11th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) - Index

Abstract

The international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) provides a forum for empirical researchers to present their latest research, as well as to discuss issues related to evaluation and empirical studies.

We welcome papers that discuss important evaluation methods including both quantitative and qualitative methods.

We are particularly fortunate this year that in addition to papers describing laboratory experiments, surveys and a case study, we have papers that describe the use of methods as diverse as systematic literature reviews, grounded theory and constructive research.

The international conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) provides a forum for empirical researchers to present their latest research, as well as to discuss issues related to evaluation and empirical studies. We welcome papers that discuss important evaluation methods including both quantitative and qualitative methods.

We are particularly fortunate this year that in addition to papers describing laboratory experiments, surveys and a case study, we have papers that describe the use of methods as diverse as systematic literature reviews, grounded theory and constructive research. The quantitative research papers also span a wide variety of analysis techniques including Bayesian networks, genetic algorithms, and Kaplan-Meier survival curves.

In addition, to a wide variety of methods, the papers address a wide variety of topics including maintenance, software architecture methods, specification methods, testing, effort prediction, defect prediction, software process improvement motivators, structured abstracts and statistical process control. All these topics and more are covered in the eleven papers accepted for the conference. The small number of papers presented at EASE allows us to devote an appropriate time to discussing them without the need for parallel streams.

In addition to research papers, we are delighted to have a keynote lecture. Dr Khaled El Emam is a Senior Scientist at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, where he leads the eHealth research program. He will describe what we can learn from medicine to improve the development, reporting and use of evidence in software engineering.

EASE is a small conference but our program committee endeavor to ensure that it is a high quality conference. Our goal is to provide everyone who attends with the opportunity to contribute to the discussions and to come away having learnt something new about software evaluation and assessment.

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Sponsors

This conference was sponsored by BCS.

Papers:

Rozilawati Razali, Colin F Snook, Michael R Poppleton, Paul W Garratt & Robert J Walters Experimental Comparison of the Comprehensibility of a UML-based Formal Specification versus a Textual One http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.1

Muhammad Ali Babar & Barbara Kitchenham Assessment of a Framework for Comparing Software Architecture Analysis Methods http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.2

Qi Wang, Jie Zhu & Bo Yu Feature Selection and Clustering in Software Quality Prediction http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.3

Miroslaw Staron & Wilhelm Meding Predicting Short-Term Defect Inflow in Large Software Projects - An Initial Evaluation http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.4

Alistair Hutton & Ray Welland An Experiment Measuring the Effects of Maintenance Tasks on Program Knowledge http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.5

Katja Karhu, Ossi Taipale & Kari Smolander Outsourcing and Knowledge Management in Software Testing http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.6

David Budgen, Barbara Kitchenham, Stuart Charters, Mark Turner, Pearl Brereton & Stephen Linkman Preliminary results of a study of the completeness and clarity of structured abstracts http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.7

Topi Haapio A Framework for Effort Management in Software Projects http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.8

Emilia Mendes Predicting Web Development Effort Using a Bayesian Network http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.9

Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Danilo Caivano, Barbara Kitchenham & Giuseppe Visaggio Systematic Review of Statistical Process Control: An Experience Report http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.10

Mahmood Niazi & Muhammad Ali Babar Motivators of Software Process Improvement: An Analysis of Vietnamese Practitioners' Views http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.11