1st International Workshop on
Traceability in Emerging Forms of  Software Engineering
 

In conjunction with the

17th IEEE International Conference on
Automated Software Engineering
 

September 28th, 2002
Edinburgh, U.K.



Programme and Papers

Location
 

Theme and Goals

Software traceability has long been recognised as a significant factor of efficient software project management and software systems quality. Existing research has been concerned with the study and definition of different types of traceability relations and the provision of support for generating and maintaining these relations in software and requirements engineering tools and environments. However, as empirical studies of the traceability needs and practices of industrial organisations have indicated, this support is not always satisfactory, as most of the existing approaches and tools assume that the creation, maintenance and verification of traceability relations is the responsibility of software developers, and provide little or no support to them in carrying out these tasks. Furthermore, the emergence of new approaches to the specification and development of software systems has introduced new types of software artefacts and processes and, as a consequence, requires the development of new types of relations to establish traceability between them.

The aim of this one day workshop is to enable researchers from academia and industry and practitioners working on issues related to traceability to report their work and experience and identify the main dimensions of further research into it.

Topics of interest for this one day workshop include, but are not limited to the following:

  • traceability models linking requirements specifications, static and dynamic software design
  • models, system architecture models, implementation artefacts, and test models
  • traceability models for linking software artefacts with business processes
  • traceability models for linking software artefacts with software processes and stakeholders
  • traceability in emerging forms of software system development including (a) development of software product lines, (b) component-based development, (c) service-composition, and (d) agent-oriented software development
  • support of recording rationale for traceability links
  • schemes for representation, detection, verification, and maintenance of traceability links
  • interoperable architectures for supporting traceability in settings with heterogeneous tools, and distributed and independently evolving artefacts
  • visualisation of traceability links
  • models deployment of traceability links in decision making
  • empirical studies of benefits of traceability
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    Submission

    Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original papers that have not been submitted for review or published elsewhere. Submitted papers must be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages in the case of research and experience papers, and 5 pages in the case of position papers (including figures, bibliography and appendices). All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality, relevance, originality, significance, and soundness. Papers must be submitted directly by email in PDF or PS format to traceability@soi.city.ac.uk.

    We invite the following types of submissions:

    Research papers - presenting original contributions to the state-of-the-art or practice of software traceability.

    Experience papers - presenting lessons learned from supporting and deploying traceability in industrial settings and which are of interest to a broad audience of researchers and practitioners (including case reports, success and failure stories and empirical studies).

    Position papers - identifying industrial challenges or future research plans and directions in the area of software traceability.

    Publication

    Accepted papers will be published in official workshop proceedings, which will be distributed during the workshop. The proceedings will also be distributed electronically. Authors of the best papers will be invited to revise and re-submit extended versions of their papers to be considered for publication in the International Journal of Automated Software Engineering (Kluwer).

    Important Dates

    Deadline for submission:                      July 19th, 2002

    Notification of acceptance:                  July 31st, 2002

    Camera-ready paper due:                   August 30th, 2002

    Workshop day:                                      September 28th, 2002

    ASE’2002 main conference:               September 24-27, 2002
     

    Workshop Organisers

    George Spanoudakis (City University, London, UK)
    Andrea Zisman (City University, London, UK)
    Elena Pérez-Miñana (Philips Digital Systems Laboratories, UK)

    Program Committee

    Jaelson Castro (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
    Jeremy Dick (Telelogic UK Ltd., Oxford, UK)
    Anthony Finkelstein (University College London, UK)
    Stewart Higgins (Philips Medical Systems B.V., The Netherlands)
    Frank Houdek (Daimler Chrysler AG, Germany)
    Paul Krause (University of Surrey, UK)
    Patricio Letelier (University of Valencia, Spain)
    Neil Maiden (City University, London, UK)
    Bashar Nuseibeh (The Open University, UK)
    Klaus Pohl (University of Essen, Germany)
    Bala Ramesh (Georgia State University, USA)
    Eric Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)