CIST 9080
Spring 2016
Lecturers: Harvey Siy, Myoungkyu Song (March 16, 2016)
Title: Research in Software Engineering: Empirical Studies, Software Evolution and Analysis

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Slides:

• Overview: Software Engineering Research
• Evolving Software Effectively and Safely During Development and Maintenance

Background reading:

• The aging phenomenon: David Lorge Parnas. "Software aging." Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1994.
• Conducting empirical studies: Dewayne Perry, Adam Porter, and Lawrence Votta. "Empirical studies of software engineering: a roadmap." Proceedings of the Conference on the Future of Software Engineering. ACM, 2000.
• Program evolution dynamics: Meir M. Lehman. "Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution." Proceedings of the IEEE 68.9 (1980): 1060-1076.
• Analysis of software artifact repositories: Tao Xie and Ahmed E. Hassan. "Mining software engineering data." Tutorial at 30th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2007.

Some of our past contributions and ongoing work:

• An empirical study of code inspection: Porter, Adam A., et al. "An experiment to assess the cost-benefits of code inspections in large scale software development." IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 23.6 (1997): 329-346.
• Studying software artifacts to understand organizations: Staudenmayer, Nancy, et al. "Adapting to a new environment: How a legacy software organization copes with volatility and change." 5th International Product Development Conference, 1998.
• Properties of source code relationships: Meyer, P., H. Siy, and S. Bhowmick. "Identifying Important Classes Of Large Software Systems Through K-Core Decomposition." Advances in Complex Systems 17.07n08, 2015.
• Static code analysis to support code inspection: Tianyi Zhang, Myoungkyu Song, Joseph Pinedo, Miryung Kim, "Interactive code review for systematic changes." International Conference on Software Engineering, 2015.
• Assisting developers in writing correct code metadata: Myoungkyu Song, Eli Tilevich, "Metadata Invariants: Checking and inferring metadata coding conventions." International Conference on Software Engineering, 2012.

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