit, devices such as sensors and actuators, and different configurations). Software for such equipment tends to be compact and handles the devices directly via drivers. However, software engineers are not familiar with driver development and this causes development bottleneck. Therefore, in order to develop products efficiently, derivations of software and hardware are not enough, i.e., the systematic derivation of drivers is indispensable. In this paper, we propose a system product line development method for small appliances in which drivers are systematically derived. In this method, hardware features and software features are managed in terms of feature models, and system products are derived by specifying features of hardware and software. Based on these, drivers are systematically derived. This paper proposes 1) an extension of the UML/MARTE model that can represent hardware information that is necessary for driver generation, and 2) a systematic driver derivation method based on variability management and model-driven engineering techniques. We evaluate the method using an example of a motion tracking system product family","PeriodicalId":339123,"journal":{"name":"2016 23rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128223683","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}

引用次数: 1