{"title":"Systematic object-oriented inspection - an empirical study","authors":"A. Dunsmore, M. Roper, M. Wood","doi":"10.1109/ICSE.2001.919088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2001.919088","url":null,"abstract":"Software inspection is recognised as an effective defect detection technique, but research has suggested that its performance on object-oriented code may suffer as a result of the delocalised nature of the software. This leads to problems of how to segment a system into chunks, what reading strategy should be adopted to read those chunks, and how to make available necessary non-local information. This paper presents the results of an empirical investigation that compared a systematic, abstraction-driven inspection reading technique with an ad-hoc approach in an attempt to investigate these issues.\u0000The analysis shows that using the systematic technique does not significantly improve an inspector's overall defect detection performance. The systematic technique does, however, seem to have potential to help address delocalisation through the creation of abstract specifications, encourage a deeper understanding of the code being inspected, and may also help discover different defects from an ad-hoc approach. There was also positive feedback from inspectors for the rigour imposed by the systematic technique.\u0000This research suggests that a systematic, abstraction-driven reading strategy offers some potential but there are issues that need to be addressed in terms of supporting the efficient construction of abstractions and dealing with the differences between the static and dynamic views of object-oriented code.","PeriodicalId":374824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2001","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132726041","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":"Reuse of verification efforts and incomplete specifications in a formalized, iterative and incremental software process","authors":"R. Redondo, J. Pazos-Arias","doi":"10.1109/ICSE.2001.919185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2001.919185","url":null,"abstract":"The possibility of verifying systems during any phase of the software development process is one of the most significant advantages of using formal methods. Model checking is considered to be the broadest-used formal verification technique, even though a great quantity of computing resources are needed to verify medium-large and large systems. As verification is present over the whole software process, this amount of resources is more critical in incremental and iterative life-cycles. Our proposal focuses on reusing incomplete models and their verification results - which are obtained from a model-checking algorithm - in order to improve this kind of life-cycle. Making good use of these previous verification results can reduce the formal verification costs by minimizing the set of requirements and the set of system states where the properties must be verified. The unspecification that is inherent to incomplete systems is used to provide an approximate and content-oriented retrieval which is supplemented by suggestions to match the desired specifications.","PeriodicalId":374824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2001","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116082153","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":"Web engineering device independent Web services","authors":"E. Kirda","doi":"10.1109/ICSE.2001.919182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2001.919182","url":null,"abstract":"Today's Web services not only have to be flexible, but also have to be device independent to support mobile devices such as WAP and PDAs. Supporting multiple Web formats (e.g., WML, HTML, etc.) is still an open challenge. Most sites have to provide a separate application for every format and reuse is not common. We are working on a methodology and a tool to support the Web developer in building flexible, device independent Web services.","PeriodicalId":374824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2001","volume":"383 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123504994","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":"Encoding program executions","authors":"S. Reiss, Manos Renieris","doi":"10.1109/ICSE.2001.919096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2001.919096","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic analysis is based on collecting data as the program runs. However, raw traces tend to be too voluminous and too unstructured to be used directly for visualization and understanding. We address this problem in two phases: the first phase selects subsets of the data and then compacts it, while the second phase encodes the data in an attempt to infer its structure. Our major compaction/selection techniques include gprof-style N-depth call sequences, selection based on class, compaction based on time intervals, and encoding the whole execution as a directed acyclic graph. Our structure inference techniques include run-length encoding, context free grammar encoding, and the building of finite state automata.","PeriodicalId":374824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2001","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122641764","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":"(W18) 1st workshop on open source software engineering","authors":"J. Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, A. Hoek","doi":"10.1109/ICSE.2001.919176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2001.919176","url":null,"abstract":"Open Source Software (OSS) has recently become the focus of considerable interest, yet there remains a need for rigorous analytical inquiry into the subject. This workshop seeks to articulate OSS as an SE paradigm and to address the requirements of OSS in terms of methodology & process, tools & enabling technologies, and human resources & project management. Format: Round-Table Discussion. Size: Maximum 40 participants. Position Papers Required. The Workshop Report will be published in a special issue of IEE Proceedings - Software on Open Source Software Engineering, and workshop participants will be encouraged to submit full research papers based on their position papers for possible inclusion in the special issue.","PeriodicalId":374824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2001","volume":"38 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114175312","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":"4/sup th/ ICSE workshop on \"software engineering over the internet\"","authors":"F. Maurer","doi":"10.1109/ICSE.2001.919158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2001.919158","url":null,"abstract":"The 4th ICSE workshop on “Software Engineering over the Internet” brings together researchers and practitioners that try to use Internet technologies to overcome problems in distributed software development. The goal of the workshop is to exchange ideas how distributed projects can utilize the Internet to overcome communication, collaboration, and coordination problems.","PeriodicalId":374824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2001","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131605257","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":"Consistent group membership in ad hoc networks","authors":"G. Roman, Qingfeng Huang, Ali Hazemi","doi":"10.1109/ICSE.2001.919111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2001.919111","url":null,"abstract":"The design of ad hoc mobile applications often requires the availability of a consistent view of the application state among the participating hosts. Such views are important because they simplify both the programming and verification tasks. Essential to constructing a consistent view is the ability to know what hosts are within proximity of each other, i.e., form a group in support of the particular application. We propose an algorithm that allows hosts within communication range to maintain a consistent view of the group membership despite movement and frequent disconnections. The novel features of this algorithm are its reliance on location information and a conservative notion of logical connectivity that creates the illusion of announced disconnection. Movement patterns and delays are factored in the policy that determines which physical connections are susceptible to disconnection.","PeriodicalId":374824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2001","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114200564","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 workbench for synthesising behaviour models from scenarios","authors":"Sebastián Uchitel, J. Kramer","doi":"10.1109/ICSE.2001.919093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2001.919093","url":null,"abstract":"Scenario-based specifications such as Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are becoming increasingly popular as part of a requirements specification. Our objective is to facilitate the development of behaviour models in conjunction with scenarios. In this paper, we first present an MSC language with semantics in terms of labelled transition systems and parallel composition. The language integrates existing languages based on the use of high-level MSCs (hMSCs) and on identifying component states. This integration allows stakeholders to break up scenario specifications into manageable parts using hMCSs and to explicitly introduce additional information and domain-specific or other assumptions using state labels. Secondly, we present an algorithm, implemented in Java, which translates scenarios into a specification in the form of Finite Sequential Processes. This can then be fed to the labelled transition system analyser for model checking and animation. Finally we show how many of the assumptions embedded in existing synthesis approaches can be translated into our approach. Thus we provide the basis of a common workbench for supporting MSC specifications, behaviour synthesis and analysis.","PeriodicalId":374824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2001","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122071987","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":"Academic software engineering: what is and what could be? Results of the first annual survey for international SE programs","authors":"Kenneth L. Modesitt, D. Bagert, L. Werth","doi":"10.1109/ICSE.2001.919139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2001.919139","url":null,"abstract":"According to data received from an international survey, almost 6800 students are enrolled in software engineering degree programs in 11 countries, as of January, 2001. A total of 94 academic programs in software engineering are in place at 60 universities with 350 full-time faculty and nearly 200 part-time faculty teaching hundreds of undergraduate and graduate courses in the discipline. Over 5500 people have obtained degrees in software engineering since 1979. The authors are conducting the first of an ongoing annual survey of international academic software engineering programs, as a joint ACM/IEEE-CS project. This status report covers: history, audience, initial survey, initial partial results available on the WWW, request for evaluation of WWW-site, request for additional questions for next version of survey, time-line for next version of the survey, \"lessons learned,\" and some future directions. The annual report and survey results will be posted on a wide variety of Web pages. A more current report, based on the sabbatical of the first author, will be presented at the conference. The sabbatical involves the initial development of an \"International Software Engineering University Consortium-ISEUC\". A sample scenario for an employee in industry who becomes a student in ISEUC is given.","PeriodicalId":374824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2001","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121332690","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":"2nd international workshop on living with inconsistency","authors":"S. Easterbrook, M. Chechik","doi":"10.1145/505532.505552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/505532.505552","url":null,"abstract":"In software engineering, there has long been a recognition that inconsistency is a fact of life. Evolving descriptions of software artefacts are frequently inconsistent, and tolerating this inconsistency is important if flexible collaborative working is to be supported. This workshop will focus on reasoning in the presence of inconsistency, for a wide range of software engineering activities, such as building and exploring requirements models, validating specifications, verifying correctness of implementations, monitoring runtime behaviour, and analyzing development processes. A particular interest is on how existing automated approaches such as model checking, theorem proving, logic programming, and model-based reasoning can still be applied in the presence of inconsistency.","PeriodicalId":374824,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering. ICSE 2001","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126525587","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}