Special session: "System Quality and Maintainability: bridging the gap between end user expectations, vendors' business prospects, and software engineers' requirements on the ground."
Background
Many views have been expressed about software quality attributes, including maintainability, evolvability, portability, robustness, reliability, usability, and efficiency. These have formulated standards such as the ISO-9126 and CMM. However, the debate about quality and maintainability between software producers, vendors and users is ongoing, while organizations need the ability to evaluate from multiple angles the software systems that they use or develop. So, is "Software quality is in the eye of the beholder"?
This special session aims at feeding into this debate by establishing what the state of the practice and the way forward is.
Call for papers
We are pleased to invite paper submissions for a special session for IEEE 11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2007) on System Quality and Maintainability. We are looking for research and empirical contributions in areas including, but not limited to the following:
Please submit short position papers or long papers; they should be in the standard IEEE double column format and have a minimum length of 2 and a maximum length of 10 pages, by 28 January 2007.
Important dates
Paper submission: 28th of January 2007
Notifications of acceptance: 10th of February 2007
Camera ready submission: 22nd of February 2007
Programme
14:00-14:25:P. Johnson, R. Lagerstrom, P. Narman and M. Simonsson, System Quality Analysis with Extended Influence Diagrams
14:25-14:50: H. J. van den Brink, R. C. van der Leek, Quality metrics for SQL queries embedded in host languages
14:50-15:10 T. Kuipers, J. Visser, Maintainability Index Revisited (short paper)
15:10-15:35: P. Antonellis, D. Antoniou, E. Theodoridis, Y. Kanellopoulos, C. Makris, C. Tjortjis, N. Tsirakis, A Data Mining Methodology for Evaluating Maintainability according to ISO/IEC-9126 Software Engineering-Product Quality Standard
15:35-16:00: Break
16:00-16:20: N. Boffoli, D. Caivano, Toward a Process Monitoring Automation: a Proposal
16:20-16:40: J. Borchers, Critical Success Factors for the Acceptance Testing of redeveloped Application Systems Experiences from a large industrial Project
16:40-17:00: Discussion
17:00-18:00: H. Sneed, D. Tamzalit and C. Tjortjis Panel on "Evolution models and quality standards: how do they affect maintainability and evolvabilty? What are the synergies and the conflicts?" joint with the Workshop on Model-Driven Software Evolution.
Special session organizers
Session Chair: C. Tjortjis (University of Manchester, U.K.)
Programme Chair: C. Makris (University of Patras, Greece)
Session Vice-Chair: Y. Kanellopoulos (University of Manchester, U.K.)
Publicity chair: N. Tsirakis (University of Patras, Greece)
Organising and Local Arrangements Committee
P. Antonelis, (University of Patras, Greece)
D. Antoniou, (University of Patras, Greece)
E. Sakkopoulos, (University of Patras & RA Computer Technology Institute, Greece)
E. Theodoridis, (University of Patras, Greece)
Programme Committee members
D. Caivano (University of Bari, Italy)
P. Sampaio (University of Manchester, U.K.)
A. Tsakalidis (University of Patras, Greece)
V. Tzerpos (University of University of York, Canada)
A. Zarras (University of Ioannina, Greece
