ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 30

Volume 30, Number 1, January 2005

Workshop and conference summaries

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  Shang-Wen Cheng, Robert L. Nord, Judith A. Stafford:
  WICSA Wiki WAN Party: capturing experience in software architecture best practices. 1
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  Holger Giese, Ingolf Krüger:
  A summary of the ICSE 2004 workshop on "scenarios and state machines: models, algorithms, and tools". 2
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  Rogério de Lemos, Cristina Gacek, Alexander B. Romanovsky:
  ICSE 2004 workshop on architecting dependable systems. 3
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  Ahmed E. Hassan, Richard C. Holt, Audris Mockus:
  Report on MSR 2004: International workshop on mining software repositories. 4
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  Shriram Krishnamurthi, Tevfik Bultan:
  Discussion summary: characteristics of web services and their impact on testing, analysis and verification. 5

Article abstracts with full text online

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  Praful V. Bhansali:
  Complexity measurement of data and control flow. 1
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  Praful V. Bhansali:
  Software dissimilarity debate revisited. 2
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  Praful V. Bhansali:
  Software safety: current status and future direction. 3
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  D. Janakiram, M. S. Rajasree:
  ReQuEst: Requirements-driven quality estimator. 4
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  Ralph Kühne, Cornelius Wille, Reiner R. Dumke:
  Software agents using simulation for decision-making. 5
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  Robert Schaefer:
  Systems of systems and coordinated atomic actions. 6
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  Alexander Stuckenholz:
  Component evolution and versioning state of the art. 7
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  Qianxiang Wang:
  Towards a rule model for self-adaptive software. 8
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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public in computers and related systems. 9
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  Lei Xu, Baowen Xu, Jixiang Jiang:
  Testing web applications focusing on their specialties. 10

Software engineering reflections

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  Larry Bernstein:
  Trustworthy software systems. 4-5
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  Michael Wing:
  Towards a national academy of software engineering. 6-7

Software engineering education

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  Peter B. Henderson:
  Software Engineering Education (SEEd). 8-9

Risks to the public

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public in computers and related systems. 9-18

Surfing the net for software engineering notes

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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 19-27

Book reviews

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  Mordechai Ben-Menachem:
  Review of "Interpreting the CMMI: A Process Improvement Approach by Margaret K. Kulpa and Kent A. Johnson". Auerbach Publications 2003. 33-34
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  Mordechai Ben-Menachem:
  Review of "Six Sigma Software Development by Christine B. Tayntor". Auerbach Publications, 2003. 34
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  Haoyang Che:
  Review of "The Object Primer, 2nd Edition by Scott W. Ambler". Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2001, 0-521-785197 (paperback). 35
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  Haoyang Che:
  Review of "The Object Primer, 3rd Edition by Scott W. Ambler". Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004, 0-521-54018-6 (paperback). 35-36
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  Haoyang Che:
  Review of "Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plug-ins by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel". Addison Wesley, 2004, 0-321-22847-2 (paperback). 36
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  Ken Frazer:
  Review of "Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++ by Frantisek Franek". Cambridge University Press, 2004, (paperback), 0-521-52043-6. 36-37
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  Brian Lawler:
  Review of "CMMI Distilled: A Practical Introduction to Integrated Process Improvement, Second Edition by Dennis M. Ahern, Aaron Clouse and Richard Turner". Addison Wesley, 2004, paperback, ISBN 0-321-18613-3. 37-38
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  Joe Saur:
  Review of "Software Reliability Engineering: More Reliable Software Faster and Cheaper - 2nd Edition by John Musa". AuthorHouse, Inc., 2004, Hardback, ISBN 1-4184-9388-0, Paperback, ISBN 1-4184-9387-2. 38-39
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  Joe Saur:
  Review of "Software Development for Small Teams: a RUP-Centric Approach by Gary Pollice, Liz Augustine, Chris Lowe, and Jas Madhur". Addison-Wesley, 2004, paperback, ISBN 0-321-19950-2. 38
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  Backmatter (Report abstracts, Paper abstracts, Book Reviews, Calendar of Future Events). 40

Volume 30, Number 2, March 2005

Article abstracts with full text online

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  Nasib S. Gill:
  Factors affecting effective software quality management revisited. 1-4
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  Michael Breen:
  Combinatorial completion by rule definition with interactive value colouring. 1-6
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  Baowen Xu, Ju Qian, Xiaofang Zhang, Zhongqiang Wu, Lin Chen:
  A brief survey of program slicing. 1-36
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  Shahid Nazir Bhatti:
  Why quality?: ISO 9126 software quality metrics (Functionality) support by UML suite. 1-5
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  Keith A. Roberts:
  Generic methodology for open source software development. 1-5
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  Mehdi Sagheb-Tehrani:
  Expert systems development: some issues of design process. 1-5

Software engineering education

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  Peter B. Henderson:
  Software engineering education (SEEd). 3
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  John C. Knight:
  Focusing software education on engineering. 3-5

Software engineering reflections

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  Michael Wing:
  It's our job to care for SE. 6-8

Surfing the net for software engineering notes

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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 9-16

Risks to the public

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the Public. 17-25

Book Reviews

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  Haoyang Che:
  Review of "Object Thinking by David West"; Microsoft Press: Microsoft, 2004, 0-7356-1965-4. 28-29
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  Charles Beasley:
  Review of "Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed by Barry Boehm and Richard Turner"; Addison Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0-321-18612-5. 28
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  Haoyang Che:
  Review of "The Elements of C++ Style by Trevor Misfeldt, Gregory Bumgardner, and Andrew Gray"; Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004, 0-521-89308-9. 29
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  Haoyang Che:
  Review of "Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic.NET by Michael McMillan"; Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004, 0-521-53983-8. 29-30
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  Mordechai Ben-Menachem:
  Review of "Testing Embedded Software by Bart Broekman and Edwin Notenboom"; Addison Wesley.; 2003. 30
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  Joe Saur:
  Review of "Find the Bug: A Book of Incorrect Programs by Adam Barr"; Pearson Education, 2004, ISBN 0321223918. 30-31

Volume 30, Number 3, May 2005

Workshop and conference summaries

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  Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott A. Hissam, Karim Lakhani:
  Collaboration, conflict and control: report on the 4th workshop on open source software engineering. 1-2
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  Ivica Crnkovic, Ralf H. Reussner, Heinz W. Schmidt, Kevin Simons, Judith A. Stafford, Kurt C. Wallnau:
  Report of the International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering. 1-9

Article abstracts with full text online

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  Chia-Chu Chiang:
  Implicit heterogeneous and parallel programming. 1-6
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  Muthu Ramachandran:
  Software reuse guidelines. 1-8
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  Ananth Kendapadi, Matt Gandolfo, Amitosh Shukla:
  BatchFlow: a method and notation to visualize RDBMS batch jobs. 1-5

Software engineering education (SEEd)

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  Donald J. Reifer:
  Educating software engineers: an industry viewpoint. 8-9

Software engineering reflections

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  Michael Wing:
  Toward a great and enduring profession. 9-11

Surfing the net for software engineering notes

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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 12-21

Risks to the public

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public. 22-37

Book reviews

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  Mordechai Ben-Menachem:
  Review of "Return on Software by Steve Tockey"; Addison Wesley, 2005. 39-40
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  Debora Weber-Wulff:
  Review of "Official eclipse 3.0 FAQs by John Arthorne and Chris Laffra"; Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0-321-26838-5. 40
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  Debora Weber-Wulff:
  Reveiw of "Contributing to eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plug-Ins by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck", Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0-321-20575-8. 40-41

Volume 30, Number 4, July 2005

Article abstracts with full text online

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  K. K. Aggarwal, Yogesh Singh, Pravin Chandra, Manimala Puri:
  Evaluation of various training algorithms in a neural network model for software engineering applications. 1-4
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  Qun Yang, Xian-Chun Yang, Man-Wu Xu:
  A framework for dynamic software architecture-based self-healing. 1-4
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  Muhammad Raza Ali:
  Why teach reverse engineering? 1-4
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  Russell Ovans:
  All we really need to know about software engineering is in the film office space. 1-3
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  K. K. Aggarwal, Yogesh Singh, Pravin Chandra, Manimala Puri:
  Sensitivity analysis of fuzzy and neural network models. 1-4
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  Esperanza Marcos:
  Software engineering research versus software development. 1-7
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  Robert Schaefer:
  Deeper questions: the metaproblem of large organizations developing complex systems and the limits of process. 1-6

Workshop and conference summaries

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  Martin P. Robillard:
  Workshop on the Modeling and Analysis of Concerns in Software (MACS 2005). 1-3
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  Alexander Pretschner, Christian Salzmann, Thomas Stauner:
  2nd Intl. ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Automotive Systems. 1-2
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  Michael John, Frank Maurer, Bjørnar Tessem:
  Human and social factors of software engineering: workshop summary. 1-6
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  Lori L. Pollock, James H. Andrews:
  ICSE 2005 workshop summary third international workshop on dynamic analysis (WODA 2005). 1-2
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  Danilo Bruschi, Bart De Win, Mattia Monga:
  Software engineering for secure systems. 1-2
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  Alessandro Garcia, Ricardo Choren, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena, Alexander B. Romanovsky, Holger Giese, Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet, Paolo Giorgini:
  Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems - SELMAS 2005: workshop report. 1-8
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  Rogério de Lemos, Alexander B. Romanovsky:
  ICSE 2005 Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2005). 1-4

Software engineering education

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  David Lorge Parnas, Lillian Chik-Parnas:
  Goals for software engineering student education. 6-8
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  Peter B. Henderson:
  Software Engineering Education (SEEd). 6
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  Michael Wing:
  In praise of SE Geeks. 8-9
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  Joe Saur:
  Project management: here we go again! 8

Surfing the net for software engineering notes

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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 10-18

Risks to the public

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public. 19-35

Workshop on the Design and Evolution of Autonomic Application Software (DEAS 2005)

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  David Garlan, Marin Litoiu, Hausi A. Müller, John Mylopoulos, Dennis B. Smith, Kenny Wong:
  DEAS 2005: workshop on the design and evolution of autonomic application software. 1
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  Karun N. Biyani, Sandeep S. Kulkarni:
  Building component families to support adaptation. 1-7
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  Naveed Arshad, Dennis Heimbigner, Alexander L. Wolf:
  Dealing with failures during failure recovery of distributed systems. 1-6
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  Michael E. Shin, Daniel Cooke:
  Connector-based self-healing mechanism for components of a reliable system. 1-7
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  Sherif A. Gurguis, Amir Zeid:
  Towards autonomic web services: achieving self-healing using web services. 1-5
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  Danny Weyns, Kurt Schelfthout, Tom Holvoet:
  Architectural design of a distributed application with autonomic quality requirements. 1-7
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  Minseong Kim, Jaemin Jeong, Sooyong Park:
  From product lines to self-managed systems: an architecture-based runtime reconfiguration framework. 1-7
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  Mazeiar Salehie, Ladan Tahvildari:
  Autonomic computing: emerging trends and open problems. 1-7
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  Scott D. Fleming, Betty H. C. Cheng, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt, Philip K. McKinley:
  An approach to implementing dynamic adaptation in C++. 1-7
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  Marin Litoiu, C. Murray Woodside, Tao Zheng:
  Hierarchical model-based autonomic control of software systems. 1-7
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  Dharini Balasubramaniam, Ronald Morrison, Graham N. C. Kirby, Kath Mickan, Brian Warboys, Ian Robertson, Bob Snowdon, R. Mark Greenwood, Wykeen Seet:
  A software architecture approach for structuring autonomic systems. 1-7
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  Christian Bartelt, Thomas Fischer, Dirk Niebuhr, Andreas Rausch, Franz Seidl, Marcus Trapp:
  Dynamic integration of heterogeneous mobile devices. 1-7
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  Gerardo Canfora, Piero Corte, Antonio De Nigro, Debora Desideri, Massimiliano Di Penta, Raffaele Esposito, Amedeo Falanga, Gloria Renna, Rita Scognamiglio, Francesco Torelli, Maria Luisa Villani, Paolo Zampognaro:
  The C-Cube framework: developing autonomic applications through web services. 1-6
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  Michael G. Merideth, Priya Narasimhan:
  Retrofitting networked applications to add autonomic reconfiguration. 1-7
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  Piotr Kaminski, Priyanka Agrawal, Holger M. Kienle, Hausi A. Müller:
  <username>, i need you!: initiative and interaction in autonomic systems. 1-4
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  Bradley Simmons, Hanan Lutfiyya:
  Policies, grids and autonomic computing. 1-5
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  Dennis B. Smith, Edwin J. Morris, David J. Carney:
  Interoperability issues affecting autonomic computing. 1-3
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  Mohammad Ahmad Munawar, Paul A. S. Ward:
  Better performance or better manageability? 1-4
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  Alexei Lapouchnian, Sotirios Liaskos, John Mylopoulos, Yijun Yu:
  Towards requirements-driven autonomic systems design. 1-7
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  Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Philip K. McKinley, Betty H. C. Cheng:
  Transparent shaping of existing software to support pervasive and autonomic computing. 1-7
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  Giovanni Denaro, Mauro Pezzè, Davide Tosi:
  Adaptive integration of third-party web services. 1-6
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  Rean Griffith, Gail E. Kaiser:
  Manipulating managed execution runtimes to support self-healing systems. 1-7

Advances in Model-Based Testing (A-MOST 2005)

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  Robert V. Binder, James E. Hanlon:
  The advanced mobile application testing environment. 1
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  Peter B. Lakey:
  Model-based specification and testing applied to the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system: an industry report. 1-7
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  Fabrice Bouquet, Eddie Jaffuel, Bruno Legeard, Fabien Peureux, Mark Utting:
  Requirements traceability in automated test generation: application to smart card software validation. 1-7
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  Xia Cai, Michael R. Lyu:
  The effect of code coverage on fault detection under different testing profiles. 1-7
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  Renée C. Bryce, Charles J. Colbourn:
  Test prioritization for pairwise interaction coverage. 1-7
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  Markus Clermont, David Lorge Parnas:
  Using information about functions in selecting test cases. 1-7
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  Kirk Sayre:
  Usage model-based automated testing of C++ templates. 1-5
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  David McGuinness, Liam Murphy:
  A simulation model of a multi-server EJB system. 1-7
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  Albert Schilling, Kelma Madeira, Paula Donegan, Kênia Soares Sousa, Elizabeth Furtado, Vasco Furtado:
  An integrated method for designing user interfaces based on tests. 1-5
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  Christopher M. Lott, Ashish Jain, Siddhartha R. Dalal:
  Modeling requirements for combinatorial software testing. 1-7
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  Christopher Robinson-Mallett, Peter Liggesmeyer, Tilo Mücke, Ursula Goltz:
  Generating optimal distinguishing sequences with a model checker. 1-7
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  Mark Sherriff, Nachiappan Nagappan, Laurie Williams, Mladen A. Vouk:
  Early estimation of defect density using an in-process Haskell metrics model. 1-6
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  Alan F. Karr, Adam A. Porter:
  Distributed performance testing using statistical modeling. 1-7
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  Xing Li, Ramesh Nagarajan:
  Modeling for image processing system validation, verification and testing. 1-4
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  Mikhail Auguston, James Bret Michael, Man-tak Shing:
  Environment behavior models for scenario generation and testing automation. 1-6
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  Amit M. Paradkar:
  Case studies on fault detection effectiveness of model based test generation techniques. 1-7
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  Erika Mir Olimpiew, Hassan Gomaa:
  Model-based testing for applications derived from software product lines. 1-7

Economics-Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER)

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  Patrick Keil:
  Principal agent theory and its application to analyze outsourcing of software development. 1-5
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  Jarno Vähäniitty:
  A tentative framework for connecting long-term business and product planning with iterative & incremental software product development. 1-4
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  Yuanfang Cai, Kevin J. Sullivan:
  A value-oriented theory of modularity in design. 1-4
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  Hélio R. Costa, Márcio de Oliveira Barros, Guilherme Horta Travassos:
  A risk based economical approach for evaluating software project portfolios. 1-5
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  LiGuo Huang, Barry W. Boehm:
  Determining how much software assurance is enough?: a value-based approach. 1-5
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  Christopher Scaffidi, Ashish Arora, Shawn Butler, Mary Shaw:
  A value-based approach to predicting system properties from design. 1-5
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  Jyrki Kontio, Jani-Pekka Jokinen, Markus M. Mäkelä, Virve Leino:
  Current practices and research opportunities in software business models. 1-4
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  Hema Srikanth, Laurie Williams:
  On the economics of requirements-based test case prioritization. 1-3
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  Sushil Krishna Bajracharya, Trung Chi Ngo, Cristina Videira Lopes:
  On using Net Options Value as a value based design framework. 1-3
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  Ahilton Barreto, Márcio de Oliveira Barros, Cláudia Werner:
  Staffing a software project: a constraint satisfaction approach. 1-5
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  Thomas Neubauer, Markus D. Klemen, Stefan Biffl:
  Business process-based valuation of IT-security. 1-5
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  Apurva Jain, Barry W. Boehm:
  Developing a theory of value-based software engineering. 1-5
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  Vahe Poladian, João Pedro Sousa, Frank Padberg, Mary Shaw:
  Anticipatory configuration of resource-aware applications. 1-4
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  Sebastian Kiebusch, Bogdan Franczyk, Andreas Speck:
  Metrics for software system families. 1-5

Modeling and Analysis of Concerns in Software (MACS)

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  Robert R. Painter, David Coppit:
  A model for software plans. 1-5
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  Marius Marin, Leon Moonen, Arie van Deursen:
  An approach to aspect refactoring based on crosscutting concern types. 1-5
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  Martin P. Robillard, Gail C. Murphy:
  Just-in-time concern modeling. 1-3
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  Jing Liu, Robyn R. Lutz, Jeffrey M. Thompson:
  Mapping concern space to software architecture: a connector-based approach. 1-5
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  William H. Harrison, Harold Ossher, Stanley M. Sutton Jr., Peri L. Tarr:
  Concern modeling in the concern manipulation environment. 1-5