esem 2012

Program

DAY 1: Wednesday 19 September
8.30-9.00 Welcome
9.00-10.00 Keynote:
Professor Mark Harman
, Dynamic Adaptive Search Based Software Engineering

Chair: Emilia Mendes
10.00-10.30 Coffee
10.30-12.00 Full papers: Research methodological issues
Chair: Dietmar Pfahl

Full paper: Metrics
Chair: Rachel Harrison

Industry track I
Chair: Sten Minör
Registration for Industry track only here

  Carol Passos, Daniela Cruzes, Tore Dybå and Manoel Mendonça: Challenges of Applying Ethnography to Study Software Practices

Tore Dybå, Dag I.K. Sjøberg and Daniela S. Cruzes: What Works for Whom, Where, When, and Why? On the Role of Context and Contextualization in Empirical Software Engineering

Samireh Jalali and Claes Wohlin:  Systematic Literature Studies: Database Searches vs. Backward Snowballing
Davide Tosi, Sandro Morasca, Luigi Lavazza and Davide Taibi: On the Definition of Dynamic Software Measures

Mel Ó Cinnéide, Laurence Tratt, Mark Harman, Steven Counsell and Iman Hemati Moghadam: Experimental Assessment of Software Metrics Using Automated Refactoring

Maximilian Steff and Barbara Russo: Characterizing the Roles of Classes and their Fault-Proneness through Change Metrics
Dana S. Kusumo, Mark Staples, Liming Zhu and Ross Jeffery: Analyzing Differences in Risk Perceptions between Developers and Acquirers in OTS-based Custom Software Projects Using Stakeholder Analysis

Krzysztof Wnuk, David Callele, Dietmar Pfahl and Even-Andre Karlsson: How can Open Source Software Development help Requirements Management gain the potential of Open Innovation: An Exploratory Study

Pilar Rodriguez, Jouni Markkula, Kimmo Turula and Markku Oivo: Survey on Agile and Lean Usage in Finnish Software Industry
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Full Papers: Methodologies
Chair: Marcela Genero
Short Papers: Maintenance and Effort Estimation
Chair: Sandro Morasca

Industry track II
Chair: Tore Dybå
  Dana S. Kusumo, Mark Staples, Liming Zhu and Ross Jeffery: Analyzing Differences in Risk Perceptions between Developers and Acquirers in OTS-based Custom Software Projects Using Stakeholder Analysis

Cheng Zhang, David Budgen and Sarah Drummond: Using a Follow-on Survey to Investigate Why Use of the Visitor, Singleton & Facade Patterns is Controversial

Kenneth Hullett, Nachiappan Nagappan, Eric Schuh and John Hopson: Empirical Analysis of User Data in Game Software Development
Masateru Tsunoda, Sousuke Amasaki and Akito Monden: Handling Categorical Variables in Effort Estimation

Marta Fernández-Diego and José-María Torralba-Martínez: Discretization Methods for NBC in Effort Estimation

Dag I.K. Sjøberg, Bente Anda and Audris Mockus: Questioning Software Maintenance Metrics: A Comparative Case Study

Maximilian Steff, Barbara Russo and Günther Ruhe: Evolution of Features and their Dependencies - An Explorative Study in OSS

Mark Przepiora, Reza Karimpour and Guenther Ruhe: A Hybrid Release Planning Method and its Empirical Justification
Constanza Lampasona, Jens Heidrich, Victor Basili and Alexis Eduardo Ocampo Ramírez: Software Quality Modeling Experiences at an Oil Company

Clauirton Siebra: Managing Technical Debt in Practice: An Industrial Report

Forrest Shull, Carolyn Seaman, Madeline Diep and Art Hughes: Analyzing Inspection Data for Heuristic Effectiveness
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-17.00 Full Papers: Empirical Studies & Systematic Reviews
Chair: Stefan Wagner
Short Papers: Methods and Principles
Chair: Barbara Russo
Industry track III
Chair: Günther Ruhe
  Ulrich Stärk, Lutz Prechelt and Ilija Jolevski: Plat_Forms 2011: Finding Emergent Properties of Web Application Development Platforms

Anh Nguyen Duc, Daniela S. Cruzes and Reidar Conradi: Dispersion, Coordination and Performance in Global Software Teams: A Systematic Review

Pilar Rodriguez, Jouni Markkula, Kimmo Turula and Markku Oivo: Survey on Agile and Lean Usage in Finnish Software Industry
Forrest Shull, Carolyn Seaman, Madeline Diep and Art Hughes: Analyzing Inspection Data for Heuristic Effectiveness

Adrian Fernandez, Silvia Abrahao, Emilio Insfran and Maristella Matera: Further Analysis on the Validation of a Usability Inspection Method for Model-Driven Web Development

Roel Wieringa, Nelly Condori-Fernández, Maya Daneva, Bela Mutschler and Oscar Pastor Lopez: Lessons Learned from Evaluating a Checklist for Reporting Experimental and Observational Research

Reghu Anguswamy and Bill Frakes: A Study of Reusability, Complexity, and Reuse Design Principles

Constanza Lampasona, Oleg Rostanin and Heiko Maus: Seamless Integration of Order Processing in MS Outlook using SmartOffice: an Empirical Evaluation
Nauman Bin Ali, Kai Petersen and Mika Mäntylä: Testing Highly Complex System of Systems: An Industrial Case Study

Emad Shihab, Christian Bird and Thomas Zimmermann: The Effect of Branching Strategies on Software Quality

Kenneth Hullett, Nachiappan Nagappan, Eric Schuh and John Hopson: Empirical Analysis of User Data in Game Software Development
 
DAY 2: Thursday 20 September
9.00-10.00 Keynote
Dr. Antje Jackelén
Visualizing the invisible - symbols and metaphors in software engineering?

Chair: Per Runeson
10.00-10.30 Coffee
10.30-12.00 Full Papers: Prediction
Chair: Sira Vegas
Full Papers: Testing and inspection
Chair: Silvia Abrahão
Short Papers: Global Software Engineering and Development
Chair: Filippo Lanubile
  Emanuel Giger, Marco D'Ambros, Martin Pinzger and Harald Gall: Method-Level Bug Prediction

Brandt Braunschweig, Neha Dhage, Maria Jose Viera, Carolyn Seaman, Sreedevi Sampath and A.Gunes Koru: Studying Volatility Predictors in Open Source Software

Jue Wang and Hongyu Zhang: Predicting Defect Numbers Based on Defect State Transition Models
Breno Miranda, Eduardo Aranha and Juliano Iyoda: Recommender Systems for Manual Testing: Deciding how to assign tests in a test team

Nauman Bin Ali, Kai Petersen and Mika Mäntylä: Testing Highly Complex System of Systems: An Industrial Case Study

Narendar Mandala, Gursimran Walia, Jeffrey Carver and Nachiappan Nagappan: Application of Kusumoto Cost-Metric to Evaluate the Cost Effectiveness of Software Inspections
Tuomas Jaanu, Maria Paasivaara and Casper Lassenius: Effects of Four Distances on Communication Processes in Global Software Projects

Maria Paasivaara and Casper Lassenius: Inter-team Coordination in Large-Scale Globally Distributed Scrum: Do Scrum-of-Scrums Really Work?

Stefanie Betz and Claes Wohlin: Alignment of Business, Architecture, Process, and Organisation in a Software Development Context

Constanza Lampasona, Jens Heidrich, Victor Basili and Alexis Eduardo Ocampo Ramírez: Software Quality Modeling Experiences at an Oil Company

Clauirton A. Siebra, Graziela S. Tonin, Fabio Q. B. da Silva, Rebeka G. Oliveira, Antonio L.O. C. Junior, Regina C. G. Miranda, Andre L. M. Santos: Managing Technical Debt in Practice: An Industrial Report
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Full Papers: Requirements
Chair: Daniela Cruzes
Full Papers: Software Quality and Evolution
Chair: Oscar Dieste
Short Papers: Defect Detection
Chair: Lutz Prechelt
  Fabio Calefato, Filippo Lanubile, Tayana Conte and Rafael Prikladnicki: Assessing the Impact of Real-Time Machine Translation on Requirements Meetings: A Replicated Experiment

Hans Christian Benestad and Jo Hannay: Does the Prioritization Technique Affect Stakeholders' Selection of Essential Software Product Features?

Krzysztof Wnuk, David Callele, Dietmar Pfahl and Even-Andre Karlsson: How can Open Source Software Development Help Requirements Management Gain the Potential of Open Innovation: An Exploratory Study
Vitor Monteiro, Marco Araujo and Guilherme Travassos: Towards a Model to Support in silico Studies of Software Evolution

Francisco Medeiros Neto, Alessandro Garcia and Jon Whittle: On the Role of Composition Code Properties on Evolving Programs

Emad Shihab, Christian Bird and Thomas Zimmermann: The Effect of Branching Strategies on Software Quality
Mika Mäntylä, Kai Petersen and Dietmar Pfahl: How Many Individuals to Use in a QA Task with Fixed Total Effort?

Syed Muhammad Ali Shah, Maurizio Morisio and Marco Torchiano: The Impact of Process Maturity on Defect Density

Antonio Vetro', Federico Tomassetti, Marco Torchiano and Maurizio Morisio: Language Interaction and Quality Issues: An Exploratory Study

Donald W. McCormick Ii, Bill Frakes and Reghu Anguswamy: A Comparison of Database Fault Detection Capabilities Using Mutation Testing
15.00 Conference Closing
  Coffee
15.45-17.30 Film Session: Kitchen Stories (Salmer fra Kjøkket)
Room: Nya Festsalen, C1b
Director: Bent Hammer
Norwegian comedy and Oscar nominee from 2003: An empirical researcher’s job of observing an old cantankerous single man’s kitchen habits is complicated by his growing friendship with him...

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